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The Queen Victoria Medal

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The Winter issue of the 1967 Baker Street Journal included an item on page 250 that said: 
 
“A giant stride toward the quartering of the Union Jack with the Stars and Stripes occurred in October when Colin Prestige (“Captain Crocker” - or “Croker” as it is in the English editions), Hon. Secretary of the Sherlock Holmes Society of London, paid an eventful visit to this country. In New York he was honoured at two small gatherings, a cocktail party and a luncheon, and he was presented with a newly-created Irregular award, the Victoria Medal, for his contributions to the quartering referred to at the beginning of this paragraph. The medal is silver and was produced by the Royal Mint in 1897 to commemorate the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee.” 
 
Thus, Julian Wolff gave to Colin Prestige the very first Queen Victoria Medal awarded by the BSI. Others would receive it through the years.  Two of them would receive it twice!  The Medal was not only awarded for promoting British-American relations, but was also given to both men and women who deserved it for devotion to duty.  The recipients have been: 
 
Colin G. Prestige, 1967 
Baron Gore-Booth, 1968 
Lord Donegall, 1969 
Lew D. Feldman, 1969 
Dorothy Stix, 1981 and 1986 
Eleanor Baker O'Connor, 1984 and 1994 
John Bennett Shaw, 1985 
Eleanor Wolff, 1987 
Albert M. and Julia C. Rosenblatt (jointly), 1987 
Edith Meiser, 1989 
Katherine McMahon, 1990 
Dorothy Beverly [West], 1990 
Fritz Sonnenschmidt, 1991 
Theresa Thomalen, 1992 
Philip A. Shreffler, 1993 
Dorothy R. Shaw, 1995 
<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/06/robert-thomalen-interview-oral-history.html">Robert E. Thomalen</a>, 1996 
 
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The Medals were not usually awarded at the BSI Dinner, but, rather, at other events, including the Saturday Cocktail Reception during the BSI Weekend, Silver Blaze Race in New York, Sherlockian Dinners at the Culinary Institute of America, John Bennett Shaw’s workshop, and other venues. 
 
Dorothy Stix relates that the reason she received her second Medal was because Julian Wolff forgot that he had given her the first one.  Of course, both were well deserved. 
 
The BSI Trust is grateful to Dorothy Stix who donated her Queen Victoria Medals (including the one shown in the photos above) to the Trust in 2017. 
 
Thanks to <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/10/peter-blau-interview-oral-history.html">Peter E. Blau</a>, the keeper of all records, who supplied his list of recipients to the Trust for this web page. 
 
Click on the above photos to see larger versions, and maximize your browser window to see the most detail. 
 
 
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Reports on the Award</h4>
 
In true irregular fashion, not all of the announcements of the awarding of the Queen Victoria Medal were published in The Baker Street Journal at the time that they occurred.  Some were mentioned in later issues. Others were not mentioned at all. 
 
Awarded to Colin G. Prestige, The Baker Street Journal 17.4 (December 1967): 250 (available in the eBSJ) 
 
Awarded to Lord Gore-Booth, The Baker Street Journal 35.3 (September 1985): 157 (available in the eBSJ) 
 
Awarded to Lord Donegall and Lew D. Feldman, The Baker Street Journal 19.1 (March 1969): 50 (available in the eBSJ) 
 
Awarded to Dorothy Stix, The Baker Street Journal 31.4 (December 1981): 251 (available in the eBSJ) 
 
Awarded to Eleanor Baker O'Connor, The Baker Street Journal 36.2 (June 1986): 107 (available in the eBSJ) 
 
Awarded to John Bennett Shaw, The Baker Street Journal 36.1 (March 1986): 42 (available in the eBSJ) 
 
Awarded to Dorothy Stix, The Baker Street Journal 36.4 (December 1986): 235 (available in the eBSJ) 
 
Awarded to Eleanor Wolff, The Baker Street Journal 37.1 (March 1987): 47 (available in the eBSJ) 
 
Awarded to Albert M. and Julia C. Rosenblatt (jointly), The Baker Street Journal 37.4 (December 1987): 242 (available in the eBSJ) 
 
Awarded to Edith Meiser, The Baker Street Journal 39.1 (March 1989): 55 (available in the eBSJ) 
 
Awarded to Katherine McMahon and Dorothy Beverly [West], The Baker Street Journal 40.1 (March 1990): 44 (available in the eBSJ) 
 
Awarded to Fritz Sonnenschmidt, The Baker Street Journal 41.3 (September 1991): 156 (available in the eBSJ) 
 
Awarded to Theresa Thomalen, The Baker Street Journal 42.1 (March 1992): 50 (available in the eBSJ) 
 
Awarded to Philip A. Shreffler, The Baker Street Journal 43.1 (March 1993): 47 (available in the eBSJ) 
 
Awarded to <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/06/robert-thomalen-interview-oral-history.html">Robert E. Thomalen</a>, The Baker Street Journal 46.1 (March 1996): 14 (available in the eBSJ) 
 
 
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Related Material</h4>
 
<a href="http://fourthgarrideb.com/2017/06/queen-victorias-diamond-jubilee-medal/">Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee Medal</a>, History of the Medal from The Fourth Garrideb - Numismatics of Sherlock Holmes. 
 
<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">Explanation of BSI Honours & Terms</a> 
 
See all the <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/search/label/Memorabilia">BSI Memorabilia</a> on our website 
 
The BSI Archive is located at the Houghton Library at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Archival material may be used by any qualified scholar, subject to the normal rules and regulations of the Library. For links to a detailed finding aid and related information, see our <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/archive.html">BSI Archive at Harvard</a> page. 
 
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This page last updated 6/30/2017 by Andrew Solberg.

The Queen Victoria Medal

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The 1989 BSI Dinner

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The Baker Street Irregulars enjoyed the distinct pleasure of celebrating the Master’s birthday on the “traditionally accepted” date of January 6. Karen A. Johnson was celebrated as The Woman. Seven Irregulars were invested. The proceedings included a greeting to the Irregulars by Dr. Tsukasa Kobayashi, founder of The Japan Sherlock Holmes Club with his wife Akane Higashiyama; the Japan Sherlock Holmes Club, founded in 1977 with only two members (Dr. and Mrs. Kobayashi), now boasts 1,200 members and “is the largest Sherlockian society in the world.” The evening also featured Joe Fink's fervent defense of Tonga, Philip Shreffler's illustrated series of "Lessons in Canonical Villainy", and Jon Lellenberg's report on the current (and possibly future) Canonical content of the Oxford English Dictionary. Also on the program was a “special presentation of The Murray Award for conspicuous heroism” to Robert Thomalen. 
 
