Fan Gallery Status Report - 2002

Rev. 24-Aug-2004

July-Dec 2001

Jan-Dec 2002

Jan-Dec 2003

Jan 2002

As of 01-Jan-2002 the Fan Gallery collection consists of 180 fans in 182 photos: 180 individual photos and 2 group shots.

Additions to Fan Gallery in January: BEP=Photos that Bruce Pelz turned over in the Archive Box; CBB=Chaz shot digital photos with his less-fancy camera; MM=Mike McInerney sends a Photo CD of photos, some of which are usable; SC=Shawn Crosby took digital photos at LASFS during the summer; VJD=Photos by Vince Docherty that Bruce Pelz turned over in the Archive Box.

1. Baden, Chaz Boston (SC)
2. Gregory Benford (BEP)
3. Cantor, Marty (CB)
4. David W. Clark (BEP)
5. Vince Docherty (BEP)
6. Herz, Melanie (BEP)
7. Peter Jarvis (BEP)
8. Michael Jencevice (BEP)
9. David A. Kyle (BEP)
10. McInerney, Mike (MM)
11. Mansfield, John (BEP)
12. Trimble, John & Bjo (BEP)
13. White, Ted (BEP)

Caption data received or updated in Jan. 2002:

1. Sandy Cohen
2. Susan L. Fox-Davis
3. Steve Francis
4. Craig Miller
5. Becky Thomson
6. Tom Whitmore

Results of experimentation: the scanner at my office is not suitable. Using Shawn's digital camera in place of a scanner yields results, good enough to use but not great.

Stan Woolston dies. We have a photo on file, but no bio.

Windycon Appearance is firmed up. We tell them that we'll need at least three of their 5'x4' panel spaces. The shipping weight of the case with the current collection of photos and the mounting hardware (pegboard hooks and binder clips) is 82.2 lbs. The cost to ship 180 photos to and from Chicago via UPS Ground Service, insured for $1500, is $90. Just shipping the Core Collection would be somewhat cheaper. Shipping both cases will be more expensive. Windycon will pay the freight and will provide S-hooks to use on their art show grid materials.

The Archive Box from Bruce is replaced with a flip-lid bin, after Chaz goes through it. There are a number of negatives and snapshot prints that apparently are the originals for the photos in the Fan Gallery. There are also about a dozen photos that Bruce collected for inclusion, and some photos that were submitted and won't be used and need to be returned.

New cardboard frames (20) purchased at Target for $1.99+tax each. Elayne later remarks that WalMart sells them too. These are actually cardboard double mats, a solid 8"x10" piece, and two 8"x10" pieces with rectangular holes (one 5"x7" on top of another board with a 4.5"x6.5" hole). Bruce says he used double-sided tape to assemble them, and inspection of the existing Fan Gallery reveals that he used clear tape to affix the captions to the back. A quote is obtained from "Frame It For Less" for acid-free mats, for $363 a hundred. Elayne Pelz the Treasurer convinces us that the photos are going to decay before the cardboard does, and it's too expensive to switch.

At the January SCIFI Board of Directors Meeting, we present a Status Report. Mike Donahue volunteers to scan photos, and Jerome Scott volunteers to scan photos and negatives.

Boskone and ConDor are offered the core exhibit. Both accept. Also Minicon is offered the Fan Gallery, and wants to exhibit the entire collection. Loscon chair Tadao Tomomatsu commits to exhibiting the Fan Gallery at Loscon 29. The SCIFI Board of Directors voted (via e-mail) to approve paying for the freight charges (up to $100 per convention) to send the Fan Gallery to Boskone and Minicon, as a "thank-you" for their roles in the Fan Gallery's beginning. Standardized form letter worked out for future potential appearances.

Layout tools built, to take a list of names and determine how many art show panels will be needed, and chart out where each photo will be displayed. (The charts can be printed one-per-page, so that photos can be hung in any sequence as they come out of the case.) Eventually the tools will be made available to the public.

A subset of the Fan Gallery consisting of 133 photos is packed into one of the shipping cases, and shipped via UPS on 31-Jan-2002 to the Boskone Art Show's address for mail-in art. Insured for $1000. Freight charge: $44.37.

Fan Gallery packed with paper and foam. 11"x17" sheets of paper are cut down to 10"x17", for wrapping around the photos. This makes them easier to pull out of the case. Each wrapper is marked identifying the photos included, such as "D" or "Me Mo" for photos whose last name starts with "D" or whose last name starts with two letters in the range "Me" to "Mo." Plastic foam pieces are cut to 8"x10", so that we can slip in as many as we need to pad out the top of each section. Within a paper wrapper, the pictures are not necessarily in sequence.

Boskone 39 layout planned out for 4 of their 4'x6' art show panels. We can display 113 photos in that space. We'll be hanging the photos off of the bottom edge of the pegboards to cram as many in as we can. ConDor's spaces are 4'x4' and they've promised us four, plus some countertop space.

