YOUNG FANDOM

from Fancyclopedia 2

The idea of a teen-age fan club was conceived in February '46 by Telis Streiff and Norm Storer, who organized their correspondents and, with help from K Martin Carlsen, some teenage fans from his mailing list. As The Junior Bems they set up a constitution with two Governors, three Vough ("judges") and a SecTreasurer running the organization. Around this nucleus was organized a diffuse group, Young Fandom, which undertook such projects as a fanzine library and publication of a collection of fan fiction, The Fan Book. Two issues of an OO were produced, but the age group was so plagued with officials gafiating under pressures of school work that it folded after about four years, being un-heard-of thereafter. Actual fatal blow seems to have been in Spring '48 when OE Caldwell, President Jewett, and SecTreasurer Grant all resigned simultaneously.

Here we may mention a few other juvenile general fan organizations. Henry Ackerman in the old days organized a Scientifiction Association for Boys, with a circulating library at considerable expense. It never reached second base. In 1947 Joanne Evans attempted to organize a fantasy club for children under 12, but nothing ever came of it.