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The 2020 BSI Dinner

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGrhZUArAkOwx67KjB8gi69mZeROjQYGzhNi_SmEhYi1HTPZ7UGWQoOPmYmz8q6hyVgcIJhpYfJ_-vkBih2EbaH-2kyPXBfmf6PypOaE26d-6uwugRwnFg47xsMJ204sqiDmkk2BzCTTjC/s1600/bsi-dinner-2020-v1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="The 2020 BSI Dinner group photo" border="0" data-original-height="1148" data-original-width="1600" height="460" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGrhZUArAkOwx67KjB8gi69mZeROjQYGzhNi_SmEhYi1HTPZ7UGWQoOPmYmz8q6hyVgcIJhpYfJ_-vkBih2EbaH-2kyPXBfmf6PypOaE26d-6uwugRwnFg47xsMJ204sqiDmkk2BzCTTjC/w640-h460/bsi-dinner-2020-v1.jpg" title="Click this 2020 BSI Dinner photo to see a larger version" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div>Sherlockians from all trades and regions arrived in New York to commemorate Sherlock Holmes’ 166th birthday with rousing rituals, presentations, songs, tributes, and more than a bit of conviviality. In the rooftop dining room of the Yale Club, Cathy Miranker was honored by her daughter Emily as The Woman. Presiding over his final Birthday Dinner as Wiggins, Michael Whelan delivered comprehensive greetings and comments. Robert Katz and John Bergquist announced BSI Press Editors awards (or “Eddies”) to Harrison “Terry” Hunt and Linda Hunt for <a href="https://bakerstreetirregulars.com/2019/11/11/aboriginals/">“Aboriginals”</a>; Candace J. Lewis and Ira B. Matetsky for <a href="https://bakerstreetirregulars.com/2019/12/26/upon-the-turf/">Upon the Turf</a>; to Marino Alvarez and Tim Greer for <a href="https://bakerstreetirregulars.com/2019/12/28/education-never-ends/">Education Never Ends</a>; and to Constantine Rossakis and Dan Stashower for T<a href="https://bakerstreetirregulars.com/2019/12/30/worst-man-in-london/">he Worst Man in London</a>.Ross Davies read the Constitution and Buy-Laws. Shannon Carlisle toasted Mrs. Hudson. Les Klinger toasted Mycroft Holmes. Dana S. Richards toasted Watson’s second wife. Barbara Rusch toasted Sherlock Holmes. Bruce R. Parker honored an Old Irregular, Ted Schulz. Jenn Eaker led the reading of the Musgrave Ritual.Candace Lewis delivered an erudite presentation on artist Horace Vernet in the year 1820 (building upon Holmes’ reference in “The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter”). Rebecca Romney offered a wide-ranging examination of the concept of 20/20 vision while noting the 133rd anniversary of the publication of Beeton’s Christmas Annual. Michael Berdan surveyed the impact of the Prohibition ban, whose centennial (16 January 1920) was imminent.Henry Boote, BSI Musical Director, did his usual yeoman’s work by preparing an extremely clever medley celebrating Michael Whelan’s tenure as Wiggins. He also accompanied Donny Zaldin’s musical quiz.Marsha Pollak, taking over from Francine Kitts, led the assembled to “Stand with me here upon the terrace” to honor members who had passed during the previous year.Michael Whelan announced his final round of investitures as Wiggins to nine new Irregulars. Andy Fusco received the Two-Shilling Award. Whelan than concluded the evening by handing over the gavel—in all senses of the word—to Michael Kean. Kean, in turn, then bestowed upon his predecessor the title of “Wiggins Emeritus” and led the guests in a heartfelt chorus of “For He’s a Jolly Good Fellow” to mark Whelan’s accomplishments in his 23-year tenure as Wiggins. Dean Clark led the traditional recitation of Vincent Starrett’s “221B.”As the guests at Saturday’s Cocktail Reception at the Yale Club could concur, only Judge Albert Rosenblatt and Betsy Rosenblatt could do justice to the past year and the events of the Birthday Week in their famed (and anticipated year-round) poetic summary.Dinner Details: January 17, 2020 The Yale Club, New York <h4 style="text-align: left;">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 2020 BSI Dinner photo (not available at this time, but see the <a href="http://files.bsitrust.org/pdf/dinner/bsi-dinner-2020-attendees.pdf">2020 Table Seat Assignments</a> PDF). <h4 style="text-align: left;">BSI Honours List</h4>Investitures:Mary Alcaro as Ivy DouglasFrank Cho as The Duke of BalmoralWalter Colby as Neil GibsonCarlina de la Cova as The Anthropological JournalNancy Holder as Beryl GarciaFreda Howlett as The British GovernmentKen Ludwig as Jack StapletonDavid Richards as Colonel Warburton's MadnessJim Webb as The Curious Incident of Sherlock Holmes in Japan<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is an Investiture?</a> Two-Shilling Award:Andrew Fusco<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is a Two-Shilling Award?</a> The Woman:Cathy Miranker (Mrs. Glen Miranker)<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)Peter Calamai (“The Leeds Mercury,” 2005)Richard M. Caplan (Dr. Jackson, 1989)Susan Z. Diamond (The Great Mogul, 1998)Samuel Feinberg (The Prince of Colonna, 1977)William D. Goodrich (Alexander Holder, 1977)Frank A. Hoffmann (Altamont, 1979)Frederic H. Mende (Lord Holdhurst, 1982)Karl E. Meyer (Fritz von Waldbaum, 1977)Robert E. Thomalen (The Three Garridebs, 1983)<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is the origin of “standing on the terrace?”</a> Morley-Montgomery Award:Ira B. Matetsky, “Another Sherlockian Myth Debunked: Time to Turn the Page(t)” The Baker Street Journal 69.2 (Summer 2019): 6-10.<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html ">What is the Morley-Montgomery Award?</a> The BSI Distinguished Speaker Lecture:Theodora Goss, “Sherlock Holmes and Victorian Anthropology” The Baker Street Journal 70.2 (Summer 2020): 6-17.<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is the BSI Distinguished Speaker Lecture?</a> <h4 style="text-align: left;">Reports on the Dinner</h4>The Baker Street Journal 70.1 (Spring 2020): 60-63.<a href="https://bakerstreetirregulars.com/2020/01/29/the-2020-bsi-weekend-report/">The 2020 BSI Weekend Report</a> (BSI website)Blau, Peter, <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/links.html#news">Scuttlebutt from the Spermaceti Press</a>, (January 2020): 1-2.<a href="http://files.bsitrust.org/pdf/dinner/bsi-dinner-2020-attendees.pdf">List of 2020 BSI Dinner Attendees</a> (PDF) <h4 style="text-align: left;">Recordings</h4>A recording of portions of the 2020 BSI Dinner will be available in the <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/archive.html">BSI Archive</a>. <h4 style="text-align: left;">Related Material </h4><a href="https://files.bakerstreetirregulars.com/events/bsi-weekend-report-2020.pdf">Rosenblatt, Albert M., and Betsy Rosenblatt, “BSI Dinner 2020”</a> (PDF at BSI website) The Rosenblatts’ rhyming retrospective, delivered at the January 18, 2020 Sherlockian Cocktail Reception. Reprinted (abridged) in The Baker Street Journal 70.1 (Spring 2020): 62-63.Previous dinner: the <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2021/07/the-2019-bsi-dinner.html">2019 BSI Dinner</a>Next dinner: the 2021 BSI DinnerFor 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. Material in the BSI Archive 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</a> page. Page composed on 1/15/21 by Tamar Zeffren.This page last updated 10/27/21 by Randall Stock.

