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Should you encounter any problems
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Page please email: Although it's out of sequence,
it's logical to put Pat Jones next because she was one of
the few members of Victor Hirt's VSA to stand by him in the
crisis. Pat participated in running Victor's 'View from
Earth 1984' conference and organised a number of events in
support of it, including other lectures by me and a "Man and
the Planets" signing session at her bookstore in Big Bear
Lake. In 1986 she helped organise the
ASTRA participation in the San Diego Westercon, including
the ASTRA party thrown by the Heydt family of Oakland, and
in 1987 she came to Britain and presented the Victor Hirt
prize at that year's Scottish Rocket Weekend. As she was
learning both fiddle and bagpipes, she was delighted to make
contact with the Scottish traditional music scene at the
same time. Without her major help when the English
organisation went wrong, the ASTRA exhibition and other
participation in the 1987 Brighton Worldcon would never have
happened. Chris O'Kane and Lorna Napier visited her in Big
Bear the following year. Meanwhile Pat, who was a very keen
mountain hiker, had graduated from Mountain Rescue to the
Police force, and became a Deputy Sheriff despite having to
repeat the very gruelling training after a leg injury in the
final stages. (I made a donation to the Glasgow Herald
Diary's 'Lobey Dosser' statue fund just to be sure she would
also receive a certificate making her a Deputy of Carlton
Creek.) She kept her bookstores going despite the chaos
caused by the earthquakes in the early 1990's, and it was a
great shame that she lost her final battle with a brain
tumour in 1995. ALEX
ENGLISH
VICTOR
HIRT
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