Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2022 10:43:11 -0400
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Bob Madle (1920-2022)
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
From: mark <whitroth at 5-cent.us>

On 10/14/22 01:31, Ted White wrote:
> 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.)
>
Philcon, '65.

mark