The 2020 BSI Dinner

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The 2019 BSI Dinner

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpOl7QxjN91vQjjr9Ai5pHrOkmxtVVEcqa44INillDIRbyXskOUpMrbEv5BJ9HAl1d8n_PqXUEujKzGrH4VTjjITjISAcJ_AYCHZTmiLeiGrnykX0TMceSYTNtDsMNirQOJnj3f_25hP8W/s1600/bsi-dinner-2019-v1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="The 2019 BSI Dinner group photo" border="0" data-original-height="1148" data-original-width="1600" height="460" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpOl7QxjN91vQjjr9Ai5pHrOkmxtVVEcqa44INillDIRbyXskOUpMrbEv5BJ9HAl1d8n_PqXUEujKzGrH4VTjjITjISAcJ_AYCHZTmiLeiGrnykX0TMceSYTNtDsMNirQOJnj3f_25hP8W/w640-h460/bsi-dinner-2019-v1.jpg" title="Click this 2019 BSI Dinner photo to see a larger version" width="640" /></a></div> Sherlock Holmes’ 165th birthday was marked by traditions honored, accomplishments celebrated, voices new and old heard, and transitions appropriately marked. The pre-Dinner proceedings saw not one but two honors tendered. Nelda Richards was honored as The Woman. Then, Peter Blau was surprised by a Festschrift in honor of the 60th anniversary of his investiture. Charles Prepolec toasted Mrs. Hudson. Bonnie MacBird toasted Mycroft Holmes. Candace Lewis toasted Watson's second wife. Bill Mason toasted the Master, Sherlock Holmes.  Dayna Nuhn led the reading of the Musgrave Ritual.  Susan Rice paid tribute to two Old Irregulars, Clifton Andrew and Lisa McGaw.  Robert Katz read the Constitution and Buy-Laws. Katz and John Bergquist presented “Eddies” to a host of talented editors who produced BSI Press titles: Will Walsh and Donny Zaldin for <a href="https://bakerstreetirregulars.com/2018/12/28/canon-law/">Canon Law</a>; Glen Miranker for <a href="https://bakerstreetirregulars.com/2018/12/30/deadly-harpoon/">Deadly Harpoon</a>, and Les Klinger for <a href="https://bakerstreetirregulars.com/2018/12/26/peter-blau/">Peter E. Blau: A Festschrift</a>.The evening saw a host of informed presentations: Andrew Fusco presented on police detectives. Jenn Eaker presented on dogs in the Canon. Emily Miranker opined on the original Baker Street Irregulars. Nick Martorelli presented on Irene Adler. Francine Kitts led the assembled to “"Stand with me here upon the terrace” to honor members who had passed during the previous year.Nine Irregulars received their Shilling. Before the evening concluded with the resonant spectacle of Ray Betzner reading from a typescript owned by Vincent Starrett of Starrett’s “221B,” Michael Whelan announced a forthcoming leadership transition. In 2020, Michael Kean will succeed him as Wiggins. For the balance of 2019, Kean will assume the role of Commissionaire.  During the next day’s Cocktail Reception at the Yale Club, the renowned legal and lyrical pair, Judge Albert Rosenblatt and Betsy Rosenblatt, delivered their epic summary—in rhyme—of the preceding year.Dinner Details: January 11, 2019The Yale Club, New York <h4 style="text-align: left;">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 2019 BSI Dinner photo (not available at this time, but see the <a href="http://files.bsitrust.org/pdf/dinner/bsi-dinner-2019-attendees.pdf">2019 Table Seat Assignments</a> PDF). <h4 style="text-align: left;">BSI Honours List</h4>Investitures:Alexander Katz as SarasateJohn Knud-Hansen as This Lascar ScoundrelBrigitte Latella as Holmes's AlpenstockMichele Lopez as Attenta, PericoloIra B. Matetsky as The Final ProblemTerry McCammon as Young StamfordMike McSwiggin as A Seven Percent SolutionGreg Ruby as Bulldog Pin with Ruby EyesMonica Schmidt as Julia Stoner<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 2019.<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is a Two-Shilling Award?</a> The Woman:Nelda Richards (Mrs. Dana S. Richards)<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)Karen Anderson (Emilia Lucca, 2000)John Crotty, (Dr. James Mortimer, 1972)Ronald De Waal (Lomax, the Sub-Librarian, 1969)Reverend Henry Folsam (The Golden Pince-Nez, 1965)David Hammer (Major-General Stoner, 1986)Paul Herbert (Mr. Leverton, of Pinkerton's, 1977)Jack Koelle (The Sussex Vampire, 1965)Thomas Utecht (Arthur Carpentier, 1994)<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is the origin of “standing on the terrace?”</a> Morley-Montgomery Award:Leslie S. Klinger, “The Origins of Sherlock Holmes: Crime Fiction before Conan Doyle” The Baker Street Journal 68.4 (Winter 2018): 6-16.<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is the Morley-Montgomery Award?</a> The BSI Distinguished Speaker Lecture:Ken Ludwig, “The Footprints of a Gigantic Hound” The Baker Street Journal 69.1 (Spring 2019): 48-54.<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is the BSI Distinguished Speaker Lecture?</a> <h4 style="text-align: left;">Reports on the Dinner</h4>The Baker Street Journal 69.1 (Spring 2019): 61-62.<a href="https://bakerstreetirregulars.com/2019/05/22/the-2019-bsi-weekend-report/">The 2019 BSI Weekend Report</a> (BSI website)Blau, Peter, <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/links.html#news">Scuttlebutt from the Spermaceti Press</a>, (January 2019): 1-2.<a href="http://files.bsitrust.org/pdf/dinner/bsi-dinner-2019-attendees.pdf">List of 2019 BSI Dinner Attendees</a> (PDF) <h4 style="text-align: left;">Recordings</h4>A recording of portions of the 2019 BSI Dinner will be available in the<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/archive.html"> BSI Archive</a>. <h4 style="text-align: left;">Related Material</h4><a href="https://files.bakerstreetirregulars.com/events/bsi-weekend-report-2019.pdf">Rosenblatt, Albert M., and Betsy Rosenblatt, “BSI Poem 2019”</a> (PDF at BSI website). The Rosenblatts’ rhyming retrospective, delivered at the January 12, 2019 Sherlockian Cocktail Reception.Previous dinner: the <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2021/03/the-2018-bsi-dinner.html">2018 BSI Dinner</a>Next dinner: the <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2021/10/the-2020-bsi-dinner.html">2020 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. Material in the BSI Archive 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</a> page. Page composed on 1/15/21 by Tamar Zeffren.This page last updated 7/12/21 by Randall Stock.

The 2019 BSI Dinner

Sherlock Holmes’ 165th birthday was marked by traditions honored, accomplishments celebrated, voices new and old heard, and transitions appr...

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The 2018 BSI Dinner

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDlozdqFjTFoLB0NGPavTcvVSrgAN1JgwTvLmpYjnUWx_IFiRNWpRlW_8uBr-yHazhd1Y1mUAyoNhN8wDvF2TQGGgHi6Q5DowCnMvStshMpxKHqfbjtaUMrrU-KuTH2NKZXdTASPZ0ip2p/s1600/bsi-dinner-2018-v1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="The 2018 BSI Dinner group photo" border="0" data-original-height="1146" data-original-width="1600" height="458" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDlozdqFjTFoLB0NGPavTcvVSrgAN1JgwTvLmpYjnUWx_IFiRNWpRlW_8uBr-yHazhd1Y1mUAyoNhN8wDvF2TQGGgHi6Q5DowCnMvStshMpxKHqfbjtaUMrrU-KuTH2NKZXdTASPZ0ip2p/w640-h458/bsi-dinner-2018-v1.jpg" title="Click this 2018 BSI Dinner photo to see a larger version" width="640" /></a></div> Sherlock Holmes’ 164th birthday showcased a dizzying array of artistic and intellectual tributes to the Master’s memory.Prior to the Dinner, Patricia Izban was honored as The Woman. Michael J. Quigley toasted the long-suffering Mrs. Hudson. Tamar Zeffren offered the toast to Mycroft Holmes.  Donny Zaldin honored Watson's second wife. Richard Kitts toasted the guest of honor, Sherlock Holmes.  Curtis Armstrong led the responsive reading of the Musgrave Ritual.  Jerry Margolin paid tribute to an Old Irregular, Norman Nolan.  Hartley Nathan read the Constitution and Buy-Laws.Guests were then treated to “intriguing” presentations attesting to the wide range of subject mastery evident among the assembled Irregulars. Ross Davies, accompanied by visual aids, demonstrated the Allies’ stratagems for circulating their literature undetected in gift boxes. Maria Fleischhack lectured on Germans in the Canon and methods of disguise. Will Walsh plumbed the depths of submarine warfare. Francine Kitts led the assembled to “Stand with me here upon the terrace” to honor Irregulars who had passed during the previous year.Ten Irregulars then received their Shilling. John Linsenmeyer, former Baker Street Journal editor, was honored with the Two-Shilling Award. The evening concluded with the traditional recital of Vincent Starrett’s “221B.”Attendees had a near-immediate opportunity to recap the previous evening’s events, as well as the preceding 12 months, at Saturday’s Cocktail Reception at the Yale Club. The formidable legal and poetic team of Judge Albert Rosenblatt and Betsy Rosenblatt performed their masterful and anticipated-year-round poetic rhymed synopsis of the previous year and of the Birthday Weekend.Dinner Details: January 12, 2018The Yale Club, New York <h4 style="text-align: left;">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 2018 BSI Dinner photo (not available at this time, but see the <a href="http://files.bsitrust.org/pdf/dinner/bsi-dinner-2018-attendees.pdf" target="">2018 Table Seat Assignments</a> PDF). <h4 style="text-align: left;">BSI Honours List</h4>Investitures:Shannon Carlisle as Beacons of the Future!Dean Clark as Watson's JournalDenny Dobry as A Single Large Airy Sitting-RoomMaria Fleischhack as RacheJeffrey Hatcher as The Five Orange PipsAnastasia Klimchynskaya as An Old Russian WomanCandace J. Lewis as A Little Art JargonNick Martorelli as Seventeen StepsRebecca Romney as That Gap on the Second ShelfAl Shaw as Sir Hugo Baskerville<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html" target="">What is an Investiture?</a> Two-Shilling Award:John Linsenmeyer<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is a Two-Shilling Award?</a> The Woman:Patricia Izban (Mrs. Donald B. Izban)<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)Ted Bergman (Honourable Philip Green, 1978)Ted Friedman (The Commonplace Book, 1995)Barry Hapner (Inspector Forrester, 1983)Morris Lebowitz (Arthur H. Staunton, the Forger, 1970)Robert Moss (The Case of Fairdale Hobbs, 1977)Donald Yates (Mr. Melas, later changed to The Greek Interpreter, 1972)<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is the origin of “standing on the terrace?”</a> Morley-Montgomery Award:Susan E. Bailey, "Whitehall Place Irregulars: Female Searchers and Suspects in Nineteenth-century London" The Baker Street Journal 67:1 (Spring 2017): 24-31.<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is the Morley-Montgomery Award?</a> The BSI Distinguished Speaker Lecture:Martin Edwards, “Sherlock Holmes and the Detection Club” The Baker Street Journal 68.1 (Spring 2018): 28-35.<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is the BSI Distinguished Speaker Lecture?</a> <h4 style="text-align: left;">Reports on the Dinner</h4>The Baker Street Journal 68.1 (Spring 2018): 48-58.Blau, Peter, <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/links.html#news">Scuttlebutt from the Spermaceti Press</a>, (January 2018): 1-2.<a href="http://files.bsitrust.org/pdf/dinner/bsi-dinner-2018-attendees.pdf">List of 2018 BSI Dinner Attendees</a> (PDF) <h4 style="text-align: left;">Recordings</h4>A recording of portions of the 2018 BSI Dinner will be available in the <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/archive.html">BSI Archive</a>. <h4 style="text-align: left;">Related Material</h4>Rosenblatt, Albert M., and Betsy Rosenblatt, “BSI Poem 2018,” The Baker Street Journal 68.1 (Spring 2018): 58-62. The Rosenblatts’ rhyming retrospective, delivered at the January 13, 2018 Sherlockian Cocktail Reception. Previous dinner: the <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2018/11/the-2017-bsi-dinner.html">2017 BSI Dinner</a>Next dinner: the <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2021/07/the-2019-bsi-dinner.html">2019 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. Material in the BSI Archive 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</a> page. Page composed on 1/15/21 by Tamar Zeffren.This page last updated 3/1/21 by Randall Stock.<div> </div>

The 2018 BSI Dinner

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The 2017 BSI Dinner

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The fact that the 163rd Birthday Dinner actually took place on January 6, the Master’s birthday, could not but enhance the atmosphere throughout the gala weekend. 
 
