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'''The National Fantasy Fan Federation''', also abbreviated as '''NFFF''', founded in 1941, is the oldest international science fiction [[organization]] extant.  Its members are called “'''Neffers'''.” 

At one point or another, most old-time [[actifen]] belonged to the N3F, but it has long been considered to be almost a separate, parallel [[fandom]]. 

Today, it sponsors  an annual [[amateur]] short story contest, gives the annual [[Neffy Awards]] and publishes a number of [[fanzines]], including ''[[The National Fantasy Fan]]'', the descendant of its original [[newsletter]], ''[[Bonfire]]''.  Activities are supported by nearly 50 offices and bureaus.

Non-voting memberships are free. 

The [[club]] motto is “[[Science and Fantasy]].”


==Officers==
The N3F has two [[Officers]], the [[President]] and the Treasurer.  The N3F President is elected by the membership.  The Treasurer is appointed by the President subject to [[Directorate]] approval.  The President may create [[#Bureaus|Bureaus]], appoint [[#Bureaus|Bureau Head]]s, and set up new activities, all subject to review by the Directorate. 

==Directorate==
Originally, the Advisory Board, the Directorate is the governing body of the N3F. It consists of five members elected each year by the [[club]] membership. A [[Chair]], who guides the activities of the Directorate, is chosen each year from among the newly elected members of the Directorate. 

In the past, there was also a [[Vice-Chair]] who took over if the Chair was unable to function.

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'''Directorate ''' The Advisory Board of the [[N3F]]. 
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'''Directorate''' Variant name for the Advisory Board. 
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==N3F Fanzines ==
<div style="column-count:2;-moz-column-count:2;-webkit-column-count:2">
* ''[[The National Fantasy Fan]]''
*[[N'APA]]
*''[[Tightbeam]]''
*''[[Ionisphere]]
*''[[Eldritch Science]]''
*''[[Films Fantastic]]''
* ''[https://tnfff.org/mangaverse/  Mangaverse]''
* ''[[The N3F Review of Books]]'' 
*''[[Origin]]''
* ''[[Fanactivity Gazette]]''
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==History==
The need for a [[general fan organization]] was perceived in the earliest days of [[fandom]], but one did not actually get off to a successful start until [[Damon Knight]] wrote "[[Unite -- or Fie!]]" (a play on the [[Michelist]] speech "[[Mutation or Death!]]") for the October 1940 issue of [[Art Widner]]'s [[fanzine]] ''[[Fanfare (Paro)]]'', in which he said in part: "I sincerely believe that a successful national fantasy association is possible, that it could offer a needed service to every [[fan]], and that it could be established today." 

Reader response soon led to the formation of the National Fantasy Fan Federation (abbreviated NFFF or N3F) with 64 charter members, including [[E. E. Smith]], [[Ray Bradbury]], and Knight. While knight's interest soon waned, Widner, [[Louis Russell Chauvenet]] (who coined the term "[[fanzine]]") and other prominent [[fans]] of the day guided the initial development of the [[club]]. 

The organization had several early successes, including but not limited to publication of a book by [[Dr. David H. Keller]] and sponsoring (with [[Forry Ackerman]] and the [[LASFS]]) the [[first Fancyclopedia]]. For much of its existence, however, the N3F was not held in high regard; it became something of an ignorant backwater in the hands of those whose only activity was in the N3F and who behaved as if the N3F was synonymous with [[fandom]] rather than just a part of it. 

Accordingly, the [[club]] was the subject of much [[satire]] and derision and it languished for many years. (Some fans claimed that the sole function of the N3F should be to introduce new [[fen]] to our [[FIAWOL|way of life]], but, in fact, the N3F has not had such an activity in decades.) However, the organization endures while others have come and gone. 

===1940s and '50s===
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'''NFFF''' - National Fantasy Fan Federation. With the decline of [[New Fandom]], [[damon knight]] and [[Art Widner]] suggested forming a new [[general fan organization]] along certain lines, and fans were asked to lend support and suggestions. In 1941 it began functioning after a preliminary election, and [[President]] [[Russ Chauvenet|Chauvenet]] drew up a rather long constitution, describing minutiae of procedure to be followed. Due to the [[Fincom]] report, this was not adopted, and tho approval of a constitution was finally secured, an [[interregnum]] began in June 1942. This was broken by [[E. E. Evans|Evans]]' [[Blitzkrieg]], but only temporarily.

