Council Log (newsletter)

Zine
Title:	Council Log (newsletter)
Publisher:	The Federation Council, a fan club in Oregon, US
Editor(s):	Bernadette Voller (editor), Rick Platt (contributing editor), Oscar Hult (layout)
Type:
Date(s):	1981-?
Frequency:	monthly
Medium:	print
Fandom:	Star Trek TOS, science fiction
Language:	English
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Council Log is a monthly news bulletin published by The Federation Council, a fan club in Oregon, U.S.

front cover of issue #20

front cover of issue #21

NOTE: it is a sister zine to The Council Log, a much longer zine. It is VERY easy to get them confused.

Issue 1

Council Log 1 was published in 1981.

Issue 7

Council Log 7

Issue 8

1981

Issue 9

1982

Issue 14

Council Log 14 was published in December 1981 and contains 14 pages.

cover of issue #14

There is a trivia article in the table of contents. It is also mentioned in the club news section as being by Rick Platt. But on the article, credit is given to Sheila Griffin.

The club's savings account in Veneta Citizen's Bank of Oregon will be closed out by the time this newsletter is published. Several reasons. One, the bank requires a $100 balance which we do not have. Also, since no one lives in that area anymore, it is difficult to withdraw money as we need it. All funds are now in Corvallis.

Shadows of the Mind" concludes in this issue (finally). We will try to avoid running stories this long in the future as it seems to make it hard to read. As you many notice, because of the length of this story and an other in this issue, we have reduced some of the material so as to put two pages of story on one page of newsletter. Unless anyone has objections, we will attempt to continue this process in order to print the longer type stories.

Hope everyone who was at the Christmas Party enjoyed themselves. For those of you who did not receive notice of the party, it may be because of the distances involved (you may have been too far away to have made it in any case). As often we do not receive any response from half the people to whom we send party notices, unless you want to be included on the mailing list for the next one and send us a card saying the same, you will not be notified.

• News (2)
• Community Club Awards (intricate rules for a contest that appears to have a farther reach than fandom or this newsletter, dangles cash prizes: "This Buyer's Guide is in your possession because you are a member or a friend of one of the groups competing for $5,000.00 in cash award as made possible by KPNW Radio.") (3)
• Trivia and the Star Trek Fan by Sheila Griffin (4)
• Crossword Puzzle Solution (these answers are to the crossword puzzle by Calvin Littlefield in the previous issue) (5)
• A Letter to the Club, fiction by Sue S. (about a Star Trek fan meeting the characters on earth) (6)
• Shadows of the Mind, fiction by Francine DeGrood (10)
• Mopsie, two-panel comic (13)
• a full-page flyer/ad for the Official Star Wars Fan Club (14)

Issue 20

Council Log 20 was published in December 1982 and contains 8 pages. The cover is by Oscar Hult.

• mini bios of fans, Bernadette Voller and Cynthia Coit
• Stargazer, poem by Jodi Keech (2)
• Earthbound, Starbourn, fiction by Karen Taylor (original fiction) (4)

Issue 21

Council Log 21 was published in March 1983 and contains 12 pages.

• Mopsie (front page and art on page 12)
• News (2)
• Members (2)
• Greater Love Hath No Man, fiction by Karen Taylor (3)
• Review of the Pro Book: Black Fire (6)
• The Saga of Starfleet Officer Kenny L. Jones, part 1 by Kenny Jones (this is concluded in Council Log #1) (7)