Roderick Gaetz

(From the right:) Gaetz, Gerry de la Ree and Roy Plotkin, Sun Spots 11, October 5, 1940

(February 4, 1923 – September 9, 2007)

Roderick Ruskin Gaetz was a Vancouver-born fan whose family moved to Seattle a few months after his birth, and then to Westwood, New Jersey, around 1934. "In 1938 I spent 11 months in Australia"; after the return he found local teenage fans in his neighborhood and joined Solaroids (dating it "the first S-f I read was The Bridge to Earth in Startling", i. e. Sep 1939). He co-edited their clubzine Sun Spots.

In Sun Spots #26 (Fall 1945, p. 3) he was listed among "Past Associate Editors" with the rank of Private (see War).

In his later mundane (apparently gafiated) life, he seems to have been an engineer; he was credited in 1971 as one of two inventors on a Canadian patent owned by Uniroyal.

• "The Autobiography of Roderick R. Gaetz", Sun Spots #11, October 1940, page 10.
• Roderick Gaetz at Find a Grave (Oxford, Connecticut. Listed as "loving husband & father", wife Carolyn D., 1926–2006)
• Gaetz, Roderick at University of Iowa's Hevelin Fanzines collection

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1923—2007

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