[[America]] having entered the [[War]] in late 1941, more and more active [[fans]] were removed from [[fanac|activity]] by going into the [[Army]] and other overtime occupations, so that the government structure envisioned for the NFFF could not be worked. The NFFF was to include all fans, it was hoped, determined by [[Activity Party|activity tests]]. The US would be divided into several regions, each of which would have certain functions within itself; there was also some provision for affiliating local groups. The central administration of the Federation, besides the elected [[officers]] and the [[N3F#Directorate|Advisory Board]], would include several [[committees]], and a permanent judicial or legal body of certain middle-aged fans. The NFFF was expected to perform such functions as coordination and standardizatin, and undertake such projects as were forwarded by the Plancom and approved by the [[N3F#Directorate|Directorate]].
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====Battle Creek Plan====
A plan for managing the N3F.

The [[club]] started out with no constitution, and the one drawn up was cumbersome and rejected by the membership when it was submitted. A constitution was finally adopted, but the machinery remained cumbersome, and the negligible results for the early labor plus the difficult requirements for nomination (all under the shadow of the stress of [[war]]) caused insufficient candidates to file to fill the necessary offices when the first [[administration]] lapsed. 

[[E. E. Evans]], [[Plancom]] [[chairman]] of the first year, got a new set of officers by [[Blitzkrieg]] methods; but before the [[organization]] could gather momentum again Evans, the new [[President]], was forced to drop activity. [[VP]] [[Bob Tucker|Tucker]] turned the presidency over to Evans' neighbor (at the [[Slan Shack]] in [[Battle Creek]], [[Michigan]]), [[Al Ashley]]. It being conceded that the old Constitution was unworkable, Ashley planned to carry out Evans' idea of a pyramiding state-regional-national scheme with many [[officials|officers]] (the "Battle Creek Plan") including as "citizens" all who could be called fans, while [[Harry Warner]] spoke for an organization with few [[officials]] and stiff [[membership]] requirements. 

A wrangle over whether the [[directorate]] should pick one plan for submission to the membership or have a vote on both led to stalemate, again the terms of officers ended with no replacements, and the N3F lapsed. In the fall of '43, at the height of [[Cosmic Circle]] furor, Ashley questioned the [[Board]] members with a view to revising the group under an emergency for-the-duration constitution; this was realized next year, with [[Walt Dunkelberger]] in the [[President]]ial chair. [[Elections]] were resumed in 1947. 

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See [[Interregnum]]. 
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The National Fantasy Fan Federation, the chief general [[fan]] [[organization]]. (Forbye, it's international, despite the name.) It was organized in 1941 by elements of the [[Stranger Club]] of [[Boston]], [[Massachusetts|Mass]], stimulated by [[damon knight]]'s article "Unite -- or Fie!" in [[Art Widner]]'s [[Fanfare]], which had suggested formation of a new general organization with the decline of [[New Fandom]]. In 1941 the group began functioning after a preliminary election, and [[President]] [[Russ Chauvenet|Chauvenet]] drew up a rather long constitution. Plans were laid to finance the Federation by a tax on activity by amount, rather than by equal dues; a majority of members had approved this notion when Widner advanced it, but when the Finance Committee offered a concrete plan (omitting calculation of how small the sums would actually be) a great babble went up about "penalizing activity", "paying tribute", usw. This prevented the adoption of the constitution at first; an altered one was finally adopted, but did not prevent the [[Interregnum]] in June 1942. And after Evans' [[Blitzkrieg]] the removal of active [[fans]] by [[war]]time difficulties made it impossible to work the governmental structure envisioned for the N3F. Tho this trouble, as explained under [[Interregnum]], was eventually resolved, the N3F has never since gotten out of a sort of permanent embryonic state. It continues to day by an act of faith among those who Believe in it, but few knowing outsiders would dissent from some such opinion as the one [[Harry Warner]] expresses: 
 
"I've heard this assurance that big things were around the corner for the N3F so frequently... it's funny by this time. The N3F invariably has a half-dozen energetic members who can get things done, and several hundred who are either content to let the others work hard, or jealous that the others are active. The organization may be justified by serving as an outlet for [[fans]] during a period of six months to a year -- the period when they're just getting acquainted with [[fandom]], with a yen to read long lists of [[fan]] addresses, high-sounding words about purposes, and so forth. After that, a verbal arrangement with two or three other people can accomplish more than the N3F has ever done." 

