2003 - Year in Review

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2003: The Year in Review (Part One)

PROGRAMS & ATTENDANCE:

Although there were no big name guests scheduled the past year, the Association continued to provide an eclectic mix of speakers from the science fiction, fantasy, horror and comics fields. The pre meeting events continue to provide and extra treat for early arrivals.

Meeting attendance was down significantly, with three of our meetings drawing under 30 attendees. A list of our Year 2003 speakers appears below, along with the Attendance Totals for the past five years. Note that figures are for officially attending adults, it does not include children, people who left before the meeting was officially called to order or arrived after the meeting had officially concluded. The total includes the speaker and nay guest (s)hhe had brought.

Date Type Speaker/Program Attendance

(A=Artist, B=Bookseller, E=Editor, F=Filmmaker, P=Publisher, V=Video, W=Writer)

2003 2002 2001 2000 1999

01/11/03 W/A T Di Gerolamo / C Moreno 36 35 21 32 23

02/08/03 W Terry Mc Garry 30 41 30 29 22

03/08/03 V/* Asta Sinusas 28 37 42 34 32

04/12/03 E/B Matthew Schwartz 31 52 42 30 29

05/10/03 E John Douglas 36 43 38 36 41

06/14/03 W Samuel Florman 25 43 33 31 41

07/12/03 W Tee Morris / Tony Ruggiero 30 32 42 33 40

08/09/03 E Jim Minz 24 30 26 27 30

09/13/03 F Bev Penberthy / Pharaohs 33 39 32 34 39

10/11/03 V/* Videos / Discussions 38 32 41 22 38

11/08/03 W Walter H Hunt 37 43 35 30 33

12/13/03 V Videos / Holiday Party 25 21 35 35 32

Total: 373 448 417 373 400

Per Meeting Average: 31.0 37.3 34.7 31.0 33.3

NON MEETING EVENTS

The following table shows attendance at the various S F A B C non meeting events of the past year. The Anime Associates and Bergen County Final Frontier Events are not listed as they are effected by the meeting attendance.

C = Canceled Events

Month 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2

Art of the Fantastic 11 3 12 4 8 8 9 13 8 8 10 x

Author Discussion 7 4 10 8 6 8 14 12 9 13 8 x

Classics of Science F 7 7 6 9 5 7 9 6 9 9 8 x

Fantasy Gamers 5 4 3 3 3 6 4 3 3 3 3 x

Films To Come 5 6 x x 5 9 4 10 9 10 10 x

Final Frontier c 6 6 9 7 8 6 8 8 10 6 x

Media Tie In 5 5 4 x 10 7 x x x x x x

Monsters of Horror 3 3 C 7 6 8 7 7 6 5 7 x

Science & S F 9 7 6 8 7 9 7 10 x 4 5 6

Special Activity 7 x 7 10 13 2 x x 8 68 x 6

That's Science Fiction! 8 8 7 6 7 7 8 9 10 7 13 7

Topic Discussion 8 8 8 8 6 7 5 7 6 9 11 x

Voice of Science Fic 4 C 3 3 x x x x x x x 4

Writers' Critique 5 4 C x x 8 4 6 4 5 4 x