Editors note

Collectors and wargamers who have followed the various publications in the hobby for any length at time may have stopped wondering and scratching their heads about the amazing activities of Dr. Whitney B. Young. I haven't. Each repetition simply adds to my amazement. Dr. Young currently holds the record amount for Armchair General subscribers for most frequent change of address unless you count college students who change back and forth in the school year.

When Dr. Young arrives at any new location at least two things happen first, even though nobody in the outside world may have ever heard of wargaming at that location, wargames spring up in a sudden rash. After a brief start the impetus picks up through newspaper articles and/or lobby displays Whitney Young is in town any theater showing a musket period epic is likely to have a massive display of military miniatures in its lobby.

The methods are somewhat obscure. I do not subscribe to the superstition that he immediately, on arriving at a new location, scatters a handful of 25mm miniatures in a vacant lot, stamps his feet, and finds new wargamers rising from the ground. On the other hand, I cannot propose a rationalist explanation for the phenomenon.

Prior to January 1969 there was no organized war gaming in Utah, to our knowledge. When I first moved here from Kansas City, Missouri to the Salt Lake City area, figures of 54 mm and 25 mm were displayed at a leading hobby shop here and there was some advertisement in local papers. in time there developed anucleaus of hard-core wargamers and the hobby began to expand. Some months ago, the Russian extravaganza of war and peace played in Salt Lake City and the club, now named the "Wasatch Wargaming Military Collecters Association" received permission to display some of our figures of Boredino which attracted some other players and gained us a little more notoriety. Recently we have raised some attention due to a newspaper story in one of the local newspapers. I am enclosing it for you plus some other pictures taken of our wargaming group for the local Air Force base news.

We have about ten active members in the group and others would come occassionall and on one occasion had seventeen present for a gigantic game. We have approximately 2,000 25mm troops painted and twice that many yet to be painted. These are all from the Napoleonic period and we are developing a World War II and ancient wargame for others who wish to expand into these ares. We have shore batteries and are experimenting with ship to shore actions with troops landing, etc.

We utilize a mixture of rules involving scrubby and some from the Midwest War Gamers Association and also thoses I was familiar with in Kansas City, all of which we have modified to suit ourselves. Our Officers at present are myself, as preseident; John McEwan, VP; Frank Coats, secretary, Blain Binkard, Treasure; and Joe Shaw as Historian.

One of our future projects involves setting up a display in a movie theatre lobby, much as we did before, when the move Waterloo comes to town. According to newspaper sources it is now under production in Russia.

Mr. McEwan is new producing some 54 mm models of good quality and 25mm Napoleonic cannons of various calibers that are really excellent. He is producing these commercially but not yet enough capital to advertise