Core List Database converted to HTML. Not quite up-to-date. Includes Worldcon/NASFiC chairs and fgohs, Fan Hugo Winners, and international fan fund winners. The Core List and Living Core List are derived from this file.

Captions can be printed from the web page. The little printer icon on the Captions page brings up a single caption, as do the links on each name on the Contents List. The captions are generated in a consistent fashion, provided the "Algerian" font is loaded on the browsing machine, so that captions can be printed anywhere (and don't require a particular computer containing a particular file). The Contents List is generated every night from the Captions page.

Captions color-coded for web viewing using Cascading Style Sheets. Blue text indicates a "core" photo. Heavy black border indicates a deceased fan. An asterisk (*) at the beginning of a name indicates a horizontal (landscape) format photo, i.e. 7"w x 5"h. An ampersand (&) at the end of a name indicates that we have another photo on file containing that person and their spouse.

Fan Gallery Photographers for this year include Bruce, Chaz, Elizabeth Klein-Lebbink and Jerome, Mark Olson, David Dyer-Bennet, and Erik V. Olson. Photography Schedule added to website.

Standardized form letters are worked out for individuals and couples on List #1; couples already in the Fan Gallery; third-person requests and requests for a deceased fan's photo.

Requests for Photos go out to a number of people on the "List #1" of wanted people. We also start soliciting "couple" photos for married couples in the core collection to use in place of the individual photos when we're really tight on space. This project still underway - there are more e-mail addresses to search for, and at some point we'll try mailing out postcards.

A call is put out on TIMEBINDERS for photos of the deceased fans on our list. Some responses come back. This project still underway - there are more people we can ask.

88x31 Fan Gallery icon button added for Fan Gallery, and put on main www.scifiinc.org entry page.

We've added Black Borders around the deceased ("inactive") fans' photo frames. After trying two different approaches, a guide was purchased (in the form of two sheets of plexiglas, one 7.375"x10" and the other 8"x9.375"). There were 9 photos to be marked. These are the photos that we've put a black border around. The following were in the Fan Gallery at the time we started putting black borders on the frames.

1. Marjii Ellers
2. Jack C. Haldeman II
3. Gary Louie
4. Joe Mayhew
5. Pavlac, Ross
6. William Rotsler
7. Nancy Tucker Shaw
8. Stan Woolston
9. Richard Wright

Captions printed/reprinted, 116 of them, to replace torn, crumpled, or obsolete captions. The captions that have been printed recently (including updated captions, and labels that were crumpled etc., but not including new additions) are:

• Past Chairs Of Worldcon (1998)
• Forrest J Ackerman, Claire Anderson, F.N., Dave Anderson, F.N.
• Margo Bratton, Ann Broomhead, F.N., Kimberlee Marks Brown
• Dave Cantor, F.N., Sandy Cohen, Lester Cole, Karen Cooper
• Todd Dashoff, Scott Dennis, Tom Digby, Ira Donewitz, Pamela Dean Dyer-Bennet
• Bill Ellern, Marjii Ellers
• Ed Finkelstein, Don Fitch, George Flynn, F.N., Richard Foss, Susan L. Fox-Davis, Steve Francis, Sue Francis, Donald Franson
• Rick Gellman, Alexis Gilliland, Glenn Glazer, Mike Glyer
• Jack C. Haldeman II, John Hertz, Chip Hitchcock, F.N.
• *Mary Jane Jewell, Robin Johnson, Neil Kaden
• Jordin Kare, Mary Kay Kare
• Suford Lewis, F.N., Tony Lewis, F.N., Guy Lillian III, Mark Linneman, John Lorentz, Gary Louie, Nicki Lynch, Richard Lynch, J. Shaun Lyon
• Jim Mann, F.N., Jürgen G. Marzi, Marty Massoglia, Joe Mayhew, Nancy Wirsig McClure, Christian B. McGuire, Craig Miller, Len Moffatt, Liz Mortensen
• Teresa Nielsen Hayden, Bob Null
• Mark Olson, F.N., Priscilla Olson, F.N.
• Tony Parker, Ross Pavlac, Bruce Pelz, F.N., Elayne Pelz, Andrew I. Porter
• Victor J. Raymond, Neil Rest, Allan Rothstein
• Drew Sanders, Peggy Rae Sapienza, Sharon Sbarsky, F.N., Martin Schafer, Jeff Schalles, Mike Scott, Nancy Tucker Shaw, Sachiko Shibano, Takumi Shibano, Joe Siclari, F.N., Michael Siladi, Pat Sims, Willie Siros, Laurence C. Smith, Kevin Standlee, Milt Stevens, Geri Sullivan, Tim Szczesuil, F.N.
• Becky Thomson, John Griffin Trimble, Paul Turner
• Tom Veal
• Michael J. Walsh, Bill Warren, Tom Whitmore, Alan Winston, Sally Woehrle, Stan Woolston, Richard Wright
• Ben Yalow, F.N., George Young, Rick Young
• Bernie Zuber

scifiinc.net launched for storage of digital and digitized photos. Spoke to L.M. about webmastering the Online Fan Gallery. L.M. has photo editing capabilities (so can cut the originals down to viewable sizes), and can upload mass quantities by burning a CD and handing it off or taking it to work.