The cocktail party on the following day, January 7, witnessed a truly illustrious gathering of sixteen of the then-24 living The Women of the BSI: Lisa McGaw (1964), Peggy [Mrs. James] Nelson (1967), Ceil [Mrs. William S.] Baring-Gould (1969), Dorothy [Mrs. Thomas L., Jr.] Stix (1971), Dorothy [Mrs. Herbert] Brean (1972), Ines [Mrs. William S.] Hall (1973), Julia [Mrs. Albert M. Rosenblatt (1979), Ad [Mrs. Will] Oursler (1981), Barbara [Mrs. John B.] Koelle (1982), Francine Morris [Mrs. Wayne B.] Swift (1983), Eleanor [Mrs. William P.] Schweickert (1984), Jane [Mrs. William I.] Jenkins (1985), Nancy Pond (1986), Edith Meiser (1987), Maureen Green (1988), and Karen L. Johnson [Mrs. Philip A. Shreffler] (1989). 
 
At this party, Edith Meiser received the Queen Victoria Medal (see the <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/09/the-1969-bsi-dinner.html">1969 Dinner</a> for background), and Enola Stewart received the first Commissionaire’s Award (see the <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2016/04/the-1988-bsi-dinner.html">1988 Dinner</a> for background) “for meritorious contributions to Sherlockiana.” 
 
Dinner Details: January 6, 1989 
24 5th Avenue, New York 
 
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Dinner Photo Information</h4>
Click on the above photo to see a larger version of it, and maximize your browser window to see the most detail. 
 
Key to People in the 1989 BSI Dinner photo (not available at this time) 
 
 
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BSI Honours List</h4>
Investitures: 
Richard M. Caplan as Dr. Jackson 
Andrew Joffe as Sir Charles Hallé 
Brad A. Keefauver as Winwood Reade 
Jack D. Key as Pritchard 
Tsukasa Kobayashi as Baritsu 
M. Kenneth McQuage as The Plumstead Marshes 
Alvin E. Rodin as Palmer 
* received Investiture at another event during the year 
<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is an Investiture?</a> 
 
 
Two-Shilling Award: 
None listed 
<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is a Two-Shilling Award?</a> 
 
The Woman: 
Karen L. Johnson (Mrs. Philip A. Shreffler) 
<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is The Woman honour?</a> 
 
"Stand with me here upon the terrace..." 
(as named at this Dinner, not their year of passing) 
Not listed in the 1989 BSJ report. 
<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is the origin of “standing on the terrace?”</a> 
 
Morley-Montgomery Award: 
No awards were given from 1981-1995. 
<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is the Morley-Montgomery Award?</a> 
 
 
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Reports on the Dinner</h4>
The Baker Street Journal v39 n1 (March 1989) pp. 43, 55 (available in the eBSJ). 
 
Blau, Peter, <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/links.html#news">Scuttlebutt from the Spermaceti Press</a>, (January 1989), p. 1. 
 
List of 1989 BSI Dinner Attendees (not available at this time) 
 
 
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Recordings</h4>
None available online at this time. 
 
 
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Related Material</h4>
<a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.HOUGH:16162476?n=124">1989 BSI Dinner Menu</a> (digitized images at Harvard) 
Two pages. Cover and interior. Sequence 124-125. 
 
<a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.HOUGH:16162476?n=126">The Sign of the Four; Or, the Problem with the Sholtos</a> (digitized image at Harvard) 
Four pages from Conan Doyle's pocket diaries, referring to The Sign of Four, by Richard Lancelyn Green, distributed at the 1989 BSI Dinner. 
Two pages. Cover and interior. Sequence 126-127 
<a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.Hough:16197461"> </a>
<a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.Hough:16197461">Ticket to the Annual Sherlockian Cocktail Party </a>on January 7, 1989 (digitized image at Harvard) 
One page. Sequence 123 
 
Katz, Robert S., “To The Second Mrs. Watson,” The Baker Street Journal v40 n2 (June 1990) pp. 108-110 (available in the eBSJ). 
Toast given at the 1989 and 1990 BSI Dinners. 
 
Previous dinner: the <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2016/04/the-1988-bsi-dinner.html">1988 BSI Dinner</a> 
 
Next dinner: the <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2016/04/the-1990-bsi-dinner.html">1990 BSI Dinner</a> 
 
For an index to all BSI Dinners and photos, see our <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/dinner-summary.html">BSI Dinner Summary </a>list. 
 
 
The BSI Archive is located at the Houghton Library at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Archival material may be used by any qualified scholar, subject to the normal rules and regulations of the Library. For links to a detailed finding aid and related information, see our <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/archive.html">BSI Archive at Harvard</a> page. 
 
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This page last updated 4/15/2016 by Andrew Solberg.

The 1989 BSI Dinner

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The 1988 BSI Dinner

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New York January weather proved traditionally fearsome on the occasion of the Master’s 134th birthday, but inside 24 5th Avenue, “Sherlockian conviviality rewarded those who had braved both wind and snow to attend.” Maureen Green became the first Canadian to be fêted as “The Woman.” All traditional Sherlockian rites and rituals were observed. Several distinguished presentations enlightened attendees, including Isaac 
Asimov's tuneful toast ("The Battle Hymn of Mrs. Watson"), Ray Betzner's reading of the Musgrave ritual, Richard Schull’s tribute to BSI founder Christopher Morley by rendering Morley’s “In Memoriam Sherlock Holmes,” Peter Blau’s showcasing of an audio-recording of William Gillette performing an entire scene of his play Sherlock Holmes, W. T. Rabe's report on "The Missing Page, or Whatever Happened to Watson's Billet Doux?," David L. Hammer's suggestive discussion of Violet Hunter, and Robert S. Katz's identification of acute septicemic melioidosis as the disease from which Holmes wasn't dying in “The Dying Detective."  Eight Irregulars were invested. 
 
It was noted that the Adventuresses of Sherlock Holmes (ASH) this year was celebrating that group’s 20th anniversary at their dinner. 
 
The following day’s cocktail party featured the “now-classic Friends of Bogie’s theatrical review of Canonical tales.” This performance showcased Loren D. Estleman's "Dr. and Mrs. Watson at Home" from The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. The occasion also witnessed the announcement of The Commissionaire’s Award, established in honor of Julian Wolff, esteemed Commissionaire Emeritus, and designated to be presented to Sherlockians (male or female, Irregulars or not) who “have labored far beyond the call of duty in keeping green the Master’s memory.” 
 
