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ISHS History: The ASU Years Plus

ISHS History: The ASU Years Plus. by Alleen and Don Nilsen a.k.a. Momma and Poppa Bear. 1979: Some people thought that humor and science were a good match. The 1979 Conference in Los Angeles was organized by Harvey Mindess and Joy Turek. . Other people weren’t so sure.

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ISHS History: The ASU Years Plus

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  1. ISHS History: The ASU Years Plus by Alleen and Don Nilsen a.k.a. Momma and Poppa Bear

  2. 1979: Some people thought that humor and science were a good match The 1979 Conference in Los Angeles was organized by Harvey Mindess and Joy Turek.

  3. Other people weren’t so sure. --Newspaper reporters loved to take photos of people in the audience who were asleep at a humor conference.

  4. 1981: Art Buchwald cautioned the ASU humor scholars. He came to lunch at ASU and warned: You won’t succeed because people can’t laugh for 3 days straight and that’s what they’ll expect!

  5. 1982: Tempe, Arizona

  6. 1983 Poppa and Momma Bear

  7. 1985 A newspaper reporter did a story comparing Gershon Legman’s participation to that of Dean Richard Cracroft who had come from BYU to talk on “Mormons’ Laughter on the Freeway to Perfection”

  8. 1985: Mel Lazarus Came to ASUHere is his Miss Peach Lazarus drew Miss Peach as part of his presentation. He told us he would sign it if we held an auction to benefit the conference. Although we needed the $ we were too rattled to figure out how to do an instant auction, and so it now hangs unsigned in our son’s house.

  9. 1986: Tempe, Arizona

  10. 1986: Sidney Harris’s Cartoon for Charles Preston’s “Salt and Pepper” Column in the Wall Street Journal We were tickled to see this in the Wall Street Journal. The next year they brought the original to us as a gift so we know it really was based on our WHIM conference.

  11. 1987: Tempe, Arizona

  12. 1987 was the beginning of Glasnost. Five humor Scholars came from Russia. Here they are at Rawhide for the closing dinner. Surprises included: The men asking “Where’s the water?” They thought they were coming to Tampa, Florida. FBI agents attending the conference in Hawaiian shirts. A noontime siren from Tempe Butte warning us that “The Russians were coming!”

  13. We returned the visit by going to Gabrovo, Bulgaria, to attend the annual festival at the House of Humor and Satire. Here are some souveniers.

  14. 1987: Here is the Romanian write up of the WHIM humor conference. You can see ASU’s Gammage Auditorium.

  15. 2012 in Krakow, Poland

  16. 2013 in Williamsburg, Virginia The 2013 ISHS Conference took place from July 2-6, 2013 at the College of William and Mary in Virginia.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP3hKj6mKQc

  17. 2014 in Utrecht, Netherlands The 2014 ISHS Conference is scheduled for July 7-11, 2014 in Utrecht, Netherlands.  Here is the 2014 ISHS Conference Web Site: http://ishs2014utrecht.nl

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