InConJunction Convention planning notes

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About: This is part of a collection of notes left behind by my mother when she passed in 2020. Mom was a long time science-fiction convention attendee and volunteer, starting in the late 1970s. She ran registration, hospitality suites and chaired a few conventions.

Registration Supply list (two pages)

  • Number machine
  • Ink
  • Bags – 450 + 80
  • Ribbons
    • 4 Blue Committee
    • 25 Gray guest
    • 2 Gold GoH
    • Yellow badges – 67
  • Rubber bands
  • 3×5 1 Pkg
  • Blank yellow badges
  • 1987 buffet tickets
  • Blank white badges
  • Markers
  • Pens
  • Scotch Tape
  • Staples
  • Date stamp
  • Press badges
  • Paper clips
  • Stamps
    • Friday – Saturday – Sunday
    • Under 21
    • InConJunciton
    • For Deposit Only
    • Committee
  • Orange dots
  • Ribbons – Multi-color
  • Dots multi-color
  • Receipt Book – 5
  • Stapler
  • 36 Badge holders
    • 36 + 29 + 167 + 69
    • 12 Small
  • Stamp pads
  • Money till
  • Rubber glue
  • 5×7 cards

SOP Registration (three pages)

  1. Index card for every one
    • Pre Reg checked by person:
      • If person using someone elsees reg: he/she must fill out new card. Cross ref with person who originally paid.
    • At door:
      • Fill out card. Print name, add
  2. Check I.D.
    • Will eccept [sic] anything that has name and birth date
    • If under 21, and/or no I.D. give yellow badge
  3. Payment
    • Checks made out to InConJunction w/I.D.
      • Address on check or write it on back of check
  • Rates:
    • Posted by each person
    • $20 for adult
  • Listings
    • Badges for GoH
      • Yellow ribbons
    • Badgets for writers/panelist
      • Gray with guest
    • Badges for committee
      • Blue
    • Hucksters – white

Additional notes

I would guess that these notes were for the 1987 InConJunction, due to the note “1987 buffet tickets”. InCon certainly didn’t draw that number of people, so it’s likely the year. So, it sounds like Mom was in charge of registration that time around. Judy Eudaly was the Con Chair, so that also makes sense. They were good friends.

Mom worked as a civilian employee on a local army base as a computer programmer. She would always bring home stacks of printer paper that would otherwise be tossed. We used it for everything. And since Mom was military adjacent, her writing out “SOP (Standard Operating Procedure)” was par for the course.