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Doyle, Stacy L.

  • Person
  • 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.

Drake, David

  • Person

David Drake is a well-known author, actor, director, and playwright. He is best known for authoring and performing in "The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me", a story about a man discovering more about his sexuality while simultaneously addressing the AIDS crisis in the 1980s. His work won numerous prestigious awards. He has appeared in many short films, films, and TV series. He also serves as the Artistic Director at the Provincetown Theater.

Dugan, Haynes W.

  • Person
  • 1913-2007

Lieutenant Haynes Webster Dugan was born March 23, 1913, in Sherman, Texas. He graduated from Texas A&M in 1934 and received his master's degree in Journalism in 1936.

Haynes Dugan was commissioned a second lieutenant and served in WWII as a public relations officer under General George S. Patton along with many other influential military leaders. He received the Bronze Star along with other medals for valiant leadership from Pearl Harbor to VJ Day. Dugan served as the historian for the 3rd Armored Division and assisted in archives for the 3rd Armored Division in Illinois. He wrote many books on WWII, including On My Way to the Cemetery.

Dugan passed away on February 6, 2007, in Shreveport, LA.

Dunn, Richard J., 1881-1961

  • Person
  • 1881-1961

Lieutenant Colonel Richard Jay Dunn was the Texas A&M College band conductor from 1924-1946. He created many of the Fighting Texas Aggie Band Sheet music including: “The Aggie War Hym” and “Spirit of Aggieland.” Richard J. Dunn studied music from a young age. Later, Richard J. Dunn attended for four years at School of Music at Frank T. Benjamin School in Philadelphia. Richard Jay Dunn enlisted as a bugler in the United States Army and fought during the Spanish-American War. He became bandmaster in the Spanish-American war serving two years in Cuba. Richard Jay Dunn was transferred to the Marine Band in Washington. Colonel Richard Jay Dunn was promoted to Lieutenant in 1918. After his retirement from the army, Colonel Richard Jay Dunn played first Cello with the Indianapolis Peoples Symphony Orchestra under Dr. Paulson. Richard Jay Dunn became headmaster of the Texas A&M Band in 1924. He was a member of the Texas Music Teachers Association and Texas Band Teacher’s Association. Richard J. Dunn died at the age of 80 in Bryan, TX in June 4, 1961.

Dunsany, Lord Edward

  • Person
  • 1878-1957

An important contributor to fantastic literature, Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany (1878-1957), was an Irish writer, born in London. His works ranged from fantasy to drama to poetry to science fiction to autobiography. Dunsany is often cited as having been a major influence on many writers and artists, including J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, H.P. Lovecraft, Robert Howard, Michael Moorcock, and Neil Gaiman.

His most famous works in the fantasy genre include the 1912 anthology of stories The Book of Wonder and the 1924 novel The King of Elfland's Daughter.

Easterwood, Jesse L., 1888-1919

  • Person

Jesse Lawrence Easterwood (1888-1919), known as "Red,"a veteran World War I aviator, and pioneer in military aviation, was born 5 Dec. 1888 in Wills Point, Tex. In 1905, he enrolled in Texas A & M College, now Texas A & M University, as a member of B Company Infantry. Very popular with the other cadets, Easterwood also played second base on the college baseball team.

Easterwood left college in 1909 to become a businessman in Mexia, Tex. In 1917, however, on the day the United States declared war on Germany, Easterwood sold his business and volunteered as an aviator. He received his early training at Pensacola, Fla., and was one of the very first Americans to qualify as a naval aviator. He served as an instructor at Pensacola briefly, then was transferred to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for engineering training.

On 12 March 1918 Easterwood set sail for Europe with the first group of American pilots going overseas to serve in World War I. During his tour with the Royal Flying Service, flying one of the first ten Handley-Page bombers, Easterwood completed 16 missions deep behind German lines. He also served with the French air force and the Italian air force, ferrying the first Caprioni bomber from Italy to France.

Surviving World War I, after many perilous missions, Easterwood remained with the U. S. Navy, flying experimental airmail flights. By 1919, having achieved the rank of lieutenant, Easterwood was transferred to Coco Solo, in the Panama Canal Zone. Preferring to fly the planes in his unit which had the worst mechanical problems himself, Easterwood was killed 16 May 1919 while attempting the emergency landing of such a plane with severe engine trouble.

Easterwood was awarded the Navy Cross posthumously, for his heroism during World War I.

