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Fantasy Amateur, v. 9, issue 4, Summer 1946
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TEH SURPLUS STOCK AND THE FANTASY FOUNDATION The Fantasy Foundation is a service organization set up to do things of two types: It will serve as a repository and library. Here the collections, correspondence, and treasures of fantasites retiring or shuffling off this mortal coil may be made available for research of all types--indexing, compiling, investigating unsolved mysteries. The full-blown dream includes a museum of fantasy and its followers. There will be immediately available a library in which moviemakers, anthologists, and essayists may seek likelylooking material. As other material is added to the basic collection of Forrest J Ackerman, duplicates will be made into a circulating library, available to Foundation subscribers. Any number of extra copies can be used. From extra prozines, serials, series, tales of particular types., can be extracted and specially bound together. If sufficient stock accumulates, the Foundation may go into the business of supplying books, prozines, and fanzines to collectors at sensible rates. But another objective can make use of many duplicate sets: To establish branch libraries and collections elsewhere in America and abroad, either utilizing existing agencies (see the Australian letter in current CanFan) or setting up subFoundations. The other side of Foundation activity is publishing certain needed books and booklets. A volume index of prozines is already available; a Hunt Book, based on many bibliophiles' favorites, will be published in a convenient pocket size to aid collectors in ransacking secondhand bookstores. Where particular types of periodicals, as a newsweekly, are definitely needed, they may be sponsored by the Foundation until private enterprise takes over. The Foundation is supported financially by subscriptions, in grades ranging form $1 to $10 per year, donations of both money and material, sale of publications and stock (lower rates available to subscribers in some cases), and an eye on annuities someday. The activities are under the direction of the General Manager, Forrest J Ackerman, and his assistants (Everett Evans, recording secretary; Russ Hodgkins treasurer; Fran Laney on publications; and others). The General Manager is responsible to a board which is to keep its membership between five and seven members. At present, there are six board members: Al Ashley, Jack Speer, Milt Rothman, Harry Warner, Bob Tucker, and Art Widner. These and the General Manager are all men who have proved by long and steady activity that theirs is no flash-in-the-pan interest. The machinery of the Foundation, based on more than a decade of trial and error in fan organizations, is set up to get things done, and well done. The FAPA's surplus stock constantly increases in volume. From every mailing, there are several copies of nearly every publication left over. From time to time a few copies are sold to members, providing a welcome addition to the treasury, but the outgo is only a fraction of the ingo. The result is that more and more surplus stock has been piling up with no prospect of its all being disposed of. In consequence of the considerable express charges that its weight involves, the surplus stock has been taken out of the hands of an elective officer, the official editor, who changes from year to year, and put in the custody of a permanent appointee, Al Ashley, in the same city where the Foundation is located. The surplus stock has always been handled without benefit or burden of a constitutional provision. In the appointment of a permanent custodian, however, we have come up against something which, while not against any express constitutional provision, is clearly the type of thing for which FAPA is not adapted. Neither a permanent official nor a permanent and ever-increasing piece of property is suited to the genius of our institutions. The Fantasy Foundation, on the other hand, is set up to have officers of indefinite tenure and to accumulate ever more property. Moreover, it can make good use of such a stock as we could turn over to it. Though no official offer has been made, i am convinced from consultation with several Foundation officers that the Foundation would like to purchase our surplus stock. I have therefore asked the membership's opinion, on the advisory ballot. Since the surplustockustodian's re-
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TEH SURPLUS STOCK AND THE FANTASY FOUNDATION The Fantasy Foundation is a service organization set up to do things of two types: It will serve as a repository and library. Here the collections, correspondence, and treasures of fantasites retiring or shuffling off this mortal coil may be made available for research of all types--indexing, compiling, investigating unsolved mysteries. The full-blown dream includes a museum of fantasy and its followers. There will be immediately available a library in which moviemakers, anthologists, and essayists may seek likelylooking material. As other material is added to the basic collection of Forrest J Ackerman, duplicates will be made into a circulating library, available to Foundation subscribers. Any number of extra copies can be used. From extra prozines, serials, series, tales of particular types., can be extracted and specially bound together. If sufficient stock accumulates, the Foundation may go into the business of supplying books, prozines, and fanzines to collectors at sensible rates. But another objective can make use of many duplicate sets: To establish branch libraries and collections elsewhere in America and abroad, either utilizing existing agencies (see the Australian letter in current CanFan) or setting up subFoundations. The other side of Foundation activity is publishing certain needed books and booklets. A volume index of prozines is already available; a Hunt Book, based on many bibliophiles' favorites, will be published in a convenient pocket size to aid collectors in ransacking secondhand bookstores. Where particular types of periodicals, as a newsweekly, are definitely needed, they may be sponsored by the Foundation until private enterprise takes over. The Foundation is supported financially by subscriptions, in grades ranging form $1 to $10 per year, donations of both money and material, sale of publications and stock (lower rates available to subscribers in some cases), and an eye on annuities someday. The activities are under the direction of the General Manager, Forrest J Ackerman, and his assistants (Everett Evans, recording secretary; Russ Hodgkins treasurer; Fran Laney on publications; and others). The General Manager is responsible to a board which is to keep its membership between five and seven members. At present, there are six board members: Al Ashley, Jack Speer, Milt Rothman, Harry Warner, Bob Tucker, and Art Widner. These and the General Manager are all men who have proved by long and steady activity that theirs is no flash-in-the-pan interest. The machinery of the Foundation, based on more than a decade of trial and error in fan organizations, is set up to get things done, and well done. The FAPA's surplus stock constantly increases in volume. From every mailing, there are several copies of nearly every publication left over. From time to time a few copies are sold to members, providing a welcome addition to the treasury, but the outgo is only a fraction of the ingo. The result is that more and more surplus stock has been piling up with no prospect of its all being disposed of. In consequence of the considerable express charges that its weight involves, the surplus stock has been taken out of the hands of an elective officer, the official editor, who changes from year to year, and put in the custody of a permanent appointee, Al Ashley, in the same city where the Foundation is located. The surplus stock has always been handled without benefit or burden of a constitutional provision. In the appointment of a permanent custodian, however, we have come up against something which, while not against any express constitutional provision, is clearly the type of thing for which FAPA is not adapted. Neither a permanent official nor a permanent and ever-increasing piece of property is suited to the genius of our institutions. The Fantasy Foundation, on the other hand, is set up to have officers of indefinite tenure and to accumulate ever more property. Moreover, it can make good use of such a stock as we could turn over to it. Though no official offer has been made, i am convinced from consultation with several Foundation officers that the Foundation would like to purchase our surplus stock. I have therefore asked the membership's opinion, on the advisory ballot. Since the surplustockustodian's re-
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