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The 1967 BSI Dinner

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An unfortunate milestone marked Sherlock Holmes’s 113th birthday: Rex Stout, the long-time master of ceremonies, was unable to be present. Nonetheless, the timely and timeless Sherlockian rituals and rites “were meticulously carried out.” There were the “Conanical” and the Irregular toasts, readings of the Constitution and Buy-Laws, the Musgrave Ritual, Sherlock Holmes’s prayer, and Irregular music. Missives from Sherlockian individuals and societies from around the world, including messages from Adrian Conan Doyle and the Sherlock Holmes Society of London, were read aloud. Peggy (Mrs. James) Nelson was toasted by William Baring-Gould as The Woman. Four new Irregulars were invested at the Dinner. Three papers of “unusually high calibre” were delivered by John McCabe, John Bennett Shaw, and H.W. Starr, and the festivities concluded with “much Sherlockian discussion.” 
 
Dinner Details: January 6, 1967 
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-1967-photo-key.pdf">Key to People in the 1967 BSI Dinner photo</a> (PDF) 
 
 
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BSI Honours List </h4>
Investitures: 
T. S. Blakeney as A Norwegian Named Sigerson* 
J. Randolph Cox as The Conk-Singleton Forgery Case* 
Karl Krejci-Graf as Baron Gruner, the Austrian* 
Bryson R. Kalt as Charles Augustus Milverton 
Edgar H. Lawrence as The Matilda Briggs 
Stanley MacKenzie as The Man with the Twisted Lip* 
Orlando Park as The Final Problem 
Franklin Rhode as My Old Friend Charlie Peace* 
Albert Silverstein as Professor Presbury 
* received Investiture at another event during the year 
<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is an Investiture?</a> 
 
 
Two-Shilling Award: 
None listed. 
<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is a Two-Shilling Award?</a> 
 
The Woman: 
Peggy (Mrs. James) Nelson 
<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 1967 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: 
Alan H. Foster, "On the Location of Dr. John H. Watson's Tin Dispatch-Box" 
The Baker Street Journal v16 n3 (September 1966) pp. 138-146 (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 v17 n1 (March 1967) p. 53.  (available in the eBSJ) 
 
<a href="http://files.bsitrust.org/pdf/dinner/bsi-dinner-1967-attendees.pdf">List of 1967 BSI Dinner Attendees</a> (PDF) 
 
<a href="http://files.bsitrust.org/pdf/dinner/bsi-dinner-1967-photo-key.pdf">Key to People in the 1967 BSI Dinner photo</a> (PDF) 
 
 
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Recordings</h4>
None available online at this time. 
 
 
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Related Material</h4>
<a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.Hough:16197439">1967 BSI Dinner Menu</a> (digitized image at Harvard) 
Two pages. Cover, interior, and back. Sequence 25-26 
 
Previous dinner: the <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/09/the-1966-bsi-dinner.html">1966 BSI Dinner</a> 
 
Next dinner: the <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/09/the-1968-bsi-dinner.html">1968 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 4/8/19 by Randall Stock.

The 1967 BSI Dinner

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The 1966 BSI Dinner

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Sherlock Holmes’s 112th Birthday celebration took place against the backdrop of a New York transit strike. But, Sherlockians are undaunted. The dinner enjoyed “a near-record attendance,” including visitors from California, Illinois, Nebraska, and Oklahoma. Pola (Mrs. Rex) Stout was honored by Tom McDade as The Woman. Canonical and Irregular toasts were offered, and Scion reports from around the world were delivered. Three Irregulars were invested at the Dinner. Near the evening’s closing, the master of ceremonies, Rex Stout, received a “unique” award, The Order of the Blue Carbuncle. Tom Stix (Sr.) and Herbert Brean delivered learned papers, followed by toasts and disputations to round out the evening. 
 
Dinner Details: January 7, 1966 
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-1966-photo-key.pdf">Key to People in the 1966 BSI Dinner photo</a> (PDF) 
 
 
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BSI Honours List</h4>
Investitures: 
John R. Hendrickson as The Musgrave Ritual 
George K. Hourwich as Sutro, the Lawyer 
Ames Johnston as The Missing Three-Quarter* 
John McCabe as Those Chaldean Roots . . . of the Great Celtic Speech 
L. A. Morrow as The Grice Patersons in the Island of Uffa* 
Luther Norris as Monsieur Oscar Meunier, of Grenoble* 
Chris Redmond as Billy* 
Ralph Reppert as Horace Harker* 
* 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. Hall 
Thomas L. Stix (Sr.)* 
* 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: 
Pola (Mrs. Rex) Stout 
<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 1966 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: 
Henry T. Folsom, "My Biblical Knowledge is a Trifle Rusty….” 
The Baker Street Journal v15 n3 (September 1965) pp. 174-182 (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 v16 n1 (March 1966) p. 56.  (available in the eBSJ) 
 
<a href="http://files.bsitrust.org/pdf/dinner/bsi-dinner-1966-attendees.pdf">List of 1966 BSI Dinner Attendees</a> (PDF) 
 
<a href="http://files.bsitrust.org/pdf/dinner/bsi-dinner-1966-photo-key.pdf">Key to People in the 1966 BSI Dinner photo</a> (PDF) 
 
 
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Recordings</h4>
None available online at this time. 
 