Dinner Details: January 8, 1988 
24 5th Avenue, New York 
 
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Dinner Photo Information</h4>
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Key to People in the 1988 BSI Dinner photo (not available at this time) 
 
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 BSI Honours List</h4>
Investitures: 
Philip R. Brogdon as John Sanger 
James C. Cleary Jr. as Howard Garrideb 
William R. Cochran as Murray 
Carey Cummings as An Irish Secret Society John Gardner as Moriarty* 
Charles A. Meyer as Adolph Meyer 
Alan C. Olding as Cooee 
Mel Ruiz as Jack Douglas 
Burt Wolder as The Third Pillar from the Left 
* received Investiture at another event during the year 
<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is an Investiture?</a> 
 
 
Two-Shilling Award: 
Jon L. Lellenberg 
Robert E. Thomalen 
* received the Two-Shilling Award at another event during the year 
<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is a Two-Shilling Award?</a> 
 
The Woman: 
Maureen Green Van der Flaes 
<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is The Woman honour?</a> 
 
"Stand with me here upon the terrace..." 
(as named at this Dinner, not their year of passing) 
Not listed in the 1988 BSJ report. 
<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is the origin of “standing on the terrace?”</a> 
 
Morley-Montgomery Award: 
No awards were given from 1981-1995. 
<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is the Morley-Montgomery Award?</a> 
 
 
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Reports on the Dinner</h4>
The Baker Street Journal v38 n1 (March 1988) p. 47-48 (available in the eBSJ). 
 
Blau, Peter, <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/links.html#news">Scuttlebutt from the Spermaceti Press</a>, (January 1988), p. 1. 
 
List of 1988 BSI Dinner Attendees (not available at this time) 
 
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 Recordings</h4>
None available online at this time. 
 
 
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Related Material</h4>
<a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.Hough:16197460">1988 BSI Dinner Menu </a>(digitized images at Harvard) 
Two pages. Cover and interior. Sequence 121-122. 
 
Previous dinner: the <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2016/04/the-1987-bsi-dinner.html">1987 BSI Dinner</a> 
 
Next dinner: the <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2016/04/the-1989-bsi-dinner.html">1989 BSI Dinner</a> 
 
For an index to all BSI Dinners and photos, see our <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/dinner-summary.html">BSI Dinner Summary</a> list. 
 
 
The BSI Archive is located at the Houghton Library at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Archival material may be used by any qualified scholar, subject to the normal rules and regulations of the Library. For links to a detailed finding aid and related information, see our <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/archive.html">BSI Archive at Harvard</a> page. 
 
 
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This page last updated 4/10/2016 by Andrew Solberg. 
 
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The 1988 BSI Dinner

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The 1987 BSI Dinner

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The 133rd “well-attended and thoroughly Sherlockian” birthday dinner also marked the 100th anniversary of “A Study in Scarlet,” which first appeared in the 1887 Beeton’s Christmas Annual. Edith Meiser, who brought to us the radio series that featured William Gillette, Basil Rathbone, and many others in the role of Sherlock Holmes, was deservedly honored as “The Woman.” This was the second time that Meiser was so honored. Long before the BSI formalized an annual “The Woman” honor in 1961, the BSI periodically invited a woman to the cocktail hour that preceded the BSI Dinner and honored her.  Edith Meiser was the first, in <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/03/the-1942-bsi-dinner.html">1942</a>. While it is not clear if she was specifically toasted as The Woman in 1942, the BSI considers the honour to have begun in that year. This was the first Dinner presided over by Tom Stix, Jr.  He announced that there would now be two other officers, John Bennett Shaw as “Simpson” and <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/06/robert-thomalen-interview-oral-history.html">Robert E. Thomalen</a> as “Cartwright.”  Albert M. Rosenblatt gave a poetic toast to Mrs. Hudson.  James C. Cleary presented a well-illustrated and finely crafted lecture on Sherlock Holmes and Sherlockians. Norman M. Davis fervently defended “The Chicago Four.” Steven Rothman offered a history of the new BSI necktie. William D. Jenkins discussed Sherlockian pastiches and parodies, and Chris Steinbrunner reminisced about recent and not-so-recent annual dinners. 
 
The cocktail party on the following day, January 10, honored Julian and Eleanor Wolff. The BSJ recounts that Eleanor received a Queen Victoria Medal, acknowledging her long service as the BSI’s “most devoted camp-follower.” Attendees were also treated to Isaac Asimov's new Sherlockian song that year, which was set to the tunes of "Yankee Doodle" and "Der Tannenbaum.” 
 
Dinner Details: January 9, 1987 
24 5th Avenue, New York 
 
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Dinner Photo Information</h4>
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Key to People in the 1987 BSI Dinner photo (not available at this time) 
 
 
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BSI Honours List</h4>
Investitures: 
Ray Betzner as The Agony Column 
Robert C. Burr as The Rascally Lascar 
T. Michael Kaylor as Practical Handbook of Bee Culture 
George R. Skornickel Jr. as Heidegger 
Kiyoshi Tanaka as The Japanese Cabinet 
Edward J. Vatza as A Typical American Advertisement 
Richard S. Warner as High Tor 
* received Investiture at another event during the year 
<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is an Investiture?</a> 
 
 
Two-Shilling Award: 
Walter Klinefelter 
Fritz Sonnenschmidt* 
Ezra A. Wolff 
* received the Two-Shilling Award at another event during the year 
<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is a Two-Shilling Award?</a> 
 
The Woman: 
Edith Meiser 
<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is The Woman honour?</a> 
 
"Stand with me here upon the terrace..." 
(as named at this Dinner, not their year of passing) 
Not listed in the 1987 BSJ report. 
<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is the origin of “standing on the terrace?”</a> 
 
Morley-Montgomery Award: 
No awards were given from 1981-1995. 
<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is the Morley-Montgomery Award?</a> 
 
 
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Reports on the Dinner</h4>
The Baker Street Journal v37 n1 (March 1987) p. 47 (available in the eBSJ). 
 
Blau, Peter, <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/links.html#news">Scuttlebutt from the Spermaceti Press</a>, (January 1987), p. 1. 
 
List of 1987 BSI Dinner Attendees (not available at this time) 
 
 
<h4>
Recordings</h4>
None available online at this time. 
 
 
<h4>
Related Material</h4>
<a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.HOUGH:16162476?n=118">1987 BSI Dinner Menu </a>(digitized images at Harvard) 
Three pages. Cover, interior, and back. Sequence 118-120. 
 
