For the seventh year in a row, the Society will raffle off a complete set of the Virginia Edition in September, 2023. All you have to do is join or stay a member! A $45 Regular membership is all it takes to enter. The rules follow: Eligibility: “Regular” members who join or renew their…
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Update 2/20/23: The email was an mistake by our website support company. I can also verify that member information was NOT compromised with the email being sent out. Those that responded to the email, it sets passwords etc. within a testing instance of our website, so it is safe to ignore. ——————————————————- Original Post: An…
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The Society is proud to announce our scholarship fund drive! We are raising money to fully-fund an investment account to take care of scholarship giving going forward at our 2022 levels. Find out how you could own a book from Heinlein’s library as a thank-you for donating to this drive. Full information here.
This is a post to hold the information about the Society’s Annual Meeting which was held on Sunday, September 11, 2022 at 4:00 p.m. U.S. Eastern time. until about 5:45 p.m. All meeting materials have been posted to allow anyone dialing-in by voice-only to follow along. 2022 Annual Report (this document has the Board of…
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For about a week we have been having issues with our payment processor and cart system. For those of you that are trying to purchase a Regular or other type of Membership we apologize for the inconvenience. We are working on the fastest resolution possible with our card processor and if that’s not possible, need…
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Our site has been certified clean and is not alerting on any client security scanners now. Sorry for the inconvenience. No user data was accessed (it wasn’t that severe of an issue, thankfully). Original Post (7/3/22): Our webhosting company has been notified and is working on determining if this is a false positive or an…
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President JT here with a report on the weekend’s activities at Balticon 56, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. This year we started off with the induction of David Gerrold as the 2022 recipient of the Robert A. Heinlein Award given by the Baltimore Science Fiction Society with support from THS. Dr. Beatrice Kondo, THS Treasurer and award…
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Members of The Heinlein Society: As a volunteer organization, we attempt to provide good customer service with 21st-Century tools via the internet at the lowest cost possible so most of your membership dues may go to our charitable programs. Sometimes, things change and we need to react and it causes a little more work for…
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We’re inviting THS members to join our Discord server and spend some time with us the evening of our party at WorldCon. President JT makes no promises about how much interaction with people at the physical party there will be (we’ll try), but there’s no reason people can’t hang out in the DisCon3 channel at…
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To all Members or Prospective Members: At the moment, “guest” functionality is disabled on our website store “Cart” system. If you are a member that previously has just had a PayPal ‘subscription’ (not through the website payment cart system) you may never have had an account on the website. If you are new to us,…
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The 2021 Annual Meeting Report is available for posterity. It is a modified version of the slides below. The 2021 Annual Meeting Slides are available via the link. Some information will be announced first at the Annual Meeting. The THS Bylaws 2021 Proposed Changes may be found at the hyperlink. The Heinlein Society 2020 Annual…
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Dear Members: We have revised our overall website presence. To better serve our membership, since they are the overwhelming number of Heinlein Journal readers, we have merged the heinleinjournal.com website’s content into heinleinsociety.org. When we publish our next issue, you will be able to use an appropriate coupon code as a Regular or Lifetime member to receive new issues, or…
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If you were unable to attend our 2020 Annual Meeting, please see the formal report linked at 2020_Annual_Report containing the substance of what was presented during the meeting. Thank you to all who attended WORLDWIDE! The THS 2019 Annual Meeting Minutes were accepted as submitted during the meeting.
Today an invitation from “” (our Membership Chair and Director) went out to all active members. We are having our Annual Meeting via the Cisco WebEx application. Further information is below: You are cordially invited to attend our annual meeting on Sunday, September 13th at 4:00 PM EDT, 3:00 PM CDT, 2:00 PM MDT or 1:00…
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“The only constant in life is change”-Heraclitus. Our longest-serving Director, Heinlein-Award winning writer Joe Haldeman, has resigned from our Board of Directors. Joe has been willing to lend his name and face to our cause from the beginning of the Heinlein Society. With his business and personal commitments he didn’t have a lot of…
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We just kicked off an email switch for the Society. If all goes well, no one should see any bounces or ‘delayed sending’ messages for any of the email addresses listed on our website. If you get a delayed message, don’t worry. If you get a bounce/reject message please try again. It can take 48…
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At its Organizational meeting held September 9, 2019, the Board of Directors elected a new slate of Officers that also serve as the Executive Commitee of the Heinlein Society: John Tilden, President & Chairman of the Board C. Herbert Gilliland, Vice-President/Secretary Beatrice Kondo, Treasurer. The Executive Committee may be reached via the email address ,…
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The Heinlein Society is running its Annual Meeting as a teleconference. We will be discussing results of our 2019 work, announce the results of our elections, and briefly talk about our plans for the 2020 year, which officially starts for us September 1st. While all members are invited to participate, if any votes are taken…
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The minutes for the 2018 Annual Meeting of The Heinlein Society are linked below. Please review so you can offer corrections/additions/deletions at the Annual General Meeting on September 8th, 2019 at 1 p.m. PDT, if necessary, or be able to vote knowledgeably they be accepted as submitted. THS Annual Meeting 2018 Minutes_FINAL
The slides that will be presented during the Annual Meeting are available for viewing or download here. If you intend to print them, you may want to disable printing of the background if possible in your .pdf viewer. (Updated September 14, 2019 to reflect election results which were announced at the meeting.) 2019 Annual Meeting…
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We are pleased to announce Libby Sharpe as the winner of our first ‘Virginia Edition’ raffle giveaway! Libby was announced at the end of our 2017 Annual Meeting held yesterday, September 10, 2017. The contest was open to all Regular and Lifetime Members. Members who had joined for the first time within our last fiscal…
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Did you miss the Annual Meeting of the Heinlein Society? You may still review the materials that were presented. The copy linked in this notice has a little bit more information than previous copies. 2014 Annual Meeting Slides
The Heinlein Society is running its Annual Meeting as a teleconference with online materials for the first time this year. We will be discussing results of our 2014 work, announce the results of our elections, and briefly talk about our plans for the 2015 year, which officially starts for us September 1st. While all members are…
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The minutes from The Heinlein Society’s Annual Meeting of the membership held at LoneStarCon3 (WorldCon 71) on September 1, 2013 are posted with this website entry: THS_2013_AGM_Minutes . These minutes will be reviewed at the 2014 Annual Meeting to be held 9/7/14. (See separate entry with instructions on how to attend the Annual Meeting in 2014).
