Randy Smith has been hanging around Fandom for forty years or so, give or take. During that time he as helped run conventions, written articles for fanzines, published APA-zines, led book discussion groups, collected comics and old pro-zines, played role-playing and other types of stfnal games, and spoken on more convention panels than he cares to think about. He occasionally hums filksong tunes and on one occasion he participated in a Worldcon Masquerade. A few years ago he ran and lost a campaign for the Trans-Atlantic Fan Fund. Don’t be alarmed if you see him wearing a clergy collar. He is also an ordained United Methodist pastor serving a church in the San Francisco Bay Area.