[This is a transcription of the Minicon 15 program book done in 2019. It was OCR'd by Tesseract and then hand-corrected. It may well have errors. If there are errors in the original, the intent here is to reproduce them faithfully. When we notice that we've done this, we'll add a note in square brackets like "[sic]". Other notes occur in square brackets, with none appearing in the original. We apologize for any inadvertently corrected errors. Lines filled with hyphens indicate page boundaries. Page numbers are included where they are in the original. Some things are underlined in the original. To avoid cluttering this transcription (the underlines don't generally seem to change the meaning), this is not noted.] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [Front cover: art by Jim Odbert, headed "MINICON 15". There's a banner saying "The other ten percent" and a giant with a "MPLS in 73" tattoo.] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MINICON 15 program book TABLE OF CONTENTS [written backwards] Stuff..................................2 - 39 Artwork: Covers and p. 8 by Jim Odbert pp. 11, 33 by Kathy Marschall p. 18 by Alexis Gilliland pp. 27, 30 Teddy Harvia Map, p. 22 by Linda Lounsbury Illustrations on pages 2 and 6 of Progress Report 5 by Alexis Gilliland. Hotel checkout time is normally 1:00 pm. It has been extended until 5:00 pm on Sunday, April 15, for convention members. As of press time, certain details had not yet been worked out. There will probably be a computer room. There may be aroom [sic] designated for playing war and other games. And some sort of baby-sitting cooperative may be arranged. Look for signs, or ask at regis- tration. All material herein is copyright (C)1979 by the Minnesota Science Fiction Society, Inc. Upon publication all rights revert to the author or artist. All uncredited material is the re- sponsibility of the Publications Staff. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ IMPORTANT STUFF NAME BADGES AND TAGS: Because of the size of the con, it is absolutely essential that you wear your official name badge or tag. Without it, you will not be admitted into any function (including the party suite). There will be blue meanies to enforce this; try not to run afoul of them. We appreciate your cooperation. REGISTRATION and INFORMATION: Registration will be open in the Star of the North Hall Section 3, from 11:00 am until 6:00 pm Friday. from 10:00 am until 6:00 pm Saturday, and from 10:00 am until whenever, Sunday. In the same room, Minicon T-shirts, books, and Frisbees will be for sale. At other times it will be possible to register at the Bridge, on the twelfth floor across from the con suite. The Bridge will always be staffed by a committee member. Which brings us to -- THE CON SUITE and THE BRIDGE are located on the twelfth floor. The easiest way to get there is to take one of the main elevators to the eleventh floor, go through the wooden gates up a flight of stairs. Other arrange- ments are available for the mobility- impaired -- ask a committee member. BANQUET: A limited number of banquet tickets are still available. Purchase them at regis- tration. For $11.00 you have your choice of (1) Turkey Canoe: Turkey with cheese, bacon and supreme sauce; Minnesota wild rice soup; peas and mushrooms; salad; cornbread; sun- flower seed ice cream; or (2) Tyler Too: Roast top sirloin of beef in champignon sauce; Parisienne potatoes; peas and mushrooms; Bavarian cream cake. 3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ COMMITTEE MEMBERS: can be identified by blue name badges/buttons unless trying to hide in the crowd. They're willing to try to help you with any problems or requests; please remember that they have been, and still are, very busy with this con -- be patient. GOFERS: also known as the Minnesota Gofers, these are the people who help carry out the innumerable little tasks that pop up during a con to harass the rest of the con Committee. Their contributions, generally little-noticed, are nonetheless essential, and are greatly appreciated by all of us. If you'd like to be one of this stalwart little band, trot over to the Registration Room and look for Don Bailey, top-banana