<a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.Hough:16197459">Ticket to the Saturday Cocktail Reception </a>(digitized images at Harvard) 
One page. Sequence 117. 
 
Previous dinner: the <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2016/03/the-1986-bsi-dinner.html">1986 BSI Dinner</a> 
 
Next dinner: the <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2016/04/the-1988-bsi-dinner.html">1988 BSI Dinner</a> 
 
For an index to all BSI Dinners and photos, see our <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/dinner-summary.html">BSI Dinner Summary</a> list. 
 
 
The BSI Archive is located at the Houghton Library at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Archival material may be used by any qualified scholar, subject to the normal rules and regulations of the Library. For links to a detailed finding aid and related information, see our <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/archive.html">BSI Archive at Harvard</a> page. 
 
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The 1987 BSI Dinner

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The 132nd anniversary of Holmes’s birth included all the traditional rites and procedures. Walter Pond’s daughter, Nancy Pond, was toasted as The Woman. Philip R. Brogdon offered a splendid toast to Sherlock Holmes as Dr. Watson’s (and our) best friend.  John Bennett Shaw displayed, and defended, a newly discovered life mask of Sherlock Holmes.  Isaac Asimov doubled as tenor and baritone in a Canonical parody of Gilbert and Sullivan.   However, the major news from this Dinner was Julian Wolff’s announcement that he was retiring from the leadership of The Baker Street Irregulars (having held the job longer than anyone else).  Julian said that he decided to be the first to get out alive and that he had chosen Thomas L. Stix, Jr.as his successor. 
 
At reception at The Grolier Club the next day, Julian celebrated his eighty-first birthday. Tom Stix’s first official act as our Wiggins was his announcement that Julian will be our honored Commissionaire Emeritus. 
 
Dinner Details: January 10, 1986 
The Regency Hotel, 540 Park Avenue, New York 
 
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 Dinner Photo Information</h4>
Click on the above photo to see a larger version of it, and maximize your browser window to see the most detail. 
 
Key to People in the 1986 BSI Dinner photo (not available at this time) 
 
 
<h4>
BSI Honours List</h4>
Investitures: 
Erik Beckman as Stapleton 
Robert Bisio as Shinwell Johnson 
John D. Constable as The Crooked Man 
Barton A. Eberman as The Hound of the Baskervilles 
Joseph Fink as The Martyrdom of Man 
David L. Hammer as Major-General Stoner 
Andrew Malec as The Strange Old Book Collector 
C. Paul Martin as Dr. Leslie Armstrong 
Robert E. Robinson as The Hansom Cab 
Steven Rothman as The Valley of Fear 
Richard B. Shull as An Actor and a Rare One 
Gordon R. Speck as Colonel James Barclay 
James P. Suszynski as The Dying Detective 
Richard A. Wein as Silver Blaze* 
Don Werby as Old Abrahams 
* received Investiture at another event during the year 
<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is an Investiture?</a> 
 
 
Two-Shilling Award: 
Edward F. Clark Jr. 
Henry T. Folsom 
John B. Koelle 
Theodore G. Schulz 
William P. Schweickert 
Philip A. Shreffler 
Chris Steinbrunner 
<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is a Two-Shilling Award?</a> 
 
The Woman: 
Nancy Pond (Walter Pond’s daughter) 
<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is The Woman honour?</a> 
 
"Stand with me here upon the terrace..." 
(as named at this Dinner, not their year of passing) 
Not listed in the 1986 BSJ report. 
<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is the origin of “standing on the terrace?”</a> 
 
Morley-Montgomery Award: 
No awards were given from 1981-1995. 
<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is the Morley-Montgomery Award?</a> 
 
 
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Reports on the Dinner</h4>
The Baker Street Journal v36 n1 (March 1986) pp. 42 and 46 (available in the eBSJ). 
 
Blau, Peter, <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/links.html#news">Scuttlebutt from the Spermaceti Press</a> (January 1986), p. 1. 
 
List of 1986 BSI Dinner Attendees (not available at this time) 
 
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 Recordings</h4>
None available online at this time. 
 
 
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Related Material</h4>
<a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.Hough:16197458">1986 BSI Dinner Menu</a> (digitized images at Harvard) 
Two pages. Cover and interior. Sequence 113-114. 
 
<a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.HOUGH:16162476?n=115">"Theatre Royal Haymarket"</a> (digitized images at Harvard) 
Two pages. Sequence 115-116. 
Distributed at the 1986 BSI Dinner by Michael Kean, BSI 
 
Previous dinner: the <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2016/03/the-1985-bsi-dinner.html">1985 BSI Dinner</a> 
 
Next dinner: the <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2016/04/the-1987-bsi-dinner.html">1987 BSI Dinner</a> 
 
For an index to all BSI Dinners and photos, see our <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/dinner-summary.html">BSI Dinner Summary</a> list. 
 
 
The BSI Archive is located at the Houghton Library at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Archival material may be used by any qualified scholar, subject to the normal rules and regulations of the Library. For links to a detailed finding aid and related information, see our <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/archive.html">BSI Archive at Harvard</a> page. 
 
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The 1986 BSI Dinner

The 132nd anniversary of Holmes’s birth included all the traditional rites and procedures. Walter Pond’s daughter, Nancy Pond, was toaste...

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The 131st anniversary of Holmes’s birth witnessed a “memorable” program, including Holmesian songs (prepared by none other than Isaac Asimov) and John Bennett Shaw’s stories of early Sherlockians. Thirteen individuals received their Irregular shillings. Albert M. Rosenblatt “exercised his judicial powers” to inform the attendees that this date also marked the Commissionaire’s eightieth birthday, to “suitably raucous reactions.” 
 
The reception at the Grolier Club the next day, January 12, saw the announcement of the Baker Street Journal’s new editor, Philip Shreffler. 
 
Dinner Details: January 11, 1985 
The Regency Hotel, 540 Park Avenue, New York 
 
 
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Dinner Photo Information</h4>
Click on the above photo to see a larger version of it, and maximize your browser window to see the most detail. 
 