Texas A & M University also sponsored a tribute paid to Easterwood's memory. At the urging of Easterwood's high school friend from Wills, Tex., Gibb Gilchrist, who had established a Department of Aeronautical Engineering during his first year (1937) as dean of the School of Engineering at the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, the new college flying field in College Station, Tex. was dedicated as the "Jesse L. Easterwood Airport" 22 May 1941. Developed first as a facility for insituting a flight-training program at Texas A & M University, the airport was later expanded to serve major carriers to and from Dallas/Fort Worth, Tex. and Houston, Tex. airports.

Edgley, Gigi, 1977-

  • Person
  • 1977-

Gigi Edgley is an Australian actress, singer, songwriter, and performer, born in Perth on November 16, 1977. A frequent guest at science fiction conventions around the world, Edgley is probably best known for her role as the streetwise and insoucient Nebari fugitive Chiana, who joins the fugitive crew of the ship Moya in the Australian-American television show Farscape (1999-2003). She is the daughter of theatre, concert and circus promoter Michael Edgley, known for bringing the Moscow State Circus to Australia during the 1980s. Edgley, experienced in ballet, jazz, and character dance became interested in acting and had her first professional theatrical engagement at the Twelfth Night Theatre. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the Queensland University of Technology in 1998.

Edgley's first acting role was in the Australian TV minseries The Day of the Roses in 1998. Since that debut she has appeared in a number of films and television shows, perhaps most notably as one of the lead actors in the Nine Network medical drama Rescue: Special Ops (2009-2011). Edgley has also been a regular lead cast member in several other television shows, including The Secret Life of Us in 2003 and Stingers in 2004. In addition, her Farscape role allowed her the opportunity to host the 2014 SyFy show Jim Henson's Creature Shop Challenge.

She is an active singer and songwriter, having starred in and directed several music videos. Edgley has been nominated for a number of awards over her career, including the Film’s Critic’s Circle of Australia nomination for Best Lead Actress in the feature Last Train To Freo, the SyFy Genre Award for Best Supporting Actress, the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Television Series, and the Maxim Award for Sexiest Space Babe (all three of these for Farscape).

Edgley currently resides in West Hollywood, CA, is married, and has one child, her daughter Skye. More information about Edgley can be found at http://www.gigiedgley.com/.

Effinger, George Alec

  • Person
  • 1947-2002

George Alec Effinger was born in Cleveland Ohio January 10, 1947, and died April 27, 2002. His writing career started with attendance at the Clarion Workshop in 1970, and his first publication in 1971. His first novel was a Nebula award nominee. He received a Nebula Award and Hugo Award for best novelette, for "Schroedinger's Kitten". John K. Diomede was a pseudonym.

Eklund, Gordon

  • Person
  • 1945-

Gordon Eklund was born July 24, 1945, in Seattle, WA. Eklund attended Contra Costa College, and work in various jobs before turning to full-time writing in 1968. Eklund has carried on an active career in both the SF pulps and in novels. His novels were well-regarded. He later turned to Star Trek novels and novelizations.

Gordon Eklund was born in Seattle, WA on July 24, 1945. He attended Contra Costa College in San Pablo, CA, and embarked on his writing career in 1968. His first published work was the story "Dear Aunt Annie", which was released in the April 1970 issue of Fantastic Stories, the story was nominated for the 1971 Nebula Award for Best Novelette. Since that time he has written some 20 novels and a great many short stories. His 1978 Star Trek novel The Starless World was one of the first works of science fiction to utilize the scientific concept of the 'Dyson Sphere'.

In addition to his 1971 Nebula nomination and his numerous other award nominations, Eklund won the 1975 Nebula for Best Novelette for "If The Stars Are Gods" (co-written with Gregory Benford).

Elrod, P. N. (Patricia Nead)

  • Person
  • 1951-

Patricia Nead Elrod (1951-) is an editor and a writer, who has written over twenty-five novels in the urban fantasy genre, most of them involving vampires. Her series include Jonathan Barrett, Gentleman Vampire (4 books, 1993-1996); The Vampire Files (20 books, 1990-2010); and, with Nigel Bennett, Richard Dun (3 books, 1997-2004). She has also written numerous short stories, and co-authored (with Roxanne Conrad) the nonfiction work Stepping Through the Stargate: Science, Archaeology and the Military in Stargate.

