[Deptheads] The Strategicon History Project

[Strategicon Department Heads]

Dave and Carol Turrietta passed in 2003, Jack Butler in 2007.  R.I.P. :(

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MDF.


On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 2:24 PM, evil5757 <evil5757 at aol.com> wrote:

> 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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> -------- Original message --------
> 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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