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.

In 1985, my mother was the convention chair for InConJunction in Indianapolis. At the time, InCon was the only science-fiction and fantasy convention in the state. It was only five or six years old at the time of her coming on board to lead the show.

Shelley Frier was an editor for Analog Magazine. Mom was a huge reader of Analog and I’m sure Shelley was hand-picked to be a guest at the convention. We got to hang out with her for a bit, and overall, it was a good time.

Analog – Science Fiction Science Fact
308 Lexington Avenue New York, N.Y. 10017 212-557-9100

July 18, 1985

Dear Rosanne,

I promised Victoria and everybody some authentic New York street earrings–i.e., cheap, dollar earrings sold on the street. But they’re cute. Enclosed are four pair: for you and your two daughters and also for Jo Ellen. (Jo Ellen — is that right? My bad memory plagues me.) Enjoy them. One piece of advice: wash the wires in alcohol before you put them on.

Rosanne, I especially wanted to thank you for hosting me so graciously and InConjunction. It was fabulous con–one author said it was the best he’d been to, Worldcons included. I had a great time and I’m determined to get out to the midwest every year. Midwest fans are special people. Thanks again.

Please send my loving regards to the kids, and Joyce and Arlan, and to anyone else I spoke to out there. Especially Barry Childs-Helton, and the whole Circle of Janus. Well, I suppose that pretty much covers all the bases.

I’ll be seeing you, I hope. Maybe at next year’s InConjunction; maybe at another con in the area. Be well.

Shelley Frier
Associate Editor

Normally bringing in around 200 people over the July 4th week-end, the convention had been held at a hotel near the airport. This year, however, InCon was being held downtown either near or on the circle. Also, the way the holiday played out, the con was going to be four days instead of three. The resulting convention brought in 700 people and turned out to be a damn fine convention.

I had just graduated from junior high and was going to be starting my first year as a Freshman in high school. The night before the convention, we had an underage blowout at our house, since Mom was downtown making sure things were running correctly. And in general, it was time to be a little wild and free.