Basic Prydonian Info
The Prydonians of Prynceton is governed by a High
Council comprising several officers and several members-at
large. Our Bylaws were approved and
ratified by the club's membership in 1992. (We
amended the Bylaws in Aug. 2000. And again in February 2001.)
The High Council meets every month (well, almost every
month), 1 hour before the start of the Assembly, in the
Lawrenceville
Library. Members are welcome to attend High Council meetings. If you
have an item for the agenda, please communicate it to us at least
2 days before the meeting.
There are numerous ways you can volunteer
to help the Prydonians: write for The Renegade;
work our table at a convention; help answer the phones at WYBE;
find programming for an Assembly; or ways we haven't even thought
about yet! If you'd like to volunteer,
we'd love your help.
So -
what's a "Prydonian"?
Glad you asked!
See - back in 1984 we started as a Doctor Who fan club.
We were all living between Trenton and New Brunswick, NJ, and
had our meetings at someone's home in Princeton. New Jersey Network
had just aired the episode "The Deadly Assassin" (like
- there's some other kind of non-deadly assassin? But I
digress...) in which the Doctor (played by Tom Baker) returned
to his home planet of Gallifrey to solve a mystery and prevent
a crime. We learn in this episode that the Doctor's people, the
Time Lords, belong to various different "chapters" (presumably
based on the colleges they attended; sort of a satire of the English
"old boy network"). The Doctor is a member of the Prydonian
Chapter, described as both the most powerful and the most devious
of all the chapters. Since the Doctor ran away from Gallifrey
and renounced his position in Time Lord society, one Gallifreyan
official refers to him as "a Prydonian renegade." Hmmm,
sounds like a good title for a publication...!
Anyway, since we were strictly a Doctor Who fan club
at the time, we thought "Prydonians of Prynceton" was
a great name for the club. The Prydonians are the elite of the
Time Lords, and there was that cute visual pun in spelling "Princeton"
with a "y". We named our monthly newsletter The Prydonian
Renegade.
In 1986, we began to cover Blakes 7 as well as Doctor
Who. In 1987, when Star Trek: The Next Generation came
on the air, we gradually began to include all TV and movie
science fiction. Plus, we quickly started attracting members from
outside the Trenton-New Brunswick area. So maybe we should have
changed our name. BUT - we incorporated as "Prydonians
of Prynceton" in 1986. And what the heck, we started as a
Doctor Who club and we're still a Doctor Who
club. We're just not only a Doctor Who club anymore!
So - the name sticks. Deal with it.
And now you know.
(Btw: It's
pronounced "prye-DOH-nee-un".)
updated: April 9, 2006
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