Dorothy Hasse
(November 17, 1922 – July 30, 2004)
Helen Finn, Dorothy Finn, Eleanor O'Brien, Peggy Finn and Paul Freehafer, clockwise from upper left, at the 1941 LASFS Xmas party.
Photo by Russ Hodgkins.
Dorothy Hasse (née Finn, later Arbaugh) was a Los Angeles fan active in LASFS as early as 1940. She was a second-generation fan; her mother, Helen Finn, was Director of LASFS in 1942. Her sister, Peggy Crawford, also belonged to the club.
She married fellow LASFan and author Henry Hasse. They were soon on the outs with LASFS, however, for unclear reasons.
According to Francis Towner Laney in Ah! Sweet Idiocy! (1948), in late 1943:
Echoes of the expulsion of Mrs. Henry Hasse, with the resultant resignation of her husband and Bill and Peggy Crawford, were still rocking around the place. Mrs. Hasse, the former Dorothy Finn, had, it seems, threatened to break up the club; however, it was not unapparent that many of her objections to the group were only too firmly founded on fact, and it did not seem to me that the group wanted to do anything about removing these flaws.
This makes Dorothy one of the few members ever to be kicked out of the “Death Will Not Release You” club. The next would be Claude Degler.
By 1948, Dorothy had divorced Henry and married Richard Arbaugh. They had eight children together. Eventually, they moved to Virginia, where she died in 2004.
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