Christine Haycock
(January 7, 1924 – Jan 23, 2008)
Christine Haycock (aka Chris Moskowitz) was a fan, and a leading authority on women's sports medicine.
With her husband, Sam Moskowitz, whom she married in 1958, she attended hundreds of regional conventions and Worldcons, was a GoH at Disclave 9 in 1965, and was active in New Jersey fandom. She was a member of ESFA and the Lunarians (and was Treasurer of the Lunarians.) With SaM, she published Different for FAPA.
An award-winning surgeon and professor, active in cancer research, she was a nurse in World War II, and after becoming an M.D., was the first woman intern at Walter Reed Medical Center. In later years she obtained a Master's in Political Science at Rutgers, was a graduate of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, and the U.S. Army War College. She retired from the military with the rank of Colonel in 1984.
She was the first winner of the First Fandom club's Sam Moskowitz Archive Award (1998).
She was buried in Arlington National Cemetery in Washington, DC.
When Sam extolled, in his FAPAzine, his new wife's virtues (surgeon, fencer, softball player), I cattily remarked that she sounded, from Sam's description, like a better man than he was. My mistake. Christine wasn't bothered, but Sam was. He sent a Harlem storefront lawyer, one Stanley Seitel, to Towner Hall to throw a scare into me, and when that didn't work, he instituted a libel suit against me (in Christine's name), for calling her a lesbian and impugning her professional reputation. (This suit, filed in 1961, dragged on for more than five years before getting a court date assigned to it — at which point Christine dropped it.) It was Sam's hope to financially ruin me with this action, but Larry Shaw thwarted that hope by finding me a First Amendment lawyer who defended me pro bono, thank ghod.
American Medical Women's Association bio.
Awards, Honors and GoHships:
- 1965 — GoH at Disclave 9
- 1988 — Sam Moskowitz Archive Award
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