Cinvention

Cinvention, the 1949 Worldcon, was held September 3–5 at the Hotel Metropole in Cincinnati, Ohio, with GoH Lloyd A. Eshbach and FGoH Ted Carnell. Attendance: about 190.

Don Ford carried out the duties of Chairman, but was officially Secretary-Treasurer; Charles R. Tanner had the honorary title of Chairman. Ted Carnell, the Fan GoH, was also toastmaster with the title "Entertainment Master of Ceremonies". He was brought to North America by the Big Pond Fund.

Committee

From the Cinvention letterhead:

• Chairman: Charles R. Tanner
• Secretary: Darrell C. Richardson
• Treasurer and Recording Secretary: Donald E. Ford
• Associates:
  • C. L. Barrett
  • Dale Tarr
  • Stanley C. Skrivin
  • Bill Funk
  • Ronald Howes
  • Roy Lavender
  • Lou Tabakow
  • Philip Stevenson
  • Keith Hoyt
  • Warren Voris
  • Earl Short
  • Duke Henslee
  • Lee Greenweil
  • James W. Hanley
  • Floyd B. McClure

Other bidders

New York in '49. See 1949 Worldcon Site Selection.

1950 Worldcon Site Selection

More reading

• Cinvention Program
• Program Book
• Cinvention Daily
• The Cincy Report
• Lloyd Eshbach's Cinvention Reminiscence
• Cinvention Account by Fred Patten (from 1976)
• Wha' Happened, Stan Skirvin's memoir of the Cinvention, from Cinvention Memory Book
• Membership list

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Torcon I	Worldcon - Bidding - Hugos	NorWesCon
	1949

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