The "Club Profiles" enable each member to introduce themselves to the club at large, following a loose format. If you wish to participate, send a SASE to the Editor for a Profiles Form.

Jil Conway

BIRTHDATE: November 20
BIRTH PLACE: Mountain View, CA
HAIR COLOR: Blonde
EYE COLOR: Green
HEIGHT: 5' 8"
MARTIAL STATUS: Married
SEX: Female

I'm from California, and live with my father and two nephews, to whom I've been mother since my sister died 15 years ago. The eldest is Michael (19), who's in his first year at the University of Missouri. He hasn't selected a major yet, but it may be in the chemistry/ genetics/computer programming areas (?). His younger brother, Kevin (16) is a sophomore in high school, a 2nd-degree black belt in Taekwondo, and quite an artist. (If Michael and his brother seem like complete opposites, the impression is correct: raising them has been quite an experience!) We moved to Missouri six years ago, when my husband and I separated.

I'm ambidextrous, (but only because I was trained to use my right hand for school), and I'm a member of MENSA. I enjoy writing, computer programming, and role-playing. I'm involved in a LOT of play-by-mail games, most of which are played with Gennie Summers. I'm also a member of the KLINGON STRIKE FORCE, Segel Weyr (a Pernese club), Unrealities, the Role-Playing Games SIC (Special Interest Group), the Hands on Mallard computer club, and several other MENSA SIGs. The level of correspondence I handle each day is often overwhelming, but I wouldn't have it any other way. I've met some very interesting people through these clubs and formed some very rewarding friendships as a result.

Bruce Parrello

BIRTHDATE: October 20
BIRTH PLACE: Chicago, IL
HAIR COLOR: Black
EYE COLOR: Brown
HEIGHT: 5' 10"
WEIGHT: 180 lbs
MARTIAL STATUS: Married
SEX: Male

I have been playing D&D for about 10 years, and Paranoia for about three. I have DMed both. When at GENCON, I always try to play one of Rick Emerich's dungeons because I like being slaughtered when I'm just a few feet from the goal of the campaign. [Bruce, give it a shot this year: Jeff Young and I are running a two slot event with awesome 3-D gaming aids and miniatures, certain to be a good time! Editor] I also enjoy computer and video games, and my hope is that if I practice enough I can get as good at them as my son. I can be found on the Compuserve computer network under the ID #76702,511. 1 am a sysop for the WPSGA and WPSGB forums, but I also hang out on GAMERS, the gaming forum.

I've been earning money as a computer programmer off and on for almost 20 years. Two years ago I finally graduated from Northwestern with a Ph.D. in Computer Science, and since then I have been free lancing full time for Lotus Development. I designed the mathematical engine for the Lotus 1-2-3/G Solver, a product that won lots of awards, but which is setting new records for low sales.

I've been married for 13 years. When I was a teaching assistant at NIU I saw a girl in the hallway outside the Computer Science Department office and bribed the department secretary to assigning the girl to my office. We were married three months later. We have four children - a four year old boy, two year old twin girls, and a newborn baby girl. While I was in school I stayed home with the children while my wife worked. This gave me a first-hand appreciation of what it must be like to be attacked by a horde of kobolds, a theme I tried to work into the first dungeon module I designed. During that period I wrote three plays, two of which -- Andy and Radioactive Mutant Aphids Linked to Cancer -- were produced by a local developmental theater. The third play, a children's fairy tale about the fallacies inherent in Keynesian econometrics, is having trouble finding the right market. I have also written a book about PC data bases called The Theory and Practice Of DataPerfect. It's not available in bookstores, but it's selling a little better than Lotus 1-2-3/G.

Outside of gaming, my hobbies are getting depressed about the Chicago Cubs [Me too! - Editor], collecting comic books, reading science fiction, and trying to find a safe but effective means of birth control.

Dan Lambert

BIRTHDATE: August 4
BIRTH PLACE: Inglewood, CA
HAIR COLOR: Brown
EYE COLOR: Blue
HEIGHT: 5' 10"
WEIGHT: 170 lbs
MARTIAL STATUS: Single
SEX: Male

I was born and raised in the Los Angeles area, and have been playing RPGs and wargames for roughly 13 years. In 1978, 1 discovered D&D, AD&D, and Tunnels & Trolls. I also discovered wargames in that same year, thanks to Steve Jackson's OGRE. AD&D Introduced me to role-playing gaming, but I have devoted most of my time to other RPGs in recent years, including GURPS, Call of Cthulhu, and Star Wars. In 1983 1 ran a short-lived fantasy PBM game, based on the T&T system, entitled OtherEarth.

Aside from gaming, my other interests include history (especially WWII era Europe), literature, music (Fleetwood Mac is my favorite group), drawing, writing, and reading science fiction, fantasy, and horror. Some of my favorite authors include H. P. Lovecraft, Stephen King, Robert Anton Wilson, and Harlan Ellison. I am a fan of the TV show "Twin Peaks," and I recently finished writing GURPS Twin Peaks, a sourcebook for the GURPS RPG. My short stories have been published in Autoduel Quarterly, Other Worlds, and the El Camino College literary journal Myriad. I am a frequent contributor to The Sorcerer's Scrolls, winner of the 1988 Origins Award for best amateur gaming publication.

I graduated from El Camino College in 1988 with an A.A. in History, and from Loyola Marymount University in 1990 with a B.A. in History. I am currently working towards an M.A. in English from Loyola, which means that I don't have much time for anything else (except gaming, that is!)

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