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the loss of a keystone
Mar. 23rd, 2015 10:35 amGone from us, Peggy Rae Sapienza (previously Pavlat, nee McKnight).
Peggy Rae was one of the people who made SF conventions work properly. I'm one of the hundreds who worked with her and the thousands who benefited from her work. Peggy Rae would attend conventions just to find something to work on. She and Dawn Plaskon descended on Potlatch as a team any number of times to whisk off with registration or the auction. The year that I was in charge of the auction, the two of them did all of the gruntwork: check-in, sales, recruiting runners, working with the auctioneers. I could stick entirely to publicity and solicitation of donations. It was a great division of labor. As I told them afterwards, they made me look good.
Peggy Rae was also an energetic conversationalist who was always receptive to questions about her early days as a second-generation fan. Here's her bio as a Worldcon Guest of Honor.
Peggy Rae was one of the people who made SF conventions work properly. I'm one of the hundreds who worked with her and the thousands who benefited from her work. Peggy Rae would attend conventions just to find something to work on. She and Dawn Plaskon descended on Potlatch as a team any number of times to whisk off with registration or the auction. The year that I was in charge of the auction, the two of them did all of the gruntwork: check-in, sales, recruiting runners, working with the auctioneers. I could stick entirely to publicity and solicitation of donations. It was a great division of labor. As I told them afterwards, they made me look good.
Peggy Rae was also an energetic conversationalist who was always receptive to questions about her early days as a second-generation fan. Here's her bio as a Worldcon Guest of Honor.
