blast from the past

Going through some stuff, I came across this snapshot from the Central Highlands of Vietnam, sometime in the summer of 1968 . . . maybe the only bit of science fiction fandom I committed over there. The committee trying to get the Worldcon for St. Louis in 1969 asked me for an endorsement, so I scrawled it out on some cardboard from a C-ration box. Unfortunately, the guy who took the picture had his thumb in front of the lens.

The St. Louis fans Ray and Joyce Fisher gave me a home away from home when I was doing Basic Training and Advanced Individual Training in Fort Leonard Wood. They co-chaired the St. Louis worldcon and, as often happens, split up soon afterwards. ( Joyce is in Las Vegas fandom now.)

Joe