MITSFS

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MITSFS Annual Banquet, May 15, 1959, at Stuben's Restaurant on Boylston Street in Boston: 1. Philip Spiro, 2. Bill Sarill (pseudomember), 3. Bob Duff (vice-president), 4. J. Martin “Shag” Graetz, 5. Dave Nickles, 6. Harry McCraw, 7. Norm Humer, 8. Anthony Lewis (secretary), 9. Charles Robert Keppel (ex-member), 10. Barbara Keppel, 11. Bob Wagner, 12. Bostwick Wyman, 13. Roy Krupp, 14. Isaac Asimov, 15. L. Court Skinner (president), 16. Joe Cohen (treasurer), 17. Ken Gooen (ex-secretary) and 18. Roy Norris (past president). From the collection of Phil Spiro.

The MIT Science Fiction Society at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, MA, was founded in 1949, and remains extant. The club has the world's largest open-shelf collection of science fiction, publishes Twilight Zine and has the motto, "We're not fans, we just read the stuff." The MITSFS Index was a somewhat MITSFS project organized by Erwin S. Strauss.

Officers[edit]

Its officers and committees are unique:

In many respects, NESFA is an outgrowth of MITSFS. Well-known fans who were members include Guy Consolmagno, George Flynn, Richard Harter, Tony Lewis, Fuzzy Pink Niven, Cory Seidman, Erwin S. Strauss, Leslie Turek, Mike Ward, Robert Wiener.

Roy Norris, president ca. 1957, deserves to be better known.

Mike Ward founded the Technology Amateur Press Association in 1968 to encourage fannishness in sercon MITSFS.


1956 MIT Yearbook entry.



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