The pre-dinner cocktails in the Roof Dining Room of the Yale Club showcased the announcement of Nicole Boote’s honor as The Woman. 
 
After Michael Whelan (BSI’s Wiggins) opened the dinner, Steven Rothman's discussed "Why January 6th?" The toasts opened in fitting style with Robert Stek “o-punning” on the charms of Mrs. Hudson--in his own inimitable way, abetted, if not debated, by Robert Katz.  Clifford Goldfarb had us raise our glasses to Mycroft. Sherry Rose-Bond led the toast to Watson’s Second Wife.  Andrew Fusco toasted Sherlock Holmes.  John Linsenmeyer paid homage “To an Old Irregular,” Edward F. Clark, Jr.  Michael Kean and John Bergquist presented the Editors’ Medals for BSI Publications, the “Eddies,” to the editors of the three BSI volumes that had been completed during 2016 and which would be on sale the next morning in the vendors’ room. 
 
Bill Dorn presented a montage comparing the same Sherlockian scenes in various films.  Andrew Joffe, Sarah Montague, and Paul Singleton staged a comparison of Canonical text and the first drafts of a female Watson.  Tim Greer applied Holmes’ own investigative methods to the Canon to discern that the true author was…William Shakespeare. Mark Alberstat read the Musgrave Ritual. Thomas Horrocks read the Constitution and Buy Laws.  Henry Boote sang about Sherlock’s Birthday to the tune of “What a Wonderful World,” offering an uncanny Louis Armstrong impression. 
 
Francine Kitts delivered another customarily wonderful and touching tribute to departed Irregulars in the “Standing upon the Terrace” ceremony; for the first time ever, these memorials were accompanied by photographs. This truly underscored the enduring links among generations of Sherlockians, all present in different senses of that word. 
 
Seven Irregulars received a Shilling. Ben Vizoskie received The Two-Shilling Award—55 years after it was first awarded to Rex Stout. Steven Rothman was honored with an engraved crystal Milestone Award as the longest-serving Baker Street Journal editor who, at the time of the Dinner, had just presided over his 300th (!) BSJ issue. Wiggins presented Andrew Fusco, Michael Dirda, Susan Vizoskie, and Phillip Bergem each with a “Tip of the Deerstalker” award in recognition for their contributions to the BSI.  In keeping with the evening’s theme of recognizing extensive service, Wiggins himself was surprised with a gift of a Golden Sovereign from the BSI, in recognition of his two decades of leadership. (Similarly, a Golden Sovereign was presented to Julian Wolff, then head of the BSI, at the <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/11/the-1973-bsi-dinner.html">1973 BSI Dinner</a>.) 
 
The evening concluded with a recording of Vincent Starrett reciting his poem “221B.” 
 
At the next day’s Sherlockian Cocktail Reception at the Yale Club, Judge Albert Rosenblatt and his daughter, Betsy Rosenblatt, once again performed their masterful and anticipated-year-round poetic rhymed synopsis of the previous year and of the Birthday Weekend. 
 
Dinner Details: January 6, 2017 
The Yale Club, New York 
 
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Dinner Photo Information</h4>
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Key to People in the 2017 BSI Dinner photo (not available at this time, but see the <a href="http://files.bsitrust.org/pdf/dinner/bsi-dinner-2017-attendees.pdf">2017 Table Seat Assignments</a>. 
 
<h4>
BSI Honours List</h4>
Investitures: 
Charles Blanksteen as Cavendish Square 
Ross Davies as The Temple 
Bonnie MacBird as Art in the Blood 
Charles Prepolec as The Man with the Twisted Lip 
Michael J. Quigley as A Large, Brass-Bound Safe 
Tamar Zeffren as The London Library 
Christopher Zordan as Bunsen Burner 
* 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: 
Ben Vizoskie. 
<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is a Two-Shilling Award?</a> 
 
The Woman: 
Nicole (Mrs. Henry) Boote. 
<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)<div><div>William Beeson (The Barque "Lone Star,” 1983)</div><div>John Constable (The Crooked Man, 1986)</div><div>Everett Hoffman (Merridew of Abominable Memory, 1958)</div><div>Glenn Laxton (Mr. James M. Dodd, 1975)</div><div>James Lione (My Old Friend Charlie Peace, 1976)</div><div>Donald McDonough (Bodymaster McGinty, 1976)</div><div>Jeffrey Montgomery (Inspector Montgomery, 1979)</div><div>Bjarne Nielsen (The Veiled Lodger, 1984) </div><div>Gordon Speck (Colonel James Barclay, 1986)</div><div>Douglas Wilmer (The Lyceum Theatre, 2000)</div><div><a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is the origin of “standing on the terrace?”</a></div>
 
Morley-Montgomery Award: 
Bill Mason, "Looking to Latin America: Canonical Notions from South of the Border” 
The Baker Street Journal, Vol. 66, No. 1 (Spring 2016), pp. 6-14. 
<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is the Morley-Montgomery Award?</a> 
 
The BSI Distinguished Speaker Lecture: 
Sara Paretsky, “Sherlock Holmes and the Woman Question” 
The Baker Street Journal 67.1 (Spring 2017): 18-23. 
<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is the BSI Distinguished Speaker Lecture?</a> 
 
 
<h4>
Reports on the Dinner</h4>
The Baker Street Journal 67.1 (Spring 2017): 46-58. 
 
Blau, Peter, <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/links.html#news">Scuttlebutt from the Spermaceti Press</a>, (January 2017): 1-2. 
 
<a href="http://files.bsitrust.org/pdf/dinner/bsi-dinner-2017-attendees.pdf">List of 2017 BSI Dinner Attendees</a> (PDF) 
 
<h4>
Recordings</h4>
A recording of portions of the 2017 BSI Dinner will be available in the <a href="/2015/01/archive.html">BSI Archive</a>. 
 
 
<h4>
Related Material</h4>
Rosenblatt, Albert M., and Betsy Rosenblatt, “BSI Poem 2017,” The Baker Street Journal 67.1 (Spring 2017): 59-61. The Rosenblatts’ rhyming retrospective, delivered at the January 7, 2017 Sherlockian Cocktail Reception. 
 
Previous dinner: the <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2017/06/the-2016-bsi-dinner.html">2016 BSI Dinner</a> 
 
Next dinner: the <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2021/03/the-2018-bsi-dinner.html">2018 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. 
 <div>Material in the BSI Archive 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="/2015/01/archive.html">BSI Archive</a> page.</div></div><div>
 
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Sherlock Holmes’s 162nd birthday was feted by an enthusiastic group, also celebrating the 25th anniversary of the<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2016/04/the-1991-bsi-dinner.html"> opening of the BSI to women</a>. 
 
Mike Whelan (the BSI's "Wiggins") honored Tony Montag for his more than fifty years as an Irregular. He also recognized others in attendance with Irregular longevity, including <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/10/peter-blau-interview-oral-history.html">Peter Blau</a>, Albert Silverstein, <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/04/russell-merritt-interview-oral-history.html">Russell Merritt</a>, George McCormack, Chris Redmond, and James Saunders. 
 
Julia Rosenblatt toasted Mrs. Hudson.  Marilynne McKay gave the toast to Mycroft Holmes.  Sally Sugarman had us raise our glasses to Watson's second wife, and Catherine Cooke toasted Sherlock Holmes.   Marino Alvarez led the responsive reading of the Musgrave Ritual.  Bob Coghill gave a toast to an Old Irregular, Maureen Green Van der Flaes.  Tony Montag read the Constitution and Buy-Laws. 
 
Bert Coules gave an account of Holmes on the radio in the 1930s, a tribute to Edith Meiser.   Peter Blau and Evelyn Herzog gave a "Duet: With an Occasional Chorus" account of the role of women in the BSI from 1934 to the present (which concluded with the singing - for the first time at an annual Dinner of the BSI - of the Adventuresses of Sherlock Holmes' "Reindeer Song").  Susan Rice gave a presentation on the rational roots of Holmes's feelings about women. As usual, Henry Boote, at the piano, led the musical entertainment.  Susan Dahlinger provided a marvelous rendition of a song from The Seven Per-Cent Solution film, as Nicholas Meyer was in attendance.  Betsy Rosenblatt did a great job singing "At Last," and Henry Boote charmed us with the singing of his own original composition, both celebrating women in the BSI. Francine Kitts, once again, performed a moving <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">“Standing upon the Terrace”</a> ceremony, remembering those whom we have lost. 
 
Seven deserving Irregulars received their Shilling.  Nancy Browning was toasted as <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">The Woman</a>.  Tom Francis (former Chairman of the BSI Trust) received the <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">Two-Shilling Award</a> for extraordinary devotion to the cause beyond the call of duty.  Mike Whelan also appointed two more officers of the BSI: Michael Kean (as "Cartwright") and Bob Katz (as "Billy the Page"). 
 
The evening concluded with Peter Crupe reciting Vincent Starrett’s poem “221B.” 
 
At the next day’s Sherlockian Cocktail Reception at the New York City Bar Association, Judge Albert Rosenblatt and his daughter, Betsy Rosenblatt, once again performed their remarkable rhyming summation of the previous year and of the Festivities. 
 
