Perry L. Lewis

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Perry L. Lewis was a fan from Glendale active in the 1930s. He was a member of the Glendale, CA SFL, LASFL and the UK's Science Fiction Association (SFA).

In Memoirs of a Superfluous Fan, T. Bruce Yerke described attending a LASFL meeting on August 19, 1937:

When I first walked into the Little Brown Room in January of that year, Perry L. Lewis was my immediate discoverer. 'Is Mr. Ackerman here?' I queried timorously. Mr. Lewis, enjoying the situation immensely, let out a whoop of 'Mr. Ackerman?!' and shooed me down the room to where Forrie was sitting.

At the time I felt Lewis to be an obnoxious person. Now I wish I had been old enough to appreciate the character. Lewis was one of the 'Glendale SFL', a triumvirate of Squires-Fox-Lewis. He worked in a stationary [sic] store. I imagine he was a typically aggressive, intelligent, cynical high school graduate of the day. My later impressions of him, up until he finally dropped out sometime late in 1939 or early 1940, were always enjoyable. He was sarcastic, but an interested fan of the type that existed then in large quantities, reading, corresponding, and collecting. Nothing much more.

Novae Terrae #19 reported that October, 21 1937 Lewis replaced Ackerman as secretary of the Los Angeles branch of the SFA and Yerke said that at a LASFL meeting on December 16, 1937, Lewis and Squires were elected to a 'dual secretaryship' of the group. However in 1938:

The Glendale SFL was absent from all but a very few of these [LASFL] meetings, due to the extreme distance involved... something over twenty five miles including one interurban trip, a streetcar ride and a long bus ride. The gradual subordination of the club to Imagination! and the preoccupation with the problems of running a regular monthly magazine which, with the exception of the British Novae Terrae and its luminaries, was the largest fan magazine being produced, created a rift between the interests of the Glendale group and our own. It was only a matter of evolutionary course that Fox, Squires and Lewis would find less and less for them in the LASFL. By the end of the year, their attendance had become extremely irregular. However, there was no ill-feeling involved.

In May 1938:

The Squires-Lewis Secretariat at last petered out. Squires resigned as an active member and officer, and Lewis, his unofficial aide-de-camp, followed suit.

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