Estelle, W.J., 1931

  • Person

W. J. Estelle, Jr. was born March 31, 1931, in Henry County, Indiana. Soon after, however, the Estelles moved to California, where Mr. Estelle spent most of his childhood. Following high school, Mr. Estelle attended Sacramento State College and received a B. A. in Police Science and Correctional Administration. He went on to do graduate work in criminology at the University of California-Berkeley and at Sam Houston State University.

Mr. Estelle's first job was with the California Department of Corrections. In eighteen years, his positions ranged from correctional officer to associate warden, and he worked in nearly every area from reception to maximum security. His employment experience also included five years as a field parole officer, two years as Warden of the Montana State Prison, and some experience in teaching correctional administration at two California colleges. Mr. Estelle was also a member of several criminal justice associations and he served as vice-president of both the Association of State Correctional Administrators and the American Correctional Association.

In September 1972, Mr. Estelle accepted a position as Director of the Texas Department of Corrections. In 1983, he left to accept a position as president of a bank in Consol, Texas. A year later, Mr. Estelle returned to California, where he has lived ever since. He is presently working in the Industrial Division of the California Department of Corrections in Sacramento.

Eudaly, Rhonda

  • Person
  • 1969-

Rhonda Eudaly is an active fixture on the Texas science fiction & fantasy scene, known not only for her (frequently but not always) comedic writings, her volunteer work at genre conventions, and her con performances as one of the Four Redheads of the Apocalypse. Eudaly's publishing debut was the short story "The Pack", published in the 2003 Yard Dog Press anthology More Stories That Won't Make Your Parents Hurl. Since then she has published in a number of different anthologies and collections, including her own collections When the Party's Over: Fairy Tale Reality Endings (2010), "Please Sir, May I Have Some More?: A Collection of Orphaned Speculative Fiction Stories (2011), and The Astronaut Stole My Sharpie and Other Stories (2019). She wrote the story "Operators Are Standing By" for the 2013 anthology Rayguns Over Texas, edited by Rick Klaw and featuring many writers from the Texas SF scene.

In 2015 Eudaly released her first novel, Tarbox Station (Yard Dog Press), a space opera/murder mystery set aboard the eponymous space station and containing strong elements of Star Trek. Her 2021 novella Vagabond (Zumaya Outworlds) tells the story of a rock band thrust into a dystopian future where music is strictly regulated by the government; the members of Vagabond find themselves teaming up with an underground all-female band called Outcast in a rebellion to save those persecuted by this autocratic regime.

Since 2006, Eudaly has also co-created a series of comedic supernatural stories called Redheads of the Apocalypse, built around the adventures (and misadventures) of the wives of/replacements for the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. With her collaborators Linda L. Donahue, Julia S. Mandala, and Dusty Rainbolt, Eudaly not only writes stories in this series but performs at cons in skits featuring the Redheads. (She performs as Zoe, the widow of Death.) These performances are only the most visible part of Eudaly's participation in regional cons, where she frequently appears as a panelist as well as works behind the scenes as a volunteer organizer and conrunner (as does her husband Jimmy Simpson).

In her professional life, Eudaly worked from 2014-2022 as a planning analyst for the Ciry of Dallas' Office of Emergency Management.

Eudaly maintains a website, entitled "The Plot Bunnies Ate My Brain", at https://www.rhondaeudaly.com/, where she writes on not only her life and work, but her very strong opinions about different varieties of pens. Eudaly currently lives in Arlington, TX, near Dallas.

Everett, Edward

  • Person
  • 1818-1903

Edward Everett, soldier, military clerk, illustrator, and cartographer (also nephew and namesake of the Unitarian Minister and Gettysburg orator Edward Everett), was born in London, England March 31, 1818. In 1840, his father, Charles Everett, a successful import/export dealer in London, relocated the family to Quincy, Illinois. By his twenties, Edward Everett had already shown an exemplary aptitude for drawing, mechanics, chemistry, and engineering.

In 1843, with his brother, Charles Everett, Jr., Edward Everett joined the famed Quincy Riflemen, led by James Morgan, to challenge the growing Mormon stronghold in the Illinois area. He and his brother fought in the battle of Nauvoo, the last anti-Mormon armed conflict. A few days after war was declared against Mexico (1846) the Everett brothers, along with others of the Quincy Riflemen, which had been mustered out of state service, joined the United States service and were transferred to the Texas-Mexico border.