 
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Related Material</h4>
<a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.Hough:16197438">1966 BSI Dinner Menu</a> (digitized image at Harvard) 
Two pages. Cover, interior, and back. Sequence 23-24 
 
Stout, Pola, <a href="http://files.bsitrust.org/pdf/dinner/bsi-dinner-1966-pola-stout.pdf">Note to Julian Wolff accepting the honour of The Woman</a> (PDF) 
 
Previous dinner: the<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/08/the-1965-bsi-dinner.html"> 1965 BSI Dinner</a> 
 
Next dinner: the <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/09/the-1967-bsi-dinner.html">1967 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 11/30/19 by Randall Stock.

The 1966 BSI Dinner

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The 1965 BSI Dinner

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Julian Wolff’s summary of the 111th Birthday Dinner records that “once more the attendance record was broken; 89 of the faithful were present.” Overseen by Rex Stout and chaired by Tom Stix (Sr.), all proper and improper festivities and rituals were observed. Eleanor Cryan (Mrs. Julian) Wolff was honored as The Woman. Canonical and Irregular toasts were proffered, and Bruce Montgomery delighted attendees with a sequel to his father’s established musical masterpiece, “Aunt Clara.” Ten Irregulars were invested at the Dinner. Dr. Marvin Aronson and Herbert Brean delivered papers. Subsequently, reports and addresses from Scions worldwide were delivered aloud. 
 
Dinner Details: January 11, 1965 
Cavanagh’s Restaurant, 258 West 23rd Street, New York 
 
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Dinner Photo Information</h4>
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<a href="http://files.bsitrust.org/pdf/dinner/bsi-dinner-1965-photo-key.pdf">Key to People in the 1965 BSI Dinner photo</a> (PDF) 
 
 
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BSI Honours List</h4>
Investitures: 
John D. Clark as The Politician, the Lighthouse, and the Trained Cormorant 
Frank J. Eustace Jr. as Cox and Co.* 
Henry T. Folsom as The Golden Pince-Nez 
Alan Foster as A Commission from the Sultan of Turkey 
Ebbe Curtis Hoff as Dr. Leslie Armstrong 
Charles B. Howland as Sir James Damery 
Elliot Kimball as Professor Coram** 
John B. Koelle as The Sussex Vampire 
Edward S. Lauterbach as Thorneycroft Huxtable, M.A, Ph.D., etc.* 
Richard D. Lesh as The Fatal Battle of Maiwand 
David Levinson as Count Von und Zu Grafenstein 
John Bennett Shaw as The Hans Sloane of My Age* 
Martin J. Swanson as The Dundas Separation Case 
Edward J. Van Liere as The Priory School* 
* 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: 
Eleanor Cryan (Mrs. Julian) Wolff. 
<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 1965 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: 
Ronald S. Bonn, "The Problem of the Postulated Doctor" 
The Baker Street Journal v14 n1 (March 1964) pp. 14-21 (available in the eBSJ) 
<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is the Morley-Montgomery Award?</a> 
 
 
<h4>
Reports on the Dinner</h4>
The Baker Street Journal v15 n1 (March 1965) p. 50.  (available in the eBSJ) 
 
<a href="http://files.bsitrust.org/pdf/dinner/bsi-dinner-1965-attendees.pdf">List of 1965 BSI Dinner Attendees</a> (PDF) 
 
<a href="http://files.bsitrust.org/pdf/dinner/bsi-dinner-1965-photo-key.pdf">Key to People in the 1965 BSI Dinner photo</a> (PDF)<div> 
 
<h4>
Recordings</h4>
None available online at this time. 
 
