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• FANAC
  (Did you mean some other [[Fanac (Disambiguation)|fanac]]?) ...he [[fanac.org]] [[fanhistory]] website, and [[Fancyclopedia 3]], itself! FANAC is a Florida non-profit and [[501(c)(3)]] corporation, and, with only a bit
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• Fanniversary
  ...t count from their first [[convention]], [[club]] meeting or significant [[fanac]].
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• Newszine Project
  The '''Newszine Project''' on [[FANAC]] is an effort to find and put online facsimile versions of the many fan ne ...we have built an archive of about 2,500 [[Newszines]] so far available at Fanac
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• Indiana Fantasy Association
  ...claimed that he turned it over to [[Degler|CD]] upon his retirement from [[fanac|activity]]. {{club|start=1940|end=1941|locale=Indiana}}
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• Laura Molesworth
  ...e [[Futurian Society of Sydney]] after [[World War II]]. She served as the club's librarian (as well as a librarian in her [[mundane]] life), and was Direc ...re Molesworth]]. By the time he died in 1964, both had cut back on their [[fanac]].
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• Gothenburg, SE
  ...hwestern Sweden. It has been a center of [[fanac]] since the founding of [[Club Cosmos]] in 1954, and has hosted many [[conventions]], including [[Swecon]]
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• Fanac.org
  Fanac.org, a website sponsored by [[FANAC]], Inc., is devoted to [[fanhistory]], with photos, transcriptions of [[fan {{link | website=https://fanac.org}}
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• Ronald Friedman
  ...for the way he ran it. He also founded and helmed the [[Teens Fantascience Club]]. In March 1952, he merged them into the [[International Scientific Counci ...ational Guard during this period, which, he claimed, interfered with his [[fanac]].
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• Atlanta, GA
  ...[[Atlanta Chapter of The Tolkien Fellowships]], [[Atlanta Science Fiction Club]], [[Atlanta Science Fiction Organization]]
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• Club
  (Did you mean the [[CLub (Cleveland)|Cleveland club]] named CLub?) ...rrespondence]], the '''club''' (or '''fan club''') is the oldest form of [[fanac]], slightly predating the first [[fanzine]].
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• GAFMOI!
  ...ing on to a small part, such as a [[FAPA]] membership or attendance at a [[club]] or some particularly enjoyable regular [[convention]]. See also [[Gafia]
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• Norman F. Stanley
  ...ine]] who was very active in the 1940s. He was a member of the [[Stranger Club]] (and was one of the members who attended [[Noreascon 3]] as [[Fan GoH]]). ...hegan Junior Astronomical and Rocket Society]], the sort of science-and-SF club which was common at the time, and offered to let members borrow from his 70
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• Frances Tanner
  ...]s and the [[Cinvention]]. [[We|We’ve]] found no further evidence of her [[fanac]].
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• Missouri
  '''Missouri’s''' big centers of [[fanac]] are [[Kansas City]] and [[St. Louis]]. The [[Poplar Bluff Science Fiction Club]] was extant in the 1950s, and the [[Missouri Science Fiction Association]]
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• Timebinders
  ...be moribund, although some of its members are active volunteers for the [[FANAC Fan History Project]] and [[Fancyclopedia 3]]. {{link | website=https://fanac.org/timebinders/| text=Timebinders website}}.
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• Clashing Names
  ...st name of the primary editor. For a prozine, semiprozine, convention or a club use the area E.g., 'BEM (Ashworth)', 'BEM (Australia)', 'BEM (MA)' ...anac (Carr)' so that 'fanac', a common term, didn’t have to be written as 'fanac (fanspeak)' every time somebody used it.
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• Activity Party
  ...would require each member of the club to accomplish a certain amount of [[fanac]] each year. When put to a vote in 1949 it failed of adoption, tho its prop
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• Templates
  [[Template:Club|club]] | OPTS [[Template:Fanac|fanac]]
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• Fanac
  ''(See [[Fanac (Disambiguation)|Fanac disambiguation page]] for other fan activity.)'' '''Fanac''' is What [[Fans]] Do.