Query Engine for Contents in progress. You can select on living/inactive, core/supplement, and with/without bio data. Original version worked off of the massive file of all the bios. Needs to be rewritten to handle the individual bio files. This is a work in progress.

Quartering the Fan Gallery: A-F, G-L, M-R, S-Z. Eighths: A-C, D-F; G-J, K-L; M-N, O-R; S, T-Z.

Fan Gallery Captions have been split up into separate files.

Chaz creates a notebook for Christian containing printouts of all of our notes on photos and captions needed.

Feb 2002

Additions to Fan Gallery in February: CBB=Chaz shot digital photos in December; MM=Photos by Mike McInernery; VJD=Photos by Vince Docherty.

1. Past Chairs Of Worldcon (2001) (VJD)
2. Grant Canfield (MM)
3. Mark Merlino (CBB)
4. Rod O'Riley (CBB)

We also received photos from Erik V. Olson (shot at Capricon, hand-carried to Boskone); Jean Weber (shot at Potlatch, sent via e-mail); Chaz (shot at Boskone and ConDor); Geri Sullivan (enlargement from one of her negatives).

Caption data received or updated in Feb. 2002:

1. Noel Wolfman

Boskone appearance in Framingham MA. We put a "framingham.com" bumper sticker on the shipping case. 120 photos were exhibited, about 60% of the collection. It took two people 2 hours to hang all of the photos. Anja Baier helped Chaz hang the photos. We put about half of them up with two clips each, using the convention's clips and hooks, on four of their 4'x6' art show panels; four rows of photos per panel. It took one person (Chaz) half an hour to take them down. Noel Wolfman checked the Fan Gallery case as luggage on her return flight, and Chaz took it home from the airport. At Boskone, Chaz and Mark Olson took many photos.

ConDor appearance. We put a "KCBQ San Diego" bumper sticker on the shipping case. 77 photos were exhibited, about 40% of the collection. Time to hang uncertain. Adam Tilghman helped Chaz hang the photos. We used one clip per photo, using the convention's clips and hooks, on four of their 4'x4' art show panels; four rows of photos per panel. It took two people (Chaz and Christian) 15 minutes to take them down. Pictures of the exhibit are available. Chaz drove the Fan Gallery case to and from Del Mar.

Minicon 37 Program Book Article written and edited by Joyce Scrivner and David Schroth, based in part on our web blurb.

Mar 2002

Additions to Fan Gallery in March: (Photographers: AGT=Adam Tilghman, 2001; CBB=Chaz, Jan. 2002; CF=Cindy Foster, 2001; EKL=Elizabeth Klein-Lebbink; EVO=Erik V. Olson, Feb. 2002; GFS=Geri Sullivan; JB=Judith Buckrich; JG=Jeanette Gillespie; KY=Kate Yule; LM=Laurie Mann; RL=provided by Robert Lichtman; SC=Shawn Crosby)

1. Donaho, Bill (deceased)(RL)
2. Eisenstein, Alex (EVO)
3. Foglio, Phil (EVO)
4. Foglio, Kaja (EVO)
5. Foster, Brad W. (CF)
6. Gillespie, Bruce (JG)
7. Laskowski, George ("Lan") (deceased)(LM)
8. Levine, David (KY)
9. Lichtman,_Robert (GFS)
10. Lindsay, Eric (JB)
11. Lonsdale, Allison (AGT)
12. Moffatt, Len and June (CBB)
13. Penney, Lloyd (EKL)
14. Penney, Yvonne (EKL)
15. Penney, Yvonne and Lloyd (EKL)
16. Silver, Steven H (EVO)
17. Tomomatsu, Tadao (SC)
18. Weber, Jean (JB)

(Note that fans listed as "deceased" have black borders around their frames.)

Captions updated and reprinted on existing entries: Rick Gellman, Marsha Jones, Mary Kay Kare, Marty Massoglia, Nancy Tucker Shaw, Edie Stern

Captions reprinted (possibly updated) and packed in red notebook for Minicon trip, not yet installed on photos: Benford, Gregory; Bourget, Robbie; Glicksohn, Mike; Jewell, Mary Jane; Moffatt, June; Penney, Lloyd; Scrivner, Joyce; Silver, Steven H.

Caption data received or updated in Mar. 2002:

1. Michael R. Bernstein
2. Jack Beslanwitch
3. Stephen Boucher
4. Stan Burns
5. Marty Cantor
6. Sandra Childress
7. Ahrvid Engholm
8. Rob Jackson
9. Jerry Kaufman
10. Paul Kincaid
11. Perrianne Lurie
12. Cheryl Morgan
13. Joyce Scrivner
14. Pearl Stickler
15. Alan White

Lunacon - Mark Olson takes several photos for us and sends them in.