The [[organization]] started out with fine plans for recruiting [[fans]], inspiring activity, setting up regional subordinate organizations (for New England, Dixie, the rest of the East, the [[Midwest]], West [Mississippi-Rockies], and Pacific areas), selecting [[convention]] sites, and so on. The central administration of the Federation, besides the elected officers and the Advisory Board, would include several committees and a permanent judicial or legal body of certain middle-aged [[fans]]. 

It is said to have a [[membership]] of about 400, give or take 100 either way, and supposedly publishes a frequent bulletin, [[The National Fantasy Fan]]. But the N3F has never managed to be an important force in [[fandom]], tho some of its aims -- organizing, standardizing, and coordinating [[fanac|fan activities]], providing a common meeting ground, and publishing informational booklets like this one -- would be worthwhile. It is so large and unwieldy that it never gets off the ground; the normal official [[Circle of Lassitude|lethargy]] of fan organizations is multiplied by the fact that the N3F officers consult by [[correspondence]]; and the "benefit list" of projects whose fruits are going to drop into the N3Fers laps [[Real Soon Now]] is a standing joke in [[fandom]]. 
 
The chief complaint seems to be [[inertia]] among the membership, which require to be treated like the rank-and-file of large [[mundane]] organizations. N3F officials have usually included active and competent fans, even some [[BNF]]s of legendary status like [[Jack Speer|Speer]], [[Harry Warner|Warner]], and [[Art Rapp|Rapp]], but the routine of administering a flaccid mass of marginally interested [[stfnists]] is such as to drive personalities of the sort [[fans]] have into [[gafia]], [[Insurgency]], or paper-doll-cutting. The efficient chaser of details who forms the backbone of any administrating organization is not a type plentiful in [[fandom]], and even when found can usually get greater rewards of [[egoboo]] through individual [[fanac]]. Fans would probably do better at coordination -- which was the original idea, after all -- and the activities which call for it to exercise only this function, like the [[Round Robins]] ([[chain letters]]) and N3F [[APA]] are the most successful in the club; but as a rule activities to coordinate is just what the N3F lacks. 
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At the start of the Korean War, an N3F member issued a fanzine attacking the Red Cross and other groups, and had his publications banned from the mails. 

* [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/120986632/tucker-1944/ “Robert Tucker Vice President Of Fantasy Fans”] by Wilma Tolley, The Pantagraph News, December 17, 1944, p. 18.

===1960s===
The ’60s was mostly a quiet decade for the organization, in contrast to the high-power [[feuds]] that racked it during the ’50s.  There was a moderate amount of excitement in 1963 when former director [[Alma Hill]] started impeachment proceedings against [[Al Lewis]], who was then the chairman of the Directorate of the NFFF. Lewis had written an article in the club's fanzine, ''[[The National Fantasy Fan]]'', defending the worth of the [[newszine]] ''[[Fanac (Carr)|Fanac]]'' to its readers, which came across as an unfavorable review to the consternation of many readers. 

Hardly had that fracas blown over when Lewis was once again the subject of an impeachment proceeding, this time by [[Clay Hamlin]]. Lewis had defended [[Earl Kemp]] from libelous charges leveled at him by an otherwise little-known fan, [[D. Bruce Berry]], in a [[fanzine]] article. [[Ron Ellik]] reported, tongue-in-cheek, on the two impeachment  attempts: "That Lewis sure is a scoundrel."

