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'''Helen Vivartlas Wesson''', a [[fan]] who was active in [[FAPA]] since 1946, published ''[[Pendragon]]'' and ''[[Helen's Fantasia]]''.  She was also heavily involved in [[Ajay]] -- [[mundane]] [[APAs]] -- such as [[NAPA]] beginning before the [[war]].  She published ''[[Unspeakable Thing]]'' with [[Burton Crane]] and with [[Sheldon Wesson]].
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'''Helen Vivartlas Wesson''', a [[New York]] [[fan]], was active in [[]] in the 1940s and ’50s.  She belonged to [[FAPA]] since 1946. She published ''[[Pendragon]]'' and ''[[Helen's Fantasia]]''.  She also published ''[[The (Unspeakable) Thing]]'' with [[Burton Crane]] and with her husband, [[Sheldon Wesson]] from 1946–52. They were living in Yokohama, [[Japan]], in 1950 and ’52, according to the [[colophons]]; however, the [[1950 Fan Directory]] puts her in Rockaway, NY.
  
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"Vegas Fandom Weekly" #81 (ed. Arnie Katz) describes her shortly before her death as being "now nearly 100 years of age", so the date of birth shown above (from genealogy pages) may be in error.
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She was also heavily involved in [[Ajay]] — [[mundane]] [[APAs]] — such as [[NAPA]], beginning before the [[war]].
  
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{{link | website=http://www.thefossils.org/awards/HelenWesson.html|text=Ajay tribute page}}
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According to [[Les Croutch]] in ''[[Light]]'' 30 (January 1946), she was against advertising in [[fanzines]]:
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In fact, after reading Helen V. Wesson’s neatly printed magazine in which she commented on selling advertising space, and costs, I am wondering more about doing this. Helen Wesson takes the logical viewpoint that an amateur does not do what he is doing in return for monetary recompense of even the mildest sort.
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She believes than an amateur publication ceases to be an amateur publication the moment it sells an inch of space for advertising, or sells subscriptions. If this is the case, there aren’t many true amateur magazines in the field.... However, a point to bo considered which she does not and that is that there are many amateur publishers who are short of cash and who must try to make their magazine pay for itself to as great an extent as possible. Evidently Helen Wesson has no such fears.
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[[Joe Kennedy]] [http://fanac.org/fanzines/Sense_of_FAPA/New_York_Fan_History_2.html records her] as attending the [[The First Post-war Eastern Science Fiction Convention]] in 1946:
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Helen Wesson was wandering around with an armload of ''[[The (Unspeakable) Thing|The ... Things]]'', looking beautiful and bewildered as she tried to locate all the people that the copies were supposed to go to.
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Note: ''[[Vegas Fandom Weekly]]'' #81 (ed. [[Arnie Katz]]) describes her shortly before her death as being "now nearly 100 years of age", which disagrees with the year of birth shown above (from genealogy pages). Her July 6 birthday is correct per the [[1950 Fan Directory]].
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*{{link | website=http://www.thefossils.org/awards/HelenWesson.html|text=Ajay tribute page}}
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*[http://www.fanac.org/fanzines/Fossil/Fossil01-01.html 1957 article by Helen Wesson] about [[Lovecraft]] and ajays.
  
 
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Revision as of 09:59, 5 September 2020

(July 6, 1919 – Sept 7, 2006)

Helen Vivartlas Wesson, a New York fan, was active in [[]] in the 1940s and ’50s. She belonged to FAPA since 1946. She published Pendragon and Helen's Fantasia. She also published The (Unspeakable) Thing with Burton Crane and with her husband, Sheldon Wesson from 1946–52. They were living in Yokohama, Japan, in 1950 and ’52, according to the colophons; however, the 1950 Fan Directory puts her in Rockaway, NY.

She was also heavily involved in Ajay — mundane APAs — such as NAPA, beginning before the war.

According to Les Croutch in Light 30 (January 1946), she was against advertising in fanzines: 

In fact, after reading Helen V. Wesson’s neatly printed magazine in which she commented on selling advertising space, and costs, I am wondering more about doing this. Helen Wesson takes the logical viewpoint that an amateur does not do what he is doing in return for monetary recompense of even the mildest sort.

She believes than an amateur publication ceases to be an amateur publication the moment it sells an inch of space for advertising, or sells subscriptions. If this is the case, there aren’t many true amateur magazines in the field.... However, a point to bo considered which she does not and that is that there are many amateur publishers who are short of cash and who must try to make their magazine pay for itself to as great an extent as possible. Evidently Helen Wesson has no such fears.

Joe Kennedy records her as attending the The First Post-war Eastern Science Fiction Convention in 1946: 

Helen Wesson was wandering around with an armload of The ... Things, looking beautiful and bewildered as she tried to locate all the people that the copies were supposed to go to.

Note: Vegas Fandom Weekly #81 (ed. Arnie Katz) describes her shortly before her death as being "now nearly 100 years of age", which disagrees with the year of birth shown above (from genealogy pages). Her July 6 birthday is correct per the 1950 Fan Directory.

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