Dinner Details: January 15, 2016 
The Yale Club, 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 2016 BSI Dinner photo (not available at this time, but see the <a href="http://files.bsitrust.org/pdf/dinner/bsi-dinner-2016-attendees.pdf">2016 Table Seat Assignments </a>(PDF) 
 
 
<h4>
BSI Honours List</h4>
Investitures: 
Dana Cameron as The Giant Rat of Sumatra 
Bert Coules as The Whole Art of Detection 
Jenn Eaker as Mary Sutherland 
John Durein as Wilson, the Notorious Canary Trainer 
Jayantika Ganguly as The Great Agra Treasure 
Timothy Greer as The Ragged Shaw 
William Walsh as Godfrey Norton 
* 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: 
Tom Francis. 
<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is a Two-Shilling Award?</a> 
 
The Woman: 
Nancy Browning. 
<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) 
John Devereux de Gozzaldi (The Speckled Band, 1980) 
William Dudley (The Papers of Ex-President Murillo, 1976) 
Barton Eberman (The Hound of the Baskervilles, 1986) 
John Farrell (The Tiger of San Pedro, 1981) 
Matthew Fox (Vigor, the Hammersmith Wonder, 1972) 
George Hough (The Duke of Balmoral, 1983) 
Jack Key (Pritchard, 1989) 
C. Frederick Kittle (Jack Stapleton, 2000) 
Art Levine (The Cutter Alicia, 1955) 
Austin McLean (The London Library, 1990) 
David Pearce (The Khalifa at Khartoum, 1977) 
Mel Ruiz (Jack Douglas, 1988) 
Ralph Wroblewski (Captain Teddy Marvin, 1976) 
<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is the origin of “standing on the terrace?”</a> 
 
Morley-Montgomery Award: 
Chris Redmond, "Dr. Hill Barton Pays a Call" 
The Baker Street Journal 65.2 (Summer 2015): 18-26. 
<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is the Morley-Montgomery Award?</a> 
 
The BSI Distinguished Speaker Lecture: 
Jeffrey Hatcher, “Casting Holmes” 
The Baker Street Journal 66.1 (Spring 2016): 21-31. 
<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is the BSI Distinguished Speaker Lecture?</a> 
 
 
<h4>
Reports on the Dinner</h4>
The Baker Street Journal 66.1 (Spring 2016): 49-59. 
 
Blau, Peter, <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/links.html#news">Scuttlebutt from the Spermaceti Press</a>, (January 2016): 1-2. 
 
<a href="http://files.bsitrust.org/pdf/dinner/bsi-dinner-2016-attendees.pdf">List of 2016 BSI Dinner Attendees</a> (PDF) 
 
 
<h4>
Recordings</h4>
A recording of portions of the 2016 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>
Rosenblatt, Albert M., and Betsy Rosenblatt, “BSI Poem 2016,” The Baker Street Journal 66.1 (Spring 2016): 59-62. The Rosenblatts’ rhyming retrospective, delivered at the January 16, 2016 Sherlockian Cocktail Reception. 
 
Previous dinner: the <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2017/05/the-2015-bsi-dinner.html">2015 BSI Dinner</a> 
 
Next dinner: the <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2018/11/the-2017-bsi-dinner.html">2017 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. 
 
Page composed on 5/28/2017 by Tamar Zeffren 
This page last updated 5/29/2017 by Andrew Solberg.

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Sherlock Holmes’s 161st birthday was celebrated with great mirth, scholarly presentations, toasts, and memorable moments. 
 
Burt Wolder toasted Mrs. Hudson.  Jacquelynn Morris gave the toast to Mycroft Holmes.  John Baesch had us raise our glasses to Watson's second wife, and Hartley Nathan toasted Sherlock Holmes.   Marsha Pollak led the responsive reading of the Musgrave Ritual. 
 
Raymond Betzner spoke movingly on the real reason that Holmes returned to London after the hiatus. Michael Dirda spoke on Langdale Pike's participation in the Civil War and other important events. Harrison Hunt celebrated the quasquicentennial anniversary of an event, without which, there would be no BSI. David Stuart Davies delivered his one-man play about the four Ms and the poison hedgehog.  Lou Lewis read the BSI’s Constitution and Buy-Laws.  As usual, Henry Boote led the musical entertainment.  Francine Kitts, once again, performed a moving “<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">Standing upon the Terrace</a>” ceremony, remembering those whom we have lost. 
 
Eight deserving Irregulars received their Shilling.  Inez Bergquist was toasted as <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">The Woman</a>.  Mary Ann Bradley received the <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">Two-Shilling Award</a> for extraordinary devotion to the cause beyond the call of duty. Mike Whelan presented the BSI's “Tip of the Deerstalker Awards” to Marsha Pollak, Ralph Hall, George McCormack, and Jim Saunders. 
 
The evening concluded with SJ Rozan reciting William Schweickert’s “<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/06/robert-thomalen-interview-oral-history.html">A Long Evening with Holmes</a>.” 
 
At the next day’s Sherlockian Cocktail Reception at the New York City Bar Association, Judge Albert Rosenblatt and his daughter, Betsy Rosenblatt, once again performed their remarkable rhyming summation of the previous year and of the Festivities. 
 
Dinner Details: January 9, 2015 
The Yale Club, 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 2015 BSI Dinner photo (not available at this time, but see the <a href="http://files.bsitrust.org/pdf/dinner/bsi-dinner-2015-attendees.pdf">2015 Table Seat Assignments</a> (PDF) 
 
 
<h4>
BSI Honours List</h4>
Investitures: 
Marino C. Alvarez as Hilton Soames 
Kiyoshi Arai as The Shoso-in Near Nara 
Jeffory Hart as Henry Baker 
Chrys Kegley as Rachel Howells 
Kristina Manente as Grace Dunbar 
Bill Mason as White Mason 
Emily Miranker as Lady Hatty St. Simon 
James O’Brien as Knowledge of Chemistry.--Profound 
* 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: 
Mary Ann Bradley. 
<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is a Two-Shilling Award?</a> 
 
The Woman: 
Inez (Mrs. John) Bergquist. 
<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) 
Charles Adams (The Winter Assizes at Norwich, 1990) 
Dr. Marvin Aronson (Penrose Fisher, 1968) 
Irwin Deutsch (The Intricate Matter from Marseilles, 1962) 
Samuel Gerber (The Final Problem, 1980) 
Daniel Griffin (General de Merville,1968) 
Dr. Rodney Mannion (Shoscombe Old Place, 1969) 
Joseph Moran (Sir Augustus Moran, C.B., 1991) 
Andrew Page (Lord Saltire, 1974) 
Donald Redmond (Good Old Index, 1969, Two-Shilling Award, 1994) 
Peter Ruber (Camden House, 1964) 
Thomas Russo (The Boscombe Valley Mystery, 1983) 
George Sturm (Neil Gibson, The Gold King, 1979) 
<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is the origin of “standing on the terrace?”</a> 
 
Morley-Montgomery Award: 
Timothy S. Greer, "Murger in Baker Street" 
The Baker Street Journal 64.3 (Autumn 2014): 14-20. 
<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is the Morley-Montgomery Award?</a> 
 
The BSI Distinguished Speaker Lecture: 
Alan Bradley, “Ha! The Stars Are Out and the Wind Has Fallen” 
The Baker Street Journal 65.1 (Spring 2015): 10-20. 
<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is the BSI Distinguished Speaker Lecture?</a> 
 
 
<h4>
Reports on the Dinner</h4>
The Baker Street Journal 65.1 (Spring 2015): 54-63. 
 
Blau, Peter, <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/links.html#news">Scuttlebutt from the Spermaceti Press</a>, (January 2015): 1-2. 
 
List of <a href="http://files.bsitrust.org/pdf/dinner/bsi-dinner-2015-attendees.pdf">2015 BSI Dinner Attendees</a> (PDF) 
 
 
<h4>
Recordings</h4>
A recording of portions of the 2015 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>
Rosenblatt, Albert M., and Betsy Rosenblatt, “BSI Poem 2015,” The Baker Street Journal 65.1 (Spring 2015): 64-66. The Rosenblatts’ rhyming retrospective, delivered at the January 10, 2015 Sherlockian Cocktail Reception. 
 
Betzner, Ray, “A Case of Identity: Sigerson’s Choice,” The Baker Street Journal 65.1 (Spring 2015): 6-9. Presented at the 2015 BSI Dinner. 
 
Previous dinner: the <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2017/04/the-2014-bsi-dinner.html">2014 BSI Dinner</a> 
 
Next dinner: the <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2017/06/the-2016-bsi-dinner.html">2016 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. 
 
Page composed on 4/28/2017 by Tamar Zeffren 
This page last updated 4/29/2017 by Andrew Solberg.

The 2015 BSI Dinner

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Sherlock Holmes’s 160th birthday also marked the 80th birthday of the BSI.  It was celebrated with tri-colored cupcakes that matched Holmes’s dressing gown (blue, purple, and mouse) and after-dinner brandy. 
 
Mike Berdan toasted Mrs. Hudson.  Theodora (Teddie) Niver gave the toast to Mycroft Holmes.  <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/12/glen-miranker-interview-oral-history.html">Glen Miranker</a> had us raise our glasses to Watson's second wife, and Mark Levy toasted Sherlock Holmes.   David Houle led the responsive reading of the Musgrave Ritual. 
 
Jan Burke spoke on the forensic nature of Holmes’s work.  Judge Albert Rosenblatt led a debate among Andrew Fusco, Leslie Klinger, Lou Lewis, John Linsenmeyer, Andrew Peck, and Betsy Rosenblatt on whether to amend the BSI’s Constitution and Buy-Laws.  Sonia Fetherston spoke of an Old Irregular, Bliss Austin. Henry Boote led the musical presentation. Francine Kitts, once again, performed a moving “Standing upon the Terrace” ceremony, remembering those whom we have lost. 
 
Seven deserving Irregulars received their Shilling.  Marilyn Nathan was toasted as The Woman. Randall Stock received the Two-Shilling Award for extraordinary devotion to the cause beyond the call of duty. Les Klinger was awarded the Edgar W. Smith Intrepid Irregular Award for his role on behalf of the public domain status of Sherlock Holmes qua literary character and all other canonical characters and events that currently exist in the public domain in the United States.  Mike Whelan presented the BSI's “Tip of the Deerstalker Awards” to Andy Peck, Mitch Higurashi, Susan Rice, Don Curtis, and Maggie Schpak 
 
The evening concluded with Evelyn Herzog reciting Vincent Starrett’s “221B.” 
 
