Subject: WWF speaker
From: "Kay Price" <[email-masked]>
To: "Tracy Heron" <[email-masked]>, "Rodney Schroeter" <[email-masked]>, "Perry Huntoon" <[email-masked]>, "Pat Russell" <[email-masked]>, "Mary Schweitzer" <[email-masked]>, "John Haefele" <[email-masked]>, "Jim Roberts" <[email-masked]>, "Jim Kirchstein" <[email-masked]>, "Grant, Kenneth" <[email-masked]>, "George Vanderburgh" <[email-masked]>, "Dan Boulden" <[email-masked]>, "Char Olson" <[email-masked]>, "Karen Nelson" <[email-masked]>
Cc: "Julie Roelke" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2011 11:44:59 -0500

How about agreeing to having Jack Koblas from St. Paul be our keynote speaker at Park Hall for the WWF? See what he says below. Could we offer to pay for his room at Cedarberry Inn? I know his finances are very tight. Gas money? Jack has written over 30 books, is a fine musician and he was a personal and close friend of Don Wandrei's. As some of you remember he did come down last year with his grandson. His friend Leona drove them here. Jack has Parkinson's so it was a big deal to make the trip to and from St. Paul in one day. Let me know what you think?   Kay

I don't know how far you are into this coming October's Derleth gathering programming, but if you are in need of someone to give a talk, I would be glad to give an informal lecture on Donald Wandrei (especially his latter years) focusing on my memories and notes of our 15 year friendship. I would think much of this material would show a side of Don most people didn't see very often, and I could even throw in his little spat with August and Arkham House without going deeply into it. When I think about it, this would be a talk on August as well. I could give a talk, or give an illustrated lecture with slides, using many of the vintage images (and others) of what I have shown you. If you have a full itinerary, that's fine, too--this isn't something I am compelled to do.

I went through another photo album of the 1970s and sent Leona home with another stack of photos to scan for me so I can send them to thee. Gosh but there are people in there I don't remember. From what I can remember, I should later this week be sending you photos of the following folks from the old pulp area: More Wandrei, Bloch, Counselman, Jacobi, Price as well as others such as Jack Williamson, Fritz Leiber, Evangeline Walton, Manly Wade Wellman, Francis Garfield (Mrs. Wellman, who sold five stories to Weird Tales), Raymond B. Nixon (he was in the United Amateur with HPL and corresponded with Lovecraft in and out of print and debated with HPL over the temperance issue, Nixon, of course, in favor of alcohol), Oliver Saari, Ted Roemer, Jon Arfstrom, and others.