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The 2006 BSI Dinner

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The Baker Street Irregulars and invited guests assembled Friday evening at the Union League Club to celebrate the 152nd birthday of Sherlock Holmes.  Peter Blau, in his report on the weekend in his Scuttlebutt from the Spermaceti Press, noted that attendees at this year’s birthday festivities were greeted with “clear skies and pleasant temperatures.”  After Wiggins (Michael Whelan) opened the proceedings, Bob Coghill read the BSI Constitution and Buy-Laws.  Barbara Roden offered a witty canonical toast to Mrs. Hudson.  Other toasts followed, including ones to Mycroft by Joe Coppola, to Watson's second wife by Francine Kitts, and to Sherlock Holmes by Lou Lewis.   Ken Lanza led the throng in the reading of the Musgrave Ritual. 
 
David Musto led off the program with commentary on the many incidents of atavism in the Canon. Terry Belanger gave his perspective on collecting rare books.  Lloyd Rose analyzed the spate of detectives portrayed on current popular television programs.  For the evening's musical entertainment, pianist Tyke and vocalist Teddie Niver treated Irregulars and guests to song and dance in the style of music hall circa 1900. 
 
Attendees were treated to a fascinating “Tribute to an Era of Old Irregulars” by <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2016/10/arthur-levine-interview-oral-history.html">Art Levine</a>, who gave an engaging account of the Edgar W. Smith era, rich with detail, from his unique perspective of having been invested fifty years ago. 
 
Norma Hyder was toasted as <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">The Woman</a>. Seven Irregulars received their Shilling at the Dinner. 
 
Roy Pilot concluded the evening’s program with a reading of Vincent Starrett's sonnet "221B." 
 
At the next day’s Sherlockian Cocktail Reception at 24 Fifth Avenue, Judge Albert Rosenblatt and his daughter, Betsy Rosenblatt, once again, performed their remarkable summation of the previous year and of the Festivities in verse. 
 
Dinner Details: January 13, 2006 
Union League Club, New York 
 
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Dinner Photo Information</h4>
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Key to People in the 2006 BSI Dinner photo (not available at this time) 
 
 
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BSI Honours List</h4>
Investitures: 
Curtis Armstrong as An Actor and a Rare One 
Paul G. Churchill as Corot 
Jerry Kegley as Nathan Garrideb 
Richard M. Olken as Bob Carruthers 
Jennie C. Paton as Laura Lyons 
Trevor S. Raymond as Horace Harker 
Regina Stinson as A Little Ribston Pippin 
* 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: 
The Two-Shilling Award was not given in 2006. 
<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is a Two-Shilling Award?</a> 
 
The Woman: 
Norma (Mrs. William) Hyder 
<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 named in the 2006 BSJ report of the Dinner. 
<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is the origin of “standing on the terrace?”</a> 
 
Morley-Montgomery Award: 
Catherine Cooke, "Mrs. Hudson: A Legend in Her Own Lodging-House" 
The Baker Street Journal v55 n2 (Summer 2005) pp. 13-23 (available in the eBSJ). 
<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is the Morley-Montgomery Award?</a> 
 
The BSI Distinguished Speaker Lecture: 
Leroy Lad Panek, “Sherlock Holmes and the Emergence of the American Detective Story” 
The Baker Street Journal v56 n2 (Summer 2006) pp. 17-24 (available in the eBSJ). 
<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is the BSI Distinguished Speaker Lecture?</a> 
 
 
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Reports on the Dinner</h4>
The Baker Street Journal v56 n1 (Spring 2006) pp. 6-13 (available in the eBSJ). 
 
Blau, Peter, <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/links.html#news">Scuttlebutt from the Spermaceti Press</a>, (January 2006): 1. 
 
