Norwescon (OR)

(Did you mean the Worldcon or the Seattle regional?)

The Portland Science-Fantasy Society sponsored a convention named Norwescon, aka the Northwest Science-Fantasy Conference. It’s unclear how many there were.

One, probably the first, was held April 23, 1949, at organizer Donald Day's home and there were 24 members from all of the three Pacific Coast states. Forrest J Ackerman traveled the farthest, but G. M. Carr and son Eric came down from Seattle and a contingent (Rosco Wright, Norm Hartman and Dennis Fraser) from the newly-formed Eugene Science-Fantasy Society. Mark Walstead came from Corvallis and the other attendees were Portland locals.

In All Our Yesterdays, Harry Warner reports:

John de Courcy introduced to the world his celebrated matter transmitter, and got a Venusian monster from it on the first test. After a buffet supper, a business session dealt with the formation of science fiction groups in Oregon and Washington. Forrest J Ackerman talked about the history of Amazing Stories. Day conducted an auction in which a Bok original brought $15 and less glamorous original artwork sold for 15¢. Dancing and an unsuccessful attempt to transmit matter followed.

There is a longish convention report in Fantasy Times #81, May 1949.

Another Portland Norwescon occurred in 1951. Mari Wolf mentions it in the March 1952 Imagination (p. 77), saying she met her husband, Rog Phillips, there; they married the following month.

Con	Date	Notes
1?	April 23, 1949
	September 1, 1951

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