SWILnews #1
                        for the week of Sept. 11-17, 1988

EVENTS:
   Well, there's not much in the way of events this week.  At our first 
meeting, we discovered who was whom and what was which, and the fact that 
Joel Offenberg will run this year's Pterodactyl Hunt (still tentatively 
scheduled for Oct. 7) with the able assistance of Laura Almasy.  There will 
be a Pterodactyl Hunt Rules Meeting after the SWIL meeting on Saturday the 
17th (that's this coming Saturday) to discuss rules changes, new monsters, 
and, in particular, the legal strike zone for pterodactyls.  This meeting 
will take place in the same room as the SWIL meeting.
   The Crum cleanup after last week's meeting went well; we pulled eleven
tires, one bicycle, one oil drum, a large bag each of glass and aluminum,
and a LOT of trash from the vicinity of Crum Creek.  Many thanks to all who
participated.
   The science fiction discussion table topic for this coming Saturday
(9/17) will be world-building.  Talk to Chris Cobb for more details, or 
look on the SWILboard for a list of suggested reading.
   It was also declared at the meeting that there will be 24 spaces 
available in vans to the Pennsylvania Renaissance Faire on Sept. 24, and 
that Prof. Andrea Sununu may be driving there some other weekend if people 
can't go that day.

NEWS:
   We have a speaker!  Michael Swanwick, author of _Vacuum Flowers_, has 
agreed to give a talk at our Tenth Anniversary Reunion.  He will choose the 
topic.  His talk will be on Thursday, October 20, or right at the start of 
the festivities.

ATTENDANCE:
   The following people may or may not have been in attendance: Atilla the 
Bunny Rabbit (LaneLane); Mike the Mechanic (Morgan); Grand Moff Hartman; 
RIP (Ick!); The Only Alternative and his Other Possibilities; Valentine 
Michael Mackay-Smith; Mike Moran; Bruce "M" Hahne; Wayne of the 
Baskervilles; Brian Inouye; Josh "not Mackay" Smith; Sally, the Keeper of 
the Money; Kirdragon(fly); Dr. J.D.O. Dedalus; D(on't suppress any sneezes)
Holtzman; G.; Jack the Titan-Killer; Glenn Rutan; Luke "not Skywalker" Hankins; 
Daniel Diaz; Jill McElderry; J. Rapkin; Ward Lopes; Amanda Raff; Ellie (not 
Vader) Weiss; Geoff Dare; me; Lynx; Jessica H.; Stan Burgiel; and "pithy".
   Nobody is up for dismembership this week, but six of you can become non-
members by attending just TWO more consecutive meetings!  That's right -- 
two meetings for the price of two!  To quote ANALOG, "You won't get a
better deal anywhere, any time!"

   Oops.  Gotta go.  Time to attack Tattooine.
                            Varying my titles,
                            Grand Moff Hartman