University Daily Kansan
Monday, March 1. 1976
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Staff photo by DAVE CRENSHAW
Trekkie
daughter Sandra Marshak to write two “Star Trek” books. This is “Mam's” eighth convention.
known to Trekkies as "Mama," Anna Hassan has inspired her
"We'll spend $80 easy here today," said Turnman, whose main purchase was a blue dress from the store. "We're going to have to deal."
"STAR TREK" is the main family hobby that all of us are into," he said.
Turman and his family were all wearing "Star Trek" shirts. They said they were planning to attend the world "Star Trek" convention next September in New York.
Langley said he was the only vendor at the convention licensed with Paramount Corp. to sell his own infringing copyrights. He said he bought hacksters were out to rip off the fan by selling inferior merchandise and to rip off software that is copyrighted material on the black market.
"I think a lot of dealers don't give a damn about the public," he said from underneath his Hoot Gibson cowboy hat, which was out of place in the futuristic atmosphere.
Chuck Turman, 31, of Kansas City, brought his wife and two children to the
Interior designer Kay Johnson, 40, said she had a 20-year-old son who liked "Star Wars."
Langley described the typical Trekkie, a composite from his experiences attending various interventions: "The boys are very intelligent, they are tracutive to girls. They wear glasses and use 'Star Trek' as a sexual outlet through a home image. The girls are often overweight and pretty. They don't have many dates and use 'Star Trek' as a love projection."
"But he thinks I'm nuts." she said.
Michael "micks I'm mots," she said. Johnson said he liked his fan for about a year, and was going to the Los Angeles convention in April. She said she liked the optimism shown in "Star
Star ... From page one
Mama Anna adopted by Trekkies
By LYNDA SMITH
Staff Writer
KANSAS CITY, Mo.—Anna Hassan is everyone's ideal mother.
She's warm, lively, ingenuous—the type of person one could easily picture nursing a sick child through the night. That that's why she and fans of "Star Trek" can be her Mamma.
Her indefatigable energy, only slightly grazing hair and small, trim form belie her
She was born in Jerusalem 70 years ago and has lived in the United States about 45 years. Her broken English is a constant reminder that Anne is from "the old country."
Marashak and Culbreath were at the convention to take part in panel discussions
Not only is Anna the hit of Star Trek fans and stars, but she also has been in two television series.
Anna was at Kansas City's Star Trekon "75 convention this weekend, the eighth one for her, and was considered by the convention's hosts a "very special guest." She wrote that she found the story written with Myrna Culbreath ("Star Trek Lives") and "Star Trek: The New Voyages."
THROUGHOUT A 20-MINUTE conversation, Anna was unfailingly cordial and buoyant. She greeted most who passed by her and after 15 minutes on her feet, sat down in the chair next to her only at the insistence of a reporter.
"I'm 70, but people don't believe it," Anna said Friday. "Happiness makes me look in a better way, and I'm healthy all my life." She also spoke at a charity show. It's a philosophy, a way of life.
"I LKLE SPOCK (actor Leonid Nimoy)
and (DeF尔德) Kelley, too. I met Kelley in
New York. He kissed me and said, "Mrs.
Hassan, you remind me of my mama." He
thought he was holding his mother in his
arms. I lauded, and he lauded, too."
"I met Captain Kirk (actor William Shatner) at New York convention at Hilton Hotel. I think of him great. We all love him very much, and that's what we told him."
It's meeting the people, and especially the story, that Anna likes most about the conversation.
"He said to me, 'I've heard of you so much and your interest in 'Star Trek.' He was very interested."
"Fans are like members of 'Star Trek,'"
she said. "Some people of this world like that, but wish all our people could be like 'Star Trek.' Maybe time would come we would, in part, part of galaxy's world. Little by little, more will of mind tell it to way, too."
Anna was beaming at her remembrance of the meeting. She tilted her head back, let loose a small laugh and put her hands to her chest. Her eyes widened as she rearranged that such an incident took place.
"I met (Gene) Roddenberry (creator of Star Trek) and his wife. They are lovey partners."
"I told the actors, 'I want to go to Los Angeles to see your plays and your acting.' They told me to make arrangements and come. I am looking forward to that. They are faithful and proud of Sonda—and me, as always." She always "always with them, all the time with them."
pictures with us and told me that he couldn't get over that a loss I was. I met Tatiana in the city, but we didn't meet.
ANNA'S LOVE DOESN'T stop with the stars. "Star Trek's" fans are just as important to her. And perhaps it's this feeling that endears her to them.
"I call all the people here my children," she said. "I'm very proud of them. I really like the people very much. I get happy whenever I come."
Ana's belief in "Star Trek" and its message of peace and brotherhood is strong, so strong in fact, she speaks of "Star Trek's" shows as if they were real. Her hope that the world will someday be like "Star Trek's" world is even stronger.
"Before 'Star Trek,' I did not know so many different worlds in galaxy and many people could live many decades of years, that sickness could be cured." she said.
"ONE GRANDCHILD arranged convention few weeks ago in Miami. Another grandson not with arranging of convention, but sells picture and books for Sondra."
At this point in the conversation, Myrna Calbreathe walked up to Anna, put her arm around her and tell "Isn't she a lovely woman?" Calbreathe, who is almost Anna's adopted daughter, surely exemplifies the way most people feel about Anna.
A passage in a Star Trek '78 schedule says of Anna, 'Sondra and Myrna are heard to complain that Mama gets all the kisses. She even gets her own fan mail.
"In her lifetime we have conquered the air and reached the moon," the passage continues. "In the lifetime of her four-year-old son, she will reach the stars? Somehow something in Mama's indomitable spirit makes us think that we will, someday. She was born in Israel and saw wars and killing; she survived poproms to be a 'Star Trek'
And so does Mama's hope for the future. "STAR TREK" IS GOOD for younger generation," she said, "like from heaven coming to them. A good thing on this earth for them. I see my own grandchildren, when they have a chance to engage a convention, all their friends help them arrange it, they are happy. They think they are up there with them in the galaxy.
"I am looking forward to that day that people in nation interested in Star Trek. In it I will be able to share my experience."
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