Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2022 01:31:00 -0400
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Bob Madle (1920-2022)
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
From: Ted White <twhite8 at cox.net>

On 10/13/2022 11:49 PM, mark wrote:

> On 10/13/22 23:01, Ted White wrote:
 >
>> On 10/13/2022 10:39 PM, Keith F. Lynch wrote:
>>
>>> Bob Madle died this week at age 102.  Was he the last full member
>>> of First Fandom, i.e. the last fan who had been active before 1939?
>>> (Associate membership is available to anyone active more than 30
>>> years.  If you attended Magicon or posted to this newsgroup when
>>> it was new, you're eligible.)
>>
>> Yes, he was the last one.  Bob was a member of WSFA in the mid-'50s.
>>
>> The current "First Fandom" organization is a sham, comprising as it does
>> no actual members.
>
> So, we should start a Fandom, the Next Generation?

That's pretty much what the "associate members" of First Fandom have
done.  I'm not sure what era they represent, though.  The only one of
them I know became a fan in the late '70s or early '80s.  (I became a
fan in 1951.)

--Ted White