[Deptheads] The Strategicon History Project

[Strategicon Department Heads]

If we're talking the entire timeline, are we going to include the rise and
fall of the Strategicon Security Department? That was how I got started
with Strategicons - in January of 1989, I was attending weekly events at
the (now defunct) Santa Fe Springs Gamers Association, and the organizers,
Dave and Carol Turietta (I may be spelling their family name wrong) put out
a call, asking who would help with security at Orccon. As I literally had
nothing better to do that weekend, and they were offering transportation
and sleeping arrangements, I eagerly accepted.

You'll have to get dates on the Turiettas' deaths from someone else; I
don't have that information, but they were a major element in Rocky's era
of the conventions.

I did Security for two or three conventions until Janice Sellers, the head
of the Video Gaming Department (then called the Computer Room), noticed
that I spent a lot of time there, and suggested that I'd be a better fit
there.

Janice, herself, retired from Strategicon after Orccon 2010 (she'd been
head of the Dealer's Room for several conventions at that point, and was
still essentially in control of the Computer Room). That was when I was
given the offer to take over as the Head of the Video Gaming Department.
Reasons for her retirement are probably political bullshit that we don't
really want to air in a public historical recounting. ;)

If I can think of anything more, I'll pass them along.

On Sun, Oct 18, 2015 at 10:35 PM, Strategicon Department Heads <
deptheads at strategicon.net> wrote:

> Message From: Mei Dean Francis  meideanfrancis at gmail.com
>
> As discussed at today's meeting, I am assembling a comprehensive history
> of Strategicon Conventions.  If you have been attending our fine
> conventions since time immemorial, your help filling in some blanks would
> be appreciated.
>
>
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QlorMIWG3_Cr6vCQ3SvJdSZV1xU8pbbFMUrhTTaH7L8/edit?usp=sharing
>
>
> Especially desired: eighties and nineties guests of honor, events of note,
> scans of old photographs, pre-1981 conbooks.
>
> If you have anything at all to contribute, I'd be delighted.
> meideanfrancis at gmail.com.
>
> Thanks,
> Mei Dean Francis
>
> P.S. Don't stress the dates-- I just started filling them in for the
> halibut.
>
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