Jean Weber, Tourist and Photographer - Jean takes photos while in Las Vegas NV and e-mails them in. Her next stop is L.A.

Stationery artwork by Sue Mason arrives. We can now have stationery printed up with "Fan Gallery" on it, to use for signs and letters.

Minicon 37 appearance. We put a "Minnesota Twins" bumper sticker on the shipping case. Shipped via UPS 14-Mar-2002, cost $48.84. Joyce Scrivner shipped it back to us 03-Apr-2002, at a cost of $77.35. It appears that the discount my company gets is significant... 208 photos exhibited. Missed Friday morning flight, so Fan Gallery was set up Saturday morning. Their panels are 4'w x 6'h - not the other way around, and they had 8 of them set up. We asked them to set up three more, and used 10 to display the photos with the 11th just showing the "Fan Gallery is incomplete" sign (see below). Took one and a half hours to set up with two people (Chaz and Tammy Coxen), took half an hour for five people to take down (Chaz, Tammy, and three guys from the Bridge). Took some more photos for future use. We put up five signs (with the italicized footnote at the bottom of each sign):

• The Fan Gallery is one of the permanent traveling Worldcon exhibits.
  The Fan Gallery was started in 1997 by Bruce Pelz, with the assistance of several fannish photographers including David Dyer-Bennet, Mark Olson, and Stan Burns.

• The Fan Gallery has been exhibited at Worldcon (1998, 2000, 2001), Loscon (1997-2001), NASFiC (1999), Boskone (2002) and ConDor (2002).
  This is the first appearance at Minicon of the exhibit.* Later this year it will appear at Windycon, in Chicago.
  In 1998 the extant photos so far (about 50) were available in the Minneapolis in '73 Suite at Minicon, for anyone to look through the stack.

• The Fan Gallery consists of color photographs of fans who should be known outside of their region.
  This exhibit contains pictures of 207 fans (not counting the group Worldcon Chairs photos). About thirty photos have been added since the 2001 Worldcon.

• The Fan Gallery is a project of SCIFI, Inc. (Southern California Institute for Fan Interests), and is funded from the surplus funds left over from L.A. con III (1996 Worldcon).
  SCIFI, Inc. was the sponsoring organization for the 1984 & 1996 Worldcon; 1989, 1994 & 2002 Westercon; and 1999 NASFiC.

• The Fan Gallery is incomplete; or, rather, it is an ongoing project. To suggest someone for inclusion in the Fan Gallery, please send e-mail to gallery@scifiinc.org.
  Photographers here at Minicon include Chaz Boston Baden, David Dyer-Bennet, Mark Olson, and Erik V. Olson.

• For more info, see www.scifiinc.org/gallery
  PO Box 17522, Anaheim CA 92817-7522

We worked out an efficient way of dividing up the labor of setting up the exhibit at Minicon. One person specializes in putting up the hooks on the pegboard, 12" apart horizontally and 14" apart vertically; some rows will be set up with hooks 9" apart horizontally. (When we do another exhibit with 6' wide pegboards, we'll have to fine-tune that, but on 4' wide panels we can only display either four or five photos per row. The vertical-format photos outnumber the horizontals by three to one, but one horizontal photo in a 4' row forces that row to only hold four photos.) Photos are taken out of the box and put in groups by rows, using a paper wrapper around the photos for each row.

Black canvas zip bag added to Fan Gallery case. We now have two sturdy bags for the hardware - one of them for the pegboard hooks and the other for the binder clips.

Watch that bottom row. If we can have more panels and fewer rows, that would be good. At Minicon their 6'-tall panels were arranged such that the bottom row was practically at floor level. If we can go with just 4 rows on 6'h panels, and 3 rows on 4'h panels, that would improve the exhibit's appearance. Also we need to start moving the captions to hang a little lower, especially for the bottom row, so the names are easier to read. We should plan to work on this for the next appearance of the exhibit.

Minicon - Chaz took several suitable pictures. David Dyer-Bennet, Erik V. Olson and Mark Olson were there and may have also taken photos.

Eastercon - Digital pictures were taken. Steve Davies has collected them, and we may use some.

Apr 2002

Additions to Fan Gallery in April:

1. Bernstein, Michael R.
2. Berry, John
3. Beslanwitch, Jack
4. Burns, Stan
5. Busby, Elinor
6. Bushyager, Linda
7. Bushyager, Ron
8. Engholm, Ahrvid
9. finder, jan howard
10. Foglio, Kaja & Phil
11. Jackson, Rob
12. Katz, Joyce Worley
13. Kaufman, Jerry
14. Kincaid, Paul
15. Lewis, Suford & Tony, F.N.
16. Murray, Janice
17. Singer, Jon
18. Speller, Maureen Kincaid
19. White, Alan

Photos replaced in April:

1. Carey, Elisabeth, F.N.
2. Kare, Mary Kay

Captions replaced in April:

1. Armbruster, Bobbi

Caption data received or updated in Apr. 2002:

1. Kimberlee Marks Brown
2. Jordan & Kimberlee Brown
3. Steve Davies
4. Steve Davies & Giulia De Cesare
5. Giulia De Cesare
6. Angela Jones
7. David Levine

Online Fan Gallery project started. Actually, I'm just putting 200x280 digital images in with the caption info. During April 2002, I've added photos for...

