The TransAtlantic Hearing Aid

Appendix 2: Vital Statistics

These are the TAFF delegates so far – though the first, Walt Willis, was technically pre-TAFF, the special fund which took him to America having been the inspiration for it all. * indicates winners who for one reason on another didn't make the trip.

Year Europe to North America North America to Europe
1952 Walt Willis
1954 Vin¢ Clarke*
1956 Lee Hoffman*
[made trip at own expense]
1957 Bob Madle
1958 Ron Bennett
1959 Don Ford
1960 Eric Bentcliffe
1961 Ron Ellik
1962 Ethel Lindsay
1963 Wally Weber
1964 Arthur Thomson
1965 Terry Carr
1966 Tom Schlück
1968 Steve Stiles
1969 Eddie Jones
1970 Elliot Shorter
1971 Mario Bosnyak
1973 Len & June Moffatt
1974 Peter Weston
1976 Roy Tackett/Bill Bowers* (tie)
1977 Peter Roberts
1979 Terry Hughes
1980 Dave Langford
1981 Stu Shiffman
1982 Kevin Smith
1983 Avedon Carol
1984 Rob Hansen
1985 Patrick & Teresa Nielsen Hayden

Bits of this report appeared in the following fanzines, in varyingly different form (depending on the editors' creative typing and the voluminousness of my own afterthoughts). Thanks to all ...

1: Twll-Ddu 19
2: Boonfark 5
3: Nabu 11
4: Warhoon 30
5: Tappen 3
6: The Zine That Has No Name 3
7: Mainstream 9
8: Wallbanger 9
Appendix: Visitor's Pass
[Appendix 3] Space Junk 6

The current TAFF administrators are, by fairly immemorial tradition, the most recent European and North American delegates, thus:

Rob Hansen
9a Greenleaf Road
East Ham
London
E6 1DX
UK
Patrick & Teresa Nielsen Hayden
75 Fairview Avenue (2B)
New York
NY 10040
USA