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• First Fandom
  #A [[club]] made up of a subset of those [[fans]]. And, #A descendant club that lets in anybody who’s been active in the [[sf community]] for 30 yea
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• New Orleans Science Fiction Association
  {{link | website=https://fanac.org/fanzines/NOLAzine/ | text=Fanac info}} Other publications of the club included [[George]] (an APA) [[oe]] [[Rick Norwood]] and [[NOSFAn]] a newsl
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• Warp
  ...ontinues to provide, to this day, an avenue for the publication of MonSFFA club members' [[SFF]] writing — [[fan fiction]], [[book]] and movie reviews, f * 2011 — [[R. Graeme Cameron]]'s [[Fanzine Fanac Awards Society]] Best Fanzine award
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• Fan Directory
  ...is a list of some of them. (It does not include lists which are basically club listings, convention membership listings, or subscription lists.) [https://www.fanac.org/Fannish_Reference_Works/WhosWho/ Collection online at FANAC].
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• Decker Dillies
  The '''Decker Dillies''', an [[sf]] [[club]] in the tiny town of Decker, [[Indiana]], consisted of [[Marvis Manning]] ...ildhood pals, had begun in 1939 as the '''Literature, Science, and Hobbies Club''' in the village in rural Indiana. Before any of the members discovered [[
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• Mark Olson
  ...lo''') has had a multifaceted [[fannish]] career as a [[convention]] and [[club]] [[fan]], [[smof]] and more. On the [[FIAWOL]] to [[FIJAGDH]] scale, he i ...h Club]] and for many years of [[NESFA]] and [[MCFI]] and is a member of [[FANAC]]. He has been president and treasurer of both NESFA and MCFI, and was nam
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• SFSFS
  ...[[SFSFS Shuttle]]'' as its [[clubzine]], and published several issues of a club fanzine ''[[Solstice]]''. ...nk | website=https://fanac.org/Fan_Photo_Album/s01-p00.html|text=Photos at Fanac}}
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• Western Pennsylvania SF Association
  A [[club]] centered in [[Pittsburgh]], also known as '''WPSFA''' (pronounced "Woops- ...meetings." After about six months, the new club gave up and let the older club continue on its way to extinction and the [[Pittcon]] group disappeared for
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• Celebrity Fen
  ...“active,” we mean they engaged in such [[fanac]] as regularly attending [[club]] meetings or [[conventions]] (as ordinary [[members]], not [[goh|guests]])
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• Sture Sedolin
  ...[Sam J. Lundwall]] in a [[Stockholm]] suburb; in 1957, also, the Stockholm club [[Futura]]. ...e Spring of 1961, Sedolin was drafted into the Swedish military, and his [[fanac]] ceased abruptly. After his stint in the army, in mid-1962, he instead con
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• Eva Whitley
  ...armella Whitley''' (sometimes '''Eva Chalker'''), a [[Baltiwash]] [[SF]] [[club fan]] and [[conrunning fan]], first found [[fandom]] in 1977. She is a lon * ''[[Extra-Vehicular Fanac]]'' [1985] (for [[FAPA]])
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• Frances Alberti Sykora
  ...ting. Her siblings, Rose and [[Bill Alberti|Bill]], also belonged to the [[club]]. Frances was on the roster of [[TLMA]], as well. ...Sykoras brought young Annabelle to QSFL meetings, by the 1950s, Frances’ [[fanac]] (understandably) had slowed, and then stopped. In 1970, she divorced Syko
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• Actifan
  ...is sometime used as a synonym for [[trufan]], in the sense of one whose [[fanac]] takes place in [[trufandom]]. ...extent to which a given [[fan]] indulges in anything more than [[local]] [[club]] activity he may be distinguished as an actifan (as opposed to [[passifen]
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• Vernon McCain
  ...[[Barbarian Invasion|influx of new fans]], he commented:<blockquote>'[[The Club House]]' had done more to make [[fandom]] grow than any other single force ...ief obituary appears in ''[[Fanac]] #18'' ([https://www.fanac.org/fanzines/FANAC/FANAC018-01.html June 1958]), p. 1.