1. Past Chairs of Worldcon (2001)
2. Cantor, Marty
3. McInerney, Mike
4. Moffatt, Len & June

List of Contents - the automatic list generator now bolds the "core collection" photos, and marks entries (inactive), , or .

Printing problems on some of the enlargements in the form of a black streak or two, near the corner. We'll get free reprints of the ones that have these noticeable marks.

Birthdate information removed from living Fan Gallery members. Mostly to guard against Identity Theft.

At the April SCIFI Board of Directors Meeting, we present a Status Report. Expenses reimbursed, further expansion put on hold for a while.

Westercon and Worldcon appearances firmed up. Westercon 55: Conagerie will display a reduced subset of photos; Con Jose (Worldcon) has figured out where to put us and has turned us over to their Art Show people to work out details.

Photos in need of captions: 63. Photos in Fan Gallery (including couples and individuals, and photos without biographical data): 238. Worldon Chairs photos: 3. Couples photos: 5.

May 2002

Additions to Fan Gallery in May:

1. Brown, Charles N.
2. Brown, Jordan & Kimberlee
3. Bushyager, Ron & Linda
4. Leeper, Evelyn
5. Leeper, Mark
6. Leeper, Mark & Evelyn
7. Pelz, Bruce & Elayne (photo retired after May 2002)

New or updated captions:

1. Eisenstein, Alex
2. Foglio, Kaja & Phil
3. Gelb, Janice
4. Katz, Joyce Worley
5. Lichtman, Robert
6. Nielsen Hayden, Patrick
7. Nielsen Hayden, Teresa
8. Niven, Marilyn
9. Siegel, Kurt C.
10. Walsh, Michael J.
11. White, Ted

Caption data received or updated in May 2002:

1. John Berry
2. Ann Broomhead & Tim Szczesuil
3. Dave Cantor, F.N.
4. Esther Cole
5. Lester Cole
6. David Dyer-Bennet
7. John Harold
8. Melanie Herz
9. Denny Lien
10. Neil Rest
11. David E. Romm
12. Pam Wells

Online Fan Gallery project. During May 2002, I've added photos for...

1. Bernstein, Michael R.
2. Beslanwitch, Jack
3. Brown, Jordan & Kimberlee
4. Burns, Stan
5. Bushyager, Linda
6. Carey, Elisabeth, F.N.
7. Foglio, Kaja (EVO)
8. Foglio, Phil (EVO)
9. Foglio, Kaja & Phil
10. Gillespie, Bruce (JG)
11. Illingworth, Tim
12. Jarvis, Peter
13. Kare, Mary Kay
14. Katz, Joyce Worley
15. Kincaid, Paul
16. Laskowski, George
17. Leeper, Evelyn
18. Leeper, Mark
19. Leeper, Mark & Evelyn
20. Levine, David (KY)
21. Lichtman, Robert
22. Lonsdale, Allison (AGT)
23. Olson, Priscilla
24. Pelz, Bruce & Elayne (photo retired after May 2002)
25. Silver, Steven H
26. Speller, Maureen Kincaid
27. Standlee, Kevin
28. White, Alan
29. Wright, Richard

We also added pictures showing how the photos look hanging on a pegboard backdrop. This is a temporary measure, to "stand in" for the actual images. (When the actual photo is added to the caption page, the picture of the photo hanging on the pegboard will still be available at the bottom under "photo as displayed in exhibit." See the previous list above for examples.)