In May 1963, [[John Trimble|John]] & [[Bjo Trimble]] hosted what was billed as "The First Annual N3F Swim, Beer, and Good Clean Fun Afternoon" in [[Los Angeles]].

The club’s annual story contest began, with cash prizes to the winners.  The judges included [[Fred Pohl]] (1966).

The club used to run a Hospitality Room at [[Worldcons]]; the N3F Welcome Room was something like a Neffer-focused [[Fanzine Lounge]], with literature aimed at explaining [[fandom]] to [[neofen]]. In 1965, [[George Scithers]] wrote in his [[Discon I Report]]:
 Although the N3F is subject to internal [[feuds]], a strong defensive reaction to intentional and unmeant criticism, and a tendency to charge off in several different directions at once, it is a well-established and stable [[organization]]. It has been in existence since 1941; it has a big enough treasury and enough expertise to carry out what it sets out to do, within reason. The relationship between the [[con committee]]s and the N3F, therefore, has been one of mutual assistance rather than dependence. A hard-pressed con committee can call on, and get, help from the N3F; a particularly strong con committee can offer substantial assistance to the N3F during the [[con]].

This continued through the early 1970s, but stopped for unknown reasons. 

===1970s===
The growth of general fandom in the 1970s also expanded the club, but most new members were short timers. 

===2000s===
The club went through a period when a very few active members kept the N3F up and running. 

===2010s===
Email brought a great increase in membership, from around three dozen up to 250 members. The use of email meant it was easy to distribute many fanzines at little cost.  First,  ''[[The National Fantasy Fan]]'' and then the old [[loc|letter]] and review [[zine]], ''[[Tightbeam]]'', became monthly.  The N3F [[apa]], [[N'APA]], which had dwindled to two members exchanging emails, was brought to a regular bimonthly schedule. New [[#N3F Fanzines|N3F fanzines]], came out, each sent to all members by email. 

The club also published a new series of “'''Fandbooks'''” (fan handbooks).

===2020s===
====Alt-Right Controversy====
In January 2021, N3F President [[George Phillies]] sent out a mass email to members and others asking them to publicize the N3F on Parler and Gab, two social-media sites widely considered to be a hangout of right-wing extremists. Controversy ensued and Phillies doubled down saying that he was essentially a-political and merely seeking fans.

Among other reactions, [[Bill Burns]] said he would no longer announce publication of N3F [[fanzines]] on [[eFanzines]]. [[David Speakman]], a member of nearly 40 years who had been awarded a rare [[N3F#Life Members|life membership]], publicly broke his ties with the club.

See [[Mike Glyer]]'s ''[[File 770]]'' article for much more: [http://file770.com/efanzines-drops-n3f-zines-after-groups-president-seeks-to-promote-it-on-parler-and-gab/ eFanzines Drops N3F Zines After Group’s President Seeks to Promote It on Parler and Gab.]

==NFFF Press==
A [[small press]] established in 1948 to publish ''The Sign of the Burning Hart: A Tale of Arcadia'' by [[Dr. David H. Keller]].

To date this is the only hardbound book published by the Press, although N3F has published many [[fanzines]], [[fandbooks]], directories and other materials over the years.

In 1965, it published ''[[Science Fiction Title Changes]]'' by [[Michael Viggiano]] and [[Donald Franson]]. For the N3F's 75th anniversary in 2017, it published ''A Sea of Stars Like Diamonds'', a book of short stories by Neffers, edited by [[George Phillies]]. 

==Bureaus==
The [[club]], historically, has had many departments, called '''''bureaus''''', led by '''''BuHeads'''''. Some of them are:

===Anime/Comics Bureau=== 
The Anime, Comics and Manga Bureau supports discussion of all aspects of this hobby. BuHead is [[Kevin Trainor]]. It has published ''[https://tnfff.org/mangaverse/  Mangaverse]'' since 2004. 

===Artist Bureau===
Artists from this bureau supply artwork for the N3F [[clubzines]]. Technique, subject matter, and publication are part of its discussions. BuHead is [[Cedar Sanderson]].

===Birthday Card Bureau===
A bureau that sends birthday cards to members. The Bureau Head is [[Judy Carroll]]. 