List of 2006 BSI Dinner Attendees (not available at this time) 
 
 
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Recordings</h4>
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Michael Whelan, Norma Hyder, William Hyder, and Peter Blau</div>
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The Woman Ceremony, 2006</div>
 
Immediately prior to the BSI Dinner, a reception is held for BSI members and guests, at which the attendees honor that year’s <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">The Woman</a>.   In 2006, the honoree was Norma Hyder, wife of the dean of the Baltimore Sherlockian community, William Hyder, and a constant supporter of Sherlockian activities in Baltimore.  James Saunders presented Norma with a corsage, as he has to The Woman for the past 31 years.  Following the ceremony, The Woman is escorted to a gala dinner at which prior honorees are in attendance, and The Woman from the previous year serves as hostess.  You can hear this ceremony in this 5 minute vignette from the 2006 BSI festivities. 
 
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A recording of portions of the 2006 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>
Rosenblatt, Albert M., and Betsy Rosenblatt, “The Sherlockian Year In Verse: 2006,” The Baker Street Journal v56 n1 (Spring 2006): 14-16 (available in the eBSJ). The Rosenblatts’ rhyming retrospective, delivered at the January 14, 2006 Sherlockian Cocktail Reception. 
 
Previous dinner: the <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2016/11/the-2005-bsi-dinner.html">2005 BSI Dinner</a> 
 
Next dinner: the <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2016/12/the-2007-bsi-dinner.html">2007 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 2006 BSI Dinner

The Baker Street Irregulars and invited guests assembled Friday evening at the Union League Club to celebrate the 152nd birthday of Sherl...

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The 1997 BSI Dinner

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The Dinner celebrating the 143rd anniversary of the Master’s birth was a momentous one.  The usual traditions and toasts were performed, including the Sherlock Holmes Prayer, the reading of the BSI Constitution and Buy-Laws, and the reciting of the Musgrave Ritual. 
 
Robert Katz once again toasted The Second Mrs. Watson, William Hyder toasted Mycroft Holmes, Susan Rice toasted Mrs. Hudson, and Sherry Rose-Bond ended the formal toasts with one to “The Most Dangerous Gang in London.”  Bruce Montgomery regaled the crowd with his father’s “Aunt Clara” and his own set of new verses. 
 
Tom Stix then turned the program over to Mike Whelan, who emceed a riotously funny roast of Tom. Mike Whelan then presented to Tom and his wife Dorothy two beautiful expressions of the BSI’s gratitude for their work on our behalf.  Dorothy received a crystal vase on which was inscribed “Presented with Affection to Dorothy K. Stix, The The Woman, by the BSI, January 10, 1997.”  Tom received a crystal presentation piece, etched with the alternate dust jacket design for the British edition of The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes by Vincent Starrett (published, appropriately enough, in 1934, the year of the founding of the BSI) inscribed “With gratitude to Thomas L. Stix, Jr., Wiggins, for keeping the memory of the Master green, by the BSI, January 10, 1997.” 
 
Tom Stix announced that he was stepping down after eleven years as Wiggins, and was passing the mantle on to Mike Whelan. (Listen to the recording below.) Dante Torrese closed the program with “A Long Evening with Holmes.” 
 
Beverly E. Wolov was honored as “The Woman.” Eight Irregulars received their shillings. 
 
At the next day’s Sherlockian Cocktail Reception, David Stuart Davies performed The Hound of the Baskervilles in a one-man, seven minute performance.  Philip Shreffler was presented with the <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">Morley-Montgomery Award</a>.  Judge Albert Rosenblatt presented his annual poetic account of the BSI Dinner, the Sherlockian Weekend, and the Sherlockian Year. 
 
Dinner Details: January 10, 1997 
24 Fifth Avenue, New York 
 
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<a href="http://files.bsitrust.org/pdf/dinner/bsi-dinner-1997-photo-key.pdf">Key to People in the 1997 BSI Dinner photo</a> (PDF) 
 
 
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BSI Honours List</h4>
Investitures: 
William J. Hyder as A Most Valuable Institution 
Richard J. Kitts as The Battered Tin Dispatch-Box 
Kenneth C. Lanza as His Last Bow 
Theodora Niver as Carina 
Roy E. Pilot as Chemical Laboratory of St. Barts 
Paul G. Singleton as Covent Garden 
Margaret Smedegaard as Criterion Bar 
Dorothy K. Stix as Martha 
* 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: 
Benton Wood* 
 * received the 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: 
Beverly E. Wolov 
<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 1997 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: 
Philip Shreffler, "Quintessence of Irregular: The Original Series of The Baker Street Journal" 
The Baker Street Journal v46 n4 (December 1996) pp. 7-12 (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 v47 n1 (March 1997) pp. 59-64 (available in the eBSJ). 
 