1. Armbruster, Bobbi
2. Bernstein, Michael R.
3. Beslanwitch, Jack
4. Brown, Jordan & Kimberlee
5. Brown, Kimberlee Marks
6. Burns, Stan
7. Busby,_Elinor
8. Bushyager, Linda
9. Carey, Elisabeth, F.N.
10. Eisenstein, Alex
11. Engholm,_Ahrvid
12. finder,_jan_howard
13. Foglio, Kaja
14. Foglio, Kaja & Phil
15. Frierson,_Penny
16. Gellman,_Rick
17. Gillespie, Bruce
18. Glazer,_Glenn
19. Glicksohn, Mike
20. Jackson,_Rob
21. Jarvis, Peter
22. Kare,_Jordin
23. Kare, Mary Kay
24. Katz, Joyce Worley
25. Kaufman,_Jerry
26. Kincaid, Paul
27. Laskowski, George
28. Leeper, Evelyn
29. Leeper, Mark
30. Leeper, Mark & Evelyn
31. Levine, David
32. Lewis,_Suford_&_Tony
33. Lichtman, Robert
34. Lorentz, John
35. McClure, Nancy Wirsig
36. McGuire, Christian B.
37. Mansfield, John
38. Massoglia, Marty
39. Miller, Craig
40. Mortensen, Liz
41. Murray,_Janice
42. Pelz, Bruce & Elayne (photo retired after May 2002)
43. Penney, Yvonne & Lloyd
44. Rest, Neil
45. Sanders, Drew
46. Sbarsky, Sharon
47. Schafer,_Martin
48. Scrivner, Joyce
49. Shaw, Nancy Tucker
50. Siladi, Michael
51. Silver, Steven H
52. Singer,_Jon
53. Smith,_Laurence_C.
54. Standlee, Kevin
55. Stern, Edie
56. Sullivan, Geri
57. Thomson,_Becky
58. Tomomatsu,_Tadao
59. Trimble,_John_&_Bjo
60. White, Ted
61. Whitmore, Tom
62. Winston,_Alan
63. Woolston, Stan
64. Wright, Richard
65. Yalow, Ben

ConQuest appearance, in Kansas City. 60 photos exhibited on six 7'h x 2' spaces. Case with approx 110 photos inside and our binder clips was shipped Monday, 13-May-2002, weight was 67 lbs., insured for $1000, case measures 20"x27"x16". Bumper sticker: "Kansas City Blues Society."

Bio caption index changed. We now show the Core Collection's reasons next to their entries.

Bruce Pelz, founder of the Fan Gallery, joins our "Inactive List." Chaz took his framed photo to the LASFS Aftermeeting, where Christian, Kris Bauer, Michael Mason, and Scott Beckstead marked in the black border around the frame while Chaz held the plastic template in place.

Contents List now automatically has a Legend appended. This explains the icons and typography used on the contents list. Also the Bio index now uses the same Perl script, it just has a different argument on the cron call to tell it to include the descriptions.

Upcoming Appearances page now has an introduction to "Inviting the Fan Gallery to your Convention." (Including a note about how we'd like three souvenir bumper stickers.)

Jun 2002

Additions to Fan Gallery in June:

1. Busby, F.M.
2. Meskys, Edmund R.
3. Notkin, Debbie

Online Fan Gallery project. During June 2002, I've added photos for...

1. Past Chairs of Worldcon (1998)
2. Berry, John
3. Brown, Charles N.
4. Busby, Elinor
5. Bushyager, Ron
6. Bushyager, Ron & Linda
7. Engholm, Ahrvid
8. finder, jan howard
9. Harvia, Teddy
10. Illingworth, Marcia Kelly
11. Jackson, Rob
12. Kaufman, Jerry
13. Kramer, Ed
14. Penney, Lloyd
15. Penney, Yvonne
16. Penney, Yvonne & Lloyd
17. Sachter, Ruth
18. Smith,_T.R.

We also added pictures showing how the photos look hanging on a backdrop.

1. Ackerman, Forrest J
2. Baden, Chaz Boston
3. Dashoff, Todd
4. Bourget, Robbie
5. Digby, Tom
6. Docherty, Vince
7. Glyer, Mike
8. Gomoll, Jeanne
9. Haldeman II, Jack C.
10. Harvia, Teddy
11. Jencevice, Michael
12. Johnson, Robin
13. Kaden, Neil
14. Klein, Jay Kay
15. Kramer, Ed
16. Kyle, David A.
17. Langford, Dave
18. Lewis, Tony
19. Lounsbury, Linda
20. Lundry, Don
21. Lynch, Nicki
22. Lynch, Richard
23. Mayhew, Joe
24. Meschke, Karen
25. Nielsen Hayden, Patrick
26. Shaw, Noreen
27. Shibano, Sachiko
28. Shibano, Takumi
29. Sims, Pat
30. Sims, Roger
31. Siros, Willie
32. Smith, Leah Zeldes
33. Smith II, Richard H. E.
34. Stevens, Milt
35. Thayer, Diana
36. Tucker, Bob
37. Veal, Tom
38. Walsh, Michael J.

Bios received and printed for

1. Berry, John
2. Cole, Esther
3. Cole, Lester
4. Cox, Arthur Jean

Captions updated and reprinted on existing entries:

1. Kramer, Ed

Caption data received or updated in June 2002:

1. Andrew A. Adams
2. Lenny Bailes
3. Ross Chamberlain
4. Greg Ketter
5. Laura Krentz
6. Selina Phanara
7. John Sapienza, Jr.
8. Sally Woehrle
9. Rick Young
10. Bernie Zuber

Designated Berry, John as part of our "Core Collection." Shortly before he died in May 2002, Bruce Pelz said that he thought it might be a good idea to include John Berry and other similar Worldcon fan fund recipients. ("Irish" John Berry attended the 1959 Worldcon via a special one-time fund.)

Small Westercon collection determined for exhibit at Westercon. We'll try to squeeze 26 photos onto four rows of a 4'h x 6'w art show panel.

