SC - Re: year SCA was created

[DUNHAM Patricia R]

The mythology -I- learned was that Paxson had just completed her
Master's and was about to leave for a European celebration trip...  It
was more of a "hail (your degree) and fare-well (you lucky dog)" party.

And I'm not sure if MZB was there but I do know that Dr Elizabeth Pope,
a Berkeley faculty member and author of two of my favorite YA novels:
The Perilous Gard, and The Sherwood Ring, did attend.

And at the end of the party, they did go out in their "garb" and do a
march up and down that central Berkeley street, and when asked,
responded that they were "protesting the 20th Century".

I think Paxson's official version is in the Known Worlde Handbooke.

Chimene
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| From: Decker, Terry D.
| To: 'sca-cooks at Ansteorra.ORG'
| Subject: RE: SC - Re: year SCA was created
| Date: Monday, February 02, 1998 1:31PM
|
| > >>My Lady Aoife:
| > >>             Not meaning to seem picky,this is AS XXXII but
| > >>your web page says :
| > >>
| > >>>>created in the ****80's****
| > >
| > Actually the SCA was created WAY before the 'early' 1980's.  I knew
the
| > SCA
| > had been around for at least almost 25 years because June 1999 we
are
| > having our 25th anniversary celebration for the founding of the
Dominion
| > of
| > Myrkfaelinn.  So I checked www.sca.org, and I discovered it was even
older
| > than that.  Here's the paragraph snipped down:
| >
| > "Since 1966, the society has grown to include over 20,000 paying
members
| > in
| > the US, Canada, Great Britain, Sweden, Finland, Germany, Italy,
Okinawa,
| > New Zealand, Australia, Iceland, the Netherlands, Scotland, Ireland,
and
| > Spain."
| >
| > 	Angeline
| >
| > >Well, yes, I see your point, but most of the folks looking at my
page
| > will
| > >be directed there from mundane sources (ie: the cooking pod at
tripod, of
| > >which I seem to be the only HISTORICAL cook). They'd have no clue
what AS
| > >XXXII means.
| > >
| > >>
| >
| AS = Anno Societais = In the Year of the Society.  My spelling of
Latin is
| atrocious, so I will ask someone to correct it.
|
| If I remember this correctly, the SCA derives from Diane Paxson's
medieval
| birthday party held May 1, 1964.  The party was so enjoyable that
| participants continued to have events in medieval garb and organized
the
| SCA.  The organization was incorporated in 1966 and held a demo at the
World
| SF Convention in LA that year.  The SCA has maintained May 1 as its
official
| birthday.
|
| Bear
|
|
| > -----------------------------------------------
| > Lady Angeline di Aquila
| > Dominion of Myrkfaelinn
| >   mka. Angie Malone
| >   mundanely located in Ithaca, NY
| >
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