The Heinlein 4 Heroes program has shipped a grand total of 6,459 books. The program has now hit it’s stride and we know we can sustain shipping 3,000 books and 300 shipments per year. Got any old science fiction books? Ship them to us and we’ll ship them to people from the military who are…
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This thank you came to Heinlein for Heroes today. Thanks to everyone that is supporting our H4H program. November 28
The total keeps growing. We now have shipped 5,419 books. Special thanks to Geo Rule, Vice-President of The Heinlein Society; he has donated 195 Heinlein books. You can donate too; H4H needs science fiction books and takes audio books. Even if well worn or slightly damaged we’ll take them.
Since the first shipment in November 2013 we have shipped 4,767 science fiction books to the military. This includes 1,420 mostly hard cover books shipped by The Heinlein Prize Trust. The Heinlein Society is also pleased to announce the Trust is donating the cost of shipping for the H4H program. The program is a huge…
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Did you miss the Annual Meeting of the Heinlein Society? You may still review the materials that were presented. The copy linked in this notice has a little bit more information than previous copies. 2014 Annual Meeting Slides
The Heinlein Society is running its Annual Meeting as a teleconference with online materials for the first time this year. We will be discussing results of our 2014 work, announce the results of our elections, and briefly talk about our plans for the 2015 year, which officially starts for us September 1st. While all members are…
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With the shipment of books going to the VA Hospitals today, the trust has shipped 1,420 H4H books, almost all of them hardbacks, to the the men and women of the armed services. The books including postage were donated by the TRUST and sent out on behalf of THE HEINLEIN FOR HEROES program.
As required by Article IV, Section 1, of the Bylaws of The Heinlein Society (PDF file at https://heinleinsociety.org/bylaws/), the Annual Meeting of the General Membership of The Heinlein Society will convene on Sunday, 7 September 2014, beginning at 1:00 PM Pacific Daylight Time. If you are in a different time zone, you are encouraged to…
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July 7, 2014 We are pleased to announce the winners of this year’s scholarships for the 2014-2015 academic year. This year we received a total of 21 applications from students in 4 countries. The winners are: Skyler Saleebyan – Skyler will be transferring UC Santa Barbara, California this fall as a junior. He completed the first…
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This thank you card came on 6-24-2014. We shipped her another box of books today. This is what the H4H program is all about. RAH would’ve approved. img934
Dear H4H Volunteers and Operation Paperback We have reached another port call during our deployment and waiting for us pier-side was another 3 boxes of books from your organization. Once mail was sorted and we had the chance to open them, several of the crew were pleased and surprised at what was sent. We have…
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The Long Way Around To Pay It Forward How a war connected me to Virginia Heinlein and then to other veterans through Heinlein For Heroes. I am a retired Air Force officer who has been reading Robert A. Heinlein books since I was 11 years old. It is safe to say that his writings were…
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Robert James Heinlein Forum Monday, April 28 at 11:21am I’m starting to spend time remembering fondly things that occurred with Bill Patterson. One of my favorite stories is about his political leanings: Bill always described himelf as an anarchist libertarian, which always amused me because he was always dressed to the nines. When I’d ask…
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If you’ve seen our February newsletter, you know that a past president of The Heinlein Society, David Silver, passed away on February 4th. We have information on his memorial service. The service will be Monday, April 21, 2014 at the Los Angeles National Cemetery, 950 S. Sepulveda Blvd. LA 90049 (just north of Wilshire) at…
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