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The fifth [[President]] of the Forum. For a semester Harold was the ONLY Forumite as all others had left or graduated and no new members appeared. "He singlehandedly kept the Forum alive against the advancing forces of Darkness/Polity until reinforcements arrived." (Really!) | The fifth [[President]] of the Forum. For a semester Harold was the ONLY Forumite as all others had left or graduated and no new members appeared. "He singlehandedly kept the Forum alive against the advancing forces of Darkness/Polity until reinforcements arrived." (Really!) | ||
Or, per an account by an alt.sf4m (Usenet) poster who claimed to have read all logs from 1969 to 1980, after becoming President following [[Norm Hochberg]]'s prolonged absence from active office, he and [[Phil Markowitz]] were the only ''two'' remaining Forumites. Future [[President]] [[Lenny Dorsky]] "called a Meeting in October 1974 to form a science fiction club. Harold Groot... attended the meeting and let them know that there already WAS a club, with its own library even...and led them to the Original Forum." Following would be a rare instance where the majority of active Forumites were new members. ([https://sf4m.org/Historium/Timeline/1997-12-30%20Forum%20History%20Info.txt 1997-12-30]) | |||
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Per the dedication at the beginning of Log 22, "Log 22 has been donated in the | Per the dedication at the beginning of Log 22, "Log 22 has been donated in the memory of Harold Groot, who kept the Forum open single-handedly for an entire year. Thanx, Harold! You were a great Head Librarian" | ||
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Revision as of 02:41, 7 May 2024
The fifth President of the Forum. For a semester Harold was the ONLY Forumite as all others had left or graduated and no new members appeared. "He singlehandedly kept the Forum alive against the advancing forces of Darkness/Polity until reinforcements arrived." (Really!)
Or, per an account by an alt.sf4m (Usenet) poster who claimed to have read all logs from 1969 to 1980, after becoming President following Norm Hochberg's prolonged absence from active office, he and Phil Markowitz were the only two remaining Forumites. Future President Lenny Dorsky "called a Meeting in October 1974 to form a science fiction club. Harold Groot... attended the meeting and let them know that there already WAS a club, with its own library even...and led them to the Original Forum." Following would be a rare instance where the majority of active Forumites were new members. (1997-12-30)
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Per the dedication at the beginning of Log 22, "Log 22 has been donated in the memory of Harold Groot, who kept the Forum open single-handedly for an entire year. Thanx, Harold! You were a great Head Librarian"
| Preceded by Norm Hochberg |
President
3/73 - 12/74 |
Succeeded by Lenny Dorsky |