TAFF Race Opens

Nominations have opened for the 2000 TAFF race from Europe to North America

Ulrika O'Brien, North American TAFF Administrator, reports as follows:

Nominations are now open for the year 2000, Westbound (Europe to North America) TAFF Race. The winner will attend Chicon 2000, the 58th World SF Convention, in Chicago, August 31 - September 4, 2000. Prospective candidates should ensure that signed nominations (two from North America and three from Europe) reach the Administrators by midnight on December 1, 1999, along with their 100-word platform and a bond in the amount of 10# Sterling or $20 U.S. made out to the administrator.

TAFF gratefully accepts your freely-given money and material for auction; such generosity has sustained the Fund for over 40 years. TAFF is fandom's oldest travel fund, and one of its worthiest causes -- give early and often! Please contact your nearest administrator for details.

The European Administrator: Maureen Kincaid Speller 60 Bournemouth Rd. Folkestone, Kent, CT19 5AZ, UNITED KINGDOM

The North American Administrator: Ulrika O'Brien 123 Melody Ln., #C Costa Mesa, CA 92627 USA

Maureen Kincaid Speller, the European Administrator, followed with:

I'm happy to announce that the TAFF 2000 race has begun, with the traditional request for candidates to make themselves known to the administrator. The winner of this TAFF race will travel to Chicago next August, to attend Chicon

Anyone wishing to stand for TAFF needs to find five nominators, two from America, three from Europe; needs to write a 100-word platform for the ballot paper, and to post a £10 bond, promising - barring Acts of God - to travel to Chicon.

Your platform, bond and the five signed nominations need to be with the administrator by 1st December, 1999 ... and we're talking paper here, not email.

The race itself will run until 6th May, 2000

Please disseminate this wherever seems appropriate.

For further details about TAFF, contact Maureen Kincaid Speller at 60 Bournemouth Road, Folkestone, Kent, CT19 5AZ, UK or email her at taff@acnestis.demon.co.uk

-- Mike Scott

13 Oct 1999