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• Ed Clinton
  ...[[blowup]] in 1952 (see [[Fancyclopedia 2]] entry under [[LASFS]]). The [[club]] honored him at a [[Fanquet]] three years later, though, so they must have ...[[Berkeley in '67]] [[Worldcon bid]]. [[We]] can’t find evidence of his [[fanac]] after that, so he may have [[gafiated]]. He and Jessie ultimately moved
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• A Wealth of Fable
  ...e 1950s, [[fans]] began to meet in person much more frequently, and many [[club]] and [[con]] fans never wrote for fanzines at all. Warner did not intervie
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• Jerry Kaufman
  ...and, Ohio, where he attended the 1966 Worldcon, [[Tricon]] and started a [[club]]. [[Ben Jason]] and [[Charles Wells]] introduced him to the history and cu Other fanac: With [[Donald Keller]], founded and ran [[Serconia Press]], publisher of c
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• BFS/BFL
  ...in issuing some [[fanzines]]. By such means wartime, ah, difficulties to [[fanac]] were surmounted. The termination of hostilities found the actual work of {{club | start=???? | end=???? | locale=UK}}
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• APA-V
  ...rnie Katz]], having moved to the area, paid their first visit to the local club [[SNAFFU]], opened their home ("Toner Hall") to monthly less formal Socials ...ity: "Fen should devote all of their energy to two Activities. (1) Doing [[fanac]], [[Pub Your Ish!|pubbing their ishes]], writing [[articles]] for other is
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• Roy E. Norris, Jr.
  ...was the only Black member shown. Although it appears MITSFS was his only [[fanac]] ''per se'', he was an avid [[reader]] of [[science fiction]] and [[prozin *[https://www.fanac.org/photohtm.php?Fan_Photo_Album/m07-001 Photo, MITSFS annual banquet, 1959
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• Minneapolis, MN
  ...ties Fantasy Society]] in the late 50s, there was little or no organized [[fanac]] in Minneapolis until the Modern Era dawned with the organization of [[Min ...ver was actually organized, seeds had been planted for a new Twin Cities [[club]] that would be based on an informal approach, without "a predilection for
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• London Circle
  ...ly, [[Irish]] [[fen]] [[Walt Willis]] and [[Bob Shaw]] characterized the [[club]] as the [[Circle of Lassitude]] in ''[[The Enchanted Duplicator]]''. ...tself to be, according to [[Ron Ellik]] in ''[[FANAC]]'', "a proper-type [[club]], with membership cards and dues and an elected [[committee]] and everythi
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• Seattle, WA
  '''Seattle''' is the largest center of [[fanac]] in [[Washington State]] and the [[Pacific Northwest]]. Club || Era
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• An Outline of Fanhistory
  ...FL Comes and Goes]] || The Science Fiction League was the first (and only) club for all of fandom 1955-60 || [[WSFS Inc. and the Yearning for a National Club]] || All through fannish history, fans felt there should be wide fannish co
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• Edie Stern
  Edie is a well-known [[SF club]], con, [[filker]], [[collector]] and [[fanzine fan]]. She started in fando ...ed, with [[Joe Siclari]] and [[Mark Olson]], the [[Newszine Project]] on [[FANAC.org]] which has put over 3,000 newszines online going back to 1936.
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• Charles Wells
  ...ive in the 1950s and ’60s. He was a member of the [[Alien Science-Fantasy Club]]. He tried to popularize '''''fay''''' as an abbreviation for "[[fantasy]] ...Cleveland, Wells was a major influence on the young [[Jerry Kaufman]]'s [[fanac]].