Hyder, William, “Toast to Mycroft,” The Baker Street Journal v47 n1 (March 1997) p. 61 (available in the eBSJ). Presented at the 1997 BSI Dinner. 
 
Blau, Peter, <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/links.html#news">Scuttlebutt from the Spermaceti Press</a>, (January 1997), 1. 
 
<a href="http://files.bsitrust.org/pdf/dinner/bsi-dinner-1997-photo-key.pdf">Key to People in the 1997 BSI Dinner photo</a> (PDF) 
 
 
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Recordings</h4>
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Thomas Stix at the 1997 BSI Dinner</div>
 
Thomas L. Stix, Jr. (The Norwood Builder) became the head of the BSI (Wiggins) after the <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2016/03/the-1986-bsi-dinner.html">1986 BSI Dinner</a>.  At the 1997 BSI Dinner, Stix announced that he was stepping down and that Michael Whelan (Vincent Spaulding) would be the new head of the BSI.  You can hear his announcement in this 7 minute vignette from the 1997 BSI Dinner.  Stix (whose father was also a BSI member) was invested at the <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/07/the-1961-bsi-dinner.html">1961 BSI Dinner</a>. 
 
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A recording of portions of the 1997 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:16162476?n=165">1997 BSI Dinner Menu</a> (digitized images at Harvard) 
Two pages. Cover and interior. Sequence 165-166. 
 
<a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.HOUGH:16162476?n=167">The Stetaks BSI Dinner Favor </a>(digitized images at Harvard) 
Distributed to attendees at the 1997 BSI Dinner. 
Two pages. Cover and interior. Sequence 167-168 
 
Rosenblatt, Albert M., “Verse for the Baker Street Irregulars on January 11, 1997,” The Baker Street Journal v47 n1 (March 1997) pp. 66-69 (available in the eBSJ). Judge Rosenblatt’s rhyming retrospective, delivered at the January 11, 1997 Sherlockian Cocktail Reception. 
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Previous dinner: the <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2016/07/the-1996-bsi-dinner.html">1996 BSI Dinner</a> 
 
Next dinner: the <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2016/08/the-1998-bsi-dinner.html">1998 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 1997 BSI Dinner

The Dinner celebrating the 143rd anniversary of the Master’s birth was a momentous one. The usual traditions and toasts were performed, ...

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The 1991 BSI Dinner

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The 137th anniversary of the Master’s birth included all of our traditional rites and ceremonies. Joan [Mrs. Benton] Wood was honored as The Woman. The busy program featured John Bennett Shaw’s paean to the late Commissionaire, Dr. Julian Wolff, read in Mr. Shaw’s absence by Richard Schull. Robert N. Brodie mused on “what ever happened to” a number of well-known Canonical characters. Don Yates proffered two reader’s digested versions of The Hound of the Baskervilles (one sixty seconds long, the other five words long), and Wayne Swift essayed a portion of his ongoing scholarship concerning Silver Blaze. Bill Rabe acquainted members with the shocking results of his investigations into the BSI’s unofficial anthem, “Aunt Clara” (proving that all these years we’ve been singing it to the wrong tune — a Scottish folk song called “Mush Mush”). Norman Davis plunged the “art” of the pun to a new nadir in his survey of Sherlockian horse-racing handicapping. Don Redmond was given The Good Old Index Award honoring his 21 years of indexing of the Baker Street Journal. David Musto gave a lucid account of the founding of the first Sherlockian society in the Soviet Union, The Red-Headed League of Moscow, a long-awaited event in which Mr. Musto lent a gently guiding hand. The report in the BSJ states, “The Baker Street Irregulars wish every good fortune to these new-found Soviet friends.” 
 
