Joe Ross

(February 27, 1945 – )

A. Joseph Ross, a Boston fan, has been active in fandom since the 1960s. In 1964, he founded the University of Massachusetts (Amherst) Science Fiction Society, and later became a member of MITSFS and NESFA, serving as Vice President of NESFA from 1970–72. He edited Volume I of the NESFA Hymnal in the late 1970s.

He was Clerk of Arisia, Inc., from 1990–92 and President from 1992–94.

Joe is a practicing attorney. Born in Boston, he grew up in Newburyport, MA; Allston; Albany, NY; and Bedford, Massachusetts. He graduated from the University of Massachusetts Amherst with a B.A. in Political Science in 1967 and from Boston University School of Law with a J.D. in 1970.

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Fanzines and Apazines:

• The Book of Esophagus
• In the Name of Interplanetary Justice
• NESFA Hymnal, Volume I [1976]
• NESFA Index [1973] (with Dave Anderson and Terry McCutchen)

Awards, Honors and GoHships:

• 1975 — Fellow of NESFA

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