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• Fan
  ...rite for a [[fanzine]] &mdash; or several of them. We might attend local [[club]] meetings, and, finances permitting, [[conventions]]. We also, at least to ...ities determines whether [[heesh]] becomes known as a [[fanzine fan]], a [[club fan]] or a [[convention fan]]; most fans do some of each, but only a few do
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• Joe Siclari
  ...]], the sponsor of [[Fanac Fan History Project]], [[Fancyclopedia 3]], The FANAC Fan History Project YouTube Channel and the [[Fan History Zoom Series]]. ...rdays]]'' available from [[NESFA Press]]. Joe has published many fanzines, club and convention publications. He has been in assorted [[APAs]], including [[
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• Eva Firestone
  ...[[Science Fiction International]], the [[ISFCC]] and "[[Marion Zimmer]]'s Club" (the [[Vampire Society]]?). She was a member of several [[Worldcons]], but ...edeceased her, dying in 1968 at age 39. We haven’t found evidence of her [[fanac]] after that.
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• Misfits
  ...''' ('''MSFS''') and centered in [[Detroit]]. The club was the major [[SF club]] there during the 1940s and ’50s. ''[[Mutant (MSFS)]]'' was the club’s early [[fanzine]].
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• Fandom
  ...fandom consists of [[fans]] who are in contact with others, indulging in [[fanac]] and maintaining interest in the community. It is a subset of the whole [[ ...began writing to each other as well as the magazine, and the first local [[club]], The [[Scienceers]] formed in [[New York|Harlem]] in 1929.
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• Flieg Hollander
  ...that didn't have many active [[club|fan groups]], which cut back on his [[fanac]], but helped [[Lee Forgue]] run [[Westerchron]] in 1983. After that, his f * [https://fanac.org/fanzines/LASFS/LASFS1-24.html 1966 photo] in the [[LASFS Album]].
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• Polls
  The ''[[Fanac (Carr)]]'' and ''[[Skyrack]]'' polls were the chief [[fanzine]] polls in th ...colossal [[fanzine]] which appeared a month ago, and [[convention]] and [[club]] activities, are more dimly remembered. There is also a tendency to vote t
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• Fanhistory Timeline
  1928-01-01/1930-12-31|a|[[First Club]] 1928-01-01/1930-12-31|a|[[First Club]]
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• Walter Breen
  ...He wrote for [[fanzines]], and took over editorship of the [[fanzine]] ''[[Fanac (Carr)]]'' from [[Terry Carr]] and [[Ron Ellik]], though he was unable to r ...He was a member of the second [[Futurian Society of New York]] (the ’50s club), the [[Fanoclasts]], [[LASFS]] and the [[Golden Gate Futurians]].
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• ISFiC
  For many years, it operated as a legal "social club," but is now a section [[501(c)(3)]] tax-exempt [[organization]]. In theory ...annual [[convention]], it was intended to serve as a clearing house for [[fanac|fan activities]] in [[Illinois]], which never happened. The founders includ
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• Newszine
  ...ften contain a lot of news, but most are focused on the doings of a single club and are better thought of in that context. ...||''[[Science Fiction News Letter]]'' ||[[Richard Wilson]] || [https://www.fanac.org/fanzines/SFNL-RichardWilson/ Online issues]
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• Fanhistory Resources
  *[https://fanac.org The FANAC Fan History Project] #[https://fanac.org/fanzines Online Fanzines]
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• Leah Zeldes Smith
  ...an]] based in [[Chicago]] and [[Milwaukee]], has been a [[fanzine fan]], [[club fan]] and [[con fan]]. She leans strongly toward the [[faanish]] end of the ...onicle]]'', the [[clubzine]] of the [[Oak Park High School Science Fiction Club]].
