Comments on: Let There Be Fandom, Part 2: School Days http://www.thewaythefutureblogs.com/2009/09/let-there-be-fandom-part-2-school-days/ Frederik Pohl Wed, 08 Feb 2012 08:40:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Dan Tannenbaum http://www.thewaythefutureblogs.com/2009/09/let-there-be-fandom-part-2-school-days/#comment-35022 Dan Tannenbaum Wed, 29 Sep 2010 14:35:11 +0000 http://www.thewaythefutureblogs.com/?p=1515#comment-35022 When I was a Freshman at Tech in 1969, we started a Science Fiction Club. We even started publishing a little magazine. Tech was a wonderful place. In 1971 (I think) they started admitting girls. That was the icing on the cake! Thanks for your memories! When I was a Freshman at Tech in 1969, we started a Science Fiction Club. We even started publishing a little magazine. Tech was a wonderful place. In 1971 (I think) they started admitting girls. That was the icing on the cake! Thanks for your memories!

]]> By: Chris Evo http://www.thewaythefutureblogs.com/2009/09/let-there-be-fandom-part-2-school-days/#comment-31725 Chris Evo Sat, 31 Jul 2010 05:32:47 +0000 http://www.thewaythefutureblogs.com/?p=1515#comment-31725 I just started reading your blog, and it's great to see one of the greats of the golden age of science fiction is still around to share these great experiences with the world. I hope I can find a way to tell you in person how important your work and that of your contemporaries has been to me, because it's hard to believe that anything I write will ever be able to communicate it sufficiently. It's funny how some of the strangest little coincidences can tie people together. The first story I ever wrote, more then half a century after you and in a different part of the world, was a terrible story about Atlantis created in an eighth grade English class. Granfalloons are one of the best parts of life. These coincidences are so meaningless, but so fun to tease out and compare. I just started reading your blog, and it’s great to see one of the greats of the golden age of science fiction is still around to share these great experiences with the world. I hope I can find a way to tell you in person how important your work and that of your contemporaries has been to me, because it’s hard to believe that anything I write will ever be able to communicate it sufficiently.

It’s funny how some of the strangest little coincidences can tie people together. The first story I ever wrote, more then half a century after you and in a different part of the world, was a terrible story about Atlantis created in an eighth grade English class. Granfalloons are one of the best parts of life. These coincidences are so meaningless, but so fun to tease out and compare.

]]> By: Robert Trabulsi http://www.thewaythefutureblogs.com/2009/09/let-there-be-fandom-part-2-school-days/#comment-26979 Robert Trabulsi Mon, 17 May 2010 23:37:21 +0000 http://www.thewaythefutureblogs.com/?p=1515#comment-26979 I was a student at P S 9. Maude Mahlman was my 8th grade teacher. I lived directly accross the street at( now gone) 703 Vanderbilt Ave. I think this was apx 1937'38 ? There is not a week that passes without my thinking about Maude. I visited her many years later at her Brownstone apt. in Park Slope. Dr. Corey was the pricipal Mr. Block was the Shop teacher Would really like to hear from you: Bob Trabulsi I was a student at P S 9. Maude Mahlman was my 8th grade
teacher. I lived directly accross the street at( now gone)
703 Vanderbilt Ave. I think this was apx 1937’38 ?

There is not a week that passes without my thinking about
Maude. I visited her many years later at her Brownstone
apt. in Park Slope.

Dr. Corey was the pricipal
Mr. Block was the Shop teacher

Would really like to hear from you: Bob Trabulsi

]]> By: Mark Morris http://www.thewaythefutureblogs.com/2009/09/let-there-be-fandom-part-2-school-days/#comment-7452 Mark Morris Wed, 30 Sep 2009 02:26:51 +0000 http://www.thewaythefutureblogs.com/?p=1515#comment-7452 Mr. Pohl, I really enjoy reading these stories. These reminiscences about the past are so fascinating. Life was so different back then when you were a kid. I am forty eight years old and it amazes me how much has changed in thirty years. I read your autobiography and enjoyed it too. Mr. Pohl,

I really enjoy reading these stories. These reminiscences about the past are so fascinating. Life was so different back then when you were a kid.
I am forty eight years old and it amazes me how much has changed in thirty years.
I read your autobiography and enjoyed it too.

]]> By: Stefan Jones http://www.thewaythefutureblogs.com/2009/09/let-there-be-fandom-part-2-school-days/#comment-7409 Stefan Jones Mon, 28 Sep 2009 17:49:24 +0000 http://www.thewaythefutureblogs.com/?p=1515#comment-7409 Good entry, and I hope to read more like it. It's interesting to read how, at least in places like NYC, there have been "magnet schools" for going on a century. (My cousins went to the Stuvuysant braniac school . . . I'm guessing that was too far for you?) Good entry, and I hope to read more like it.

It’s interesting to read how, at least in places like NYC, there have been “magnet schools” for going on a century. (My cousins went to the Stuvuysant braniac school . . . I’m guessing that was too far for you?)

]]> By: Faith Mikelsons http://www.thewaythefutureblogs.com/2009/09/let-there-be-fandom-part-2-school-days/#comment-7404 Faith Mikelsons Mon, 28 Sep 2009 12:53:17 +0000 http://www.thewaythefutureblogs.com/?p=1515#comment-7404 Fred, old friend and neighbor from Hance Rd in NJ stopping by to say hello. I haven't seen you since the Science Fiction Convention in Boston like late 60s', early 70s' And the party afterwards was great. faith fmikelsons@yahoo.com Fred, old friend and neighbor from Hance Rd in NJ stopping by to say hello.

I haven’t seen you since the Science Fiction Convention in Boston like late 60s’, early 70s’ And the party afterwards was great.

faith

fmikelsons@yahoo.com

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