Person

Doyle, Stacy L.

1961-2014

Stacy L. Doyle was a beloved figure in the science fiction fan community. She was born to Leo and Betty Doyle on December 10, 1961, in San Francisco, and at the age of 3, she moved to Marin County, CA where she spent the remainder of her life.

Her fannish interests included, among other subjects, Star Trek, The Man From U.N.C.L.E., Starsky & Hutch (the three shows together make up the vast majority of the fanzines and fanvids in the collection), vidding, and fanfic writing.

The best possible encapsulation of Stacy's life and the light she shined on people, is provided by her great friend Liz Keough in 2015:

"What can I say about Stacy…she was generous of her time, friendly, loving, and a born caregiver.  She was at her happiest when she was helping someone.  It didn’t matter if the help was big or small.  Helping you figure out your new phone, computer or getting your VCR/DVD to talk to your TV or helping you decorate for Halloween or Christmas or helping you move. 

Once she discovered fandom she was in 7th heaven, as they say.  She found she wasn’t the only one into Star Trek, Starsky and Hutch, Man from U.N.C.L.E, and so forth that was just the beginning of her fanish pursuits.  She convinced her Mom to drive her to conventions in Sacramento, yes, she had to be driven, as she didn’t have her driver's license yet.  Once she got it and that freedom it garnered her, she was able to go to local conventions by herself.  As she went to more and more conventions she discovered costumes, zines, and vids!...

We met at a Star Trek club meeting in ’86 when a mutual acquaintance brought me along to join the Trek club. She and I started going to conventions together in ’87 I believe, and it was another Star Trek convention of course.  After that, we started going to fan-run conventions as well as the Creation conventions.  At one fan convention...I believe in ’88 or ‘89 she became fascinated by the music vids that were shown.  She asked many questions about how it was done and then the obsession with VCRs began!  She was determined to make a music vid, and once she got the technique down, there was no stopping her.  Every time her Mom went on vacation she dragged out the VCRs the videotapes, and the music and she went to town.  She had a deadline, the day before her Mom got back the vid had to be done!  It had to be done because she had to put the house back together!  So, with very little sleep and a great deal of determination she made her vids. She got really good too and even sold a few of them under the Vids by the Bay label.

After that, we went to the Starsky and Hutch reunion con, and then Escapade started.  Escapade is now celebrating their 25th year and we have attended 23 of them together...Speaking of Escapades, she learned a lot about vid shows from Kandy Fong when she became her helper.  The two of them produced quite a few of the earlier vid shows...She never lost the love of vids, and for the last 4 years talked about getting back into making them and asked many vidders what kind of computer she should get and what software would be best. She bought the computer and the software just a few months ago; sadly, she never got to do this. She would have made amazing song vids if going from the ones she made using two VCRs was any indication.

During the year 2000, a few of us local fans started talking about doing a local con, seeing how Friscon, the current local con at that time was ending, and we wanted to keep a slash con in the San Francisco Bay Area.  So, Stacy, myself and 10 other women decided to form a committee and check it out…. Hence BASCon was founded. We had our first BASCon in November 2001 and it was a lot of work, but a lot of fun.  Stacy worked on the webpages and the vid show.  She learned a lot about making web pages...  Many years later, she somehow started doing the web pages for KisCon, I’m not sure how that came about, but again, she loved doing it.  It fulfilled her creative juices and kept her brain active.  Inbetween Escapades and BAScon she also helped ConneXions with their vid show...

As you can tell, from the above stories, she loved to be needed and she loved to help people.  Whenever she was asked to help with something, she really didn’t need to know what it was before she said yes to helping...

She had an amazing art gallery in her room.  She had one wall full of Star Trek, a wall of MUNCLE, bits of Starsky and Hutch, NCIS, Highlander, Smallville, Wiseguy, Castle and Sherlock.  She was a fan of fandom through and through. Had a lot of friends, and was loved by a lot of people.  The world of Fandom was better for Stacy being in it.  I wish she were still in it, she is truly gone too soon."

Stacy L. Doyle died unexpectedly on November 21, 2014.