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   From: le@main.lekno.ws   
      
   I do not recall seeing newsgroup coverage of the death of   
   Edmund R. Meskys (born March 11th 1936),who a web search   
   reveals died of a heart attack on July 25th 2021.   
   If anyone has archive links to messages I missed or forgot,   
   please redirect me.   
      
   He was active for decades in science fiction and fantasy   
   fandom and I ordinarily always met him at Lunacon (the   
   most recent one I did not attend was in 1978 but the most   
   recent one held was in 2017)...he had attended them since   
   the first.   
      
   In 1967 he took over leadership of the Tolkien Society of   
   America from its college-student founder Dick Plotz,and   
   maintained it until he lost sight in his remaining eye and   
   chose to fold it into the broader-focussed Mythopoeic   
   Society in 1972...he eventually joined the National Tolkien League   
   (which I co-founded in 1973) in 1984.   
      
   He was best known for his long-running fanzine Niekas,   
   I have a number of issues.   
      
   -=-=-   
   The World Trade Center towers MUST rise again,   
   at least as tall as before...or terror has triumphed.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)