Key to People in the 1985 BSI Dinner photo (not available at this time) 
 
 
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BSI Honours List</h4>
Investitures: 
Alan Addlestone as The Addleton Tragedy 
Walter P. Armstrong Jr. as Birdy Edwards 
Bryce L. Crawford Jr. as The Solitary Cyclist 
Bernard Davies as A Study in Scarlet* 
Wilfrid M. de Freitas as The Right Honourable Trelawney Hope 
James J. De Stefano as The St. Pancras Case* 
Anthony Duke as Hugh Boone 
Richard Lancelyn Green as The Three Gables 
Derham Groves as Black Jack of Ballarat 
Michael Hardwick as The Sign of the Four* 
Michael P. Hodel as Sir James Walter 
Alan R. Kaplan as Charles Augustus Milverton 
Arthur Liebman as Vamberry, the Wine Merchant 
W. R. Michell as The Rock of Gibraltar 
Herbert H. Middleton as Ionides, of Alexandria 
Peter Wood as The Second Stain 
* received Investiture at another event during the year 
<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is an Investiture?</a> 
 
 
Two-Shilling Award: 
Michael Harrison 
William D. Jenkins 
Henry Lauritzen 
E. W. McDiarmid 
<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is a Two-Shilling Award?</a> 
 
The Woman:  
Jane L. (Mrs. William D.) Jenkins 
<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is The Woman honour?</a> 
 
"Stand with me here upon the terrace..." 
(as named at this Dinner, not their year of passing) 
Not listed in the 1985 BSJ report. 
<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is the origin of “standing on the terrace?”</a> 
 
Morley-Montgomery Award: 
No awards were given from 1981-1995. 
<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is the Morley-Montgomery Award?</a> 
 
 
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Reports on the Dinner</h4>
The Baker Street Journal v35 n1 (March 1985) pp. 46 and 48 (available in the eBSJ). 
 
List of 1985 BSI Dinner Attendees (not available at this time) 
 
 
<h4>
Recordings</h4>
None available online at this time. 
 
 
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Related Material</h4>
<a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.Hough:16197457">1985 BSI Dinner Menu</a> (digitized images at Harvard) 
Two pages. Cover and interior. Sequence 107-108. 
 
<a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.HOUGH:16162476?n=109">1985 The Woman Dinner Menu</a> (digitized images at Harvard) 
Two pages. Cover and interior and list of The Women. Sequence 109-110. 
 
<a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.HOUGH:16162476?n=111">"A Toast to Mrs. Hudson" </a>(digitized images at Harvard) 
Two pages. Sequence 111-112. 
Delivered at the 1985 BSI Dinner by Kenneth Lanza, BSI 
 
Previous dinner: the <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2016/03/the-1984-bsi-dinner.html">1984 BSI Dinner</a> 
 
Next dinner: the <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2016/03/the-1986-bsi-dinner.html">1986 BSI Dinner</a> 
 
For an index to all BSI Dinners and photos, see our <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/dinner-summary.html">BSI Dinner Summary</a> list. 
 
 
The BSI Archive is located at the Houghton Library at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Archival material may be used by any qualified scholar, subject to the normal rules and regulations of the Library. For links to a detailed finding aid and related information, see our<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/archive.html"> BSI Archive at Harvard</a> page. 
 
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This page last updated 3/17/2016 by Andrew Solberg. 
 
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As you can hear in our recording below of Isaac Asimov, the 1984 BSI Dinner was highly entertaining. It started with a Dinner invitation that paid tribute to the 50th anniversary of the first BSI Dinner in 1934. Fittingly, this occasion saw “record attendance of enthusiastic Sherlockians from many nations and four separate continents.”  Fourteen participants were invested and received their Irregular shillings. The proceedings sounded truly sublime. To wit, Julian Wolff reported in the Baker Street Journal: 
 
“The programme was unusually interesting and included a great effort by Isaac Asimov, our Resident Genius, as well as eloquent talks by Bliss Austin and Robert Harris, both of whom recalled earlier days of the Irregulars. It was a contented lot of Sherlockians who left at the end of the dinner with cries of “Wait until next year!” 
 
Dinner Details: January 6, 1984 
The Regency Hotel, 540 Park Avenue, New York 
 
 
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Dinner Photo Information</h4>
Click on the above photo to see a larger version of it, and maximize your browser window to see the most detail. 
 
Key to People in the 1984 BSI Dinner photo (not available at this time) 
 
 
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BSI Honours List</h4>
Investitures: 
George Armstrong as Wiggins, changed to John o' Groat's 
Frank S. Beckman as Lord Backwater 
John Bliss as Mr. Francis Hay Moulton 
Paul H. Brundage as Sir Charles Appledore 
Robert Dinegar as Henry Ward Beecher 
James O. Duval as The Battered Tin Dispatch-Box 
Clifford S. Goldfarb as Fordham, the Horsham Lawyer 
William C. Haunert as Ted Baldwin 
John Lehman as The Danite Band 
Bjarne Nielsen as The Veiled Lodger 
Jeffrey Schwartz as Henry Baker 
Daniel F. Thomas as Robert Ferguson 
Edwin Van der Flaes as Victor Trevor 
Bill Ward as Major Prendergast 
* received Investiture at another event during the year 
<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is an Investiture?</a> 
 
 
Two-Shilling Award: 
Ronald B. De Waal 
Robert G. Harris 
Philip Sherman 
<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is a Two-Shilling Award?</a> 
 
The Woman: 
Eleanor (Mrs. William P.) Schweickert 
<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is The Woman honour?</a> 
 
"Stand with me here upon the terrace..." 
(as named at this Dinner, not their year of passing) 
Not listed in the 1984 BSJ report. 
<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is the origin of “standing on the terrace?”</a> 
 
Morley-Montgomery Award: 
No awards were given from 1981-1995. 
<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is the Morley-Montgomery Award?</a> 
 
 
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Reports on the Dinner</h4>
The Baker Street Journal v34 n1 (March 1984) pp. 39-40 (available in the eBSJ) 
 
List of 1984 BSI Dinner Attendees (not available at this time) 
 
 
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Recordings</h4>
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Isaac Asimov at a BSI Dinner</div>
 
Famed science fiction author Isaac Asimov tells a funny story about his recent triple bypass surgery and his thoughts about dying, then sings a song about Sherlock Holmes in this 8-minute vignette from the 1984 BSI Dinner.  Asimov was invested at the <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/12/the-1976-bsi-dinner.html">1976 BSI Dinner</a>. 
 
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A recording of parts of the 1984 BSI Dinner is available at Harvard as part of the <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/archive.html">BSI Archive</a>. 
 
 
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Related Material</h4>
<a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.Hough:16197456">1984 BSI Dinner Menu </a>(digitized images at Harvard) 
Three pages. Cover, interior, and back. Two copies.  Sequence 98-100 and 101-103. 
 
