Raymond Mariella
(September 5, 1919 – March 17, 2010)
Raymond Peel Mariella was a fan active in the 1930s and a founding member of the Philadelphia Science Fiction Society as the 11th chapter of the Science Fiction League in 1934.
He gafiated after going to college. He earned a doctorate in 1945 at Carnegie Institute of Technology, where he helped develop synthetic rubber. He became a chemistry professor and chaired the Chemistry Department at Loyola University of Chicago, where he later served as Dean of the Graduate Schools. He was Executive Director of the American Chemical Society 1978–82.
In retirement, in Sun City West, Arizona, Mariella went in for philatelic fandom, serving as president of the Sun City West Coin & Stamp Club and the Arizona Federation of Stamp Clubs and as a trustee of the Postal History Foundation. In 2006, he was named to the Arizona State Philatelic Hall of Fame.
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