of the bunch. Don't slip. RUNE: The club fanzine of the Minnesota Science Fiction Society, Inc. (Minn-stf) is available to convention members for $2.00 for a year's subscription (4 issues, most likely). Rune is edited by Lee Pelton and Carol Kennedy. LIQUOR STORES Since Minnesota is a rather backward state regarding liquor laws, should you find yourself running dangerously low on alcohol and it's after 8 pm you are out of luck. You have been warned. I can't understand the reasoning behind this early closing time, since most serious drinkers don't get up much before 7. There is no use crying over spilt milk or closed stores. The nearest liquor store is in the Hotel on the ground floor. It is reasonably priced. PLEASE: NO FRISBEEING IN THE CON SUITE!!!! A RESTAURANT GUIDE offering suggestions for local dining is available; pick one up. 4 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [Advertisement for Spider and Jeanne Robinson's Stardance from Quantum Science Fiction] 5 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [Advertisement for Gordy Dickon's autographing and speaking by Otterburn Associates] 6 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [Advertisement for Cliff Simak's books from Avon Paperbacks] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ GUEST OF HONOR: THEODORE STURGEON [art by Jim Odbert] 8 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ LOVE STORY or One man's opinion of the writings of Theodore Sturgeon I have never met Theodore Sturgeon, except between the covers of a paperback book or some dusty, neglected, precious pulp magazine. So I am surprised to find that I also feel that I know Ted Sturgeon, human being, as well as Theodore Sturgeon, author. Sturgeon talks to me as no other writer ever has. One thing shows up again and again in his writings: he has an overwhelming love for the human race. And he understands, in depth, all the weaknesses we are so prone to. He speaks to those who care about people while knowing that a human's good and evil sides are inex- tricably woven and often interchange subtly. Recognizing this without condemning people for it makes Sturgeon a writer unlike any other I have discovered. My own personal judgement of whether a story is good depends on the degree to which the author can get me to care about what is going on. Better yet is the story that makes me care about the characters I'm following through the maze of plot. The best ones are those that tell me, in language I can under- stand, how something that is happening to the character is related to something that has happened to me. The list of stories in that category is very short: a disproportionate number of them are by Theodore Sturgeon. He can give us horror, in stories like "Killdozer", "It", and "Memorial". But he can tell poignant love stories, as shown in "Case and the Dreamer", "Bright Segment", and the once-daring novel Venus Plus X. Two of the funniest short stories I have ever read are his "Ether Breather" and its sequel "Butyl and the Ether Breather". "The Pod in the 9 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Barrier" helped me shape an opinion that I hold to this day, that EVERYBODY has some value, in their own way, if you look hard enough at the right time. "Maturity" is a story that means much to me because Robin English, in attaining his goal, reminds me that too much of anything, no matter how good, can be deadly. (You can buy the special edition of this story, published for MINICON, and discover what it means to you.) Sturgeon is a man who can weave words, in- volve your emotions, make you think, make you feel glad to be alive. His gift is in knowing people and being able to put that knowledge on paper for us to share. Truly, ALL his stories are love stories. I guess that what I feel about Ted Sturgeon is really pretty simple: I love the man, I love his writing. And when I finally get to meet him, I think I will be meeting an old and dear friend -- for the first time. Lee Pelton Theodore Sturgeon was born on February 26th 1918, in New York City. And though he, at various times and places, served in the Mer- chant Marine, managed a hotel, and operated a bulldozer, he