At the next day’s Sherlockian Cocktail Reception at the New York City Bar Association, Judge Albert Rosenblatt and his daughter, Betsy Rosenblatt, once again performed their remarkable rhyming summation of the previous year and of the Festivities.  Paul Singleton, Nick Martorelli, and Mary Ellen Rich performed a Sherlock Holmes radio play. 
 
Dinner Details: January 17, 2014 
The Yale Club, 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 2014 BSI Dinner photo (not available at this time, but see the <a href="http://files.bsitrust.org/pdf/dinner/bsi-dinner-2014-attendees.pdf">2014 Table Seat Assignments</a> (PDF) 
 
 
<h4>
BSI Honours List</h4>
Investitures: 
Mark Alberstat as Halifax 
Sonia Fetherston as The Solitary Cyclist 
Harrison Hunt as The Something Hunt 
Peter McIntyre as Arthur Cadogan West 
Jacquelynn Morris as The Lion's Mane 
Christopher Music as Wagner Night at Covent Garden 
SJ Rozan as The Imperial Palace of Peking 
* 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: 
Randall Stock. 
<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is a Two-Shilling Award?</a> 
 
The Woman: 
Marilyn (Mrs. Hartley) Nathan. 
<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) 
Peter G. Ashman (Peter Steiler the Elder, 1982) 
Vincent Brosnan (That Gap on That Second Shelf, 2011) 
Robert C. Burr (The Rascally Lascar, 1987) 
Father George Leonard Cochran (Cardinal Tosca, 1973) 
Irving Kamil (Monsieur Oscar Meunier of Grenoble, 1981) 
Theodore G. Schulz (The Amateur Mendicant Society, 1961) 
Dr. James E. Smith, II (Winner of the Jackson Prize, 1998) 
Dr. Gerald N. Wachs (Sir James Saunders, 1995) 
<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is the origin of “standing on the terrace?”</a> 
 
Morley-Montgomery Award: 
Anastasia Klimchynskaya, "A Study in Scarlet and the Study of Mankind: Sherlock Holmes and Pope's Essay on Man." 
The Baker Street Journal 63.4 (Winter 2013): 25-31. 
<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is the Morley-Montgomery Award?</a> 
 
The BSI Distinguished Speaker Lecture: 
James O’Brien, “Reassessing Holmes the Scientist” 
The Baker Street Journal 64.1 (Spring 2014): 6-21. 
<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is the BSI Distinguished Speaker Lecture?</a> 
 
 
<h4>
Reports on the Dinner</h4>
The Baker Street Journal 64.1 (Spring 2014): 51-63.<div> </div><div><a href="https://bakerstreetirregulars.com/2014/05/22/2014-birthday-weekend/">The 2014 BSI Weekend Report</a> (BSI website) 
 
Blau, Peter, <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/links.html#news">Scuttlebutt from the Spermaceti Press</a>, (January 2014): 1-2. 
 
<a href="http://files.bsitrust.org/pdf/dinner/bsi-dinner-2014-attendees.pdf">List of 2014 BSI Dinner Attendees</a> (PDF) 
 
 
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Recordings</h4>
A recording of portions of the 2014 BSI Dinner is available in 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, “BSI Poem 2014,” The Baker Street Journal 64.1 (Spring 2014): 64-66. The Rosenblatts’ rhyming retrospective, delivered at the January 18, 2014 Sherlockian Cocktail Reception. 
 
Previous dinner: the <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2017/04/the-2013-bsi-dinner.html">2013 BSI Dinner</a> 
 
Next dinner: the <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2017/05/the-2015-bsi-dinner.html">2015 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. 
 
 
Material in the BSI Archive 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</a> page. 
 
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Page updated 4/29/2017 by Andrew Solberg.<div>This page last updated 6/29/2024 by Jerry Kegley, Peter Blau, and Randall Stock. 
 
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The 2014 BSI Dinner

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Sherlock Holmes’s 159th birthday was marked with erudite presentations, heartfelt toasts, and, above all, the enduring Sherlockian camaraderie that underpins and infuses every gathering in celebration of the Master.  The theme of the evening was celebrating past BSI leaders. 
 
Daniel Polvere toasted Mrs. Hudson.  Maggie Schpak gave the toast to Mycroft Holmes.  Don Hobbs had us raise our glasses to Watson's second wife, and Peggy Perdue toasted Sherlock Holmes.   John Linsenmeyer read the Constitution and Buy-Laws.  Thomas Francis led the responsive reading of the Musgrave Ritual. 
 
Given the theme of the evening, (almost) all of the presentations were about former heads of the BSI. Steven Rothman spoke on the life of Christopher Morley.  Gregory Darak spoke on Edgar W. Smith.  Peter Blau reminisced about Julian Wolff.  Susan Rice and Evelyn Herzog talked about Tom Stix, Jr.  Russell Merritt then spoke on the many faces of Moriarty in early films.  Julie McKuras spoke of an old Irregular, former University of Minnesota Librarian and <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">Two-Shilling Award</a> holder, Errett Weir McDiarmid, Jr.  Henry Boote and Lyndsay Faye presented a musical tribute to characters from “The Copper Beeches” and “A Scandal in Bohemia.”  Francine Kitts, once again, performed a moving <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">“Standing upon the Terrace”</a> ceremony, remembering those whom we have lost. 
 
Eight deserving Irregulars received their Shilling.  Wiggins presented the <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">Two-Shilling Award</a> to Michael Kean for extraordinary devotion to the cause beyond the call of duty.  He presented an Eddy Award to <a href="http://www.bakerstreetjournal.com/itemsforsale/bsimanuscriptseries.html">John Bergquist</a> (Associate Publisher of BSI Press), <a href="http://www.bakerstreetjournal.com/wrongpassage.html">Robert Katz</a>, <a href="http://www.bakerstreetjournal.com/christmasannuals.html">Sonia Fetherston</a>, and <a href="http://www.bakerstreetjournal.com/wrongpassage.html">Andrew Solberg</a>. James Saunders was recognized for 50 consecutive years of presenting <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">The Woman</a> of the year with a corsage. 
 
Elaine Coppola was toasted as <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">The Woman</a>. 
 
The evening concluded with Don Novorsky singing Mollie Hardwick’s “221B, 1887-1987.” 
 
At the next day’s Sherlockian Cocktail Reception at the New York City Bar Association, Judge Albert Rosenblatt and his daughter, Betsy Rosenblatt, once again performed their remarkable rhyming summation of the previous year and of the Festivities. 
 
Dinner Details: January 11, 2013 
The Yale Club, New York 
 
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Dinner Photo Information</h4>
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Key to People in the 2013 BSI Dinner photo (not available at this time, but see the <a href="http://files.bsitrust.org/pdf/dinner/bsi-dinner-2013-attendees.pdf">2013 Table Seat Assignments</a> (PDF) 
 
 
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BSI Honours List</h4>
Investitures: 
Jan Burke as The Most Winning Woman 
Philip Cunningham as Abe Slaney 
Stefano Guerra as Count Negretto Sylvius 
Thomas A. Horrocks as Colonel Sebastian Moran 
Mark Levy as Don Juan Murillo 
Rosane McNamara as Lady Mary Brackenstall 
Daniel Moss as Culverton Smith 
Franklin B. Saksena 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: 
Michael H. Kean. 
<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is a Two-Shilling Award?</a> 
 
The Woman: 
Elaine (Mrs. Joseph A.) Coppola. 
<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) 
Pamela Bruxner (The British Government, 1998) 
Alfred A. Levin (Abe Slaney, 1993) 
Richard H. Miller (The Grice Patersons in the Island of Uffa, 1982) 
Dr. Robert E. Robinson (The Hansom Cab, 1986) 
<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is the origin of “standing on the terrace?”</a> 
 
Morley-Montgomery Award: 
Peter Calamai, "Why He Isn't 'Sir Sherlock' Today" 
The Baker Street Journal 62.3 (Autumn 2012): 13-17. 
<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is the Morley-Montgomery Award?</a> 
 
The BSI Distinguished Speaker Lecture: 
Kim Newman, “Manifold Moriarty” 
The Baker Street Journal 63.1 (Spring 2013): 6-11. 
<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 63.1 (Spring 2013): 56-68. 
 
Blau, Peter, <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/links.html#news">Scuttlebutt from the Spermaceti Press</a>, (January 2013): 1-2. 
 
<a href="http://files.bsitrust.org/pdf/dinner/bsi-dinner-2013-attendees.pdf">List of 2013 BSI Dinner Attendees </a>(PDF) 
 
 
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Recordings</h4>
A recording of portions of the 2013 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: 2013,” The Baker Street Journal 63.1 (Spring 2013): 68-71. The Rosenblatts’ rhyming retrospective, delivered at the January 12, 2013 Sherlockian Cocktail Reception. 
 
Previous dinner: the <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2017/03/the-2012-bsi-dinner.html">2012 BSI Dinner</a> 
 
Next dinner: the <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2017/04/the-2014-bsi-dinner.html">2014 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 4/2/2017 by Andrew Solberg. 
 
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The dinner celebrating Sherlock Holmes’s 158th birthday was another evening of recognition, celebration, and scholarship.  The dinner's theme was "His Last Bow" in celebration of the centenary of the beginning of Holmes's involvement in the case.  Wiggins (Michael Whelan) began the evening by lauding the large number of presentations that the BSI has published over the previous decade. 
 
Lyndsay Faye toasted Mrs. Hudson.  Andrew Solberg gave the toast to Mycroft Holmes.  James Saunders had us raise our glasses to Watson's second wife, and Donald Novorsky toasted Sherlock Holmes.   Costantine Rossakis read the Constitution and Buy-Laws.  Vincent Brosnan led the responsive reading of the Musgrave Ritual. 
 
