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National Fantasy Fan, v. 9 , issue 6, December 1950
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A REPORT TO THE MEMBERSHIP A Message From - [signed] Rick Smeary President N3F [large illustration of a reptile-like woman firing a laser gun, while sitting on top of a spaceship. Signed by artist Dea in lower right corner.] Fellow Members: As I write this the results of the election are not yet out, but it is a good time for a little end of the year stock-taking. A lot has happened in the past months. The NFFF is, I think a little better than it was in 1949... Our membership is bigger, and we have more Committees and Bureaus to serve you. I, personally, haven't done as much as I hope to when I took office. If it were not for the work of the Directors, and our hard-working Sec.-Treas. Deedee and Roy Lavender, I don't know what we would have done... and I don't want to forget Eva Firestone who has been doing a million different jobs, and doing them well... But maybe, just for the record you would be interested in just what the Directors have done in the past 11 months. The first thing was to set up a NFFF Book Club, offering premium books in the same manner as other large book clubs. We also selected a board of judges, to choose the "best" of books. The responce [sic] to this was so little, though, that it has been dropped... Like ALL too many GOOD ideas, that redeived [i.e. received] little general support. Next the Directors worked out details for an Activity Requirement Plan. The ARP was designed to require members to participate in a minimum of fan activities, to retain their membership. When outlined to the membership, such a [underlined] storm of protest was raised that it was dropped, without being a formal vote. The Directors then brought back our traditional Laureate Award Poll, in which the membership is polled to see who they think was most outstanding in the Pro and Fan field for a previous year... The winners of each class being given a years membership in NFFF. At the same time as the poll, the NFFF took a census of it's members, to learn more about the type of member we were surveying. You saw some of the results of that census in the October issue of TNFF. The results have aided me greatly in selecting the best fans and fennets [spelling?] for jobs that have come up. The Directors made plans to offer to take on the job of polling all fandom, to give a truely [sic] democratic way of selecting each years Fan Convention site. The NFFF would have had nothing to do with the actual running, or selecting the site, just handled the machinery for the selection. The purposal [sic] was made at Portland, but do [sic] to a lack of [page number] 2
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A REPORT TO THE MEMBERSHIP A Message From - [signed] Rick Smeary President N3F [large illustration of a reptile-like woman firing a laser gun, while sitting on top of a spaceship. Signed by artist Dea in lower right corner.] Fellow Members: As I write this the results of the election are not yet out, but it is a good time for a little end of the year stock-taking. A lot has happened in the past months. The NFFF is, I think a little better than it was in 1949... Our membership is bigger, and we have more Committees and Bureaus to serve you. I, personally, haven't done as much as I hope to when I took office. If it were not for the work of the Directors, and our hard-working Sec.-Treas. Deedee and Roy Lavender, I don't know what we would have done... and I don't want to forget Eva Firestone who has been doing a million different jobs, and doing them well... But maybe, just for the record you would be interested in just what the Directors have done in the past 11 months. The first thing was to set up a NFFF Book Club, offering premium books in the same manner as other large book clubs. We also selected a board of judges, to choose the "best" of books. The responce [sic] to this was so little, though, that it has been dropped... Like ALL too many GOOD ideas, that redeived [i.e. received] little general support. Next the Directors worked out details for an Activity Requirement Plan. The ARP was designed to require members to participate in a minimum of fan activities, to retain their membership. When outlined to the membership, such a [underlined] storm of protest was raised that it was dropped, without being a formal vote. The Directors then brought back our traditional Laureate Award Poll, in which the membership is polled to see who they think was most outstanding in the Pro and Fan field for a previous year... The winners of each class being given a years membership in NFFF. At the same time as the poll, the NFFF took a census of it's members, to learn more about the type of member we were surveying. You saw some of the results of that census in the October issue of TNFF. The results have aided me greatly in selecting the best fans and fennets [spelling?] for jobs that have come up. The Directors made plans to offer to take on the job of polling all fandom, to give a truely [sic] democratic way of selecting each years Fan Convention site. The NFFF would have had nothing to do with the actual running, or selecting the site, just handled the machinery for the selection. The purposal [sic] was made at Portland, but do [sic] to a lack of [page number] 2
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