never fulfilled his early am- bition to be a circus aerialist. His first published science fiction story was "Ether Breather", in the September,l939. Astounding. S nce [sic] then he has won the British Argosy Short Story Contest with "Bianca's Hands" (1947), won the International Fantasy Award for More Than Human (1959), and both the Hugo and the Nebula awards for "Slow Sculpture". (1971). He has been a book reviewer for Venture and Galaxy, was a columnist for If, and written all manner of fiction. Another collection of his short stories will be published soon, entitled The Stars Are the Styx. 1O ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [art] 11 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [Advertisement for OKon '79] 12 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TOM DIGBY by Nate Bucklin Chocolate-covered manhole covers. Vacuum cleaners that vacuum themselves up. Mama and Papa Werewolf arguing over whose turn it is to "change" the baby. Waiting by a sign marked "Not a Bus Stop" until the vehicle marked "Not a Bus" arrives. All these ideas, and many more, are products of the fertile mind of Thomas Graham Digby, a fan who has dreamed up more scienti-fantasial ideas in fourteen years as an active science fiction fan than many of us have in our librar- ies. Tom (or Thom, or simply "Digby") has written short stories ("The World of Not-A") free verse ("I sent you a message in a cloud of tachyons..."), songs ("Have you ever been to a part of the world/Where people don't be- lieve in the moon?"), cartoons ("No parking. Violaters [sic] will be stomped on..." with its ac- companying illustration), limericks ("Two Siamese twins from Bombay..."), and countless idea trips like those above. He has also managed to appear as a character in a story by Larry Niven, "What Can You Say About Chocolate Covered Manhole Covers?". Although his writ- ings have generally appeared only in Apa L and Minneapa, Los Angeles-and Twin Cities- based amateur press associations, to which he contributes regularly, he was nominated for the Hugo award for Best Fan Writer in 1971 and 1972. In person, Tom is tall, affable, red-hair- ed, and too lively to be 39, with the fastest walking stride I have ever encountered. He also has a distinct southern accent which 15 years of living in the Los Angeles area have done little to eradicate, and possesses the rare ability to liven up a party without having to out-talk, out-drink, or out-sing anybody to do it. Fellow sapient beings. fandom has only one Tom Digby--walk up to him and say "Hi." 13 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [Advertisement for Tesseract Science Fiction magazine] 14 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [Advertisement for Macabre House] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PROGRAMMING Note: SotN means Star of the North Hall Friday, April 13 11:00 am Sitting in Chairs Contest -5:00 pm Lobby and Mezzanine 11:00 am Registration open -6:00 pm 12 Noon Huckster Room open -8:00 pm 1:00 pm Panel: "Don't Dream It, Be It" SotN, Sec. 2 2:00 pm Art Show open -8:00 pm time to Panel: The Illuminati be an- Place to be announced nounced Panelists not to be announced 6:00 pm Registration moves to the Bridge 6:30 pm OPENING CEREMONIES SotN, Sec. 2 7:00 pm Panel: "How I Got Into Prodom" with Eleanor Arnason, Phyllis Eisenstein, Jim Young, others SotN, Sec. 2 8:00 pm Huckster Room and Art Show Close 8:00 pm Theodore Sturgeon Reads (out loud) SotN, Sec. 2 9:00 pm Meet-the-Pros Party Con Suite 9:00 pm Films start 16 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Saturday, April 14 10:00 am Registration, Huckster Room, Art- show Open 12 Noon Panel: "Alternate Energy Sources in the Future" with Joe Haldeman, Gary Hudson (Foundation Instit- ute), Joan Vinge, Mike Kasmarik a representative from the Nor- thern States Power Co.; moder- ator: Neil Rest SotN, Sec. 2 1:00 pm Panel: "High Technology & SF Fan- dom" with Tullio Proni and others; moderator: Jon Singer SotN, Sec. 2 2:00 pm Panel: "The History of the Future (As It Didn't Happen)" with Gordon R. Dickson, Clifford Simak, others SotN, Sec. 2 2:00 pm Slide Show: "The Madison Parade of Cats" with Diane Martin