Difference between revisions of "Jean Bogert"
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Jean Bogert was around and collected my autograph twice. Must have been love at first sight! First time I was forced to sign in pencil, not having a pen. Then Jean got a pen somewhere and was back to get me to sign in ink. Not a bad kid. She just looked terrifically enthused and excited and she was just having one swell time. She had a sort of wide-eyed amazement about it all. I wonder if this might have been her first convention.</blockquote> | Jean Bogert was around and collected my autograph twice. Must have been love at first sight! First time I was forced to sign in pencil, not having a pen. Then Jean got a pen somewhere and was back to get me to sign in ink. Not a bad kid. She just looked terrifically enthused and excited and she was just having one swell time. She had a sort of wide-eyed amazement about it all. I wonder if this might have been her first convention.</blockquote> | ||
| − | It wasn’t. Jean also attended [[Philcon I]] in 1947 and [[Cinvention]] in 1949 (where she posed as a vampire), and was a passenger on the infamous [[Plane Trip]] to [[Loncon I]] in 1957. | + | It wasn’t. Among other cons, Jean also attended [[Philcon I]] in 1947 and [[Cinvention]] in 1949 (where she posed as a vampire), and was a passenger on the infamous [[Plane Trip]] to [[Loncon I]] in 1957. |
She seems to have been quite an [[actifan]], having been a frequent officer in PSFS, she wrote for [[fanzines]], and turned up on fanzine mailing lists as late as the ’80s. | She seems to have been quite an [[actifan]], having been a frequent officer in PSFS, she wrote for [[fanzines]], and turned up on fanzine mailing lists as late as the ’80s. | ||
Revision as of 15:26, 30 July 2020
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Jean Bogert was a Philadelphia fan, active in the 1940s as secretary of the Philadelphia Futurians, and later as a member of PSFS, one of 15 club members who attended the 1952 Chicago Worldcon and decided on the spot to bid for Philly in ’53.
Leslie Croutch wrote of meeting her at Torcon in 1948:
Jean Bogert was around and collected my autograph twice. Must have been love at first sight! First time I was forced to sign in pencil, not having a pen. Then Jean got a pen somewhere and was back to get me to sign in ink. Not a bad kid. She just looked terrifically enthused and excited and she was just having one swell time. She had a sort of wide-eyed amazement about it all. I wonder if this might have been her first convention.
It wasn’t. Among other cons, Jean also attended Philcon in 1947 and Cinvention in 1949 (where she posed as a vampire), and was a passenger on the infamous Plane Trip to Loncon I in 1957.
She seems to have been quite an actifan, having been a frequent officer in PSFS, she wrote for fanzines, and turned up on fanzine mailing lists as late as the ’80s.
Here’s a photo, from Pittcon in 1960.
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