<a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.HOUGH:16162476?n=104">Asimov, Isaac, Lyrics to the song he sang at the 1984 BSI Dinner </a>(digitized images at Harvard) 
One page. Sequence 104. 
This page also includes the lyrics to a song Asimov wrote for the 1985 BSI Dinner. 
 
<a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.HOUGH:16162476?n=105">Robinson, Robert, Toast to Mycroft Holmes </a>(digitized images at Harvard) 
Two pages. The second page is the 2007 cover letter to Julie McKuras, conveying the toast to the BSI Trust. Sequence 105-6. 
This toast was written by Robert Robinson, BSI and was presented at the 1984 BSI Dinner. 
 
Recollections of Isaac Asimov are mentioned in the BSI Trust Oral History Project interviews of <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/10/peter-blau-interview-oral-history.html">Peter Blau</a>, <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/12/glen-miranker-interview-oral-history.html">Glen Miranker</a>, and <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/06/robert-thomalen-interview-oral-history.html">Robert Thomalen</a>. 
 
Previous dinner: the <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2016/03/the-1983-bsi-dinner.html">1983 BSI Dinner</a> 
 
Next dinner: the <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2016/03/the-1985-bsi-dinner.html">1985 BSI Dinner</a> 
 
For an index to all BSI Dinners and photos, see our<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/dinner-summary.html"> BSI Dinner Summary</a> list. 
 
 
The BSI Archive is located at the Houghton Library at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Archival material may be used by any qualified scholar, subject to the normal rules and regulations of the Library. For links to a detailed finding aid and related information, see our <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/archive.html">BSI Archive at Harvard</a> page. 
 
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The 1984 BSI Dinner

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The 1983 BSI Dinner

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The 129th anniversary of the Master’s birthday featured many distinguished guests, including the Dean and Assistant Dean of Columbia College. Francine Morris (Mrs. Wayne B.) Swift was toasted as The Woman. Fifteen Irregular Shillings were given out.  Stephen Stix, “the only third-generation Investitured Irregular,” and Edward F. Clark, delivered post-prandial talks, followed by “our resident genius,” Isaac Asimov. Wolff’s report in the Baker Street Journal effusively concludes: “Since there is nothing that can follow Isaac, we then adjourned, after bestowing upon him the highest honour of the Irregulars, the Two-Shilling Award.” George Fletcher and Ralph E. Edwards also shared in the Two-Shilling glory. 
 
Dinner Details: January 7, 1983 
The Regency Hotel, 540 Park Avenue, New York 
 
 
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Dinner Photo Information</h4>
Click on the above photo to see a larger version of it, and maximize your browser window to see the most detail. 
 
Key to People in the 1983 BSI Dinner photo (not available at this time) 
 
 
<h4>
BSI Honours List</h4>
Investitures: 
William B. Beeson as The Barque Lone Star 
William A. Berner as Aloysius Doran, Esq., of San Francisco, Cal. 
Scott Bond as The Copper Beeches 
Robert M. Broderick as Jephro Rucastle 
Bob Coghill as John Hopley Neligan 
Barry Hapner as Inspector Forrester 
George A. Hough as The Duke of Balmoral 
Robert S. Katz as Dr. Ainstree 
Eric H. Otten as Jeremy Dixon, Trinity College 
Thomas M. Russo as The Boscombe Valley Mystery 
Richard R. Rutter as Mike Scanlan 
John Ruyle as Baron Dowson 
<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/06/robert-thomalen-interview-oral-history.html">Robert E. Thomalen</a> as The Three Garridebs 
Ralph F Turner as Colonel Carruthers 
Newton M. Williams as The Netherland-Sumatra Company 
* received Investiture at another event during the year 
<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is an Investiture?</a> 
 
 
Two-Shilling Award: 
Isaac Asimov 
Ralph E. Edwards 
George Fletcher 
Benjamin S. Clark 
<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is a Two-Shilling Award?</a> 
 
The Woman: 
Francine Morris (Mrs. Wayne B.) Swift 
<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is The Woman honour?</a> 
 
"Stand with me here upon the terrace..." 
(as named at this Dinner, not their year of passing) 
Not listed in the 1983 BSJ report. 
<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is the origin of “standing on the terrace?”</a> 
 
Morley-Montgomery Award: 
No awards were given from 1981-1995. 
<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is the Morley-Montgomery Award?</a> 
 
 
<h4>
Reports on the Dinner</h4>
The Baker Street Journal v33 n1 (March 1983) pp. 45 and 53 (available in the eBSJ). 
 
List of 1983 BSI Dinner Attendees (not available at this time) 
 
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 Recordings</h4>
A recording of parts of the 1983 BSI Dinner is available at Harvard as part of the <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/archive.html">BSI Archive</a>. 
 
 
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Related Material</h4>
<a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.Hough:16197455">1983 BSI Dinner Menu </a>(digitized images at Harvard) 
Two pages. Cover and interior. Sequence 94-95. 
 
<a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.HOUGH:16162476?n=96">Replica 1934 BSI Dinner Menu</a> (digitized images at Harvard) 
Two pages. Cover and interior. Sequence 96-97. 
Distributed at the 1983 BSI Dinner by Irving Kamil, BSI to celebrate the BSI’s 50th Annual Dinner. 
 
Previous dinner: the <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2016/02/the-1982-bsi-dinner.html">1982 BSI Dinner</a> 
 
Next dinner: the <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2016/03/the-1984-bsi-dinner.html">1984 BSI Dinner</a> 
 
For an index to all BSI Dinners and photos, see our <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/dinner-summary.html">BSI Dinner Summary</a> list. 
 
 
The BSI Archive is located at the Houghton Library at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Archival material may be used by any qualified scholar, subject to the normal rules and regulations of the Library. For links to a detailed finding aid and related information, see our <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/archive.html">BSI Archive at Harvard </a>page. 
 
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The 1983 BSI Dinner

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Julian Wolff’s report in the Baker Street Journal regarding the 128th anniversary of Holmes’s birth is succinct yet effusive. The evening’s repast was deemed “sumptuous,” recipients of honours were indeed “deserving,” and the proceedings afforded “many desirable keepsakes.” Thirteen Irregulars were invested at the Dinner. Earlier in the day, the BSI invested its second female member (the first being Lenore Offord in <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/06/the-1958-bsi-dinner.html">1958</a>).  Lisa McGaw, who oversaw the William Gillette Luncheon for many years, was awarded the Irregular Shilling as “Mrs. Hudson” at that luncheon. Wolff’s notes on the evening conclude with the following bon mot: “Asimov was in unusually (perhaps usually) fine fettle and literally brought down the house.” 
 