Gold Room 2:30 pm Equal Time For Anti-Cat Fans with Jeanne Gomoll Gold Room. 3:00 pm Panel: "Science Fiction in the Public Eye" with Jim Frenkel, (Dell), Joe Haldeman, others SotN, Sec. 2 4:00 pm Art Program --SotN, Sec. 2 -6:00 pm (a) Rick Sternbach slide show (b) Panel: "SF Art as Big Bus- iness" with Joan Hanks Woods, David Egge, David G. Hartwell, Jim Odbert, Rick Sternbach (c) David Egge slide show 17 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 4:00 pm Discussion: "Why Write Science Fiction?" with Eleanor Arnason -- Con Suite 6:00 pm Huckster Room, Art Show close, Registration moves to the Bridge 6:00 pm BANQUET -- SotN, Sec. 1 7:15 pm After-Dinner Speechifying and Silliness -- SotN, Sec. 1 8:30 pm TAPE/DUFF Auction and first Art Auction -- Mart 3rd Floor 9:30 pm MASQUERADE BALL -- SotN, Sec.1 10:00 pm Films start, Party Suite opens 12 Midnight Second Art Auction -- Mart 3rd Floor [art] 18 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Note: SotN means Star of the North Hall Sunday, April 15 10:00 pm Registration, Huckster Room, Art- show open 12 Noon Films start 12 Noon Sandra Miesel slide show, "Digging Up the Roots of Fantasy Art " SotN, Sec. 2 12:30 pm Third Art Auction -- Mart 3rd Floor 1:00 pm Panel: "The Changing Nature of Fandom" with Mike Glicksohn and others; moderator: Jerry Kauf- man SotN, Sec. 2 1:00 pm Workshop: "Creating Aliens & Worlds" with Gordon R. Dickson, Joan Vinge, others -- Con Suite 2:00 pm Theodore Sturgeon Interviewed (out loud). InterViewers: Denny Lien. Nate Bucklin, Lee Pelton, and Dave Romm -- SotN, Sec. 2 3:00 pm CLOSING CEREMONIES -- SotN, Sec. 2 3:30 pm Open Meeting: Minicon 16 Committee -grumble & gripe- SotN, Sec. 2 5:00 pm Huckster Room, Art Show close 6:00 pm Party Suite Opens for Dead Dog Party 19 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [First page of 2-page spread hotel map] 20 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [Second page of 2-page spread hotel map] 21 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [Consuite map] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The committee would like to thank Eric von Flamin for the use of his mural in the Star of the North Hall. Microprograming [sic] Notice There will be weird (and wonderfully woozy) bits of silliness before all programming items, during the auction, on the elevator and any- time we feel sufficiently strangled by serious- ness. There will be no advance warning, though we have harnessed a (widget) and two boffs as bozoid indicatiors [sic], so keep your eyes open. If you find yourself in the middle of a microprogramming item, don't dream it, be it. 4-SALE MINICON T-SHIRTS: With designs by Kathy Mar- schall and Ray Allard. Available in a variety of sizes and colors, but quantities are limit- ed. A steal at $6. BOOKS -- MATURITY by THEODORE STURGEON, plus two of his short stories. Also one of the most complete Sturgeon bibliographies ever compiled. And only $10. MINN-STF FRISBEES: Special 10 inch (25 centi- meter) Frisbees, impaired [sic] with the Minn-Stf logo. $2 -- A bargain at twice the price. All these items are available in the registra- tion room (Star of the North Hall, Section 3) during regular business hours. Note of Warning: Since the hotel has never dealt with fans before, please refrain from lighting their employees on fire, WINNERWINNERWINNERWINNERWINNERWINNERWINNERWIN Erik Biever of St. Paul, Mn.(a local) won the contest for best registration letter (includ- ing 2 boxt0ps) and gets a free Minicon regis- tration for his efforts. 23 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ARTIST GUEST OF HONOR: RICK STERNBACH I've known Rick (as he's known to his friends) since, oh, I'd say 1974 or so. He came to the Hub back in those days for some unremem- bered reason -- he said that he was skin diving off the North Shore, but I have my doubts. Those were the Nixon years, you know, and a lot of mighty strange things hap- pened in those days. Things that unless you were a California Republican, you never found out about. Richard M. (aMadeus) Sternbach had just sold his first cover to Ali Ben Bova (these were also the days of the first gasoline shortage, when America found