Heinlein Society Annual Meeting

Notice of Annual Meeting: 
In accordance with The Heinlein Society’s Bylaws, the Annual Meeting of the general membership of the Society will be held at LoneStarCon 3, the 71^st annual World Science Fiction Convention, on Sunday, September 1, 2013, between 1:00-3:00 PM Central Daylight Time.  Room location To Be Announced on LoneStarCon 3’s Program, or at the Society’s information table, but will be at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center in San Antonio, Texas, U.S.A.  All attendees (visitors are welcome) will be informed of the Society’s activities since the 2012 Annual Meeting, and Regular Members in good standing may nominate and vote for three Director seats on the Board of Directors.  You need not be a member of LoneStarCon 3 to attend the Society’s Annual Meeting, but if you are interesting in attending the convention, see www.lonestarcon3.org .  Regular Members who cannot attend may submit their proxies (designating their proxy, by name, to any attending Regular Member) to either Secretary@heinleinsociety.org or the Society’s mailing address; proxies received at either venue should arrive by the close of normal business activity on Saturday, August 31, 2013, 11:59:59 PM Pacific Daylight Time.

FOR THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
/s/ Keith G. Kato
Vice President-Secretary
The Heinlein Society

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Heinlein Society WorldCon Party

The Heinlein Society hopes many of you will attend our 2013 party at LoneStarCon3, the 71^st World Science Fiction Convention in San Antonio, Texas. The party theme will be the 50^th Anniversary of Glory Road.  We are preparing even now for this event, and hope to have a cake prepared with Scar, Star, Rufo, the Lady Vivamus, and fire breathing dragons pictured! 

Lazarus Long Centennial Birthday Party at Chicon 7, 70^th World Science Fiction Convention

On Friday, August 31, 2012, The Heinlein Society hosted an open party at Chicon 7, the 70^th World Science Fiction Convention at the Hyatt Regency Chicago. The party theme was to honor Lazarus Long’s 100^th birthday, which is alleged to be November 11, 1912.  In keeping with the party’s theme, Director Deb Houdek Rule mandated that red be the main party color (clothing and food), and kilts be worn if possible.

Doors to the party suite opened at 8:00 PM, and as is typical at Worldcon parties, the attendance ebbed and flowed from comfortably uncrowded to you-breathe-in-while-I-breathe-out packed.  Society President Mike Sheffield had no problem complying with the kilt directive, as he habitually wears kilts anyway.  Mike’s wife, the Reverend Sharon Sheffield, wore the pants in the family that night.  Vice President-Secretary Keith Kato had obtained a red fright wig and red feathered boa to wear at the party, the latter worn as a sash.  He molted throughout the party suite all night long.  Director Deb Houdek Rule complied with her own directive by wearing a self-described “trollop red” gown.  Over the course of the evening over 100 guests visited, with prominent Heinlein names such as Dr. Herb Gilliland of the U.S. Naval Academy, SF writers Dr. Gregory Benford, Dr. David Brin, and G. David Nordley.
 
The party fare was a sampling of soft drinks, assorted vegetables and chips to be dipped, sinfully bad-for-you cookies and candies, and a spread of sandwich-making staples.  Red luminescent light sticks with “The Heinlein Society” imprinted on them were handed out in keeping with the party’s theme, and worn by guests as headbands, necklaces, armbands, wrist bracelets, ankle bracelets, and perhaps on other places.
 
The party closed down around 1:30 AM, with some hard-partying Heinlein types staying to the not-so-bitter end.  The room clean-up efforts lasted until well past 3:00 AM—the indication that the party had been a success.