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Fan Guest of Honor Bill Bowers, at IguanaCon, 1978  (Page = List of WorldCons)

I was on the steering committee and a voting member of the committee once we got the bid. Bill Bowers was, indeed, our Fan Guest of Honor, but the internal link you have en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Bowers has nothing to do with the Bill Bowers of fanzine fandom. Bill was never a movie star; he was the editor of Outworlds, and lived for some time in Denver, Colorado. There are only two links I can find to fandom's Bill Bowers. The first is a small SFWA article on his death in 2005, which mentions his being FGoH at IguanaCon; the other is another SFWA link on Bill's TAFF trip in 2001. Bill was a good friend, and, indeed, was present at our party at MidAmericon when we received the news we'd won the bid. At that very time we asked him to be our FGoH, and he happily accepted.

Sandsurfer3 (talk) 23:26, 1 March 2009 (UTC)Sandsurfer3