Ray Beam: 1932-2012

Science-fiction and pulp fan Ray Beam Jr., who was a regular attendee at Pulpcon for many years, died Sunday, April 8, 2012, in Kokomo, Ind.

Beam won the First Fandom Hall of Fame Award in 1993 and the Sam Moskowitz Archive Award in 2000.

According to Curt Phillips on the PulpMags group at Yahoo, he was also “a fixture of Cincinnati fandom and MidwestCon.”

A complete obituary can be found here.