Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:38:21 -0500
From: Samuel Lubell <samlubell at verizon.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Speculation about WSFA
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

No, actually WSFA is doing more than ever.

The committee to discuss SF meets after the business part of the meeting
and discusses the latest issue of Asimovs or F&SF.
WSFA Press put out a book of Harry Turtledove stories and more books may
be on their way!
We have worked with Reiters bookstore in DC to bring in writers in town
for a homeland security conference to do a talk and book signing
We had an author give a reading at our meeting and may have another soon
too.

So yes, WSFA is doing a lot more than just convention business.

As I'm the Secretary, I'll check into the whereabouts of the Jan 2010
Journal
The snow cancelled the First Friday in Feb so I'm combining the
Feb/March journal

And we've Keith F. Lynch wrote:
>   Fan political excitement:  On December 4th, Lee Strong, President of
>   WSFA, resigned, along with the club treasurer and one of the three
>   trustees.  One assumes there may have been a fight and since the
>   treasurer also resigned that fight might have involved money.  From
>   what Lee says, WSFA has changed from a social club to a con committee
>   meeting on a social schedule, not a formula calculated to bring in
>   new members.
>
> -- Alexis Gilliland, speculating about WSFA in Alexiad 49, which is
> available at http://efanzines.com/Alexiad/Alexiad049L.pdf and at
> http://efanzines.com/Alexiad/Alexiad049P.pdf.
>
> I will admit to some curiosity myself, as there's no sign online of
> the January, February, or March WSFA Journals or any meeting minutes
> from this year, and as the WSFA website says that the vacant offices
> are to be filled in an upcoming election, to be held -- two months ago.
>
> At least I'm not speculating in public.  Or gossiping.
>