Leonard's Pennsy & Otherwise Freaks

Fan Club
Name:	Leonard's Pennsy & Otherwise Freaks
Dates:	founded May 1971
Founder(s):	Becca Oroukin
Leadership:
Country based in:	N. Huntingdon, PA
Focus:	Star Trek: TOS
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Leonard's Pennsy & Otherwise Freaks was a Star Trek correspondence club based in N. Huntingdon, PA.

From a 1973 ad in Terra Vulcan Yearbook: "YOU GOTTA BE CRAZY — to join this club. What is it? Leonard's Pennsy & Otherwise Freaks (LPOF). It doesn't matter if you're slightly demented— in fact, that might be an asset!"

In 1976, according to a listing in the Star Trek Lives! program book, it had 85 members.

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Leonard's Pennsy & Otherwise Freaks v.1 n1. was published in Winter 1971 and contains 2 pages.

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President: Eva Whitley

Vice President: Becca Oroukin

A message from Eva:

As right pointed ear of Leonard’s Pehnsey and Otherwise freaks, I see the Chapter as a loose framework of a correspondence club. Write to each, other, not just to the officers. Then, when we become familiar to each other, we can decide what direction we shall be going in. Above all, 1st this newsletter be a forum for all members. Pastak, y'all.

Left pointed ear speaks: Here’s hoping all members will have as much fun scribbling mad-mail to fellow LN fiends as I do! May your Bic pens never run out of ink!

Pastaklan vesla, Becca.

As of this issue, there were ten members. Some of them were Dawna Snyder, Bruce Nardoci, Nancy Gervais, Regina Marvinny, and Karen Flanery.

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Leonard's Pennsy & Otherwise Freaks v.2 n.1 was published in Winter/Spring 1972 and contains 7 pages.

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This issue had an announcement that the club would merge with The Leonard Nimoy Nuts and Bolts.

• some of the new members: Alice Jones, Diane Marchant, Kay Houston, Terri Dorosch

From the fan intros:

• • "I'm known for my jokes, W.C. Fields imitations and returning lost dogs...Unusual but enjoying life."
  • "Though Spock is my favorite person but I also like the Klingons. If anyone out here can find Klingon info, let me know! Klingon material for me is sparse and far apart in finding. As you can tell... I really do like Klingons!"
  • "I am wife to one engineer, logical stinker. I got two girl-kids, a dog, a cat, and whatever comes in... Love debates and rapping - not necessarily to win, but to learn something. I'm a human being - capable of nicest things and the worst things. I love the company of soul friends. I try to be one. I read a motto that I liked so well I wanna sum me up that way. "I'm not afraid of tomorrow because I've seen yesterday...and I love today."

From the zine:

• short article about Philadelphia televisions stations and showing "butchered" reruns of Trek and the fan campaign to stop it: "Grateful fans have written and called the station to voice their approval. Neilsen and American Research Bureau ratings have shown a great increase in the viewing audience. The larger audience increased the value of the remaining commercial time. Everybody wins; WKBS receives more money for less time, viewers see more ST with fewer interruptions while advertisers reach a larger audience."
• Leila's Thoughts, poem by Dawna Snyder
• The Men of the Enterprise, poem by Lavon Dunaway (Delvan)
• ad for Equicon
• cartoon by Mike Zink
• an article about "Captain 20," a children's cartoon that has a character that looks and acts like Mr. Spock, a "gimmick I dislike intensely.... Captain 20 has pointed ears with a haircut exactly like Spock's. When going off the air, he gives the Vulcan salute and says, "live long and win many prizes."
• The First Time I Met Leonard Nimoy, testimonial by Kay Houston (meeting Nimoy, his wife, and Al Frazier in Alaska in the wilderness in 1967; it is possible this is fiction)
• a fan asks: "Attention all - do any LPOF-ers have cassette recordings and like to meet people? If so, make a cassette and send it to me and I will respond on the same cassette. SASE appreciated."
• ads for many things including Grup, Spock Enslaved, The Nimoy Factor

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Leonard's Pennsy & Otherwise Freaks v.2 n.2 was published in April 1973 and contains 7 pages.

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From Demi Hamm, describing ushering, and futilely trying to meet Leonard Nimoy:

... we wasted time playing space tag, telling hobbit jokes, and singing our favorite LN songs while standing in the parking lot. Before long a young bearded man walked up and asked what we were doing. We told him we were ushers and he said, "Good, 'cause I'd hate to have to tell you to leave." His name was Russ and he was a stage hand, and worked with Leonard. He asked about my IDIC's and mentioned seeing many LNAFers wearing them. We told him what they were, where to get them, and then we had to leave as it was almost 7:30.

From some fan intros:

• • "I luv 'im even more for that earth-shocking scene in Catlow. It takes a great deal of courage to show 'imself that way and I'm very, very proud of 'im for 'is courage."
  • "My favorite actors are LN, Shatner, Doohan, others in ST, Pete Duel, David Selby, and Jonathan Frid."
  • "I pray for world peace, for love and understanding and wish I could take away disease, sickness, pain, and poverty from the world and to stop hate and bigotry."
  • "I have two beloved hamsters, Tiny and Petey."
  • "Am known for bicycle-riding with my dog Quentin sitting in the basket. Most people can't believe it!"
  • "My favorite shows are MASH, Adam 12, Lawrence Welk, and Flip Wilson."
  • "I've been known to drive people crazy telling them how much I love Star Trek and especially Leonard Nimoy...My main hobbies are ST, coin collecting, fan clubbing, driving people bananas, and loving life."
  • "... I like to read, write weird letters and debate the Irish-German question with anyone who's interested."

Zine contents:

• the merger with The Leonard Nimoy Nuts and Bolts has been postponed
• very small bits of Trek news
• a short description by Alice Jones about meeting Leonard Nimoy at McGovern campaign headquarters November 1972
• seven new members are listed
• short intros from members Teresa (Terri) Dorosch, Cathy Doyle, Charlotte Xavier, Abby Uhlan, Beccy Reichstein, Carole Dallek
• poems by Janice
• poem by Cathy Doyle
• cartoon by Mike Zinks
• an account by Demi Hamm about being a volunteer usher in San Diego at the Nimoy play "The Man in the Glass Booth"
• a con report for ISTC (1973) by Becca Oroukin