Electracon

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Electracon, in some listings (mis?)hyphenated Electra-Con, was a convention held in the Ramada Inn of Kearney, Nebraska (home of a University of Nebraska campus, some 130 miles west of Lincoln, NE) from 1981 to (likely) 1983.

Convention Dates GoHs / notes
Electracon I April 24-26, 1981 Ed Bryant, Dan Patterson, Suzanne Carnival
Electracon II June 18-20, 1982 Wilson Tucker, Steve Gray, Mike Kennedy; Bryant returned as toastmaster
Electracon III June 3–5, 1983 (?) scant evidence of existence available 40 years later:
Convention lists in Starlog 69 and 70, with Patrick M. Kennedy as chairman (he may have chaired the previous ones as well, or at least been on the concom) but no GoHs
"Electracon 3" mentioned in the history of Lincoln/Nebraska's Star Base Andromeda
listing for its program book, as edited by Robert M. Wallace, added by a Nebraskan


Convention
19811983
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