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[[File:WallyWeber.jpeg|thumb|left|From ''[[Cry of the Nameless]]'' 111 (January 1958).]]
 
[[File:WallyWeber.jpeg|thumb|left|From ''[[Cry of the Nameless]]'' 111 (January 1958).]]
'''Wallace “Wally” Weber''' was a [[BNF]] in the 1950s–1960s.  He lived in [[Seattle, WA]],  and then was moved by his employer to [[Huntsville, AL]], in mid-1964, where he was a member of [[ALA-APA]].   
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'''Wallace “Wally” Wesley Weber''' was a [[BNF]] in the 1950s–1960s.  He lived in [[Seattle, WA]],  and then was moved by his employer to [[Huntsville, AL]], in mid-1964, where he was a member of [[ALA-APA]].   
 
 
He later moved back to [[Washington State]]. He was married to fellow [[fan]] [[Tiamatha Weber]].
 
  
 
At one time, he was a member of [[SAPS]] and [[N3F]] and the [[Cry Crowd]] and was also the corresponding [[secretary]] of the [[Nameless Ones]] of [[Washington State]]. He was an [[officer]] of [[The Seattle Science Fiction Club, Inc.]] and worked on [[Westercon 12]] in 1959.  
 
At one time, he was a member of [[SAPS]] and [[N3F]] and the [[Cry Crowd]] and was also the corresponding [[secretary]] of the [[Nameless Ones]] of [[Washington State]]. He was an [[officer]] of [[The Seattle Science Fiction Club, Inc.]] and worked on [[Westercon 12]] in 1959.  
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He was the 1963 [[TAFF]] delegate.  
 
He was the 1963 [[TAFF]] delegate.  
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He later moved back to [[Washington State]]. He married Patricia Priest in 1970, and they had a daughter Timatha in 1975.
  
 
His photos appear on pages 136 and 206 of [[Harry Warner's]] ''[[A Wealth of Fable]]'' (1992).  [[Burnett Toskey]] published ''[[W. W. W.]]'', an anthology of Weber's [[fan writing]] in [[SAPS]] in September 1975.
 
His photos appear on pages 136 and 206 of [[Harry Warner's]] ''[[A Wealth of Fable]]'' (1992).  [[Burnett Toskey]] published ''[[W. W. W.]]'', an anthology of Weber's [[fan writing]] in [[SAPS]] in September 1975.
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Revision as of 10:11, 22 April 2021

(June 26, 1929 – )

From Cry of the Nameless 111 (January 1958).

Wallace “Wally” Wesley Weber was a BNF in the 1950s–1960s. He lived in Seattle, WA, and then was moved by his employer to Huntsville, AL, in mid-1964, where he was a member of ALA-APA.

At one time, he was a member of SAPS and N3F and the Cry Crowd and was also the corresponding secretary of the Nameless Ones of Washington State. He was an officer of The Seattle Science Fiction Club, Inc. and worked on Westercon 12 in 1959.

He was a co-editor of Cry of the Nameless when it won the 1960 Best Fanzine Hugo. (It was also nominated in 1959 and 1962.)

In 1961, he chaired Seacon, that year's Worldcon.

He was the 1963 TAFF delegate.

He later moved back to Washington State. He married Patricia Priest in 1970, and they had a daughter Timatha in 1975.

His photos appear on pages 136 and 206 of Harry Warner's A Wealth of Fable (1992). Burnett Toskey published W. W. W., an anthology of Weber's fan writing in SAPS in September 1975.

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