out that Arabs were into more than just coffee beans and horses), and he had heard about the fan group up in Boston, and he paid us a visit or three. By '75 it got to the point where people up there just saved their dirty dishes for ol' Rick to do up on his weekend trips. Yessir, Rick, he surely loved to wash dishes; that and do pizza box cover artwork. Spike MacPhee, one of the people living at Terminus (the center of a lot of this activity, and Rick's hang-out, when he was in town), thought a lot of Rick's work (Spike is not a California Republican, so it must have been Rick's artwork), and he thought that it was his duty to save all those pizza-box covers, and styrofoam cups with "ACE" Farko cartoons, and pictures of Kentuc- ky Fried Denkiri on them. 24 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Asenath Hammond was visiting us a bit, too, and seeing how Rick lived in Connecticut, and she lived in New Ore City, why it was only natural that if'n they were going to be vis- iting the goodfen of Boston at the same time, that they ride together. And thusly from a carpool was created a marriage, formed not in heaven, but in terstate [sic] (I-86, in fact). Yessir, thems were the days when Minneapolis fandom was just a children's story to those of us on the eastern half of the country (that is to say, east of the Hudson River), that Rick and Asenath and Krissy told to quiet the un- ruly ones after a late night of story telling and Terminus Dinner Conversation. There were Iron Men in that age, and we will never see their rusted hulks again. Rick's gone from the Hub of the Universe now (but then so am I), all of these are but mem- ories -- and write-only memories at that. Rick had illustrated Science Digest, Astrono- my, newsweek but not Time, a backdrop at WGBH- TV in Boston, the famed starry sky in the main programming tent at Highcon, the legen- dary '76 worldcon in Highmore, South Dakota, and the cake at the Terminus Halloween party. A couple of years ago, Rick and Asenath left their palatial home in Cornwall Bridge, Con- necticut, for Hollywood, where Rick worked on the Walt Disney movie that everyone is still talking about. (Why just a few days ago, Garth Danielson asked me, he said, "Hey, what ever happened to that Disney SF flick that Sternbach was working on?".) He's working for JPL now and Asimov's Magazine, and who knows, maybe even waiting for checks from Galaxy, just like everyone else. Yes boys and girls, this is Rick Sternbach, the man and the myth; now it's up to you to decide which is which. --David Stever March, 1979 25 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [Advertisement for Northamericon '79] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ FILMS [art] Films will be shown Friday night (beginning at 9:00 pm) and Saturday night (beginning at 10:00 pm) in the Star of the North Hall, Sec- tion 2. Look for a sign indicating actual or- der of showing and approximate starting times outside that room. On Sunday films will be shown in the Gold Room, beginning at noon. Friday: (Cartoons) 2 Roadrunner, Popeye, Little Nemo, Superman (Shorts) The Case of the Mukkinese Battlehorn, Bambi's Revenge, The Dove, Sargeant [sic] Swell (features The Point, Invasion of the Star Creatues [sic]. Saturday: (Cartoons) 2 Warner Brothers. 2 Mighty Mouse, 2 Popeye, Betty Boop (Shorts) Vicious Cycles, Murder by Television, 2002: A Space Odyssey (features) Sex Madness. Plan 9 From Outer Space Sunday: (Features) Transatlantic Tunnel plus cartoons and shorts by request. 27 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ THE MASTER OF THE WORLD by Jim Young My friend Robert E. Vardeman (the "E" stands for "Earth") has long wanted to take over the world. What is most remarkable about him is that he, unlike many others, is actual- lydoing [sic] something about it. I first became acquainted with him through his fanzine Sandworm. Little did I know that Vardebob would start his world-girdling plot through its pages: for early in 1971 he suc- ceeded in confusing the Department of Defense into believing that Sandworm was a journal published by the Sandia Corporation. Sandia is, of course, one of the nation's foremost defense