However, 1991 will forever be remembered in the annals of BSI history for the Sherlockian Cocktail Party on the following day.  At the Cocktail Party, Tom Stix formally opened the BSI to women in announcing seven additional BSI Investitures, six of whom were women.  His emotional announcement can be heard below.  Two of these Investitures went to Katherine McMahon (one of the original solvers of the <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/bsi-history.html">Sherlock Holmes Crossword Puzzle</a>) and Edwin V. King (who had earned the honor in the 1940s).  Next, he bestowed an Investiture on Dame Jean Conan Doyle (Arthur Conan Doyle’s daughter).  Stix then went on to invest Edith Meiser, Julia Carlson Rosenblatt, Evelyn Herzog, and Susan Rice.  He ended his moving presentation by emphasizing that these were genuine Investitures in the Baker Street Irregulars, entitling the women to invitations to the Annual Dinner.  His announcement was interrupted by several standing ovations. History had turned, and the BSI Dinner was now co-ed. 
 
Also at the Sherlockian cocktail party, the Commissionaire’s Award for outstanding contributions to Sherlockiana was conferred upon H. George Fletcher who, in his capacity of Director of Fordham University Press, had served for sixteen years as publisher of the Baker Street Journal and of a number of important Sherlockian books including the first volumes of the <a href="http://www.bakerstreetjournal.com/itemsforsale/bsihistoryseries.html">Baker Street Irregulars’ History Project</a>. (See the <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2016/04/the-1988-bsi-dinner.html">1988 BSI Dinner</a> for background on this award.) 
 
Dinner Details: January 11, 1991 
24 Fifth Avenue, New York 
 
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<a href="http://files.bsitrust.org/pdf/dinner/bsi-dinner-1991-photo-key.pdf">Key to People in the 1991 BSI Dinner photo</a> (PDF) 
 
 
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BSI Honours List</h4>
Investitures: 
Dame Jean Conan Doyle as A Certain Gracious Lady* 
Henry Enberg as John Garrideb 
Evelyn A. Herzog as The Daintiest Thing Under a Bonnet* 
Roger Johnson as Pall Mall Gazette* 
Edwin V. King as Captain Arthur Morstan* 
Katherine McMahon as Lucy Ferrier* 
Edith Meiser as A Fascinating and Beautiful Woman* 
<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/12/glen-miranker-interview-oral-history.html">Glen Miranker</a> as The Origin of Tree Worship 
Joseph W. Moran as Sir Augustus Moran, C.B. 
William Nadel as Bartholomew Sholto 
Susan Rice as Beeswing* 
Julia Carlson Rosenblatt as Mrs. Turner* 
CharlesJ. Shields as 17 King Edward Street 
Stephen H. Tolins as John Straker 
* 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: 
Ely M. Liebow 
<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is a Two-Shilling Award?</a> 
 
The Woman: 
Joan [Mrs. Benton] Wood 
<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 1991 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 v41 n1 (March 1991) pp. 45, 49 (available in the eBSJ). 
 
Blau, Peter, <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/links.html#news">Scuttlebutt from the Spermaceti Press</a>, (January 1991), p. 2. 
 
<a href="http://files.bsitrust.org/pdf/dinner/bsi-dinner-1991-photo-key.pdf">List of 1991 BSI Dinner Attendees</a> (PDF, part of Key to Dinner photo) 
 
 
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Recordings</h4>
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Thomas Stix at a BSI Dinner</div>
 
Thomas L. Stix, Jr. (The Norwood Builder) became the head of the BSI (Wiggins) after the 1986 BSI Dinner.  He served in that capacity until 1997.  At the 1991 Sherlockian Cocktail Party on the day after the 1991 BSI Dinner, Stix invested six women into the BSI to great applause.  He said that, henceforth, female BSI would be invited to the Annual Dinner. You can hear his moving presentation in this 12-minute vignette from the 1991 Sherlockian Cocktail Party.  Stix (whose father was also a BSI member) was invested at the <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/07/the-1961-bsi-dinner.html">1961 BSI Dinner</a>. 
 
