Pat Murphy and Karen Joy Fowler, our founding mothers, are planning their trip to Lublin, Poland, to accept the 2011 Thomas D. Clareson Award for Distinguished Service, which is being presented to the Tiptree Motherboard by the Science Fiction Research Association for “outstanding service activities–promotion of SF teaching and study, editing, reviewing, editorial writing, publishing, organizing meetings, mentoring, and leadership in SF/fantasy organizations.” The conference is in early July.