Disclave 91 Staff List Chair........................................... Peggy Rae Pavlat Vice Chair ................................. Tom Schaad Treasurer ....................................Steven Smith Deputy:......................................... Dick Roepke Art Show ....................................Michele Smith-Moore Deputy:......................................... Joanne Thacker Staff:............................................. Lisa Ashton, Garth Barbour, Joni Dashoff, Nancy Halpern, Nancy Janda, Kevin Long, Dan de Nike, Jennifer Smurlo, ........................................................ Laurie Van Winkle. Paul Wilson Mail-in: ......................................... Kevin Long Set-Up: ......................................... Tom Schaad Sales: ........................................... Martin Deutsch. Shirley Avery Print Shop:................................... Joanne Wiggins Babysitting.................................Ginny Vaughan-Nichols Staff............................................. Rene Bane, Phil Davis. Miriam Winder Kelly. Steven Vaughan-Nichols Cabana Czar.............................. Covert Beach Staff:.............................................. Dalroy Ward Dealers’ Room ......................... Scott & Jane Dennis Deputy:..........,........................... Sue Francis DisCave.........................................Evan Phillips Truck Rental/Driver .................. Chuck Devine Staff:...................................................Dale Fanner, Barry Newton Furniture Rental ......................... Evan Phillips Table Rental................................. Walter Miles Food/drink/etc................................ Dick Roepke Con Suite Shift Supervisors: . Dan Burgess, Andy Culhane, Dan Hoey, Bob McIntosh, Dale Sharrick, Jim Tracey, Eva Whitley, Walter Miles Door Guards.............................. Matt Leger Explainer....................................Bill Mayhew Films........................................... Kathi Overton Staff:.............................................. Mark Barker, Robyn Rissell, John Peacock, John Pomeranz, Michael Nelson Flyers .........................................Covert Beach GoH Book .................................Peggy Rae Pavlat Publicity ...................................... Michael Walsh Staff:............................................. Chris Callahan, Terilee Edwards-Hewitt, Dan Hoey, Bill Jensen, Judy Kindell, Wendy Lindboe. Perianne. Lurie, ........................................................ Walter Miles, Theresa Renner, John Sapienza, Erica Van Dommelen, Joanne Wiggins GoH Liaison.............................. Paula Lewis Hotel Liaison ............................Covert Beach Hosts.................... ......................Dale Farmer Information................................. Chris Callahan Deputy:......................................... Linda Sweeting Staff:............................................. Chuck Burke, Carolyn Cote, Andy Culhane, June Gifford, Tracy Henry. Matt Lawrence. Wendy Pavlat, .............................. ......................... Rachel Russell, Sinya Schaeffer, Maura Scharadin, Steve Smith, Lee Strong, Linda Sweeting Signs.............................................. Joe Mayhew Mugs........................................... Dick Roepke Program......................................Beth & Mike Zipser Green Room................................. Paul Parsons Staff ................................................Paula Jordan, Judy Newton. Ally Parsons Family Activities ....................... Jul Owings Staff ................................................Barry Newton, Amy Paul Pocket Program ......................... Beth & Mike Zipser Readings ...................................... Rachel Russell Staff ................................................ Terilee Edwards-Hewitt Ribbons ................................. Beth & Mike Zipser Program Book ......................... Jane Wagner Registration................................. John Sapienza Deputy ......................................... Dan Hoey, Bill Jensen Members’ Badges....................... Joe Mayhew Staff:.......... ................................... Anton Chemoff, Peggy Chemoff, Hal Haag, Helen Hower, Bill Jensen, Colin Lanzl, Perianne Lurie, Laura Magerus, ........................................................ Craig Nordine, Erica Van Dommelen, Jane Wagner Restaurant Guide.......................Covert Beach Special Events............................John Pomeranz Deputy:......................................... Mike Stein T-Shirts ...................................... Scott Dennis Kitchen Cabinet: Covert Beach, Mary-Rita Blute. Chris Callahan, Steven Fetheroff. Dan Hoey, Bill Jensen. Bob Macintosh, Winton Matthews, Jr.. Joe Mayhew, Mary Morman, Kathi Overton, Paul Parsons, Evan Phillips, Jolin Pomeranz, Robyn Rissell, Dick Roepke, Rachel Russell, John Sapienza, Tom Schaad, Steven Smith, Mike Stein, Lee Strong, Erica Van Dommelen, Tom Veal, Michael J. Walsh, Beth Zipser, Mike Zipser. DISCLAVE 1991 May 24-27, 1991 Guests of Honor Lewis Shiner Alicia Austin Other Attending Guests: Roger MacBridc Allen, Dr. Bruce Altner, Jinx Beers, N. Taylor Blanchard, Michael K. Brclt-Sunnan, Linda Bushyager, Jack Chalker, Brenda Clough, Barbara A. Dcnz, Scott Edelman, Mary K. Frey, Esther Fricsner, Alexis Gilliland, Mike Glycr, Jack C. Haldeman II, Marvin Kaye, Annette Curtis Klause, George Kochell, Eric Kotani, Shariann Lewitt, Kathci Logue, Chris Miller, L. E. Modesitt, Jr., Judith Moffett, Don Sakers, Ruth Sanderson, Darrell Schweitzer, Charles Sheffield, Joscpha Sherman, Michael Swanwick, Bob Walters, Douglas E. Winter Copyright 1991 by the Washington Science Fiction Association Inc. and Disclave 1991. All rights reserved to contributors. Fifty-Seven Years in Fandom It wouldn’t be fannish to let Bob Madle’s 71st most popular fanzines of the period; it ended in birthday pass without notice! Join us on Friday 1941 after fourteen issues. night at 8:30 p.m. in the Discave (Hie Disclave consuite, in the exhibition hall). We’ll share At the same time that Fantascience Digest was birthday cake and some memories of Bob’s 57 being bom, so was the Fantasy Amateur Press years as an active science fiction fan. Association (FAPA). Bob was one of its charter members and became secretary-treasurer in 1939. Madle’s activities span from reading the original During this same period, 1937-39, he was voted Tom Swift to producing his own fanzine (he was one of the top ten fans. a charter member of the Fantasy Amateur Press Association), to letter hacking the prozines, Bob’s fan activities were not limited to fanzines. attending the first science fiction convention ever He was very active all through the 1930s. At held, and, most well known today, becoming a first it was the Boy’s Science Fiction Club of book dealer. During the 1990 Worldcon Philadelphia, and then he was one of the (ConFiction), Bob received the Big Heart Award founders of the Philadelphia Science Fiction for his activities in the field. Joe Siclari (current League, which is still going strong as the co-chair of the 1992 Worldcon) and Karina Philadelphia Science Fiction Society (PSFS). Girsdansky reviewed Bob’s fannish life in Progress Report #2 for the 1977 Worldcon Throughout his fan career, Bob has always been (Suncon), where he was the fan Guest of Honor. a convention-goer, attending rcgionals and Most of the following fannish biography is worldcons whenever he could. Bob was excerpted and adapted from that article, and is prominent in all the early conventions, both as used by pennission. an organizer and attendee. The first science fiction convention ever held was in Philadelphia On June 2, 1920, in Philadelphia, the mother of on October 22, 1936, and Bob was one of the Robert A. Madlc can be blamed for bringing small group of attendees. another fan into the world. Actually his S- Fliction did not become noticeable until six years World War II interrupted most fan activity later, when the original Tom Swift and Don throughout the United Slates, but al the first Sturdy stories made up a large part of his PSFS meeting he attended after the war, on reading matter. Over the next few years, he January 2, 1946, Bob was elected secretary of progressed through Buck Rogers and Edgar Rice the club. In 1948, he attempted to begin a Burroughs until at age 12 he discovered the publishing house under the name of New Era science fiction prozines: Wonder Stories, Publishers. A book by Dr. David H. Keller Amazing, Astounding, and Weird Tales. He called Solitary Hunters and The Abyss was discovered fandom late in life when, in 1934, he published, but Bob had to give up this publishing sent for a sample copy of Fantasy Magazine, the career due to oilier activities. In 1948 he most prominent fanzine of that era. He was 14. enrolled in college and was active in little except PSFS for a few years. Within a year, he started publishing fanzines on his own. The first. Science Fiction Fan, was a During the 1950s Bob became a great pioneer in small carbon-copied zinc which he did with getting fan material into the prozincs, doing a another Philadelphia fan, John Baitadonis. This fan department called "Inside Science Fiction" led to other fanzines, including Imaginative for Robert W. Lowndes’ prozinc Dynamic Fiction, Fantasy Fiction Telegram, and Science Fiction from 1953 to 1960. He also had eventually to Fantascience Digest in 1937. a fan column in Nebula Scinece Fiction, a Fantascience Digest became one of