As the dinner's theme was "His Last Bow," Burt Wolder, Robert Katz, and Barbara Rusch all gave related presentations.  Paul Singleton and Scott Monty gave a Sherlockian rendition of the Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks “2,000 Year Old Man” (who sounded very much like <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/10/peter-blau-interview-oral-history.html">Peter Blau</a>).  Otto Penzler spoke of tales of book selling and sellers, including the old Irregular Lew David Feldman.  Henry Boote led us in singing the BSI’s anthem, “Aunt Clara.”  Francine Kitts, once again, performed a moving “<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">Standing upon the Terrace</a>” ceremony, remembering those whom we have lost. 
 
Eight deserving Irregulars received their Shilling.  The BSI Trust presented its Benefactor’s Award to <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/12/glen-miranker-interview-oral-history.html">Glen Miranker</a> in recognition of his outstanding generosity to the BSI’s archives.  Wiggins presented The <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">Two-Shilling Award</a> to Henry Boote for extraordinary devotion to the cause beyond the call of duty.  He presented an Eddy Award to Mary Ann Bradley for editing the 2011 <a href="http://www.bakerstreetjournal.com/articlesandextras/currentcontents.html">Baker Street Journal</a> Christmas Annual.  
 
Constance Kean was toasted as <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">The Woman</a>. 
 
Marsha Pollak concluded the evening’s program with her recitation of Bill Schweickert’s “<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/06/robert-thomalen-interview-oral-history.html">A Long Evening with Holmes</a>.” 
 
At the next day’s Sherlockian Cocktail Reception at the New York City Bar Association, Judge Albert Rosenblatt and his daughter, Betsy Rosenblatt, once again performed their remarkable rhyming summation of the previous year and of the Festivities.  In addition, Henry Boote and James Saunders gave an adapted version of “Mr. Gallagher and Mr. Sheen.” 
 
Dinner Details: January 13, 2012 
The Yale Club, New York 
 
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Dinner Photo Information</h4>
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Key to People in the 2012 BSI Dinner photo (not available at this time, but see the <a href="http://files.bsitrust.org/pdf/dinner/bsi-dinner-2012-attendees.pdf">2012 Table Seat Assignments</a> (PDF) 
 
 
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BSI Honours List</h4>
Investitures: 
Peter X. Accardo as Thorneycroft Huxtable 
Phillip Bergem as Birdy Edwards 
Mary Ann Bradley as Mary Morstan 
Helen F. Dorey as Helen Stoner 
Akane Higashiyama as Baritsu 
Donald J. Hobbs as Inspector Lestrade 
Mark Schwartz as Thucydides 
Donald Zaldin as John Hector McFarlane 
* 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: 
Henry Boote. 
<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is a Two-Shilling Award?</a> 
 
The Woman: 
Constance (Mrs. Michael H.) Kean. 
<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) 
James H. Bready (The Disappearance of James Phillimore, 1955) 
Dr. Bryce L. Crawford, Jr. (The Solitary Cyclist, 1985) 
Dr. George L. John (“Sir Jasper Meek, 1969) 
Jason Pierre Rouby (Vanderbilt and the Yeggman, 1968) 
J. Warren Scheideman (Count Von und Zu Grafenstein, 1982) 
Peter Harry Wood (The Second Stain, 1985) 
<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is the origin of “standing on the terrace?”</a> 
 
Morley-Montgomery Award: 
Sonia Fetherston, "I Met Harry Murcher: Getting Acquainted with Holland Grove’s Elusive P.C." 
The Baker Street Journal 61.1 (Spring 2011): 6-13 (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: 
Dr. Lisa Sanders, “Is Holmes as Crazy as a Fox, or Just Plain Crazy? Diagnosing Mental Illness in Sherlock Holmes” 
The Baker Street Journal 62.2 (Summer 2012): 6-15. 
<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 62.1 (Spring 2012): 55-67. 
 
Blau, Peter, <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/links.html#news">Scuttlebutt from the Spermaceti Press</a>, (January 2012): 1-2. 
 
<a href="http://files.bsitrust.org/pdf/dinner/bsi-dinner-2012-attendees.pdf">List of 2012 BSI Dinner Attendees</a> (PDF) 
 
 
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Recordings</h4>
A recording of portions of the 2012 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>
Rosenblatt, Albert M., and Betsy Rosenblatt, “The Sherlockian Year In Verse: 2012,” The Baker Street Journal 62.1 (Spring 2012): 67-69. The Rosenblatts’ rhyming retrospective, delivered at the January 14, 2012 Sherlockian Cocktail Reception. 
 
Previous dinner: the <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2017/02/the-2011-bsi-dinner.html">2011 BSI Dinner</a> 
 
Next dinner: the <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2017/04/the-2013-bsi-dinner.html">2013 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 3/11/2017 by Andrew Solberg.

The 2012 BSI Dinner

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The dinner celebrating Sherlock Holmes’s 157th birthday was an evening of recognition, celebration, and scholarship.  There was a distinct “Knoxian” theme. 
 
Wiggins (Michael Whelan) began the evening by thanking the following members for their volunteerism in performing a variety of important tasks that had benefited the BSI: Michael Dirda, George McCormack, Irving Kamil, James Saunders, and Donald Terras.  Wiggins also thanked the following for their contributions to the BSI publishing effort: John Bergquist, Steve Rothman, Steve Doyle, Mark Gagen, Randall Stock, and Michael Kean. He also thanked Maggie Schpak for her design of BSI medals.  Mike introduced four attendees who have been members of the BSI for 50 years or more: George McCormack (50 years), <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/04/russell-merritt-interview-oral-history.html">Russell Merritt</a> (51 years), <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/10/peter-blau-interview-oral-history.html">Peter Blau</a> (52 years), and <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2016/10/arthur-levine-interview-oral-history.html">Arthur Levine</a> (56 years).  Each of them was presented with a plaque to commemorate the occasion. 
 
John Bergquist read the Constitution and Buy-Laws.  Pj Doyle toasted Mrs. Hudson.  Lynn Walker gave the toast to Mycroft Holmes.  Roy Pilot had us raise our glasses to Watson's second wife, and Michael Homer toasted Sherlock Holmes.   Richard Olken led the responsive reading of the Musgrave Ritual. 
 
John Linsenmeyer enlightened us about Monsignor Ronald Knox, acknowledging that Knox deserves to be considered the founder of the Grand Game.  Sarah Montague, Andrew Joffe, and Paul Singleton performed an imaginative, and amusing, heavenly meeting between the spirits of Conan Doyle (Joffe) and Dorothy L. Sayers (Montague), interspersed with brief conversations between their famous characters, Sherlock Holmes and Lord Peter Wimsey (Singleton).  James Zych, winner of the BSI essay contest, delivered his paper (see Related Material, below).  Les Klinger presented his interview with Robert Downey, Jr.  Nick Utechin offered a toast to an Old Sherlockian, Ronald Knox, and revealed the very recently discovered details of Knox’s elusive third reading of his paper at Oxford (see Related Material, below). Henry Boote had written Knoxian lyrics to the music of “It’s the Hard-Knock Life” from Annie and, accompanying at the piano, led us in singing this rendition and then in singing the BSI’s anthem, “Aunt Clara.”  Francine Kitts, once again, performed a moving “Standing upon the Terrace” ceremony, remembering those whom we have lost. 
 
Six deserving Irregulars received their Shilling.  Whelan presented Eddy Awards to the following editors and authors: Andrew Fusco, Otto Penzler, Laurie King, Leslie Klinger, Peggy Perdue, Nick Utechin, Enrico Solito, and Gianluca Salvatori.  Klinger, Fusco, and Rothman surprised Mike Whelan by gifting him with a special medal, “The Wiggy,” to acknowledge and honor Mike’s continued, outstanding involvement at all levels - from supervising to proofreading—in the BSI publishing effort. 
 
Gail Postal was toasted as The Woman. 
 
Burt Wolder concluded the evening’s program with his recitation of Vincent Starrett’s “221B.” 
 
At the next day’s Sherlockian Cocktail Reception at the New York City Bar Association, Judge Albert Rosenblatt and his daughter, Betsy Rosenblatt, once again performed their remarkable rhyming summation of the previous year and of the Festivities.  In addition, Mike Whelan presented Candace Lewis (The Woman, 2007) with an Eddy for her editorial work on <a href="https://bakerstreetirregulars.com/2009/11/04/two-celebrations/">Two Celebrations</a>. The afternoon’s program concluded with a musical offering arranged by Lyndsay Faye from the musical adaptation of her Sherlockian pastiche Dust and Shadow (by Jonathan Howard, with music by Jonathan Reid Gealt, lyrics by Dustin Sullivan, and book by Kasey Marino). 
 
Dinner Details: January 7, 2011 
The Yale Club, 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 2011 BSI Dinner photo (not available at this time, but see the <a href="http://files.bsitrust.org/pdf/dinner/bsi-dinner-2011-attendees.pdf">2011 Table Seat Assignments</a> (PDF) 
 
 
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BSI Honours List</h4>
Investitures: 
Vincent Brosnan as That Gap on That Second Shelf 
Terence Faherty as Sir Charles Baskerville 
Lyndsay Faye as Kitty Winter 
Frank Ferry as Dr. Leon Sterndale 
David W. Houle as The British Museum 
Peggy Perdue as Violet Westbury 
* 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 2011. 
<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is a Two-Shilling Award?</a> 
 
The Woman: 
Gail Postal. 
<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) 
Alastair B. Martin (Colonel Sebastian Moran, 1972) 
Thomas A. Stetak (The Head of the Police at Cleveland, 1990) 
Bernard Davies (A Study in Scarlet, 1985) 
Dr. Tsukasa Kobayashi (Baritsu, 1989) 
Dr. David Musto (Dr. Anstruther, 1969) 
Herbert P. Tinning (Dr. Leon Sterndale, 1974) 
Bob Mangler (Sir Hugo Baskerville, 1962) 
Robert C. Clyne (The Opal Tiara, 1959) 
Dr. Charles E. Henry (The Lion’s Mane, 1980) 
<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is the origin of “standing on the terrace?”</a> 
 
Morley-Montgomery Award: 
Michael Pollak, "The Spies Who Never Were with Some Observations on Holmes's Retirement" 
The Baker Street Journal 60.2 (Summer 2010): 49-55 (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: 
Michael Sims, “The Light of Reason” 
The Baker Street Journal 61.2 (Summer 2011): 6-14 (available in the eBSJ). 
<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is the BSI Distinguished Speaker Lecture?</a> 
 
<h4>
 Reports on the Dinner</h4>
The Baker Street Journal 61.1 (Spring 2011): 53-63 (available in the eBSJ). 
 