As a soldier for the U. S. Army in the Mexican War, Edward Everett served as a peace-keeper and member of Company A, First Illinois Volunteers. Soon after arriving in South Texas, however, after a forced march of 150 miles from outside New Orleans, to reach San Antonio de Bexar in order to guard stores left there, Everett was severely wounded. On September 11, 1846, while acting in his role as sergeant of the patrol guard, to arrest a man inciting a riot in the town, Everett was shot in the knee, a wound that eventually left him crippled. Unable to continue on with his regiment under Brigadier General John E. Wool to Saltillo, Everett was confined to the military tent hospital in San Antonio, and thereafter declared permanently disabled from active military service.

Everett began writing about Texas and Mexico in letters to his brother Samuel W. Everett back home in Illinois, and in his journals, while he was recuperating from his wound. Everett continued recording his observations after being re-assigned as Assistant Quartermaster for Captain James Harvey Ralston, a position Everett held during the remainder of the war. Everett notes that, in his role as a clerk, furloughed from active duties as a soldier, he had a unique vantage point from which to observe the culture and events around him, and ample opportunity to employ his innate ability to communicate with words and illustrations. As an accountant for the quartermaster, Everett also wrote many official reports, and his skill in presenting a clear narrative is evident in the papers.

During this period, Everett produced many fine illustrations of the Spanish mission buildings in the area, including the Alamo Mission buildings. The memoir included in the papers gives a particularly immediate account of the Alamo buildings' decay and attempts in the spring of 1847 at renovating them for an army store depot and officers' workshops. For example, Everett also illustrated his account with a lively pen and ink vignette of a bat hanging onto whatever it could find, after being so disturbed.

Edward Everett married Mary A. Billings of Quincy, Ill. October 7, 1857, the sister of a Unitarian minister. After his retirement in 1859 from active duty in the military, Everett worked as chief clerk in Washington, and later, during the Civil War, became Illinois Assistant Quartermaster, earning the rank of Major. In his later life, he apparently also illustrated several articles on Hawaii and other places to which he and his wife traveled. He died July 24, 1903, in Roxbury, Mass., and is buried in Boston, Mass. in Forest Hills Cemetery.

Eversmeyer, Arden

  • Person
  • 1931-2022

Jean Arden Eversmeyer, born in 1931, is a long-time resident of Houston, a graduate of Texas State College of Women (1951), and a life-long lesbian. She spent several decades improving the lives of her fellow citizens including serving 23 years working at the Houston Zoological Gardens and serving 6 years as the Mayor's appointee to the Area Agency on Aging.

She helped form LOAF, Lesbians Over age Fifty, a social network designed to ensure a safe environment for mid-life and old lesbians. In 1998 Arden began collecting oral history interviews done with lesbians 70 and older, this initiative grew into a very successful and impressive contribution to the LGBTQ community, this is now known as the Old Lesbian Oral Herstory Project (OLOHP). Over 600 of these oral stories are now archived in the Sophia Smith Collection at Smith College in Northampton, MA. She also donated much of her personal library of lesbian books, music, videos, and memorabilia to the Texas A&M University Libraries. Arden continued for the remainder of her life to serve as the Project's Director,until she passed away in November 2022.

Farmer, Philip

  • Person
  • 1918-2009

Philip Jose Farmer was born in North Terre Haute, IN, on January 26, 1918. He was raised in Peoria, IL, where he attended Bradley University and graduated with a B.A. in English in 1950.

Although Farmer worked as a technical writer from 1956-1970, he began his science fiction writing career in 1952, when his story "The Lovers" was published by Startling Stories. "The Lovers" was notable at the time for featuring a sexual relationship between a human and an alien, and it caused Farmer to be awarded a Hugo Award as "most promising new writer" (the first of three Hugos for him). The story is considered by many to have broken the existing taboo on featuring sex in science fiction.

Over the next several decades, Farmer built up an impressive career in science fiction literature. Among his most notable works are his novel cycles Riverworld and World of Tiers. The former chronicles the adventures of a number of characters (most of them real historical figures) through a strange afterlife in which every human ever to have lived is simultaneously resurrected along a single river valley that stretches over an entire planet. The series began in 1971 with the novel To Your Scattered Bodies Go (which won the Hugo for Best Novel in 1972), and continued through four more books, concluding in 1983 with Gods of Riverworld. The World of Tiers series (7 books, 1965-1991) concerns series of artificially-constructed universes, created and ruled by decadent beings (called Lords, or Thoans) who are genetically identical to humans, but who regard themselves as superior, and who the inheritors of an advanced technology they no longer understand.