Dinner Details: January 8, 1982 
The Regency Hotel, 540 Park Avenue, New York 
 
 
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Dinner Photo Information</h4>
Click on the above photo to see a larger version of it, and maximize your browser window to see the most detail. 
 
Key to People in the 1982 BSI Dinner photo (not available at this time) 
 
 
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BSI Honours List</h4>
Investitures: 
Peter G. Ashman as Peter Steiler the Elder** 
Morency R. Dame as Colonel Lysander Stark** 
Orval C. Graves as Whitaker's Almanack 
Howard L. Lachtman as The Matilda Briggs** 
W. Kenneth Lane as Wilson Hargreave, of the New York Police 
Brian R. MacDonald as The Famous Card Scandal of the Nonpareil Club** 
Lisa McGaw as Mrs. Hudson* 
Frederic H. Mende as Lord Holdhurst 
Richard H. Miller as The Grice Patersons in the Island of Uffa 
Bruce R. Parker as A Garrotter by Trade 
J. Warren Scheideman as Count Von und Zu Grafenstein** 
Floyd Sherrod as The Case of John Vincent Harden** 
Milton A. Silverman as Barker, My Hated Rival 
Fritz Sonnenschmidt as Simpson's* 
Richard Warshauer as Godfrey Staunton** 
* received Investiture at another event during the year 
** in absentia 
<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is an Investiture?</a> 
 
 
Two-Shilling Award: 
Carl H. Anderson 
Albert M. Rosenblatt* 
Thomas L. Stix Jr* 
* received the Two-Shilling Award at another event during the year 
<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is a Two-Shilling Award?</a> 
 
The Woman: 
Barbara (Mrs. John B.) Koelle 
<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is The Woman honour?</a> 
 
"Stand with me here upon the terrace..." 
(as named at this Dinner, not their year of passing) 
Frank Reilly (a noted Sherlockian) 
Willmer A. Hoerr (The Famous Card Scandal of the Nonpareil Club, 1958) 
Aubrey Campbell Roberts (a noted Sherlockian) 
Robert L. Fish (Barker, My Hated Rival, 1971) 
James Nelson (Lady Frances Carfax, 1952) 
David Levinson (Count Von und Zu Grafenstein, 1965) 
Philip Dalton (Past Chairman of The Sherlock Holmes Society of London) 
<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is the origin of “standing on the terrace?”</a> 
 
Morley-Montgomery Award: 
No awards were given from 1981-1995. 
<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is the Morley-Montgomery Award?</a> 
 
 
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Reports on the Dinner</h4>
The Baker Street Journal v32 n1 (March 1982) p. 56 (available in the eBSJ). 
 
The Baker Street Journal v32 n2 (June 1982) p. 109 (available in the eBSJ). 
 
List of 1982 BSI Dinner Attendees (not available at this time) 
 
 
<h4>
Recordings</h4>
A recording of parts of the 1982 BSI Dinner is available at Harvard as part of the <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/archive.html">BSI Archive</a>. 
 
 
<h4>
Related Material</h4>
<a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.Hough:16197454">1982 BSI Dinner Menu</a> (digitized images at Harvard) 
Two pages. Cover and interior, two copies. Sequence 87-88 and 89-90. 
 
<a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.HOUGH:16162476?n=91">Program to a Performance of the Hound of the Baskervilles </a>(digitized images at Harvard) 
Distributed at the 1982 BSI Dinner by Bruce R. Beaman, BSI 
 
Second Woman Invested 
As listed above, Lisa McGaw, who organized the William Gillette Luncheon (held on the same day as the BSI Dinner) for many years, was the second woman to be invested in the BSI (and the last until 1991). She never attended a BSI Dinner.  Read more about Ms. McGaw and her Investiture at the <a href="https://ash-nyc.com/membership/ashes-to-ashes/#lmc">Adventuresses of Sherlock Holmes website</a>. 
 
Previous dinner: the<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2016/02/the-1981-bsi-dinner.html"> 1981 BSI Dinner</a> 
 
Next dinner: the <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2016/03/the-1983-bsi-dinner.html">1983 BSI Dinner</a> 
 
For an index to all BSI Dinners and photos, see our <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/dinner-summary.html">BSI Dinner Summary</a> list. 
 
 
The BSI Archive is located at the Houghton Library at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Archival material may be used by any qualified scholar, subject to the normal rules and regulations of the Library. For links to a detailed finding aid and related information, see our <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/archive.html">BSI Archive at Harvard</a> page. 
 
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This page last updated 2/21/2016 by Andrew Solberg. 
 
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In the Baker Street Journal, the Commissionaire recorded that the 1981 Dinner marking Sherlock Holmes’s 127th birthday was “one of its best.” Distinguished guests included visitors from Scandinavia: Nils Nordberg, Åke Runnquist, and Ted Bergman (“The Honourable Philip Green”). Ad (Mrs.Will) Oursler was toasted as The Woman. The readings of Sherlock Holmes’s Prayer, the Musgrave Ritual, and the Constitution and Buy-Laws were stirring; the Canonical Toasts were especially witty and clever. Members stood on the terrace “to have our last quiet talk with those stalwarts who had dropped from the ranks since we had last met.” Eleven Irregular Shillings were bestowed. A number of characteristically witty talks were delivered, with Edward Clark’s oration being singled out for particular mention. 
 
The Commissionaire was even presented with two medals from the Maiwand Jezails and the Irish Secret Society at Buffalo. Attendees departed at the evening’s close “with the determination to outdo ourselves next year, if possible.” 
 
Dinner Details: January 9, 1981 
The Regency Hotel, 540 Park Avenue, New York 
 
 
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Dinner Photo Information</h4>
Click on the above photo to see a larger version of it, and maximize your browser window to see the most detail. 
 
