John Dewey Science Fiction Club Newsletter
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| Title: | John Dewey Science Fiction Club Newsletter |
| Publisher: | John Dewey Science Fiction Club |
| Editor(s): | Brian J. McCarthy (teacher advisor) |
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| Fandom: | science fiction, Star Trek: TOS |
| Language: | English |
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John Dewey Science Fiction Club Newsletter
There were at least three issues.
It was published by "John Dewey Science Fiction Club," a high school in Brooklyn, New York. It was free for the asking for all students and teachers of John Dewey High School, was distributed at the spring UFT Conference, and to all interested students in other high schools.
One of the goals of this publication was not only science fiction and writing, but also communication with other students.
Issue 1
Issue 2
Issue 3
The third issue was published in April 1973. It has two parts due to "the vastness of events which need to be reported." Total page count is 26 pages. Both issues have identical editorials by Brian J. McCarthy.
The first part contains con reports for Star Trek Lives! con in 1973.
The second part contains reviews and comments about [Warp ] ("My Battlefield, My Body"), extensive comments by Brian J. McCarthy, David Bloom, Tylaann Burger, Glenn Hochberg, and Andrew Ostrom about speaking at a science fiction conference (at State University College, New Paltz, 100 attendees). This issue also contains information about the Hugo Awards, a trivia contest with a focus of 2001: Space Odyssey, comments about Marvel and D.C. comics, information about the 1974 Star Trek Lives! Convention as well as the 1973 New York Comic Art Convention, and about the magazine Locus. From the editorial by McCarthy:
With the publication of this, the third volume, of the NEWSLETTER, it is necessary to go over a little history to understand what we are now and what we hope to be. The origins of the NEWSLETTER are found in a class publication which was started when the Literature of Fantasy and Science Fiction course was first taught at Dewey in the Fall of 1970. A publication called SECOND FOUNDATION was used in the class to get F6SF information to the students in all four classes of Edward McCarthy and myself. Although it was published only five times, one issue was devoted to a contest among all students in the course for the best artist, poet, and short story writer, as long as the creative work was related to FSSF. Immediately after the course was completed, the John Dewey Science Fiction Club was formed.
In order to communicate better with the students in the Club, the NEWSLETTER was started last year and, in order to publish the F&SF literary achievements of the Club SECOND FOUNDATION, now a literary fanzine, was published a year ago; both of these had been included in the conception of the class publication of the previous year.
While Vol. I of the NEWSLETTER was skimpy, Vol. II was broader in scope, covering news not only of the Club in Dewey but also of the outside world. Starting last September, it lasted 19 weekly (or mostly weekly) issues. Vol. Ill hopes to go beyond the scope of both previous volumes.
The NEWSLETTER will no longer be weekly. It will come out every second or third week, thereby giving us time to make it longer (hopefully averaging ten pages or more per issue) and include more articles. The main advantage of the weekly format was that the TV schedule could be included for the following week. This can be continued by bringing out a weekly, one-page, easy-to-dash-off publication called The John Dewey Science Fiction Club Bulletin which has already seen its third issue.
Concerning news items, the NEWSLETTER will continue to publish all the news which a high school student might be interested in, concerning the FSSF field and sometimes related fields. Thus we will continue to report all the information we receive from such publications as LOCUS, VARIETY, TV GUIDE, and similar magazines both within and outside of the F6SF fan world. We will further report whatever we receive from other sources, including the other high school clubs around the City and elsewhere.
In addition, we hope to include articles on science fiction writers or events, such as the Star Trek Con and WARP in this issue. Reviews of movies, books, and TV shows will appear in most issues.
Finally, and most importantly, we hope that our newszine will develop communication links among the different high school clubs, courses, and teachers in the field. Among the 141 students who registered for the Star Trek Con were 32 Carnarsie High School students. Many of these people would not have found out about the con without our help. It is hoped that this kind of assistance in providing information can be enlarged in the future.
So stay with us for awhile. When you graduate from Dewey, subscribe so that we can keep in touch with you and you with science fiction.
from issue #3, first part
from issue #3, first part, Joel Cohen portrays Isaac Asimov
from issue #3, first part, Joel Cohen portrays Janice Rand
from issue #3, first part, Joel Cohen portrays Spock
from issue #3, second part, Neal Adams
from issue #3, second part, Joe