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Recordings of both the 1991 BSI Dinner and Sherlockian Cocktail Reception are 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:16197463">1991 BSI Dinner Menu</a> (digitized images at Harvard) 
Two pages. Cover and interior. Sequence 138-139. 
 
<a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.HOUGH:16162476?n=140">Ticket to the Annual Sherlockian Cocktail Party on January 12, 1991</a> (digitized image at Harvard) 
One page. Sequence 140 
 
<a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.HOUGH:16162476?n=141">Rosenblatt, Albert, Rhyming Retrospective of the 1991 BSI Festivities</a> (digitized image at Harvard) 
Presented at the Saturday Sherlockian Cocktail Party. 
Two pages. Sequence 141-142. 
 
<a href="https://soundcloud.com/ihearofsherlock/episode-89-the-adventuresses#t=57:44">I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere, Episode 89: The Adventuresses of Sherlock Holmes</a> 
In this episode of their podcast, W. Scott Monty, BSI and Burt Wolder, BSI interview Evelyn Herzog, ASH, BSI and Susan Rice, ASH, BSI (both among the first women invested in the BSI in 1991) about the events leading up to the admittance of women in the BSI.  This link goes directly to the point in the podcast when they talk about the 1991 Sherlockian Cocktail Party and Tom Stix’s announcement. 
 
Previous dinner: the <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2016/04/the-1990-bsi-dinner.html">1990 BSI Dinner</a> 
 
Next dinner: the <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2016/05/the-1992-bsi-dinner.html">1992 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 1991 BSI Dinner

The 137th anniversary of the Master’s birth included all of our traditional rites and ceremonies. Joan [Mrs. Benton] Wood was honored as ...

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The 1984 BSI Dinner

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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>
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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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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

As you can hear in our recording below of Isaac Asimov, the 1984 BSI Dinner was highly entertaining. It started with a Dinner invitation ...

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The 1981 BSI Dinner

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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>
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Key to People in the 1981 BSI Dinner photo (not available at this time) 
 
 
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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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The 1981 BSI Dinner

In the Baker Street Journal , the Commissionaire recorded that the 1981 Dinner marking Sherlock Holmes’s 127th birthday was “one of its b...

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The 1979 BSI Dinner

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The 1979 Dinner marking Sherlock Holmes’s 125th birthday was “a great success and a new attendance record was made.” Julia Rosenblatt was honored as The Woman. Twelve Irregular shillings were bestowed. 
 
Short talks were proffered by Mark McPherson, Will Oursler, Ed Clark, Al Rosenblatt, and Isaac Asimov. The Baker Street Journal notes that “the contributions of Clark and Asimov were especially brilliant.” The Irregular reception at The Grolier Club, which took place the following day, January 6, was also termed “an unusually enjoyable (and crowded) affair, attended by 200 Irregulars and their ladies.” 
 
Dinner Details: January 5, 1979 
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 1979 BSI Dinner photo (not available at this time) 
 
 
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BSI Honours List</h4>
Investitures: 
James Brewer as Josiah Brown 
Frank A. Hoffmann as Altamont 
Richard L. Katz as Jean Baptiste Greuze 
Michael H. Kean as General Charles Gordon 
Ely M. Liebow as Inspector Gregory 
Mark McPherson as Cecil Barker 
Jeffrey Montgomery as Inspector Montgomery 
Harold E. Niver as The Man on the Tor 
William P. Schweickert as Cox and Co. 
Blaine Simons as The Strange Old Book Collector* 
George Sturm as Neil Gibson 
Benton Wood as A Scandal in Bohemia** 
* 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: 
None listed 
<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is a Two-Shilling Award?</a> 
 
The Woman: 
Julia (Mrs. Albert M.) Rosenblatt 
<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 1979 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: 
Richard Luman, "The Second Hand in The Second Stain" 
The Baker Street Journal v28 n3 (September 1978) pp. 132-136 (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 v29 n2 (June 1979) pp. 114, 116 (available in the eBSJ). 
 