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• The Enchanted Duplicator
  ...]] with the [[Spirit of Fandom]], who anoints him with the magic wand of [[Fanac]] and gives him a protective [[Shield of Umor]], [[Jophan]] starts off on t ...t deadly [[Kolektinbug]], the welcoming but argumentative and regimented [[club]] members, the false fronts of the City of [[sercon|Serious Constructivism]
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• Chicago, IL
  ...con]], [[Phandemonium]] runs a monthly book club, dining group, and euchre club. Other groups arrange for [[fans]] to get together for [[book]] discussions ...wo [[conventions]] the Windy City has always been fairly quiet as far as [[fanac|fan activity]] goes. Of old the [[Windy City Wampires]] existed there, but
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• GoH
  ...m]], such as [[conrunning]], [[editing]] or [[publishing]] [[fanzines]], [[club]] work, etc. The person might also be a [[pro]], but the honor reflects on ...ns to fandom specifically. Historically, many well-known pros engaged in [[fanac]] and have been honored as Fan Guests of Honor — this is less true today,
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• Harry Warner, Jr.
  ...member, dubbed '''The Hermit of Hagerstown''', as he did nearly all his [[fanac]] on paper. He is best remembered for the many [[locs]] he wrote and his tw ...rarely left it, at least for [[fannish]] purposes, preferring to do his [[fanac]] through his vast [[correspondence]].
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• William S. Sykora
  ...artz]]. Sykora also joined a branch of the [[International Cosmos Science Club]] (later the [[ISA]]), a group devoted to both science and [[SF]].) He ser
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• Chicago Clubs
  ...'' dates (''fl.'') cover the range of dates for which we have evidence the club was active. (The ranges are doubtless narrower than actual due to lack of ...|two conventions]] the Windy City has always been fairly quiet as far as [[fanac|fan activity]] goes. Of old the [[Windy City Wampires]] existed there, but
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• N'APA
  '''N’APA''' is the bi-monthly '''Neffer Amateur Press Alliance''', the club second oldest publication. The [[apa]] was formed in 1959 for members of th ...open only to members. It is probably the most successful project of the [[club]], and certainly the one responsible for the greatest amount of realized [[
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• Bhob Stewart
  During his years of vigorous [[fanac]], he contributed [[illos]] and [[articles]] to many [[fanzines]] includin ...te Teachers College in Huntsville, Texas, where he was active in the drama club, Stewart moved to [[New York City]], immersing himself in the vibrant subcu
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• Skyrack
  ...o balance the Americentric slant of [[Terry Carr]] and [[Ron Ellik]]'s ''[[Fanac (Carr)]]''. ...ndom]] [[newszine]] during the 1960s, featuring [[convention reports]] and club news. It covered [[TAFF]] news extensively, including voting results, and
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• Bruce Pelz
  Bruce was that rare [[fan]] who excelled in every kind of [[fanac]]: [[fanzines]], [[conrunning]], [[costuming]], [[filksinging]], [[collecti ...ing on a cape of some sort." In this vein, he was the founder of an eating club, the [[PIGS]].
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• Standards
  ...ime. (This includes details on the current contents of websites, including Fanac.org — they change frequently — just provide a link to the site.) The ex * [https://fanac.org/fanzines/OldFanzine/OldFanzine1.pdf “Really Cool Fan Article”] by J
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• WSFS, Inc.
  ...You can get a good feel of the debate by reading a [[newszine]] like ''[[Fanac]]'' and watching as the affair unfolds week by week. Material can be found *''[[Fanac]] #4'' p2
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• Sandy Sanderson
  ...hing in reverse. In 1953–56, he was deployed to [[Egypt]], whence he did [[fanac]] by mail (and occasional furloughs), providing him with an ideal opportuni * [https://www.fanac.org/fanzines/File770/File77098.pdf#page=8 Obituary] by [[Dick Lynch]] in ''
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• Marijane Johnson
  Cheerfulness was the hallmark of Marijane’s [[fanac]]. She wrote friendly letters, and when we met eight years ago she was exci ...e named Marijane Johnson asking for [[correspondents]], and mentioning a [[club]] of [[SF]] fans, the N3F. Being 21, I wrote to her thinking she was a youn
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• N3F
  ...rs  an annual [[amateur]] short story contest, gives several [[#N3F Awards|club awards]] and publishes a number of [[fanzines]], including ''[[The National ...ng body of the N3F. It consists of five members elected each year by the [[club]] membership. A [[chair]], who guides the activities of the Directorate, is
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• Aubrey MacDermott on the Origins of Fandom
  ...d Leary]] formed one in [[Boston]]. Ray was the eighth member of Clements' club. ...ographed photo from [[Edgar Rice Burroughs]] which I proudly showed to the club members, an enlargement of which is now on my library wall.