Blau, Peter, <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/links.html#news">Scuttlebutt from the Spermaceti Press</a>, (January 2011): 1-2. 
 
<a href="http://files.bsitrust.org/pdf/dinner/bsi-dinner-2011-attendees.pdf">List of 2011 BSI Dinner Attendees</a> (PDF) 
 
<h4>
 Recordings</h4>
A recording of portions of the 2011 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>
Rosenblatt, Albert M., and Betsy Rosenblatt, “The Sherlockian Year In Verse: 2011,” The Baker Street Journal 61.1 (Spring 2011): 64-65 (available in the eBSJ). The Rosenblatts’ rhyming retrospective, delivered at the January 8, 2011 Sherlockian Cocktail Reception. 
 
Zych, James, “How Moriarty Survived Reichenbach Falls,” The Baker Street Journal 61.1 (Spring 2011): 21-24 (available in the eBSJ). 
 
Utechin, Nicholas, “The Case of the First Reading,” The Baker Street Journal 61.1 (Spring 2011): 34-47 (available in the eBSJ).  See also Utechin, Nicholas, From Piff-Pouff To Backnecke: Ronald Knox and 100 Years of “Studies In The Literature of Sherlock Holmes,” The Baker Street Journal Christmas Annual (Christmas 2010) (available in the eBSJ). 
 
Previous dinner: the<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2017/02/the-2010-bsi-dinner.html"> 2010 BSI Dinner</a> 
 
Next dinner: the <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2017/03/the-2012-bsi-dinner.html">2012 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. 
 
 Material in the BSI Archive 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</a> page. 
 
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The 2011 BSI Dinner

The dinner celebrating Sherlock Holmes’s 157th birthday was an evening of recognition, celebration, and scholarship. There was a distinc...

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The dinner celebrating Sherlock Holmes’s 156th birthday was held (for the first time) at the Yale Club, with the evening proceeding in (paraphrasing from the Baker Street Journal report) a lofty, plaster-embellished banquet hall, lit by the sort of candelabra under which Henry Baskerville likely found himself. 
 
The program began with Wiggins (Michael Whelan) presenting an engraved crystal vase to Freda Howlett, the 90 year old “Grand Lady of the International Sherlockian World,” recognizing her as co-founder, honorary member, and past president of The Sherlock Holmes Society of London.  Donald Izban read the Constitution and Buy-Laws, reading the first two Articles in Polish.  Allan Devitt toasted Mrs. Hudson. Walter Jaffee toasted Mycroft Holmes.  Gregory Darak had us raise our glasses to Watson's second wife, and Donald Novorsky was to toast Sherlock Holmes but, unfortunately, had a family emergency.   Curtis Armstrong led the responsive reading of the Musgrave Ritual. 
 
Nils Nordberg reported on Holmes’s traveling during “the hiatus,” and proposed that Sherlock Holmes was Norwegian. Hartley Nathan reported on an authentic Penang lawyer that security concerns prevented him from bringing onto the plane in Canada.  Sue Vizoskie discussed what might have happened if Sherlock Holmes had been a woman, and Peter Blau gave a stirring toast to Old Irregular Bill Rabe.  Special guest Ray Jessel, who wrote music and lyrics for the 1965 Broadway musical Baker Street, spoke of the joys and difficulties of composing for Holmes and Watson.  He also performed a few “snippets” from the musical. Leslie Klinger attempted to show a video presentation of a Robert Downey, Jr. interview (in which Downey sent his regards), but was unfortunately thwarted by a Moriarty-masterminded bug in the media’s sound player.  As usual, Henry Boote led the throng in “Aunt Clara.”   Francine Kitts performed a moving <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">“Standing upon the Terrace”</a> ceremony, remembering those whom we have lost.  <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2017/01/autumn-2016-newsletter.html">She graciously took over for Irv Kamil</a>, who had performed this difficult task for many years. 
 
Nine deserving Irregulars received their Shilling.  John Bergquist, Bob Coghill, and Steven T. Doyle were honored with <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">The Two-Shilling Award</a> for extraordinary devotion to the cause beyond the call of duty. Steven Rothman, John Bergquist, Leslie Klinger, Susan Dahlinger, Glen Miranker, and Gianluca Salvatori received the Editor’s Medal (“Eddies”) in recognition of their services as editors of books and Christmas Annuals published by the BSI.  An Eddy was also given posthumously to Paul Jeffers, who had recently unexpectedly passed “Beyond the Reichenbach.” 
 
Karen Gurian was toasted as <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">The Woman</a>. 
 
The evening ended with Ben Vizoskie reading Bill Schweickert’s <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/06/robert-thomalen-interview-oral-history.html">“A Long Evening with Holmes.”</a> 
 
At the next day’s Sherlockian Cocktail Reception at the New York City Bar Association, Judge Albert Rosenblatt and his daughter, Betsy Rosenblatt, once again performed their remarkable rhyming summation of the previous year and of the Festivities.  In addition, Ray Jessel performed the song “Finding Words for Spring” from the musical Baker Street as well as a couple of other wonderful songs that he had composed. (See the section on Recordings, below.) 
 
Dinner Details: January 15, 2010 
The Yale Club, New York 
 
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Dinner Photo Information</h4>
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Key to People in the 2010 BSI Dinner photo (not available at this time) 
 
 
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BSI Honours List</h4>
Investitures: 
Thomas M. Cynkin as Lord Bellinger 
Pj Doyle as Ettie Shafter 
Sir Christopher Frayling as Vernet 
Patricia Guy as Imperial Tokay 
Laurie R. King as The Red Circle 
Sarah Montague as Violet Smith 
Daniel M. Polvere as Holloway and Steele 
Sally Sugarman as The Three Gables 
Maria Carmen Vieja Hazen as Isadora Klein 
* 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: 
John Bergquist, 
Bob Coghill, and 
Steven T. Doyle. 
<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is a Two-Shilling Award?</a> 
 
The Woman: 
Karen Gurian (Mrs. Andrew Jay Peck). 
<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) 
Dr. Frank Beckman (Lord Backwater, 1984) 
Dr. Joseph Fink (The Martyrdom of Man, 1986) 
H. Paul Jeffers (Wilson Hargreave, 1999) 
Edwin King, Jr. (Captain Arthur Morstan, 1991) 
Dr. Edward Lauterbach (Thorneycroft Huxtable, M.A., Ph.D., etc., 1965) 
Edward Starr (The Bogus Laundry Affair, 1959) 
Richard Warner (High Tor, 1987) 
<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is the origin of “standing on the terrace?”</a> 
 
Morley-Montgomery Award: 
Marshall Berdan, “Holmes Alone: Glimpses of Post-Watson Baker Street.” 
The Baker Street Journal 59.1 (Spring 2009): 25-28 (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: 
Joan Winterkorn, “On the Paper Trail: Exploring the Attics, Cellars, and Cupboards of England” 
The Baker Street Journal 60.2 (Summer 2010): 34-48 (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 60.1 (Spring 2010) pp. 6-14 (available in the eBSJ). 
 
Blau, Peter, <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/links.html#news">Scuttlebutt from the Spermaceti Press</a>, (January 2010): 1-2. 
 
List of 2010 BSI Dinner Attendees (not available at this time) 
 
 
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Recordings</h4>
A recording of portions of the 2010 BSI Dinner is available at Harvard as part of the <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/archive.html">BSI Archive</a>. 
 
There are also three online videos from the January 16, 2010 Sherlockian Cocktail Reception. 
 
Ray Jessel performing <a href="https://youtu.be/zX-WbRW1gEE">“Finding Words for Spring”</a>  (YouTube). 
 
Ray Jessel performing <a href="https://youtu.be/MhsPYMdxxM4">“Short Term Memory Loss Blues”</a>  (YouTube). 
 
Ray Jessel performing <a href="https://youtu.be/oPHg-whim20">“Shirley Levine” </a> (YouTube). 
 
 
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Related Material</h4>
Kitts, Francine, "Standing on the Terrace," For the Sake of the Trust No. 18 (Autumn 2016): 3-4. Her paper in the <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2017/01/autumn-2016-newsletter.html">Autumn 2016 newsletter</a> describes the history of this ceremony. 
 
Rosenblatt, Albert M., and Betsy Rosenblatt, “The Sherlockian Year In Verse: 2010,” The Baker Street Journal 60.1 (Spring 2010): 15-17 (available in the eBSJ). The Rosenblatts’ rhyming retrospective, delivered at the January 16, 2010 Sherlockian Cocktail Reception. 
 
Previous dinner: the <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2017/01/the-2009-bsi-dinner.html">2009 BSI Dinner</a> 
 
Next dinner: the <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2017/02/the-2011-bsi-dinner.html">2011 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 2010 BSI Dinner

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The dinner celebrating Sherlock Holmes’s 155th birthday also marked the BSI’s 75th Anniversary. The Baker Street Journal’s correspondent describes “immaculate” proceedings, “splendid” and “occasionally curious” goody bags, and “an orgy of chat and signature-hunting,” which all contribute to “one hectic weekend of frenzied schmoozing at a most literate level.” The account concludes: “The event and the company transcended all.” 
 
Andrew Fusco read the Constitution and Buy-Laws. Michael Kean toasted Mrs. Hudson.  Barbara Roisman Cooper toasted Mycroft Holmes.  Dana Richards had us raise our glasses to Watson's second wife, and Sébastien Le Page toasted to Sherlock Holmes.  Bob Coghill led the responsive reading of the Musgrave Ritual. 
 