The Bureau has also on and off, been in charge of sending renewal notices to members whose memberships are expiring.

===Book Review Bureau===
The Book Review Bureau tries to persuade members to write at least short reviews of all new [[novels]].

===Collector's Bureau===
In the 1960s, it published a [[fanzine]], ''[[The Collector's Bulletin]]'' ([[Ned Brooks]], ed.), and [[bibliographies]] such as the ''[[Science Fiction Collections Index]]''. [[Don D'Ammassa]] was buhead in the mid-1970s. 

===Comics Bureau===
A bureau that did something for [[comics|comic-book]] fans. [[Tim Marion]] headed it for a while. It was superseded by the [[#Anime/Comics Bureau|Anime, Comics and Manga Bureau]]. 

===Complaints Bureau===
[[Bob Vardeman]] was in charge in 1969. 

===Convention Calendar===
The Bureau published a monthly list of forthcoming [[Convention]] events. BuHead: [[Mindy Hunt]].

===Convention Coordinator===
[[Convention]] dates, [[conreports]], and passing out flyers at [[conventions]] was the purpose of this bureau. 

===Correspondence Bureau===
Organized by [[Ev Winne]], its first BuHead, in 1951, this bureau seems to have recruited members to write letters to other members. [[Correspondents]] as of February 1952 were [[Jack Anderson|Robert "Jack" Anderson]], [[Richard Bergeron]], [[K. Martin Carlson]], [[G. M. Carr]], [[Lyell Crane]], [[Henry Ebel]], [[Bob Farnham]], [[Eva Firestone]], [[Nan Gerding]], [[Norbert Hirschhorn]], [[Julian May]], [[Charles Moslander]], [[Ray Schaffer]], [[Landis Shepherd]] and [[Stan Woolston]].

Latest buhead is [[Judy Carroll]].

===Fanclubs Bureau===
[[Fred Lerner]] was BuHead in the late 1960s. 

===Fandom Introductory Bureau===
Its purpose was to inform new fans of the history of [[SF]] and SF [[fandom]]. It seems to have been absorbed into the [[Fan Research Bureau]]. 

===Fan-Pro Activity Coordinating Bureau=== 
The bureau and its [[zine]], ''[[Ionisphere]]'', exist to increase interactions between readers and writers, publish interviews with writers and [[fen]], promote contact information and web locations, and support [[convention]] activities. Bureau Head is [[John Thiel]].

===Fan Research Bureau===
The Fandom History and Research Bureau seeks to document the history of the N3F and “our hobby.” The bureau head is [[John Thiel]]. It has published ''[[Origin]]'' since 2018. 

=== Fanzine Clearing House===
A [[Fanzine Clearing House]] distribution service was handled by [[Seth Johnson]]. The service paid for ads in some of the [[prozines]] to sell bundles of [[fanzines]] to [[science fiction]] readers who could be potential [[neofans]].  He also took it on himself to locate new recruits directly by scanning [[prozine]] [[lettercol|letters columns]] for addresses, then sending them packages of [[fanzines]]. The problem was, some of the [[fanzines]] he sent out were so poorly produced and written that it often had the opposite effect.  This led some [[fanzine]] publishers, most notably [[Ted White]], to claim that [[Seth Johnson|Johnson]] had no understanding or appreciation of [[fannish]] [[writing]].

===Film Bureau===
A latter-day bureau that, since 2018, has published ''[[Films Fantastic]]'', a [[zine]] devoted to reviews of old [[sci-fi]] movies. 

===Fische Bureau===
One of the many bureaus of the N3F, created in the 1980s. We have no idea what it did, but [[Paul Doerr]] was the Bureau Head. It is no longer active.

===Follow-Up Bureau===
The Follow-Up bureau asked former members why they left the N3F.   [[Lenny Bailes]] was one-time head. 

===Franking Service ===
The [[Franking]] Service performs the original purpose of the N3F, redistributing [[fanzines]] to club members. Nowadays, their work is purely electronic.