contractors, and a staple of Albuquer- que's economy. (The corporation was founded during the First Staple War.) Many people in Washington think that anything with the. word "sand" in it must have something to do with Sandia, you see, and this is how Varde- man managed to order three or four surplus nuclear reactors and a Trident submarine C.O.D. Bob had no trouble selling off the reactors to various fourth world nations -- the Mar- tians have always had lots of plutonium, though very little oil -- but could do little with the submarine. Finally, he was forced to invent a retractable catepillar [sic] track for the thing in order to sell it to the town of Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, as a pot- ential door prize for its annual Bob Barker Festival. With the proceeds from these sales, he in- itiated the first large-scale human cloning experiment, creating several hundred clones of himself. These simulacra are often seen 28 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ wandering conventions hotels at strange hours of the day or night, and may be detected by following the trails of ice-cubes they leave in hallways. (The clones work by extracting energy from the air, causing them to excrete the ice which condenses around their heat pumps. Very hand at parties, I'd say.) In recent years his clones have been seen in every state of the union, several provinces of Canada, and one of them (serial number Z9M9Z) is currently the mayor of Nogales, Sonora, Mexico. Since the development of his clones, Vardebob has wrested control of his home-town, Albuquerque, and through a series of edicts he has caused it to become the hot-air ballooning capital of the planet. This has obviated the necessity of employing politicians, a develop- ment which has not only drastically reduced the city's property tax levy, but has also helped ease the entire state's balance of trade problem by making hot air a major export. (Note that much of southern Minnesota's summer weather comes from New Mexico courtesy of the jet stream. I've recently started bargaining with Vardeman to get him to make this a winter export as well.) Vardeman's next move, he says, will be to take over the science fiction publishing in- dustry, a move that will no doubt be aided by his mysterious connections with the super-sec- ret Illuminati organization. He tells me that his next work is quaranteed [sic] by his publishers as the largest best-seller since Luke, and its title will be Star Trek 1999: Mork and Mindy on Battlestar Galactica in the Star War against the Sons of Hercules. True to his arid birth- right, as ever, he says the protagonist of this epic is a girl named Maude Dibb. Which is reason enough and them some to welcome him to this Minicon as an honored guest! 29 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [art] MIMEO ROOM a fannish method of reproduction other than Bob Tucker. After getting the obligatory Bob Tucker reproduction joke* out of the way on to business. The mimeo room has been set up to encour- age new fans to enter the world of fanzines (sounds a little pretentious doesn't it) and to offer repro facilities and instruction of same. * For more information on Bob's amazing Reproductive(TM) abilities stop Bob during the con. He'll be seen smoothing things over. Note: don't touch his bottle and don't interrupt him in a clinch. He'll take the babe first. 30 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The room is located in the LaSalle Room C (check your map). Our hours are very flex- ible. the room will be open most of the time with someone to do the work for you. The Gestetner(TM) 360 Mimeograph and the Gestetner (TM) 455 Electronic Stencil Cutter are only to be used by Mimeo Room Staff. As long as the room is open, there will be some one there to operate the equipment. There will be type- writers to type stencils on, as well as paper to draw on. FREE: WOW 100 copies of anything you want. Anyone coming in will be given 2 reg- ular stencils or 1 regular stencil and l electrostencil and 100 sheets of paper, printed both sides. MINICONAPA Perhaps a little misleading but what the heck. Tha Apa is open to anyone with 100 copies of a zine and 