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(December 29, 1929 – August 15, 1991)

'''Orv Mosher''' (born '''Orville Watson Mosher III''' in [[Kansas]]) was a [[Dallas]] [[fan]] active in the 1950s. He was a member of the [[N3F]].  He started [[Project Fan Club]] in 1951. 

He helped found the first [[club]] in [[Texas]], the [[Dallas Futurian Society]], in 1953, and was one of the [[editors]] of its [[clubzine]], ''[[CriFanAc]]''. Despite this, he apparently wasn’t very popular: Club members took over [[Oklacon]], which became [[Southwestercon VI]] in 1958, and on the last day of the [[convention]], July 6, 1958, [[Tom Reamy]] proposed Mosher for [[president]]. Then, as soon as he was elected, Reamy moved to disband the [[club]].  The motion passed, and Mosher disappeared from [[fannish history]], while other members of the DFS continued to meet socially for many years.

He later settled in [[Maryland]], where he died in 1991.

[https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/46894678/orville-w.-mosher FindAGrave.]

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* 1953 — [[Oklacon I]]


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