Guy Marriott and Nicholas Utechin had some fun kicking off the presentations with a hilarious debate on the Oxford-Cambridge controversy.  Andrew Solberg repeatedly insisted that he was Professor Coram discussing how the outside (and inside) world viewed the BSI.  David Stuart Davies performed a side-splitting one man radio version of “The Red-Headed League.”  Jens Byskov Jensen and Henry Boote (violin and piano respectively) gave us that "Tra-la-la-lira-lira-lay" piece plus a version of Harvey Officer's Baker Street Suite for Violin and Piano. 
 
Twelve deserving Irregulars received their Shilling.  Daniel Posnansky was honored with <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">The Two-Shilling Award </a>for extraordinary devotion to the cause beyond the call of duty, particularly for his work on the BSI Archives.  Yuichi Hirayama, Doug Elliott, Bill Barnes, John Bergquist, Susan Rice, and Nicholas Utechin received the Editor’s Medal in recognition of their services as editors of books and Christmas Annuals published by the BSI. 
 
Sharon Klinger was toasted as <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">The Woman</a>.  Because weather had prevented the <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2017/01/the-2008-bsi-dinner.html">2008 recipient</a> from being present to receive said honor, Priscilla Juvelis was feted, as well. 
 
The evening ended with a masterly reading of Starrett's "221B" by George McCormack. 
 
At the next day’s Sherlockian Cocktail Reception at the New York City Bar Association, Judge Albert Rosenblatt and his daughter, Betsy Rosenblatt, once again performed their remarkable rhyming summation of the previous year and of the Festivities. 
 
Dinner Details: January 9, 2009 
Union League Club, New York 
 
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Key to People in the 2009 BSI Dinner photo (not available at this time, but see the <a href="http://files.bsitrust.org/pdf/dinner/bsi-dinner-2009-attendees.pdf">2009 Table Seat Assignments</a> PDF) 
 
 
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BSI Honours List</h4>
Investitures: 
Bill Barnes as The Gloria Scott 
Jeffry A. Bradway as A Case of Identity 
S. E. Dahlinger as The Bruce-Partington Plans 
Greg Darak as The Engineer's Thumb 
Allan Devitt as The Dancing Men 
Robert Ellis as The Illustrious Client 
Walter W. Jaffee as The Resident Patient 
Jens Byskov Jensen as The Blanched Soldier 
Sébastien Le Page as The Six Napoleons 
Michael Pollak as The Blue Carbuncle 
Barbara Rusch as The Mazarin Stone 
Joel Schwartz as The Three Students 
* 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: 
Daniel Posnansky. 
<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is a Two-Shilling Award?</a> 
 
The Woman: 
Sharon (Mrs. Leslie) Klinger. 
<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) 
Billy Ross (The Abergavenny Murders, 1977) 
Shirley Dickensheet (Ivy Douglas, 1993) 
Robert H. Steele (The Scowrers, 1959) 
Philip Sherman (The Six Napoleons, 1969) 
Ralph E. Edwards (Dr. Barnicot, 1963) 
Robert H. Schutz (The Arnsworth Castle Business, 1961) 
David Galerstein (Bert Stevens, 1972) 
Alan C. Olding (Cooee, 1988) 
Bruce Montgomery (The Red Circle, 1994) 
Joseph Gillies (The Aluminium Crutch, 1962) 
John Ruyle (Baron Dowson, 1983) 
Paul G. Churchill (Corot, 2006) 
Robert Q. Carver (The Case of Mme. Montpensier, 1962) 
<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is the origin of “standing on the terrace?”</a> 
 
Morley-Montgomery Award: 
Mattias Boström, "The Humble Dr. Mortimer: On the Real Swedish Pathological Society” 
The Baker Street Journal v59 n3 (Winter 2008) pp. 6-11 (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: 
John Lescroat, “The Adventure of the Giant Rat of Sumatra” 
<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 v59 n1 (Spring 2009) pp. 6-15 (available in the eBSJ). 
 
Blau, Peter, <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/links.html#news">Scuttlebutt from the Spermaceti Press</a>, (January 2009): 1-2. 
 
<a href="http://files.bsitrust.org/pdf/dinner/bsi-dinner-2009-attendees.pdf">List of 2009 BSI Dinner Attendees</a> (PDF) 
 
 
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Recordings</h4>
A recording of portions of the 2009 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>
Rosenblatt, Albert M., and Betsy Rosenblatt, “The Sherlockian Year In Verse: 2008 (sic),” The Baker Street Journal v59 n1 (Spring 2009): 16-18 (available in the eBSJ). The Rosenblatts’ rhyming retrospective, delivered at the January 10, 2009 Sherlockian Cocktail Reception. 
 
Previous dinner: the <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2017/01/the-2008-bsi-dinner.html">2008 BSI Dinner</a> 
 
Next dinner: the <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2017/02/the-2010-bsi-dinner.html">2010 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 2/6/2017 by Randall Stock.

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The dinner celebrating Sherlock Holmes’s 154th birthday was an evening replete with tradition, yet sprinkled with surprises.  This year also marked the 75th anniversary of the publication of Vincent Starrett’s The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, and honoring Starrett was a theme of the evening. 
 
Andrew Fusco read the Constitution and Buy-Laws.  Warren Randall toasted Mrs. Hudson.  John Bergquist toasted Mycroft Holmes.  Marilyn MacGregor had us raise our glasses to Watson's second wife, and Marina Stajic toasted to Sherlock Holmes, featuring the ditty "Sherlock Holmes in Manhattan" accompanied on the piano by Henry Boote.   Sherry Rose-Bond led us in the responsive reading of the Musgrave Ritual. 
 
From Michael Dirda, we learned that his Investiture namesake, Langdale Pike, was actually Vincent Starrett. Betsy Rosenblatt ripped Naked Is the Best Disguise to bits.  This year’s <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">Morley-Montgomery Award</a> winner, Ray Betzner, made a tribute toast to the Old Irregular, Vincent Starrett. 
 
Seven deserving Irregulars received their Shilling.  Sherry Rose-Bond was honored with <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">The Two-Shilling Award </a>"for extraordinary devotion to the cause beyond the call of duty.”  Roy Pilot, Al Rosenblatt, and Christopher and Barbara Roden received the Editor’s Medal.  George McCormack was recognized for attending his 50th consecutive BSI Dinner. 
 
Priscilla Juvelis was toasted as <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">The</a><a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html"> Woman</a>.  Unfortunately, weather prevented her from being present to receive said honor. This did not, however, lead to any interruptions in the presentation of impressive women at the Birthday festivities, as Wiggins seamlessly introduced a surprise guest, Heloise Rathbone, the granddaughter of Basil Rathbone from his first marriage.  Ms. Rathbone spoke about her grandfather and what it was like to be part of the Rathbone family. 
 
The festivities were neatly wrapped up by <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/06/robert-thomalen-interview-oral-history.html">Bob Thomalen</a>, who read "A Long Evening with Holmes" by the late Bill Schweickert. 
 
At the next day’s Sherlockian Cocktail Reception at the New York City Bar Association, attendees saw the New York premiere of The Other Side, a one-act play by Jerome Coopersmith who, more than 40 years before, wrote the book for the musical Baker Street.  The Other Side dealt with the differing approaches to Spiritualism of two prominent couples: Harry and Bess Houdini (portrayed by Paul Singleton and Elyse Locurto) and Jean and Arthur Conan Doyle (played by Mary Ellen Rich and Bob Thomalen).  Michael Pollak introduced the piece, which also featured Kate Karlson as a medium and Dana Richards on sound.  In addition, Judge Albert Rosenblatt and his daughter, Betsy Rosenblatt, once again performed their remarkable rhyming summation of the previous year and of the Festivities. 
 
Dinner Details: January 11, 2008 
Union League Club, 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 2008 BSI Dinner photo (not available at this time) 
 
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 BSI Honours List</h4>
Investitures: 
John Genova as Harry Pinner 
Guy C. Marriott as The Grand Hôtel du Louvre 
David F. Morrill as Count Von Kramm 
Dana S. Richards as The Priory School 
Cooper Barbara Roisman as Mary Maberley 
Betsy Rosenblatt as Lucy Ferrier 
Randall Stock as South African Securities 
* 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: 
Sherry Rose-Bond. 
<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is a Two-Shilling Award?</a> 
 
The Woman: 
Priscilla Juvelis (Mrs. Daniel Posnansky) 
<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 2008 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: 
Raymond Betzner, "The Wicked Beginnings of a Baker Street Classic!" 
The Baker Street Journal v57 n3 (Autumn 2007) pp. 6-12 (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: 
Sir Christopher Frayling, “The Writing of The Hound of the Baskervilles” 
The Baker Street Journal v58 n1 (Spring 2008): 18-32 (available in the eBSJ). 
<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is the BSI Distinguished Speaker Lecture?</a> 
 
 
<h4>
Reports on the Dinner</h4>
The Baker Street Journal v58 n1 (Spring 2008): 6-14 (available in the eBSJ). 
 
Blau, Peter, <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/links.html#news">Scuttlebutt from the Spermaceti Press</a>, (January 2008): 1-2. 
 
List of 2008 BSI Dinner Attendees (not available at this time) 
 
<h4>
 Recordings</h4>
A recording of portions of the 2008 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>
Rosenblatt, Albert M., and Betsy Rosenblatt, “The Sherlockian Year In Verse: 2008,” The Baker Street Journal v58 n1 (Spring 2008): 14-17 (available in the eBSJ). The Rosenblatts’ rhyming retrospective, delivered at the January 12, 2008 Sherlockian Cocktail Reception. 
 
Previous dinner: the <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2016/12/the-2007-bsi-dinner.html">2007 BSI Dinner</a> 
 
Next dinner: the <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2017/01/the-2009-bsi-dinner.html">2009 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. 
 
 
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