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Fantasy Fictioneer, v. 1, issue 3, March-April 1940
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Reinsberg's "Progress Report" When considering the steps that have been taken toward the real-ization of the [underlined] Chicon, and giant strides such as its conception and proposal at the NYcon; the organization of the IFF to facilitate its handling; fandoms acceptance of the Chicon and its unanimous vote of confidence and support at the Philly conference last fall; the import-ance of the [title underlined] "3rd Chicon Conference", held in Bloomington two short weeks ago, cannot be over-emphasized. Before then, we of the Chicon had been dealing with a nebulous, vaguely-formulated event which was delegated to cope about a remote distance in the future, such as September, 1940, had seemed. [Two words underlined] We spoke of convention plans, for actually, speaking and publicizing was all we, the sponsers, could do from tweleve to seven months in advance of equally unsolidified "late summer" date on which the event was to come for. Then, two months ago, the Chicon assured more substantial aspects when Sept. 1st-2nd, over the Labor-Day Holiday, was definatly and officially designated for the Chicon. From that moment on, the convention has made vast progress. The IFF sponsoring machinery had until then been semi-active, its gears well oiled, its resources waiting but the flip of a switch to throw it into high gear. The Chicon had been running practically under its own momentum, s ince the original impetus so enthusiastically given it by its concievers and fandom at larger. And now the long awaited big spring putsh.is at hand. And now we see all of fandom solidly behind a now crystalized and very three-demensional object, and eagerly land-ing all the support and cooperation in their power to make the chicon the greatest convention in fan history. As chairman of the convention committee, it is my privilege to appoint the Members to various executive and supporting commitees which will be necessary to facilitate the many different phases of the Convention organization. After such deliberation and discussion of the IFF officials, it was decided to create two separate committees: one to be known was the National Advisory Board, and to include fans repre-senting every group and section of the fan world; the other it to be known as the executive of steering comittee, to comprise of IFF officials in Illinois. The National Advisory Board Members were picked not particularly because of their relative standing in fandom, but rather because of the location in which they reside, and the groups and organizations of which they are representative Members. The purpose behind the creation of the N.A.B. to the Chicon, was to have represn-tation thruout fandom, to reward those fans who have been particularly helpful in constructive critizizm and ideas and sugestions for the Chicon program, and to have responsible and active fans, who have an interest in the success of the convention, taking an active part in the Chicon itself. While the names given below on the committees are neither com-plete in numbers, nor definate, they are regarded as the most probable and likely names to be included. One provision is made in respect ot the members of the N.A.B., and that is that they must write a letter acknow-ledging and acepting the position, and pledging Chicon support and cooperation on all reasonable action necesary to convention welfare.
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Reinsberg's "Progress Report" When considering the steps that have been taken toward the real-ization of the [underlined] Chicon, and giant strides such as its conception and proposal at the NYcon; the organization of the IFF to facilitate its handling; fandoms acceptance of the Chicon and its unanimous vote of confidence and support at the Philly conference last fall; the import-ance of the [title underlined] "3rd Chicon Conference", held in Bloomington two short weeks ago, cannot be over-emphasized. Before then, we of the Chicon had been dealing with a nebulous, vaguely-formulated event which was delegated to cope about a remote distance in the future, such as September, 1940, had seemed. [Two words underlined] We spoke of convention plans, for actually, speaking and publicizing was all we, the sponsers, could do from tweleve to seven months in advance of equally unsolidified "late summer" date on which the event was to come for. Then, two months ago, the Chicon assured more substantial aspects when Sept. 1st-2nd, over the Labor-Day Holiday, was definatly and officially designated for the Chicon. From that moment on, the convention has made vast progress. The IFF sponsoring machinery had until then been semi-active, its gears well oiled, its resources waiting but the flip of a switch to throw it into high gear. The Chicon had been running practically under its own momentum, s ince the original impetus so enthusiastically given it by its concievers and fandom at larger. And now the long awaited big spring putsh.is at hand. And now we see all of fandom solidly behind a now crystalized and very three-demensional object, and eagerly land-ing all the support and cooperation in their power to make the chicon the greatest convention in fan history. As chairman of the convention committee, it is my privilege to appoint the Members to various executive and supporting commitees which will be necessary to facilitate the many different phases of the Convention organization. After such deliberation and discussion of the IFF officials, it was decided to create two separate committees: one to be known was the National Advisory Board, and to include fans repre-senting every group and section of the fan world; the other it to be known as the executive of steering comittee, to comprise of IFF officials in Illinois. The National Advisory Board Members were picked not particularly because of their relative standing in fandom, but rather because of the location in which they reside, and the groups and organizations of which they are representative Members. The purpose behind the creation of the N.A.B. to the Chicon, was to have represn-tation thruout fandom, to reward those fans who have been particularly helpful in constructive critizizm and ideas and sugestions for the Chicon program, and to have responsible and active fans, who have an interest in the success of the convention, taking an active part in the Chicon itself. While the names given below on the committees are neither com-plete in numbers, nor definate, they are regarded as the most probable and likely names to be included. One provision is made in respect ot the members of the N.A.B., and that is that they must write a letter acknow-ledging and acepting the position, and pledging Chicon support and cooperation on all reasonable action necesary to convention welfare.
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