The Northern Guffblower: 12

May 1985

The twelfth issue of an occasional newsletter, from the outgoing European GUFF administrator (Joseph Nicholas, 22 Denbigh Street, Pimlico, London SW1V 2ER).


Voting in the second southbound race organised by the Going Under Fan Fund -- to take a well-known European fan to the 1985 Worldcon in Melbourne, Australia -- has recently concluded. The results are as follows:

UK Aus Total
Eve Harvey 42 25 67
John Jarrold 22 1 23
Martha Beck (write-in) 1 1
Roelof Goudriaan (write-in) 3 3
Paul Skelton (write-in) 1 1
Spoilt ballots 4
69 30 99

Eve Harvey has a clear majority of the total number of votes cast, and I therefore declare her the winner.

Eve takes over the administration of the UK end of the fund with immediate effect -- a fund that, I'm pleased to report, has risen to £1081.43 from the figure of £067.41 announced the last time this newsletter appeared (January 1984). Apart from donations from the fans who voted through me -- many of whom gave more than the minimum requested, and whose names appear below -- money and auctionable material was received from the following:

Albacon 84
Harry Andruschak
COFF
Martin & Katie Hoare

Jerry Kaufman
Novacon 14
Chris Priest
Seacon 84

GUFF has also incurred some expenditure since last time: £48.30 contribution to the cost of Justin Ackroyd's hotel room at Seacon 84, £18.30 contribution to the GUFF/Aussiecon Two room party at Seacon 84, and £8 for ballot printing.

And the 69 fans who voted through me were as follows:

Arnold Akien -- Jim Barker -- Eric Bentcliffe -- Geogre Bondar -- Peter Colley Clare Coney -- Oscar Dalgleish -- John Dallman -- Kate Davies -- Paul Dormer Malcolm Edwards -- Helen Eling -- Stan Eling -- Dave Ellis -- Colin Fine Gwen Funnell -- Roelof Goudriaan -- Mike Hamilton -- Judith Hanna -- Rob Hansen Chuck Harris -- John Harvey -- Patrick Nielsen Hayden -- Teresa Nielsen Hayden Dave Hodson -- Terry Hughes -- Tim Illingworth -- Rob Jackson -- Philip James J. E. Johnson -- Roy Kettle -- Graham Koch -- Ken Lake -- Dave Langford Hazel Langford -- Steve Lawson -- Nick Lowe -- Roy Macinski -- Janice Maule Mike Moir -- Caroline Mullan -- Frances Jane Nelson -- Peter Nicholls -- Simon Ounsley -- Anne Page -- Phil Palmer -- Linda Pickersgill -- Chris Priest -- Mic Rogers -- Bob Shaw -- D. M. Sherwood -- Brian Smith -- Kevin Smith -- Lee Smoire -- Alex Stewart -- Chris Suslowicz -- Allan Sutherland -- David Swinden Martyn Taylor -- Sue Thomason -- Nick Trant -- Martin Tudor -- Tom Weber Margaret Welbank -- Pam Wells -- D. West -- Sue Williams -- Walt Willis -- Dave Wood.

My thanks to you all for your support. (May 1985)