Other memorable works of Farmer's include Riders of the Purple Wage (1967), a novella-length pastiche of Joyce's Finnegan's Wake which won Farmer his second Hugo Award; Venus On The Half-Shell (1975), which Farmer wrote under the pseudonym "Kilgore Trout", a character name used originally by Kurt Vonnegut; A Barnstormer in Oz (1982), an adult sequel to L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz that tells the adventures in Oz of Dorothy Gale's grown son; and the Dayworld series (1985-1990), among many, many others.

Farmer is also noted for his body of novels and stories involving pulp heroes of the early 20th century, including Tarzan and Doc Savage. In this vein, Farmer helped pioneer the concept of crossover fiction by formulating what became known as the "Wold Newton" Universe. In the history of this universe, a meteorite fell to Earth near the English town of Wold Newton in 1795 (a real-life event). The meteorite emitted a strange form of radiation that caused genetic mutations in the occupants of a passing coach. Many of the affected individuals' descendants became endowed with extremely high intelligence and strength, in the context of the Wold Newton Universe, these exceptional individuals- as expanded on both by Farmer and by later authors working in this universe, have included such characters as Tarzan, Doc Savage, Phileas Fogg, Sherlock Holmes, and Professor James Moriarty, Lord Peter Wimsey, Allan Quartermain, Professor James Challenger, the Scarlet Pimpernel, the Shadow, Sam Spade, Nero Wolfe, Philip Marlowe, James Bond, and Fu Manchu as well as his adversary Denis Neyland-Smith.

Over the course of his career, in addition to his three Hugo Awards, Farmer also won the 2000 Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award as well as the 2001 World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement. He was nominated for an additional three Hugos, two Nebula Awards, and a Locus Award.

Philip Jose Farmer died in Peoria, IL on February 25, 2009.

Fenner, James H.

  • Person

Reverend James H. Fenner was the campus pastor at Texas A&M University from 1964 through 1970. He is currently retired and living in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

Fortune, Gwendoline Y.

  • Person
  • 1926-2014

Dr. Gwendoline Alpha Young Fortune , novelist, teacher, and singer, was born on September 27, 1926, in Houston, TX to Georgia Mitti McCain, pharmacist ,and William Hermon Young, physician and son of Harbison president Rev. Calvin Monroe Young. Gwendoline moved from Texas and lived in the Carolinas, Illinois, and Florida; additionally, she traveled extensively over five continents. She was a life long educator, classically trained soprano, writer, and winner of many awards. Gwendoline held a Doctor of Education, Masters of Philosophy and Science, and Bachelors of Science.

She studied voice, clarinet, and piano at Juilliard at age 14. She went on to be a beloved teacher at the elementary, secondary, and college levels. Since retiring, she published three novels: Growing Up Nigger Rich, Family Lines, and Noni and the Great Grands, with an additional memoir Outsider in the Promised Land to be published posthumously. Dr. Fortune died in Gainesville, Fl on July 27, 2014.

Foster, Alan D.

  • Person
  • 1946-

Alan Dean Foster was born November 18, 1946, in New York. Foster has a degree in Political Science and a Master of Fine Arts in Cinema. His writing career began in 1968, with his first novel appearing in 1972. Foster received the Galaxy Award in 1979 and the Southwest Book Award for Fiction in 1990. A collection of Foster materials and manuscripts is held by Special Collections, Arizona State University, Tempe.

Fox, Janet

  • Person
  • 1940-2009

Janet Fox was a long-time writer of fantasy and horror short stories. She had stories published in such magazines and anthologies as Year's Best Horror, Year's Best Fantasy, Twilight Zone Magazine, 100 Fiendish Little Frightmares and Sword and Sorceress, as well as many small press publications. Under the pen name Alex McDonough, she wrote five novels in the Scorpio series published by Ace Books.

Foy, Victor H.