 
<h4>
Related Material</h4>
<a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.Hough:16197437">1965 BSI Dinner Invitation</a> (digitized image at Harvard) 
 
<a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.HOUGH:16162476?n=18">1965 BSI Dinner Menu</a> (digitized image at Harvard) 
Five pages. Cover, interior, and back. Sequence 18-22 
 
Previous dinner: the <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/08/the-1964-bsi-dinner.html">1964 BSI Dinner</a> 
 
Next dinner: the <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/09/the-1966-bsi-dinner.html">1966 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 1965 BSI Dinner

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The 1964 BSI Dinner

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A record 84 attendees gathered to commemorate Sherlock Holmes’s 110th Birthday.  After Lisa McGaw had been toasted as “The Woman,” Rex Stout called the assembly to order. Departed members were memorialized, and messages of greetings from absent members and Sherlockian societies at home and abroad were acknowledged.  It was announced that the late Jay Finley Christ had received the highest Irregular honour, the Two-Shilling Award, in November.  An unusual award, “a medal as large as a soup plate,” was presented to one of the waiters for long and faithful service. (“They also serve who only stand and wait.”) Irregular Shillings with Investitures were bestowed upon seven new members. 
 
It was announced that Edward F. Clark, Jr. had won the Morley-Montgomery Award. Herbert Brean then presented a vivid and hilarious account of the difficulties encountered by two budding authors (Poe and Doyle) in their attempts to break into print. The Five Orange Pips Quiz was next on the agenda. The formal part of the programme ended with Lord Donegall's message from the Sherlock Holmes Society of London and the reports of our Scion Societies. 
 
Dinner Details: January 10, 1964 
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-1964-photo-key.pdf">Key to People in the 1964 BSI Dinner photo</a> (PDF) 
 
 
<h4>
BSI Honours List</h4>
Investitures: 
James L. Anderson as Inspector Baynes, Surrey Constabulary 
Herman Beerman as Sir James Saunders 
George F. Burrows as Dr. Grimesby Roylott 
Eugene F. Carey as Dr. James Mortimer* 
Philip C. Duschnes as The Martyrdom of Man 
Douglas Guthrie as The Field Bazaar* 
Michael Harrison as The Camberwell Poisoning Case* 
Samuel R. Meaker as Sir Jasper Meek* 
Peter A. Ruber as Camden House 
William R. Smith as The Red Circle 
Ben Wolf as Vernet, the French Artist 
* 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: 
Jay Finley Christ* 
* 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: 
Lisa McGaw. 
<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 1964 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: 
Edward F. Clark, Jr., “Study of an Untold Tale.” 
The Baker Street Journal v13 n4 (December 1963) pp. 217-228.  (available in the eBSJ) 
<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is the Morley-Montgomery Award?</a> 
 
 
<h4>
Reports on the Dinner</h4>
The Baker Street Journal v14 n1 (March 1964) p. 60.  (Available in the eBSJ) 
 
<a href="http://files.bsitrust.org/pdf/dinner/bsi-dinner-1964-attendees.pdf">List of 1964 BSI Dinner Attendees</a> (PDF) 
 
<a href="http://files.bsitrust.org/pdf/dinner/bsi-dinner-1964-photo-key.pdf">Key to People in the 1964 BSI Dinner photo</a> (PDF) 
 
 
<h4>
Recordings</h4>
None available online at this time. 
 
 
<h4>
Related Material</h4>
<a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.Hough:16197436">1964 BSI Dinner Menu</a> (digitized image at Harvard) 
Interior and cover and  back. Sequence 15-16. 
 
Previous dinner: the <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/08/the-1963-bsi-dinner.html">1963 BSI Dinner</a> 
 
Next dinner: the <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/08/the-1965-bsi-dinner.html">1965 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 6/23/19 by Randall Stock.

The 1964 BSI Dinner

A record 84 attendees gathered to commemorate Sherlock Holmes’s 110th Birthday. After Lisa McGaw had been toasted as “ The Woman,” Rex ...

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The 1963 BSI Dinner

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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) 
 
 
<h4>
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> 
 
 
<h4>
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) 
 
 
<h4>
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. 
 
 
<h4>
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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Page updated 8/15/15 by Andrew Solberg. 
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This page last updated 1/30/20 by Randall Stock.

The 1963 BSI Dinner

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The 1962 BSI Dinner

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Sixty eight BSI and guests attended the festivities commemorating Sherlock Holmes’s 108th Birthday. The cocktail hour was enlivened by Will Oursler’s toast to The Woman, Mrs. Charles Honce. In adherence to Irregular tradition, the Constitution and Buy-Laws were read aloud; Frank Waters did the honors. Additional canonical toasts to Mrs. Hudson, Mycroft, and Dr. Watson’s Second Wife (the last delivered by the master of ceremonies, Rex Stout) were proffered, along with The Musgrave Ritual, Sherlock Holmes’s Prayer, and further tributes to Jim Montgomery, Christopher Morley, and Edgar W. Smith. Eight new Irregulars received their Investitures, including Dr. Charles Lauterbach, who received it posthumously instead of in absentia as originally planned.  An extraordinary Irregular award, the Two-Shilling Award, was presented to Rex Stout for services beyond the call of duty. Announcement of the Morley-Montgomery Memorial Award (a cheque of $100 from Lew D. Feldman) went to Robert Keith Leavitt whose article, "The Origin of 221B Worship," was selected by the Judges as the best in The Baker Street Journal during 1961. After this, messages from absent members and from Scion Societies in this country, Denmark and Holland were read. 
 