Jul 2002

Additions to Fan Gallery in July:

1. Adams, Andrew A.
2. Briggs, James M.
3. Chamberlain, Ross
4. Childress, Sandra
5. Dashoff, Joni Brill
6. Davies, Steve
7. De Cesare, Giulia
8. Dyer-Bennet, David
9. Francis, Sue & Steve
10. Hlavaty, Arthur D.
11. Kemp, Earl
12. Ketter, Greg
13. Lien, Denny
14. Nielsen Hayden, Patrick & Teresa
15. Olson, Erik V.
16. Olson, Priscilla & Mark
17. Phanara, Selina
18. Stopa, Jon
19. Tompkins, Suzanne
20. Wells, Pam
21. Weston, Peter
22. Widner, Art
23. Willson, Karen
24. Wolfman, Noel

Photos replaced in July:

1. Armbruster, Bobbi
2. Rest, Neil
3. Veal, Tom

Online Fan Gallery project. During July 2002, I've added photos for...

1. Armbruster, Bobbi
2. Briggs, James M.
3. Chamberlain, Ross
4. Kemp, Earl
5. Lien, Denny
6. Nielsen Hayden, Patrick & Teresa
7. Pelz, Bruce
8. Pelz, Elayne
9. Rest, Neil
10. Singer, Jon
11. Veal, Tom
12. Wells, Pam
13. Whitmore, Tom
14. Widner, Art
15. Woehrle, Sally
16. Wolfman, Noel

Captions updated and reprinted on existing entries:

1. Donewitz, Ira
2. Eastlake III, Donald E.
3. Eastlake, Jill
4. Farr, Bruce
5. Franson, Donald (black border - inactive as of June 2002)
6. Herz, Melanie
7. Jaffe, Saul
8. Jewell, Mary Jane
9. Katze, Rick
10. Krentz, Laura
11. Laskowski, George (thanks to Mike Resnick)
12. Pavlac, Ross (thanks to Mike Glyer)
13. Pins, Michael T.
14. Siclari, Joe
15. Smith, Leah Zeldes
16. Thayer, Diana
17. Warren, Bill
18. Young, Rick
19. Zuber, Bernie

Caption data received or updated in Jul. 2002:

1. Ray E. Beam
2. Ron Bennett
3. Todd Dashoff
4. Joni & Todd Dashoff
5. Colin Hinz
6. Joe Mayhew
7. D. Potter
8. Kathy Sanders
9. Marc Rolf Schirmeister
10. Burnett R. Toskey
11. Jan van 't Ent
12. Chris Weber
13. Lee Whiteside
14. Mike Willmoth

Westercon 55: Conagerie appearance. 122 photos were exhibited. Three rows per panel in three "bays" (3-ft/6-ft/3-ft U-shapes). A total of six 3'w x 4'h panels and three 6'w x 4'h panels.

Pelz, Bruce - frame with black border replaced with an all-black frame.

SCIFI Board of Directors approves spending up to $1000 to enlarge, update, and maintain the Fan Gallery.

Aug 2002

Additions to Fan Gallery in August:

1. Beam, Ray E.
2. Boucher, Stephen
3. Dashoff, Joni & Todd
4. Erichsen, Kurt
5. Hoare, Martin
6. Kare, Jordin & Mary Kay
7. Lurie, Perrianne
8. McMurray, Pat
9. Mason, Sue
10. Thompson, Keith
11. Vick, Shelby

Online Fan Gallery project. During August 2002, I've added photos for...

1. Notkin, Debbie
2. Phanara, Selina
3. Weston, Peter

Captions updated and reprinted on existing entries:

1. Johnson, Robin

Caption data received or updated in Aug. 2002:

1. Lynn Gold
2. Martin Hoare
3. Marty Massoglia
4. Keith Thompson

Con José (Worldcon) appearance. 209 photos were exhibited.

Sep 2002

Additions to Fan Gallery in September:

1. Bennett, Ron
2. Bentley, Alice
3. Exline, Darrel L.
4. Geisler, Deb
5. Gold, Barry
6. Gold, Lee
7. Harold, John
8. Hinz, Colin
9. Lupoff, Richard
10. Potter, D.
11. Proctor, Charlotte
12. Ranson, Peggy
13. Reinhardt, Hank
14. Resnick, Mike
15. Romm, David E.
16. Rowe, Nigel
17. Sanders, Kathy
18. Siclari, Joe, & Stern, Edie
19. Stiles, Steve
20. Stokes, Keith
21. Szczesuil, Tim, & Broomhead, Ann
22. Weber, Chris
23. Whiteside, Lee
24. Willmoth, Mike

Photos changed in September:

1. Beslanwitch, Jack
2. McClure, Nancy Wirsig
3. McGuire, Christian B.

Online Fan Gallery project. During September 2002, I've added photos for...

