[Deptheads] The Strategicon History Project

[Strategicon Department Heads]

Actually I was the one who abolished the Security Department when I was hired as the Events Manager. There were a few who ruined it for everyone by PHYSICALLY taking gamers out of games by the collar and making them get badges right then and there, basically making themselves Badge Nazis in the worst way possible. Most were good, but as a department they had to go.
John



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From: Strategicon Department Heads <deptheads at strategicon.net> 
Date: 10/19/2015  4:36 PM  (GMT-08:00) 
To: Strategicon Dept Heads <deptheads at strategicon.net>, Mei Dean Francis <meideanfrancis at gmail.com> 
Subject: Re: [Deptheads] The Strategicon History Project 

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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