===Games Bureau===
Supports [[gaming]] by N3F Members, including board games, [[RPG]], miniatures, diplomatic games and [[LARP]]. In the 1960s, it published the fanzines ''[[Gamesman]]'' and ''[[The Gamesletter]]''. Around 1968, it had a War Games Division that published ''[[Picklehaube]]''.

===Gourmet Bureau=== 
It’s devoted to [[fans]] interested in recipes used by SF fans and [[pro]]s, and is headed by  [[Cedar Sanderson]]. She publishes ''[[Eat This While You Read That]]'', recipes associated with famous authors.

===Hobby Bureau ===
Presumably covered hobbies other than fandom. 

===Information Bureau===
We don’t know what kind of information this bureau dealt in, but [[Don D'Ammassa]] was in charge of it in the mid-1970s, and [[Don Franson]] before that. 

=== Information Technology Committee===
Launched in 2018, it maintains the N3F's web pages, social media pages, and fanzine mailing system.  [[George Phillies]] is the BuHead. 

===Ladies' Auxiliary===
The N3F Ladies’ Auxiliary was one of the [[organization]]’s bureaus in the 1950s. The N3F proper never had any rules about members’ gender, so why they needed a ladies’ auxiliary is unclear, especially since all the women in the auxiliary apparently belonged to the main [[club]] as well. [[Florence S. Anderson]] founded the group in 1949, and served as [[president]]; she apparently quit and the auxiliary became inactive in 1950. The auxiliary’s activities included running the [[club]]’s lending library. [[Betty Sullivan]] was Librarian. 

===Manuscript Bureau===
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The N3F has a [[Manuscript Bureau]] which is much used by its [[fanzine]]-publishing members like [[Racy Higgs]], but of it least said is soonest mended.
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[[Wilkie Conner]] was buhead in the early 1950s. 

===Membership Activities Bureau===

Its activities are lost in the depths of time.

===N'APA===
[[N'APA]], the Neffer [[apa]], has been going since 1959. It’s open to all members of NFFF.  The [[Official Editor]]s during the ’60s included [[Robert Lichtman]] and [[Fred Patten]].

===Neffer News Bureau===
[[Sheryl Birkhead]] was buhead in the mid-1970s. 

=== Neffy Awards Bureau===
The Bureau manages the nominations and voting for the [[Neffy Awards]] (originally the [[Laureate]]s).

=== Neo Fan Fund===
A scheme of [[Harriett Kolchak]]’s, started in the early 1960s, for helping out new [[fans]] who found themselves without sufficient [[money]] at [[conventions]]. See [[Neofund]]. 

===New Fanzine Appreciation Society ===
[[Reed Andrus]] ran this in the mid-1970s. 

===NFFF Trader===
[[K. Martin Carlson]] had a [[column]] of this name in the ''[[The National Fantasy Fan]]'' for members who wished to sell, buy, or trade [[SF]] items. [[Zeda Mishler]] was also a buhead. 

===Overseas Bureau ===

===Photo Bureau===

===Plancom===
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([[EEEvans|Evans]]) - The '''Long-Range Planning Committee''' of the NFFF. It was to consider all suggestions for new activities to be undertaken by the Federation and work into shape those that it considered worth while, but after it had finished, they had yet to be approved by the Board, [[EEEvans]] was [[chairman|chmn]] of the Plancom, and sent out [[carbon-copied]] sheets to the [[Committee]]men carrying ideas and comments, received comments and ideas, and sent out more sheets. In an active quarter, the ides considered included: establishment of a [[Welcom]], compilation of a [[history of fandom]], recognition of official [[poll]] taker, publications of a fannual, reader's bureaus to advise which stories in the current [[prozine|pros]] were worth reading (disapproved), [[site Selection|voting by all fans on time and place]] of [[conventions]], official stationery, [[Publicity|public relations]] idea, [[awards]], federal subdivision of the country, and others. 
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===Pro Bureau===
Works in support of [[pro]]s, notably by co-publishing ''[[The N3F Review of Books]]''.

