 Bill & Toby
Gottfried were on
the initial LCC Committee in San Francisco and have
participated ever since. Toby
retired from her position at Calypte Biomedical in
2009 and Bill
is a pediatrician who currently works with the State Medical
society as a surveyor of Quality Medical Practices. Both
were formally introduced to the mystery convention
in 1985 at Bouchercon in San Francisco and have attended
almost all Bouchercons since. They received
the Don Sandstrom Memorial Award for Lifetime Achievement
in Mystery Fandom in 2008 and the David Thompson Memorial Special Service Award at Bouchercon Raleigh in 2015. Bill and Toby were the program chairs
for Bouchercon 1997 in Monterey; and were chairs
of the Left Coast Crime conventions in 2004 (Monterey)
and 2009 (Hawaii) and co-chairs (with Lucinda Surber & Stan Ulrich) in 2014 (Monterey). They have attended almost all of the
LCC conventions. Bill and Toby were Fan Guests of
Honor at the first CrimeFest in Bristol, England,
and have been participants in Janet Rudolph’s Mystery
Readers International reading group since 1985. They also
have “chaired” their
own summer reading group, Mystery Addicts, for about 18
years. Bill and Toby presently own about 16,000 mysteries,
some of which they have even read.
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