Every Editor relishes a crusade and I am no exception, particularly when its object is so praiseworthy as is this one. Readers will recall that my October editorial was an obituary for the late Steve Curtis who died in August 1975. At that time I suggested that a trophy - THE STEVE CURTIS MEMORIAL TROPHY - be instituted and competed for annually in a National Individual Skirmish Wargames Championship. This aroused some interest and I received offers of support (including donations) from a number of well-known people. Well now the time has come for everyone to stand up and be counted because the hope has become a reality! At my suggestion that they should organise such a competition, Steve Curtis's co-workers in SKIRMISH WARGAMES readily agreed to organise it. Having their assent, I next approached Neville Dickinson of MINIATURE FIGURINES and asked if he would be prepared to stage this year's contest at his SOUTHERN MILITAIRE, to be held in Southampton on the 3rd and 4th April. Equally readily, Neville agreed so now we have organisers and a venue - we need competitors and a trophy to make complete this most worthwhile tribute to a wonderful fellow who, although gravely physically handicapped, gave so much of himself in stimulating a bright and colourful aspect of our hobby. This is what I would like you all to do - manufacturers, clubs, organisations and individuals are invited to send contributions (however small they will be welcome) to me at 69 Hill Lane, Southampton, and a list will be given in next month's Newsletter of those who have thus contributed. Then I would like as many individual wargamers as possible to send in their entries (with a stamped addressed envelope) to Ian Colwill at 24 Mill Road, Gillingham, Kent ME7 INN - after that all they have to do is turn up at SOUTHERN MILITAIRE in April. Here they will find laid out before their admiring and incredulous eyes one of those huge and uncannily lifelike Wild West towns that are the speciality of SKIRMISH WARGAMES; the necessary Personality figures will be provided by Messrs Blake and Colwill who will also devise a series of scenarios i.e. situations which indicate the course of action that the contestants are to follow and the problems that face them. Each pair of contestants will draw for a scenario which they will then fight out until finally only two remain when a grand final will take place - the winner will then be publicly presented with his prize which, if the cash comes in as I hope, will be something he will truly cherish as a most fitting memorial to a man whom everyone admired, whether they had met him or not. Well, it now remains with YOU - we need your financial support and your physical presence - get cracking! Are wargamers becoming blase or bored? For the first time in nearly 14 years the supply of articles for the Newsletter is drying-up - readers do not write any more! That valuable feature "THE SWOP SHOP" is foundering through lack of interest and support - although it costs you nothing! How about taking a new attitude in 1976? Back to Table of Contents -- Wargamer's Newsletter # 167 To Wargamer's Newsletter List of Issues To MagWeb Master Magazine List © Copyright 1976 by Donald Featherstone. This article appears in MagWeb (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. Other articles from military history and related magazines are available at http://www.magweb.com