A tape recording of Jim Montgomery's ''Aunt Clara" was heard, followed by the papers of the evening: 
"Not an Unmatched Performance," by Thomas Stix, Jr.; "New Light on the Agra Treasure," by Philip Kasson; and "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Moriarty," by Tom Stix, Sr. Lord Donegall spoke and was followed by Richard Smith’s report on The Baker Street Irregulars, Inc. He was followed by the reports from the Scion Societies.   The meeting concluded with the toast to Sherlock Holmes, given by Basil Davenport. 
 
Dinner Details: January 5, 1962 
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-1962-photo-key.pdf">Key to People in the 1962 BSI Dinner photo</a> (PDF) 
 
<h4>
BSI Honours List</h4>
Investitures: 
Robert Q. Carver as The Case of Mme. Montpensier 
Irwin F. Deutsch as The Intricate Matter from Marseilles 
Joseph Gillies as The Aluminium Crutch 
Thomas F. Grady as Mr. Hilton Soames, of the College of St. Luke's 
John C. Hogan as The Binomial Theorem* 
Walter Klinefelter as The British Barque Sophy Anderson* 
Charles E. Lauterbach as Thorneycroft Huxtable, M.A., Ph.D., etc. 
Duncan MacDougald, Jr. as Brunton, the Butler, of Hurlstone 
Tom Mahoney as The Case of John Vincent Harden 
Robert J. Mangler as Sir Hugo Baskerville 
Kohki Naganuma as The Curious Incident of Sherlock Holmes in Japan* 
Robert G. Parker as A Garrotter by Trade* 
* 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: 
Rex Stout 
<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is a Two-Shilling Award?</a> 
 
The Woman: 
Emanuella (Mrs. Charles E.) Honce 
<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. Charles Lauterbach 
<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is the origin of “standing on the terrace?”</a> 
 
Morley-Montgomery Award: 
Robert Keith Leavitt, "The Origin of 221B Worship" 
The Baker Street Journal v11 n3 (September 1961) pp. 135-149 and v11 n4 (December 1961) pp. 225-234.  (available in the eBSJ) 
<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is the Morley-Montgomery Award?</a> 
 
 
<h4>
Reports on the Dinner</h4>
The Baker Street Journal v12 n1 (March 1962) pp. 50-51.  (available in the eBSJ) 
 
<a href="http://files.bsitrust.org/pdf/dinner/bsi-dinner-1962-attendees.pdf">List of 1962 BSI Dinner Attendees</a> (PDF) 
 
<a href="http://files.bsitrust.org/pdf/dinner/bsi-dinner-1962-photo-key.pdf">Key to People in the 1962 BSI Dinner photo</a> (PDF) 
This revised Key replaces the Key noted below from the 1962 Sherlockian Who’s Who and What’s What. 
 
 
<h4>
Recordings</h4>
None available online at this time. 
 
 
<h4>
Related Material</h4>
<a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.HOUGH:16162476?n=5">1962 BSI Dinner Invitation</a> (digitized image at Harvard) 
 
<a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.Hough:16197434">1962 BSI Dinner Menu </a>(digitized image at Harvard) 
Cover and interior. Sequence 3-4 
 
<a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.HOUGH:16162476?n=6">Ruber, Peter, “Dr. Watson Gets a Bow,”</a> The Candlelight Press Souvenir Distributed at the 1962 BSI Dinner (digitized image at Harvard) 
Three pages. Sequence 6-8 
 
<a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.HOUGH:16162476?n=9">Wolff, Julian, Plate VII from his Sherlockian Atlas</a>, Souvenir Distributed at the 1962 BSI Dinner (digitized image at Harvard) 
 
<a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.HOUGH:16162476?n=10">1962 Sherlockian Who’s Who and What’s What</a>, Includes an outdated key to the 1962 BSI Dinner (digitized image at Harvard) 
Three pages. Sequence 10-12 
 
Previous dinner: the <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/07/the-1961-bsi-dinner.html">1961 BSI Dinner</a> 
 
Next dinner: the <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/08/the-1963-bsi-dinner.html">1963 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 5/30/15 by Tamar Zeffren. 
Page updated 8/1/15 by Andrew Solberg. 
This page last updated 6/23/19 by Randall Stock.

The 1962 BSI Dinner

Sixty eight BSI and guests attended the festivities commemorating Sherlock Holmes’s 108th Birthday. The cocktail hour was enlivened by Wi...

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