  • Person

Victor H. Foy was the president of the A&M class of 1902. He served as the class agent to the class of 1902 in the Association of Former students from around 1944-1948. Victor Foy was the 1941 President of the Dallas of 1902. In 1944, he played a large part in organizing the first newsletter of the Class of 1902, called "The Naughty-Two'er". He also helped with gathering donations from his fellow class members for the Development Fund. In 1942 he helped to organize the 40th Anniversary Reunion of the Class of 1902. He attended the 1946 Victory Homecoming. Along with the class of 1902, he helped organize and attended the "Sul Ross Reunion" of 1947. Victor Foy also donated his time in helping with various Musters of both the Dallas A&M Club and A&M as a whole.

Frank, Susan

  • Person
  • 1948-

Susan Frank was born in 1948 and grew up in Woods Hole, on Cape Cod, MA. She graduated from Smith College in 1970, attended the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill for two years, and received a doctorate in Religious Studies from Temple University in 1990. Frank was a librarian for many years at Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in Wyncote, PA.

Frank came to Klingon fandom in the late 1980s, when she first became aware of the phenomenon. As an active fan, Frank founded the long-running Klingon-themed fanzine Agonizer and has been a member of several different fan clubs, including the Klingon Assault Group, the Klingon Strike Force, Clan Makura on KlingonSpace, The Empire, and the Ring of Fire Fleet. She has also, as have many fans, adopted an individual fannish persona - Admiral (Retired) Kishin vestai-Rustadz, of clan Shawan.

As a fan, Frank enthusiastically engaged in the same creative passions that drive many of her fellow fans. As a librarian, Frank was naturally drawn towards collecting and organizing many of the written and other materials produced by fans. Although Frank has ceased her active collecting (due to increased online activity among Klingon fans that has reduced the output of physical materials), she still remains an active and enthusiastic fan and a follower based in Philadelphia, PA.

Frye, Phyllis Randolph

  • Person

Phyllis Randolph Frye is an Eagle Scout, a former member of the Texas A&M Corps of Cadets, a US Army veteran (1LT-RA 1970-72), a licensed engineer, a licensed attorney, a father, a grandmother and a lesbian wife. She is the first, out, transgender judge in the nation. Now having lived almost sixty percent of her life as the woman she always felt herself to be, Phyllis remains on the cutting edge of LGBTI and especially transgender legal and political issues. When the “gay” community was still ignoring or marginalizing the transgender community in the early 1990s, Phyllis began the national transgender legal and political movement (thus she is known as being the Grandmother of the national transgender legal and political movement) with the six annual transgender law conferences (ICTLEP) and their grassroots training. Attorney Frye is one of the Task Force’s 1995 “Creator of Change” award winners. In 1999 she was given the International Foundation for Gender Education’s “Virginia Prince Lifetime Achievement” award. In 2001 she was given the National LGBT Bar Association’s (a.k.a. Lavender Law’s) highest honor, the “Dan Bradley Award.” She was honored beginning in 2009 by Texas A&M University with an annual “Advocacy Award” given in her name. In 2013 the Houston Transgender Unity Committee gave her its “Lifetime Achievement Award.” In 2015 she was given the National Center for Transgender Equality’s “Julie Johnson Founders Award.” That same year, Phyllis was featured on the front page (above the fold) of the Sunday Edition, August 30, New York Times, and she also became a Life Member of the National Eagle Scout Association. In 2010, Phyllis was sworn-in as the first, out, transgender judge in the nation, as a City of Houston Associate Municipal Judge. She retains her senior partnership with Frye, Oaks, Benavidez & O’Neil, PLLC (at www.liberatinglaw.com) which is an out LGBTI-and-straight-allies law firm. While the members of the firm practice law in a variety of areas, Phyllis devotes her practice exclusively to taking transgender clients -- both adults and minors -- through the Texas courts to change the clients’ names and genders on their legal documents.

Fuller, Roy

  • Person
  • 1912-1991

British poet and novelist, Roy Broadbent Fuller was born in Failsworth, Lancashire 11 February 1912. After the death of their father, Roy Fuller and his brother, along with their mother, Nellie Broadbent Fuller, moved to Blackpool. Admitted as a solicitor in 1934, he then married Kathleen Smith in 1936. With their young son and only child, John Fuller, the couple moved to London just before the outbreak of World War II. There, Roy Fuller joined the Woolwich Equitable Building Society, a home-mortgage company, with whom he remained until his retirement in 1987. Fuller left the Woolwich for military duty during World War II, from 1941-1946, when he served as a Lieutenant with the Royal Navy, first as a radar mechanic in Kenya, then as a radio and radar officer at the Admiralty. As soon as the war ended and he was demobilized, Fuller returned to the Woolwich, rising from Assistant Solicitor to Solicitor to the Society (1958-1969), and finally to Director (1969-1987).