Key to People in the 1981 BSI Dinner photo (not available at this time) 
 
 
<h4>
BSI Honours List</h4>
Investitures: 
Howard Brody as Anstruther 
John F. Farrell as The Tiger of San Pedro 
Kenton A. Johnson as A Remarkable Invention 
Irving Kamil as Monsieur Oscar Meunier, of Grenoble 
Gene A. Leeb as The Franco-Midland Hardware Company 
Tom McGee as Wilson, the Notorious Canary-Trainer 
Nils Nordberg as A Norwegian Named Sigerson 
Åke Runnquist as Jacob Shafter 
David Skene-Melvin as The Duke of Holdernesse 
Edgar B. Smith as Dr. Moore Agar 
Harlan L. Umansky as Jonathan Small 
* received Investiture at another event during the year 
<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is an Investiture?</a> 
 
 
Two-Shilling Award: 
Robert W. Hahn 
<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is a Two-Shilling Award?</a> 
 
The Woman: 
Ad (Mrs. Will) Oursler 
<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is The Woman honour?</a> 
 
"Stand with me here upon the terrace..." 
(as named at this Dinner, not their year of passing) 
Richard W. Clarke (The Copper Beeches, 1949) 
Norman Schatell (Jonathan Small, 1977) 
Frank V. Morley (The Three Garridebs, 1944) 
Jussi Kurikka (a leading Sherlockian in Finland) 
<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is the origin of “standing on the terrace?”</a> 
 
Morley-Montgomery Award: 
No awards were given from 1981-1995. 
<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is the Morley-Montgomery Award?</a> 
 
 
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Reports on the Dinner</h4>
The Baker Street Journal v31 n1 (March 1981) p. 51 (available in the eBSJ). 
 
The Baker Street Journal v31 n2 (June 1981) p. 120 (available in the eBSJ). 
 
List of 1981 BSI Dinner Attendees (not available at this time) 
 
 
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Recordings</h4>
In the following 3-minute vignette from the 1981 BSI Dinner, Commissionaire Julian Wolff introduces Robert Robinson (The Hansom Cab) who reads The Sherlock Holmes Prayer, which was written by Christopher Morley. The Sherlock Holmes Prayer is rarely heard today. 
 
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A recording of the entire 1981 BSI Dinner is available at Harvard as part of the <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/archive.html">BSI Archive</a>. 
 
 
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Related Material</h4>
<a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.Hough:16197453">1981 BSI Dinner Menu </a>(digitized images at Harvard) 
Two pages. Cover and interior. Sequence 85-86 
 
Previous dinner: the <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2016/02/the-1980-bsi-dinner.html">1980 BSI Dinner</a> 
 
Next dinner: the <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2016/02/the-1982-bsi-dinner.html">1982 BSI Dinner</a> 
 
For an index to all BSI Dinners and photos, see our <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/dinner-summary.html">BSI Dinner Summary</a> list. 
 
 
The BSI Archive is located at the Houghton Library at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Archival material may be used by any qualified scholar, subject to the normal rules and regulations of the Library. For links to a detailed finding aid and related information, see our <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/archive.html">BSI Archive at Harvard </a>page. 
 
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This page last updated 2/18/2016 by Andrew Solberg.

The 1981 BSI Dinner

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The 1980 BSI Dinner

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The 1980 Dinner marked Sherlock Holmes’s 126th birthday.  After the first Canonical toast to The Woman, Peggy (Mrs. H. W.) Starr was given the honour.  The dinner included all rites and ceremonies faithfully observed.  The entire programme was carried out as usual, except for one delightful interruption: “an Irregular committee took over the proceedings and delivered tributes to the surprised, flattered, and blushing Commissionaire on the occasion of his seventy-fifth birthday.” 
 
Dinner Details: January 11, 1980 
The Regency Hotel, 540 Park Avenue, New York 
 
 
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Dinner Photo Information</h4>
Click on the above photo to see a larger version of it, and maximize your browser window to see the most detail. 
 
Key to People in the 1980 BSI Dinner photo (not available at this time) 
 
<h4>
 BSI Honours List</h4>
Investitures:  
Bruce R. Beaman as The Yellow Face** 
John Stevens Berry as The Hammerford Will Case** 
Stafford G. Davis as Horace Harker 
J. Devereux deGozzaldi as The Speckled Band** 
Robert Watson Douty as The Priory School 
Samuel M. Gerber as The Final Problem 
Alvin F. Germeshausen as Baron Dowson** 
Charles E. Henry as The Lion's Mane 
Jeffrey L. Michelman as Sutro, the Lawyer 
Robert A. Moss as The Case of Fairdale Hobbs** 
Hartley R. Nathan as The Penang Lawyer 
Frank F. Reilly as The Boscombe Valley Mystery 
* received Investiture at another event during the year 
** in absentia 
<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is an Investiture?</a> 
 
 
Two-Shilling Award: 
Peter E. Blau 
John Bennett Shaw 
<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is a Two-Shilling Award?</a> 
 
The Woman: 
Peggy (Mrs. Herbert W.) Starr 
<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is The Woman honour?</a> 
 
"Stand with me here upon the terrace..." 
(as named at this Dinner, not their year of passing) 
Not listed in the 1980 BSJ report. 
<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is the origin of “standing on the terrace?”</a> 
 
Morley-Montgomery Award: 
Howard Brody, "The Location of Baskerville Hall" 
The Baker Street Journal v29 n4 (December 1979) pp. 229-234 (available in the eBSJ). 
<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is the Morley-Montgomery Award?</a> 
 
 
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Reports on the Dinner</h4>
The Baker Street Journal v30 n1 (March 1980) p. 49 (available in the eBSJ). 
 
The Baker Street Journal v30 n2 (June 1980) p. 116 (available in the eBSJ). 
 
List of 1980 BSI Dinner Attendees (not available at this time) 
 
 
<h4>
Recordings</h4>
None available online at this time. 
 
 
<h4>
Related Material</h4>
<a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.Hough:16197452">1980 BSI Dinner Menu</a> (digitized images at Harvard) 
Two pages. Cover and interior, two copies. Sequence 79-80 and 81-82 
 
<a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.HOUGH:16162476?n=83">The Musgrave Ritual </a>(digitized image at Harvard) 
Read at the 1980 BSI Dinner. 
 
<a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.HOUGH:16162476?n=84">BSI Constitution and Buy Laws </a>(digitized image at Harvard) 
Read at the 1980 BSI Dinner. 
 
Previous dinner: the <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2016/02/the-1979-bsi-dinner.html">1979 BSI Dinner</a> 
 
Next dinner: the <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2016/02/the-1981-bsi-dinner.html">1981 BSI Dinner</a> 
 
For an index to all BSI Dinners and photos, see our <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/dinner-summary.html">BSI Dinner Summary list</a>. 
 
 
The BSI Archive is located at the Houghton Library at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Archival material may be used by any qualified scholar, subject to the normal rules and regulations of the Library. For links to a detailed finding aid and related information, see our<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/archive.html"> BSI Archive at Harvard</a> page. 
 
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This page last updated 2/9/2016 by Andrew Solberg.

The 1980 BSI Dinner

The 1980 Dinner marked Sherlock Holmes’s 126th birthday. After the first Canonical toast to The Woman, Peggy (Mrs. H. W.) Starr was giv...

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