1. Adams, Andrew A.
2. Bennett, Ron
3. Bentley, Alice
4. Beslanwitch, Jack
5. Gold, Barry
6. Harold, John
7. Hinz, Colin
8. Hoare, Martin
9. McClure, Nancy Wirsig
10. McGuire, Christian B.
11. Potter, D.
12. Proctor, Charlotte
13. Ranson, Peggy
14. Resnick, Mike
15. Romm, David E.

Captions updated and reprinted on existing entries:

1. Anderson, Karen

Caption data received or updated in Sep. 2002:

1. Worldcon Chairs (2001)
2. Elinor Busby
3. Bill Donaho
4. George Flynn, F.N.
5. Evelyn Leeper
6. Mark Leeper
7. Mark & Evelyn Leeper
8. Janice Murray
9. Vicki Rosenzweig
10. Garth Spencer
11. Alan Stewart

Oct 2002

Additions to Fan Gallery in October:

1. Past Chairs Of Worldcon (2002)
2. Fisher, Raymond
3. Gold, Lee & Barry
4. Lynch, Nicki & Richard
5. Scott, Jerome, & Klein-Lebbink, Elizabeth
6. Sims, Pat & Roger

Photos replaced in October:

1. Bemis, Judy

Online Fan Gallery project. During October 2002, I've added photos for...

1. Bemis, Judy
2. Childress, Sandra
3. Donaho, Bill
4. Dyer-Bennet, David
5. Erichsen, Kurt
6. Francis, Sue & Steve
7. Gold, Lee
8. Gold, Lee & Barry
9. Ketter, Greg
10. Lurie, Perrianne
11. Lynch, Nicki & Richard
12. Mann, Jim
13. McMurray, Pat
14. Olson, Erik V.
15. Sims, Pat & Roger

Captions updated and reprinted on existing entries:

1. Gomoll, Jeanne
2. Nakashima, Lex

Caption data received or updated in Oct. 2002:

1. Claire & Dave Anderson, F.N.
2. Claire Anderson, F.N.
3. Dave Anderson, F.N.
4. Darrel L. Exline
5. Alison Freebairn
6. Lucy Huntzinger
7. Don Lundry
8. Murray Moore
9. Ron Ontell
10. Ron & Val Ontell
11. Pat Sims
12. Roger Sims
13. Edie Stern

Pictures of the pictures uploaded for almost all of the current photos in the collection. We're nearly up with that phase of the "Online Fan Gallery" project. Completing the project of putting all the "actual photos" online is going more slowly, as we have to wait on (1) getting permission from the subjects, and (2) getting the old print photos scanned in.

Nov 2002

Caption data received or updated in Nov. 2002:

1. Worldcon Chairs (2002)
2. Pam Fremon
3. Eric P. Scott
4. Kees van Toorn

Windycon appearance. 134 fans in 122 photos exhibited. Christian and Chaz set it up in just under 90 minutes. Teardown took 40 minutes with the help of some Windycon people whose names I didn't catch.

Loscon 29 appearance. 215 fans in 199 photos exhibited in three 6'x6' bays, plus an extra panel on the back of the last bay for a total of ten 6'w x 4'h panels. This is the first Loscon where the entire Fan Gallery would not fit. (The nook we use doesn't have room to add more panels.) Tadao Tomomatsu helped set up - in addition to his Loscon 29 Chair duties, he put together the art show panels we used. Christian and I put up the exhibit in about 3 and a half hours. Eric P. Scott and Cathy Mullican helped tear down on Sunday night. Teardown took less than an hour; we had all the photos packed and the pegboard down in 50 minutes.

Dec 2002

Additions to Fan Gallery in December:

1. Alexander, Heather
2. Beach, Covert
3. Chalker, Jack L.
4. DeVore, Howard
5. Donahue, Michael
6. Eisenstein, Phyllis
7. Lake, Christina
8. Morgan, Cheryl
9. Passovoy, Bob
10. Pomeranz, John
11. Rennie, Sparks
12. Scithers, George H.
13. Spencer, Garth
14. Sund, Bjørn Tore
15. Toskey, Burnett R.
16. Wells, Patty

Photos replaced in December:

1. Armbruster, Bobbi
2. Docherty, Vincent
3. Mansfield, John
4. Porter, Andrew I.
5. Siegel, Kurt C.
6. Smith, Dick

Captions updated and reprinted on existing entries:

1. Anderson, Claire
2. Anderson, Dave
3. Geisler, Deb
4. Scott, Jerome, & Klein-Lebbink, Elizabeth
5. Siros, Willie

Caption data received or updated in Dec. 2002:

1. Genny Dazzo & Craig Miller
2. Jill Eastlake
3. Don & Jill Eastlake
4. Phyllis & Alex Eisenstein
5. Kathleen Meyer
6. Ian Sorensen

Smofcon appearance. Twelve 4'x4' panels were provided from the ConFurence supplies. 167 fans in 155 photos exhibited. Elisa Sheets helped set up, Jim Briggs and Cathy Mullican helped tear down.