The Baker Street Irregulars Trust

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Evelyn Herzog (The Daintiest Thing Under a Bonnet, 1991) saved her tooth fairy money to obtain a copy of <i>The</i> <i>Complete Sherlock Holmes</i>.  That book became the foundation upon which she attracted a group of other college students at Albertus Magnus College to meet and discuss the Sherlock Holmes stories. Precocious young women, they wrote to William S. Baring-Gould, John Bennett Shaw, <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/10/peter-blau-interview-oral-history.html">Peter Blau</a>, Ted Schulz, and others and developed ongoing correspondence with them.  While still in high school, Evy learned that (at that time) the Baker Street Irregulars did not admit women to its dinners.  While in college, she and her cohorts still considered it an injustice, and, being the 1960s, they picketed the <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/09/the-1968-bsi-dinner.html">1968 BSI Dinner</a>.<br />
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That eventually led to the founding of the Adventuresses of Sherlock Holmes, of which she is still “The Principal Unprincipled Adventuress.”  Evy was invested in the BSI among the six women (including Susan Rice) whom Tom Stix invested at the memorable <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2016/04/the-1991-bsi-dinner.html">1991 BSI Cocktail Party</a> which finally fully opened the BSI to women.  She has been a notable Sherlockian and an important figure in American Sherlockian history.<br />
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Along the way, she has met many memorable Sherlockians.  She is expertly interviewed by Susan Rice, and she talks about the many people she has known and the events she not only witnessed, but participated in, and, sometimes, initiated.<br />
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Interviewee: Evelyn Herzog</div>
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Interviewer: Susan Rice</div>
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Date: March 9, 2015</div>
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Location: New York, NY</div>
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Description:  MP3, 44.1 MB, 68kbps, 1 hour 30 minutes</div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://files.bsitrust.org/pdf/transcript/evelyn-herzog-interview-2015.pdf">Transcript of Evelyn Herzog Interview</a> (PDF)</div>
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Interview Topics</h4>
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Childhood</div>
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John Baesch</div>
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The Tooth Fairy and <i>The Complete Sherlock Holmes</i></div>
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Discovering the Sherlockian Community</div>
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Albertus Magnus College</div>
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Starting Her First Scion Society</div>
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Linda Patterson</div>
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Pat Moran</div>
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Marykay Mulligan</div>
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Carol Muschler</div>
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Chris Steinbrunner</div>
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William S. Baring-Gould</div>
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Mary Ellen Couchon (Rich)</div>
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John Bennett Shaw</div>
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Ted Schulz</div>
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Picketing the 1968 BSI Dinner (Evy, Linda Patterson, Pat Moran, Lisa Jones, Mary Ellen Couchon (Rich), Mary Ellen Ebeling)</div>
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The William Gillette Luncheon</div>
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<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2016/04/the-1990-bsi-dinner.html">Lisa McGaw</a></div>
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Cliff Andrew</div>
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Edith Meiser</div>
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<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/10/peter-blau-interview-oral-history.html">Peter Blau</a></div>
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“Get your damn girls out of here!”</div>
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Julian Wolff</div>
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The Founding of the Adventuresses of Sherlock Holmes</div>
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Investitures</div>
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Thomas Stix</div>
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Jack Tracy</div>
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Other Sherlockian Events</div>
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Dinner with Tom Stix</div>
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The ASH Dinner</div>
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The First Dinner (Kate Karlson, Angela Mitchell, Nancy Maczulak, Mary Ellen Couchon (Rich), Pat Moran, Linda Patterson, and Evy)</div>
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Funny Memories</div>
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Writings</div>
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Meeting Other Sherlockians</div>
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Richard Miller</div>
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<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/06/robert-thomalen-interview-oral-history.html">William Schweickert</a></div>
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Chris Steinbrunner’s Radio Plays</div>
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George Fletcher</div>
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The Pshaw Bowl</div>
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Born to Boogie</div>
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<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">Explanation of BSI Honours & Other Terms</a></div>
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Related Materials</h4>
<div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://bakerstreetirregulars.com/2004/12/27/bsj-2004-christmas-annual/">Dubious and Questionable Memories by Susan Rice</a> (BSI website)</div><div style="text-align: left;">A History of the Adventuresses of Sherlock Holmes (<i>The Baker Street Journal 2004 Christmas Annual</i>)</div>
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<a href="https://ash-nyc.com/">The Adventuresses of Sherlock Holmes</a> (ASH website)</div>
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<a href="https://soundcloud.com/ihearofsherlock/episode-89-the-adventuresses#t=57:44">Audio interview about admittance of women in the BSI</a> (soundcloud.com)</div>
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Evelyn Herzog and Susan Rice discuss events leading up to their 1991 investitures.  The link goes directly to the 57-minute mark in the I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere Episode 89 podcast.</div>
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For an index to all OHP interviews, see our <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/oral-history.html">Oral History Project Summary</a> list.</div>
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<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/search/label/Audio+Oral%20History">Interviews recently added online</a> (sorted by when recording was posted online)</div>
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Page composed on 7/16/17 by Andrew Solberg</div>
<div style="text-align: left;">Page updated 7/17/17 by Randall Stock</div><div style="text-align: left;">This page last updated 6/3/21 by Marsha Pollak.</div>
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