25 cents (not to be spent fool- ishly). Material should be in by Saturday Midnight. Collation takes place and the night goes on. Anyone not contributing to the apa can pick one up Sunday for 50 cents should any remain. Proceeds to Taff,Duff and the Better Half Transfer Fund. Additional materials are available: Paper 75 cents for 100 sheets $3.50 per ream. Stencils 25 cents Electro-stencils 75 cents There will be an open discussion type seminar on fanzines and why by fanzine editors and the like, sometime Saturday afternoon. Depends on whom we can round up. Sunday afternoon there will be a seminar on drawing on stencils by Ken Fletcher. Check our post- ing on the door. If this sounds very casual, it is and that's the way I want it to be. Nothing serious, just fun with ink and stuff. Bring your crazyness [sic], or your crazy. 31 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [Advertisement for the Compleat Enchanter] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [art] ART AUCTION This year we're trying something new(Nu? Gnu?). The first person to bid on an item of art, gets to choose (if the person wants to) which auction the piece of art will be auc- tioned at. There will be an early evening auction (8:30 pm - 9:30 pm Sat.) and a late evening auction (12 midnight-1:30 am) to choose between. The Sunday afternoon auction (12 NOON- 1pm)(All times are approximate) will be reserved for pieces not auctioned off at the first two auctions. This will give you the opportunity, if you have to get into costume to choose the late nite auction, or, if you want to be sure not to miss SEX MADNESS, to choose the earlier auction. If you are not now totally confused, you will have to do so by your own devices. And remember- ANTLERS OPTIONAL!!! TAFF DUFF Taff Duff auction material includes old fanzines! name tags, artwork, books, and t-shirts. NO PHOTOGRAPHY IS ALLOWED IN THE ARTSHOW or art auction, unless you can furnish indisputable evidence that the artist has granted you permission to photograph his or her artwork. 33 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [Advertisement for Fillmore Midwest] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [Advertisement for I-Con IV] 35 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [Advertisement for Slime Surgeon] 36 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [Advertisement for Attemptacon 4/Coulee Con 2] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [Advertisement for X-CON '79] 38 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CON COM LIST FOR MINICON 15 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE: Carol Anndy, Don Bailey, Bev Elmshauser, Scott Imes, Dave Wixon. ART AUCTION: Rick Gellman, Blas Mazzeo ART SHOW: Richard Tatge, Shelby Hockert, Cat Ocel BANQUET: Ann Isenberg BIBLIOGRAPHY:Denny Lien BOOK: Scott Imes, M. Beth Komor, Stuart A. Wells III, Jim Odbert COMPUTERS: Dean Gahlon, John Stanley, Brian Westley FILMS: Lee Pelton,Page Ringstrom, John Purcell GOPHERS: Don Bailey, Martin Schafer, Assistant Grandfather Gopher John Stanley. HOTEL LIASON [sic]:Dave Wixon, Caryl Wixon HUCKSTERS: Denny Lien, Greg Ketter MASQUERADE: David Emerson MIMEO ROOM: Garth Danielson, Joyce Scrivner PARTIES: Jerry Stearns, Keith Hauer-Lowe, Greg Ketter, Eileen Maloney PROGRAMMING: David Emerson, M.K.Digre, Mark Richards, Dave Romm PUBLICATIONS:Ken Fletcher, John Bartelt, Karen Johnson, Garth Danielson, Kathy Marschall, Larry Becker, Edgar Rice Gerbil RECORDER: Pamela Dean REGISTRATION:Bev Elmshauser, Doug Friaf, Karen Johnson RESTAURANT GUIDE: David Dyer-Bennet SECURITY: David Dyer-Bennet, Michael Butler TREASURER: Carol Anndy, Blas Mazzeo T-SHIRTS: Rick Gellman VIDEO: Ben Lessinger, Scott Imes, Gary Sissala, Alex Gav, Bruce Fagrie AND MORE STAFF: Margie Lessinger, Steve Glen- non, Louie Spooner, Lynn Ander- son, Steve Bond, Steve Elmshauser, Elizabeth LaVelle. Bill Dixon, Gayle Dixon, Vera Matich ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [Back cover: art by Jim Odbert, headlined "PARTY SUITE". There's a banner saying "DON'T DREAM IT DO IT" and a thing saying "THE OTHER TEN PERCENT?"] ------------------------------------------------------------------------