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She wrote of herself in ''[[Femizine]]'' 13 (Spring 1960): | She wrote of herself in ''[[Femizine]]'' 13 (Spring 1960): | ||
I have red hair and hazel eyes, and do my space travelling by wheelchair due to Arthritis which I’ve had since I was eight. Got through two years of high school when the chair caught up with me, but have always been thankful that I made it through school. Discovered [[fandom]] in 1956 and havn’t come out of my daze yet. I joined N3F and sure have been glad I did. It's opened up a whole new wonderful world for me, and I’ve met more wonderful people!...I’m sort of floundering my way through getting used to using a [[typer]]. My hands are pretty out of shape and I use two pencils and beat away at the keys with the eraser ends. | I have red hair and hazel eyes, and do my space travelling by wheelchair due to Arthritis which I’ve had since I was eight. Got through two years of high school when the chair caught up with me, but have always been thankful that I made it through school. Discovered [[fandom]] in 1956 and havn’t come out of my daze yet. I joined N3F and sure have been glad I did. It's opened up a whole new wonderful world for me, and I’ve met more wonderful people!...I’m sort of floundering my way through getting used to using a [[typer]]. My hands are pretty out of shape and I use two pencils and beat away at the keys with the eraser ends. | ||
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| + | [[Stan Woolston]] wrote in ''[[TNFF]]'' {{TNFF | volume=29 | number=2 | page=5 |text= (April 1969, p. 5): }} | ||
| + | Cheerfulness was the hallmark of Marijane’s [[fanac]]. She wrote friendly letters, and when we met eight years ago she was excited and happy. She had a nurse to accompany her and ’’Clarence”, her wheel chair, on the plane, and she dropped in to visit here at Garden Grove after meeting [[Bennie Edwards]], [[Ann Chamberlain]] and other fans in other parts of sourthern [[California]]. She was a cheerful lady despite the pain of arthritis. | ||
[[Bill Mallardi]] recalled her in ''[[Mimosa]]'' 21 ([https://www.jophan.org/mimosa/m21/joni.htm#mallardi December 1997, p. 42]): | [[Bill Mallardi]] recalled her in ''[[Mimosa]]'' 21 ([https://www.jophan.org/mimosa/m21/joni.htm#mallardi December 1997, p. 42]): | ||
I had been reading [[science fiction]] for more than six years, when in 1958 I picked up a prozine and saw an ad in the back from a female named Marijane Johnson asking for [[correspondents]], and mentioning a [[club]] of [[SF]] fans, the N3F. Being 21, I wrote to her thinking she was a young, pretty single gal, kind of hoping to start a friendship with a bit of romance to it. To my surprise, it turned out Marijane was a bed-ridden woman in her 40s, with a severe form of childhood rheumatism, a bad spine and occasionally even on oxygen. She had an electric wheelchair with all kinds of straps and gizmos on it, plus an intricate metal lift that got her in and out of bed, etc. She called the chair 'Mr. Clancy'. Janey had a personality that wouldn't quit, so everyone called her 'Sparkle-Janey'. | I had been reading [[science fiction]] for more than six years, when in 1958 I picked up a prozine and saw an ad in the back from a female named Marijane Johnson asking for [[correspondents]], and mentioning a [[club]] of [[SF]] fans, the N3F. Being 21, I wrote to her thinking she was a young, pretty single gal, kind of hoping to start a friendship with a bit of romance to it. To my surprise, it turned out Marijane was a bed-ridden woman in her 40s, with a severe form of childhood rheumatism, a bad spine and occasionally even on oxygen. She had an electric wheelchair with all kinds of straps and gizmos on it, plus an intricate metal lift that got her in and out of bed, etc. She called the chair 'Mr. Clancy'. Janey had a personality that wouldn't quit, so everyone called her 'Sparkle-Janey'. | ||
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| + | She ran a business making photo stamps, where people sent in snapshots that were printed on perforated paper stickers. | ||
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Revision as of 13:12, 30 March 2023
(September 4, 1920 – March 12, 1969)
Marijane "Janey" Johnson, a fan living in Spokane, WA, was active in the 1950s and ’60s. She was a member of the N3F and ISFCC and wrote for many fanzines as well as her own Janey's Journal.
She suffered from severe rheumatoid arthritis and used a wheelchair she called Clancy.
The only convention she attended was Seacon, the 1961 Worldcon in Seattle, when fans in Seattle and Spokane collected money to bring her. After her death, a one-shot fanzine collecting her fan writing, Janey's Journal, was edited by Clayton Hamlin and published by Robert Lambeck.
She wrote of herself in Femizine 13 (Spring 1960):
I have red hair and hazel eyes, and do my space travelling by wheelchair due to Arthritis which I’ve had since I was eight. Got through two years of high school when the chair caught up with me, but have always been thankful that I made it through school. Discovered fandom in 1956 and havn’t come out of my daze yet. I joined N3F and sure have been glad I did. It's opened up a whole new wonderful world for me, and I’ve met more wonderful people!...I’m sort of floundering my way through getting used to using a typer. My hands are pretty out of shape and I use two pencils and beat away at the keys with the eraser ends.
Stan Woolston wrote in TNFF (April 1969, p. 5):
Cheerfulness was the hallmark of Marijane’s fanac. She wrote friendly letters, and when we met eight years ago she was excited and happy. She had a nurse to accompany her and ’’Clarence”, her wheel chair, on the plane, and she dropped in to visit here at Garden Grove after meeting Bennie Edwards, Ann Chamberlain and other fans in other parts of sourthern California. She was a cheerful lady despite the pain of arthritis.
Bill Mallardi recalled her in Mimosa 21 (December 1997, p. 42):
I had been reading science fiction for more than six years, when in 1958 I picked up a prozine and saw an ad in the back from a female named Marijane Johnson asking for correspondents, and mentioning a club of SF fans, the N3F. Being 21, I wrote to her thinking she was a young, pretty single gal, kind of hoping to start a friendship with a bit of romance to it. To my surprise, it turned out Marijane was a bed-ridden woman in her 40s, with a severe form of childhood rheumatism, a bad spine and occasionally even on oxygen. She had an electric wheelchair with all kinds of straps and gizmos on it, plus an intricate metal lift that got her in and out of bed, etc. She called the chair 'Mr. Clancy'. Janey had a personality that wouldn't quit, so everyone called her 'Sparkle-Janey'.
She ran a business making photo stamps, where people sent in snapshots that were printed on perforated paper stickers.
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