Cathie Youden

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Catherine 'Cathie' Youden, sometimes spelled Kathie Youden, was a UK fan from London active in the mid-1950s. She is listed in Ron Bennett's Directory of Science Fiction Fandom for 1955 and attended Supermancon in 1954, where she is listed as Catherine Yonden, and Cytricon I and Cytricon II in 1955 and 1956 respectively. At the latter she features in absentia in Mal Ashworth's report published in Triode #9 (January 1957):

And there was the fan Who Lost Kathie Youden. We were sitting and discussing odds and ends in our room – several of us – and I had just tried to suggest an answer to Ken Bulmer's wonderings as to how he came to be the second most popular author in the Nebula poll when he had had only one story published in Nebula, by offering that maybe it was because he had had only one story published in Nebulathat he was the second most popular author, when, The Fan Who Lost Kathie Youden first appeared. He knocked on the door and asked if Kathie Youden was within. Walt told him no and he went away. Half an hour later he came back. Were we sure Kathie Youden wasn't in there? We looked around; sure we were sure she wasn't there. He went away again. Half an hour later there was a knock on the door. Well, had we maybe seen Kathie at all? No, we we're sorry, we hadn't seen her any place. Another half hour went by and another knock came at the door. Well – rather wearily by this time – did we perhaps have any idea where Kathie Youden might be? Again we were sorry but we didn't. He went away and didn't come back that time, so perhaps he found Kathie Youden after all or, on the other hand, he might have joined forces with Sir Galahad. Certainly Sir Galahad would have found things a lot easier (the Holy Grail in particular) with that fan for company.

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