2005 - Year in Review
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2005: THE CLUB YEAR IN REVIEW
In a nut shell: Membership in the Association is down. Meeting attendance has significantly declined over the past six months. Generally speaking, the bookstore events are doing well. Here are the numbers.
Date Type Speaker/Program Attendance
(A=Artist, E=Editor, F=Film Distributor, P=Publishing Executive, V=Video, W=Writer)
01/08/05 W Russell Like 25 29 36 35 21
02/12/05 F Dennis Doros 36 31 30 41 30
03/12/05 W Robert Thurston 36 36 28 37 42
04/09/05 W Clint Smith 30 34 31 52 42
05/14/05 W C J Henderson 32 32 36 43 38
06/11/05 W Joe Nazzaro 25 22 25 43 33
07/09/05 V Video: TREKKIES 2 20 19 30 32 42
08/13/05 W/P Sean Fodera 19 21 24 30 26
09/10/05 W David Mack 35 34 33 39 32
10/08/05 A Ken Kelly 26 30 38 32 41
11/12/05 W/E Darrell Schweitzer 27 35 37 43 35
12/10/05 V Videos/Holiday Party 16 26 25 21 35
Total: 327 349 373 448 417
Per Meeting Average: 27.2 29.0 31.0 37.3 34.7
The club's Special Interest Events are always in a state of flux. Films to Come and the Topic Discussion Group have been particularly strong. We have folded two of our events, the Science and Science Fiction Group and the Art of the Fantastic, into a four-in-one quarterly format along with the Voice of Science Fiction and Suspense Central on the second Monday of the month.
The following table shows attendance at the various S F A B C non meeting events of the past two years. The Anime Associates and the Bergen County Final Frontier events are not listed as they are effected by the meeting attendance.
C = Canceled Event. X = Event Not Scheduled. ? = Records Not Found.
Month 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Art of the Fantastic 10 5 7 4 9 13 7 9 8 9 4 9
2004 Art of the Fantastic 9 9 6 10 10 8 4 7 8 8 8 X
Author Discussion 11 6 7 10 9 11 11 7 13 5 4 X
2004 Author Discussion 9 9 C 14 11 10 14 12 20 11 11 X
Classics of Science F 7 6 6 5 6 7 9 10 8 6 10 X
2004 Classics of S F 5 4 7 10 8 6 9 11 14 8 8 X
Fantasy Gamers 4 7 8 8 7 6 6 6 7 6 8 8
2004 Fantasy Gamers C C C 5 5 5 5 C 7 7 9 11
Films To Come 8 12 10 15 11 12 12 11 12 13 9 11
2004 Films To Come 11 11 5 8 7 10 9 11 8 11 10 X
Monsters of Horror 6 7 5 5 6 8 5 5 5 6 7 8
2004 Monsters of Horror 4 5 6 7 7 5 6 4 8 7 6 X
Science & S F 5 3 2 2 6 3 5 3 C C C C
2004 Science & S F C 7 2 3 6 6 4 8 9 10 5 X
Special Activity 1 4 18 8 4 X X X X 41 C 7
2004 Special Activity 12 7 ? C 8 7 C ? 5 68 C 6
That's Science Fiction! 6 10 9 7 7 10 7 8 11 6 10 6
2004 That's S Fiction! 8 8 8 7 9 12 9 9 11 11 9 6
Topic Discussion 8 7 12 8 12 17 15 17 12 5 13 X
2004 Topic Discussion C C 7 11 12 10 8 14 5 7 11 X
Writers' Critique 5 C - 6 6 7 7 6 6 6 6 C
2004 Writers' Critique 4 8 5 5 5 5 6 4 6 C C 4