The influence of William Wordsworth, Hugh Wystan Auden, and to some extent Alexander Pope, was apparent in Fuller's earliest published poetry, Poems (London: Fortune, 1939). Though Poems spoke to the fear and tension engendered by the Spanish Civil War, Fuller's next two books of poetry, The Middle of a War (London: Hogarth Press, 1944), and A Lost Season (London: Hogarth Press,1944) are refreshed and informed more by his own war experiences, particularly the less glamorous aspects of tedium, and shortages suffered by most of the civilian population in England at the time. Fuller credited the discipline of military life with the precision and complex structure of this more mature poetic style. The time Fuller spent in East Africa was particularly valuable in providing time to write and new experiences to explore, especially those of a generally urbane and family-oriented Englishman faced with the possibilities of violence and early death, the persistence of loneliness for loved ones and well-known scenes, and the ever-present vicissitudes of difficult and often boring war-time travel. Africa's influence on Fuller was profound, as evidenced in several poems from A Lost Season. Fuller's sense of war's darkness was highlighted by the exotic and primal aspects of the African landscape. As one of the most significant of the World War II English poets, Fuller spoke in a more studied manner, and with the voice of the home-front denizen, rather than that of the fighting man.

After the end of World War II and his demobilization, Fuller continued writing and publishing important poetry, but he also turned to write fiction, including Savage Gold (1946), a collection of boy's adventure tales, which also draws on the author's fascination with Kenya, and With My Little Eye (1948), a work on crime detection. Subsequent to the immediate postwar lull in literary activity, English poets by the 1950s seemed to coalesce into a group eventually called The Movement. This group was generally dedicated to robust and ironic poems, forthright in tone, and often intricate in versification. Before the war, Fuller's work had already become famous for these very characteristics; thus, he emerged as both The Movement's father figure and a link between English poetry of the 1930s and 1950s. Other poets in The Movement included Philip Larkin, Donald Davie, D.J. Enright, Elizabeth Jennings, and Thom Gunn. Two important anthologies of these poets' work including poems by Fuller, New Lines: an Anthology, and New Lines II, were edited by Robert Conquest and published by Macmillian in 1956 and 1963 respectively. During this interesting period of English literary development, Fuller published two more verse collections and four novels.

Noteworthy among Fuller's postwar works are three books of poetry. Epitaphs and Occasions (1949) owed much to 18th-century poetry's assertion of civilization's need for balance in viewpoint and poetic style, as well as complexity and integrity of poetic execution. Counterparts (1954); and Brutus's Orchard (1957) presented Fuller's wry honesty and increasingly more assertively dramatic poetic voice, recalling the classical literary influences propounded by the 18th-century poets themselves. Again Wordsworth's influence was also noticeable. By 1962, when Fuller's Collected Poems: 1936-1961 appeared, he was acknowledged as one of the leading poets of the post-Auden generation. Buff (1965) contained the third sonnet sequence published by Fuller, and New Poems (1968) won the Duff Cooper Memorial Prize. Not as romantic as Dylan Thomas or George Barker, Fuller persistently grew as a poet and by the end of his career possessed a dryly witty, ironic and dramatic style, always humane and honest in its evaluation of the writer himself, as well as the society in which he lived and to which he owed his best efforts as a citizen of the world.

Not only a poet and novelist but a formidable civic servant, Fuller served as the Vice-President of the Buildings Societies Association (1969-1987); a Governor of the BBC (1972-1979); member of the Arts Council (1976-1977); Member of the Library Advisory Council for England (1977-1979). Other awards and honors included the Queen's Medal for Poetry (1970); the Cholmondeley Award, Society of Authors (1980); and an honorary D.Litt., University of Kent (1986). Fuller's autobiography was published over the course of several years in several volumes; Souvenirs (1980); Vamp Till Ready (1982); Home and Dry (1984); The Strange and the Good: Complete Memoirs (1989). Roy Fuller died in Blackheath, London September 27, 1991.

Bibliography
Austin, Allan E. "Roy (Broadbent) Fuller," in Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 20: British Poets, 1914-1945. A Bruccoli Clark Layman Book. Edited by Donald E. Stanford, Louisiana State University. The Gale Group, 1983, pp. 132-140.