List of 1979 BSI Dinner Attendees (not available at this time) 
 
 
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Recordings</h4>
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Julian Wolff at a BSI Dinner</div>
 
In the following 4-minute vignette from the 1979 BSI Dinner, Commissionaire Julian Wolff announces the BSI Investitures for that year. 
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A recording of the entire 1979 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:16197451">1979 BSI Dinner Menu </a>(digitized images at Harvard) 
Two pages. Cover and interior, two copies. Sequence 74-75 and 77-78 
 
<a href="http://pds.lib.harvard.edu/pds/view/51202926?n=76">Kean, Michael, Toast to Sherlock Holmes</a> (digitized image at Harvard) 
At the BSI Dinner at which he was invested in 1979, Michael Kean presented the Toast to Sherlock Holmes. One page. Sequence 76. 
 
Previous dinner: the <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2016/01/the-1978-bsi-dinner.html">1978 BSI Dinner</a> 
 
Next dinner: the <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2016/02/the-1980-bsi-dinner.html">1980 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 1979 BSI Dinner

The 1979 Dinner marking Sherlock Holmes’s 125th birthday was “a great success and a new attendance record was made.” Julia Rosenblatt was...

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The 1973 BSI Dinner

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The Baker Street Irregulars celebrated the 119th birthday of Sherlock Holmes at The Regency Hotel.  The Commissionaire, Julian Wolff, intended to present the Sherlock Holmes silver medal to Mr. Rafael Sevilla-Sacasa (Director of the Philatelic Bureau of the Republic of Nicaragua) for his services in keeping the memory of the Master green by the issuance of the first official Sherlock Holmes stamp.  Unfortunately, Mr. Sevilla-Sacasa was unable to be present due to a severe earthquake in his country. The medal was awarded to him in absentia.  In his place, Mr. Jeff Oakden, of the Crown Agents, delivered a short address.  All of the BSI’s traditions were observed, beginning with the first Conanical toast to The Woman, Ines (Mrs. William S.) Hall, whose late husband was one of the founders of the BSI. Newcomers were introduced. Jim Montgomery’s songs were played, and papers of unusually high calibre were delivered by Will Oursler, Bruce Kennedy, John Bennett Shaw, and John Linsenmeyer.  Six Investitures were awarded at the Dinner.  The BSI, through a small committee headed by James Nelson, presented a special golden sovereign to the Commissionaire, who wrote that he intended to wear it on his watch-chain in memory of the occasion. 
 
Dinner Details: January 5, 1973 
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. 
 
<a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.HOUGH:16162476?n=44">Key to People in the 1973 BSI Dinner Photo</a> (digitized image at Harvard) 
Three pages. Front, interior, and back. Sequence 44-46 
 
 
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BSI Honours List</h4>
Investitures: 
Leonard Cochran as Cardinal Tosca** 
Robert A. W. Lowndes as Langdale Pike 
Keith Paulison as Mr. John Scott Eccles 
Andrew Jay Peck as Inspector Baynes, Surrey Constabulary 
Rex Pinson, Jr. as Inspector G. Lestrade 
John A. Schrandt as Inspector Stanley Hopkins 
* 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: 
James Nelson 
<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is a Two-Shilling Award?</a> 
 
The Woman: 
Ines (Mrs. William S.) Hall 
<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) 
Rufus Tucker (The Greek Interpreter, 1944) 
Reginald Owen (the actor who played both Holmes and Watson) 
Harry Truman (former President and Honorary BSI) 
<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is the origin of “standing on the terrace?”</a> 
 
Morley-Montgomery Award: 
Andrew Jay Peck, "The Solitary Man-Uscript" 
The Baker Street Journal v22 n2 (June 1972) pp. 71-73 (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 v23 n1 (March 1973) pp. 54-55, 60 (available in the eBSJ). 
See also related letter from Vincent Starrett on p. 49. 
 