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• Bjo Trimble
  ...became one of the leading members of LASFS and helped revive a flagging [[club]] in the late ’50s. She helped start or revitalize ''[[De Profundis]]'', ...ruary, 1960, at the instigation of [[Seth Johnson]], she announced, in ''[[Fanac]]'', [[Project Art Show]], the first modern [[convention]] [[art show]], to
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• Filk
  Once performed in casual sing-alongs at [[club]] meetings and in the stairwells and spare corners of [[cons]], '''filksing ...e.com/playlist?list=PL8D69oYQFIO9DNNab-8E5k6G8TTxytE7P&si=hYYgnvDUDYPW_g6q FANAC filk videos.]
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• Bob Tucker
  ...e being a [[filthy pro]], he continued to be [[fannish]] and involved in [[fanac]] of many sorts. == [[Fanac]] ==
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• Numerical Fandoms
  ...in his [[article]], “First and Last Fans” in ''[[Quandry]]'' 25 ([https://fanac.org/fanzines/Quandry/Quandry25.pdf October 10, 1952], p. 3). Silverberg, ho ...Wollheim]] believed [[fandom]] started still earlier, in 1929, in [https://fanac.org/fanzines/Fan_Slants/fans3.pdf#page=5 his view of its origins], publishe
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• LASFS
  ...the main [[club]] in Los Angeles, and is believed to be the second oldest club in existence, founded in 1934. It holds the annual [[Loscon]], and members ...Johnson]]. [[Helen Finn]], elected in 1941, was likely the first female sf club president anywhere.
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• SAPS
  ...ly years maintained a tradition of sniping at [[FAPA]] ("SAPS is the [[fan club]] FAPA would be if FAPA dared") which, significantly, was more or less aban * [https://fanac.org/fanzines/Trap_Door/Trap_Door18.pdf “SAPS Founders Reunite in Albuquer
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• Ah, Wilderness: Forty Years of Colorado Fandom
  ...ave been only dimly aware of life of any kind in Colorado for that long, [[fanac|fannish activity]] in the state goes back almost to the beginning of [[fand ...to talk the CFS into expanding its membership and becoming a "real" fan [[club]].
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• Early Femmefen
  ...men. As [[Lee Hoffman]] recollected in ''[[Fanhistorica]]'' 1 ([http://www.fanac.org/fanzines/Fanhistorica/Fanhistorica01-10.html May 1976, p. 10]): ...s]], and assist in dirty work like [[mimeoing]].” As if all that weren’t [[fanac]]!
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• The Stranger Club by Art Widner
  The [[Stranger Club]] ...I said to [[Louis Russell Chauvenet]] (at whose home the embryo [[Stranger Club]] had its first meeting), ‘Well, I told you '[[The Nameless Ones]]' would
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• TAFF
  ...lots were distributed with [[fanzines]] and handed out at conventions or [[club]]s; this has been largely replaced by the [[internet]]. ...subscribed to or contributed to at least one [[fanzine]] or joined a [[fan club]] or [[organization]]". [[Don Ford]] on this side and [[Walt Willis]] on th
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• 7th Fandom
  ...''[[Psychotic]]'' or [[Terry Carr]] and [[Ron Ellik]]'s [[newszine]] ''[[Fanac]]''. *[[Harry Warner]] has a [https://fanac.org/fanzines/Granfalloon/Granfalloon10.pdf nice article on 7th Fandom] in '
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• FAPA
  With the growth of the Internet, paper-based [[fanac]] began to decline generally, and most apas faltered in competition with on ...ophical Gas]]'', ''[[Society of Editors Newsletter]]'', ''[[Private Cellar Club]]'', ''[[What's Happening in Australia]]'', ''[[Great Australian Colour Boo
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