===Publications Bureau===

===Publicity Committee===

===Recruiting===

===Round Robins===
A round robin is a packet of [[Chain Letters|chain letters]] (or emails) written about a subject or author. The letters follow a route headed by a robin master. Most N3F robins had four to six members. Three members were required for each topic to begin "rounding." A few of the N3F’s long-running robins were on SF&F Films, ''Star Trek'', Time Travel, [[Andre Norton]] and [[Anne McCaffrey]].   

One of the oldest bureaus in the club, it was once the most active and popular, but is now idle. 

[[Dick Eney]] considered this use of ''round robin'' “inaccurate” in [[Fancyclopedia 2]], reserving the term for [[Round Robin|round robin stories]].

===SF Lending Library ===

===Short Story Contest===
Oversees the annual N3F-sponsored short story contest for [[amateur]] SF writers. 

===Social Media Bureau===
Supports the N3F's pages and groups on social media sites. 

===Tape Bureau===
The Tape Bureau stockpiled authors’ readings from [[cons]]. [[Ann Ashe]] was was buhead in the mid-1960s, and [[Joanne Burger]] beginning in 1969. Ann [[published]] at least five issues of the ''[[N3F Tape Bureau Newsletter]]'' from 1965–67.

===Taping Bureau===
The separate taping bureau read and recorded  books for the blind.

===Teaching SF Bureau===

===Video Bureau===
Headed by the [[pseudonym]]ous [[Cathode Ray]], this reports on [[stfnal]] TV events. 

===Welcommittee===
Welcomes new members to the [[club]], pretty much as described under [[Welcommittee]] in previous editions of [[Fancyclopedia]] (below). The [[committee]] members used to be called “Hostesses.” One of them was [[Zeda P. Mishler]], who wrote a [https://fanac.org/fanzines/Fan-Dango/fanda015.pdf remarkable letter] welcoming [[BNF]] [[Charles Burbee]] in 1948. 

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A group of N3F members who contact new members and help them get acquainted with the club and its activities. Embarrassing passages have arisen from such events as the one in which [[Burbee]], after several years of activity and fame, was "welcomed" to [[fandom]]. This group originally had a function (no longer exercised) of watching the [[prozine]] [[letter columns]] for promising letters from [[protofan|non-fans]] and having [[committee]] members in the same section of the country write them letters "welcoming" them into [[fandom]] and explaining what it is all about. 
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The Welcoming Committee, a recruiting adjunct of the NFFF, which would watch the [[prozine|pro]] [[lettercol|letter sections]] for promising letters from [[protofan|non-fans]], and have committee members in the same section of the country write them letters "welcoming" them to [[fandom]] and explaining what it is all about. 
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===World SF Poll===
[[Roy Tackett]] was the pollster in 1969. 

===Writers' Exchange Bureau===
Members of the Writers’ Exchange Bureau read and critique each other’s manuscripts.  [[Alma Hill]] was in charge in the late 1960s. The current BuHead is [[Judy Carroll]].

==Life Members==
The [[N3F]] has granted Life Member status to several fans since its founding. 

<tab head=top>
 Name || Year Granted 
[[Forrest J Ackerman]] || 
[[David H. Keller]] || 
[[Jacqueline Lichtenberg]] ||2012 
[[Jack Robins]] ||2012 
[[E. E. Smith]] || 
[[David Speakman]] ||
[[Jon D. Swartz]] ||2018 
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==More Information==
* [https://n3f.org/ Official website.]
*{{link | website= http://web.archive.org/web/20131114230322/http://www.thevoicesoffandom.com/mp3/art_widner_n3f_and_more_2007.mp3|text=Art Widner audio}} (archived): An mp3 of [[Art Widner]] explaining how the N3F was founded and more... time: 12:50.  Recorded at [[Corflu]] 25 (April 2008),  [[Las Vegas]], [[Nevada]]. (Audio courtesy of {{link | website=http://web.archive.org/web/20090107053055/http://www.thevoicesoffandom.com/audio-clips.html | text=TheVoicesOfFandom.com}}.) Widner describes the founding of the N3F and along the way gives a general personal history including anecdotes regarding his [[fanzine]] ''[[YHOS]]'', his 34-year [[gafia]], his years as a teacher, the game [[TSOHG]] and more! 
* [[List of Presidents of the N3F]].


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