Gailey, Jeannine Hall, 1973-

  • Person
  • 1973-

Jeannine Hall Gailey was born on April 30, 1973, at the Yale University Hospital in New Haven, Connecticut. She spent her childhood in Los Angeles and Oak Ridge, and her teenage and early college years in Cincinnati, before moving to Virginia, Seattle, and California. Her first degree was a B.S. in pre-med Biology; her second was an M.A. in English, both from the University of Cincinnati. She learned to program a simple computer game when she was seven years old on her father's TRS-80; this probably led to her early career, for a dozen years, as a technical writer, and then a manager of technical writers, for such companies as AT&T and Microsoft. She then returned to college to get her M.F.A at Pacific University in Oregon, and she published her first book of poetry, Becoming the Villainess, at the age of 32.

Gailey works as a poetry book reviewer and has volunteered at many Seattle-area magazines, including Seattle Review, Raven Chronicles, and Crab Creek Review. In 2012-2013, she served as the second Poet Laureate for Redmond, Washington, where her motto was "geeks for poetry, poetry for geeks." In addition to her many works published in poetry journals and elsewhere, she is the author of five books of poetry: Becoming the Villainess, She Returns to the Floating World, Unexplained Fevers, The Robot Scientist's Daughter (2015), and Field Guide to the End of the World (2016). This last work won the 2015 Moon City Press Book Prize for Poetry and the 2017 Elgin Award from the Science Fiction Poetry Association. Her latest book of poetry, Flare, Corona, was published in April 2023 by BOA Editions as #201 in the "American Poets Continuum Series".

She has won a number of awards for her work, including a 2011 Florida Publishers Association Prize for Poetry (for _She Returns to the Floating World),_which was also a finalist for the 2012 Eric Hoffer Montaigne Medal. She was awarded the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prize in 2007 and again in 2011. Gailey also won "Honorable Mention" in the 2008 Mainichi Haiku Contest. Several of Gailey's poems have been included in major genre anthologies, which include _The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 2007_and The Year's Best Horror, Volume Six(2014).

Gailey counts among the most influential works on her writing Grimm's Fairy Tales, the Bible, and the works of Margaret Atwood, Kelly Link, AS Byatt, and Haruki Murakami; as well as comic books from the mid-eighties, and Hayao Miyazaki's anime classics. She currently resides in Redmond, Washington, with her husband, cats, and a teeming collection of out-of-print Andrew Lang fairy books, comics, and poetry books.

Garcia, Lionel G., 1935

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Lionel Garcia was born in San Diego, Texas, on August the 20th, 1935, deep in the barren brush country. He was raised in an extended family filled with colorful characters which included his parents, grandparents, siblings, aunts and uncles and transient relatives-close and distant, who came in and out of his grandmother's house without warning. He was affected deeply by the Hispanic story telling tradition. Most of his work is about the Mexican American experience in deep south Texas brush country, an area so different and unique that is still part United States and Mexico, an area of a mixture of Catholicism and witchcraft in which nothing thrives except plants with thorns and animals with fangs.

During his early years he was sent to live with his grandfather who worked on a remote ranch far in the scrub. There they tended goats and a few cows and struggled to raise whatever little crops the weather would allow. To this day he can hear the cowbells ring at night, hence the title of his fictionalized autobiography, I Can Hear the Cowbells Ring.

He began writing in grammar school. His first published stories were in 1956 in a literary magazine at Texas A&M University, from which he graduated. His award winning stories have dealt mostly with Mexican American life in the United States.

As a child of the Great Depression, his philosophy and attitudes are shaped by the strength, love and loyalty he experienced in the face of extreme poverty and prejudice. He inherited his sense of humor from his strong family who managed to confront and solve problems of monumental proportions with common sense and total acceptance.

In 1983, he was asked to read from his works at a bohemian coffee house in Houston. The response was so positive that he is now in demand nation-wide as a reader and speaker before a wide range of audiences--from literary and corporate groups to kindergartners. He captures audiences with engaging stories laced with generous helpings of humor and wisdom which makes for an immediate connection with his audience.

He is married to Noemi Barrera and has three children, Rose, Carlos and Paul. He has one son-in-law, Robert Filteau and a grandson, David, a daughter-in-law, Judi, and a grand-daughter, Jamie. He is a practicing veterinarian and devotes his night time to writing.

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