Nocres SF Social Club

A club in Minneapolis with "emphasis primarily on conversation and socializing". It was more con-oriented than fanzine-oriented, even though it went on to publish Nocres (the name is sercon backwards).

Rune 38 (some time in summer 1974, p. 20) mentioned it as "the new Mpls fan club", together with a call for submissions to its planned fanzine "to be edited and published by Bev Swanson". In Karass 12 (March 1975), the club was also listed with Chuck Holst’s contact address.

Jackie Franke wrote in Twixt 3 (September 1975) that on the second weekend in August (so 8–10th):

Martha Beck, Karen Anderson (a former Wilmot, Wisc, fan who now lives in Wheaton, Ill.), and I drove up to Minneapolis to spend the weekend at Margie and Joel Lessinger's for the first NocresCon. Nocres, a social club headed by Chuck Holst, Bev Swanson, Madman Mark Riley, and a few others, is made up of MinnStfers who seek more conversation and partying than is found at the regular MinnStf meetings. About thirty fans showed up, and we had a great weekend of talk, bridge games, picnicking, and smoking and drinking. Almost another Wilcon in spirit. 

Per Rune 48 (1976) overview of the Minneapolis activity:

Then there is Nocres. This tends to be an older bunch of people, mostly in the range between mid-twenties and mid-thirties. [Sic! noted half a century later] These also tend to be the Mpls/StPl fans who show up at other midwestern cons: the Lessingers, Chuck Holst and Jenny Brown, Mark Riley and Cat Ocel, Bev Swanson, Karen Hennebry, Dave Hixon and Caryl Bucklin, Quincy Blue, Scott Imes, Susan Ryan. If anything, this is an even more party-oriented group than Minn-stf. The meetings are biweekly Saturday night parties, usually consisting mostly of talking, listening to music, and partaking of refreshments.

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