====== Faro ======

===== Recruitment =====

When I took over //Word Ways// from [[http://www.greenwood.com/|Greenwood Press]] 
in 1970, Fa was anxious to increase circulation, and among other things wrote 
[[bnatural|B.Natural]] about telling NPL members about //Word Ways//. (I believe 
she got his name from the introduction to [[eluqsor|Borgmann]]'s //Language on Vacation//.)
He wrote back in a most pessimistic vein, saying that the NPL had only about 25 members 
who were between 75 and 90 years of age, so we let the matter drop. Some months later, 
I was in correspondence with [[Merlin]], then a //Word Ways// subscriber. Responding to a 
letter that Fa had sent him (among others) about building up //Word Ways//' subscription 
base, he suggested that we write the new editors of NPL, [[Pamapama]]. They were quite 
receptive to an exchange of advertisements, and urged us to join the NPL, which we did. 
So [[Merlin]] may be said to have acted as a  go-between.

//First Issue//: Sep 1970

===== Recruits =====

[[Treesong]], [[Ostrich]].

===== Nom =====

The name Faro comes, of course, from FAith and ROss Eckler;
individually we are known as Fa and Ro, or FAro and faRO.

===== Offices =====

Editor of //The Enigma//, 1986 - 1988