List of 1973 BSI Dinner Attendees (not available at this time, but see Key to the Photo, above) 
 
 
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Recordings</h4>
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In the following 7-minute vignette from the 1973 BSI Dinner, Commissionaire Julian Wolff is given a gold sovereign by James Nelson. 
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A recording of the entire 1973 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:16197445">1973 BSI Dinner Menu</a> (digitized image at Harvard) 
Two pages. Cover and interior. Sequence 37-38 
 
Previous dinner: the <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/10/the-1972-bsi-dinner.html">1972 BSI Dinner</a> 
 
Next dinner: the <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/11/the-1974-bsi-dinner.html">1974 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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Seventy two guests attended the festivities commemorating Sherlock Holmes’s 109th Birthday, under Rex Stout’s direction. Irregular tradition carried the evening: the Constitution and Buy-Laws were read aloud; the four Canonical toasts and the four Irregular toasts (to Edgar W. Smith, Christopher Morley, James Montgomery and Sherlock Holmes) were proffered; and Sherlock Holmes’s prayer, the Musgrave Ritual, Readings from the Writings, and the Challenge in the Canon were all satisfactorily delivered. Five new members were invested. 
 
The absence due to illness of the Marquis of Donegall, of the Sherlock Holmes Society of London, was regretfully noted. S. Tupper Bigelow saw his proverbial cup runneth over when, in addition to securing the Morley-Montgomery Award for best article published in the Baker Street Journal the previous year, he won a token from the Journal’s editor for the “physical excellence of his manuscripts.” William Baring-Gould, “author of one of the most remarkable books ever penned,” was given the Irregular Two-Shilling Award. The evening closed with reports from Scion societies, the expected intellectual disputation, and the news that a testimonial dinner to Vincent Starrett is scheduled to take place that March in Chicago. 
 
Dinner Details: January 4, 1963 
Cavanagh’s Restaurant, 258 West 23rd Street, 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. 
 
<a href="http://files.bsitrust.org/pdf/dinner/bsi-dinner-1963-photo-key.pdf">Key to People in the 1963 BSI Dinner photo</a> (PDF) 
 
 
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BSI Honours List</h4>
Investitures: 
Edward F. Clark Jr. as The Matter of the French Government 
Stillman Drake as Porlock* 
Ralph E. Edwards as Dr. Barnicot 
Robert W. Hahn as Colonel Ross* 
Banesh Hoffmann as The Dynamics of an Asteroid 
James Edward Holroyd as The St. Pancras Case* 
William D. Jenkins as Sahara King 
Philip Kasson as The Dundas Separation Case 
Charles O. Merriman as Colonel Hayter* 
* 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: 
William S. Baring-Gould 
Vincent Starrett* 
* received 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: 
Marjorie (Mrs. William S.) Hall. 
<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) 
None listed in the 1963 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: 
S. Tupper Bigelow, "The Hoof-Marks in The Priory School” 
The Baker Street Journal v12 n3 (September 1962) pp. 169-174.  (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 v13 n1 (March 1963) pp. 59-60.  (Available in the eBSJ) 
 
<a href="http://files.bsitrust.org/pdf/dinner/bsi-dinner-1963-attendees.pdf">List of 1963 BSI Dinner Attendees</a> (PDF) 
 
<a href="http://files.bsitrust.org/pdf/dinner/bsi-dinner-1963-photo-key.pdf">Key to People in the 1963 BSI Dinner photo</a> (PDF) 
 
 
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Recordings</h4>
<a href="https://youtu.be/P7nlZSDBsqc">Sidelights on Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street</a> (audio at YouTube) 
William S. Baring-Gould discusses press reviews of his book Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street during the 1963 BSI Dinner. 
 
 
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Related Material</h4>
<a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.Hough:16197435">1963 BSI Dinner Menu</a> (digitized image at Harvard) 
Interior and cover and  back. Sequence 13-14. 
 
 
Previous dinner: the <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/08/the-1962-bsi-dinner.html">1962 BSI Dinner</a> 
 
Next dinner: the <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/08/the-1964-bsi-dinner.html">1964 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 1963 BSI Dinner

Seventy two guests attended the festivities commemorating Sherlock Holmes’s 109th Birthday, under Rex Stout’s direction. Irregular tradit...

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