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The 1998 BSI Dinner

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The Dinner celebrating the 144th anniversary of the Master’s birth featured a wealth of diverse presentations and toasts. Among the array of familiar names in the latter, were Mrs. Hudson (by Marsha Pollak), Mycroft Holmes (by Donald Izban) (see Related Material), Watson’s Second Wife (by Steven Rothman), and Sherlock Holmes (by Donald Yates). 
 
Mike Whelan, presiding over his first BSI Dinner as Wiggins, resurrected the old tradition of including a toast to “An Old Irregular,” this year given touchingly by Judge Andrew Peck to William S. Baring-Gould (see Related Material). Bruce Montgomery and members of the Penn Glee Club performed selections from the late Harvey Officer's Sherlockian songbook.  Fritz Sonnenschmidt provided a demonstration of just how a master chef prepares pheasant livers with orange on toast points. 
 
Mary Schulz was toasted as “<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">The Woman</a>.” Five Irregulars received their Shilling at the Dinner. Wiggins also announced two new BSI office holders. Peter E. Blau was dubbed “Simpson,” as befits the BSI’s official secretary, and Jon Lellenberg was named “Thucydides” as the BSI’s official historian. Lellenberg also offered a moving tribute to the late Dame Jean Conan Doyle. 
 
At the next day’s Sherlockian Cocktail Reception, Susan Rice received the <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">Morley-Montgomery</a> Award for her piece entitled “Watson’s Hidden Addiction.”  Judge Albert Rosenblatt presented his now traditional and always creative poetic account of the BSI Dinner, the Sherlockian Weekend, and the Sherlockian Year. 
 
The BSJ’s report ends by affirming: “This was Mike Whelan’s first BSI dinner as “Wiggins” and it was judged by all to be a magnificent success. Congratulations to Mike; we look forward to many more.” 
 
Dinner Details: January 9, 1998 
24 Fifth Avenue, New York 
 
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Dinner Photo Information</h4>
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Key to People in the 1998 BSI Dinner photo (not available at this time) 
 
 
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BSI Honours List</h4>
Investitures: 
John F. Baesch as State and Merton County Railroad 
Pamela Bruxner as The British Government* 
Susan Z. Diamond as The Great Mogul 
Masamichi Higurashi as Baron Adelbert Gruner* 
Lou Lewis as William Whyte 
Ronald Mansbridge as A Case of Identity 
Thierry Saint-Joanis as Monsieur Bertillon 
James E. Smith II as Winner of the Jackson Prize 
* 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 1998. 
<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is a Two-Shilling Award?</a> 
 
The Woman: 
Mary Schulz 
<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) 
Stafford G. Davis (Horace Harker, 1980) 
Dame Jean Conan Doyle (A Certain Gracious Lady, 1991) 
Orval C. Graves (Whitaker's Almanack, 1982) 
Robert G. Harris (The Creeping Man, 1952) 
Constance Montgomery (The Woman, 1961, Wife of James Montgomery) 
Donald P. Musgrave (Reginald Musgrave, 1976) 
Eleanor Wolff (The Woman, 1965, Wife of Julian Wolff) 
<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is the origin of “standing on the terrace?”</a> 
 
Morley-Montgomery Award: 
Susan Rice, "Watson's Hidden Addiction" 
The Baker Street Journal v47 n2 (June 1997) pp. 30-36 (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: 
Nicholas Meyer, "Sherlock Holmes, Wine Bottles, and the Catholic Mass" 
The Baker Street Journal v48 n1 (March 1998) pp. 20-25 (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 v48 n1 (March 1998) pp. 7-14 (available in the eBSJ). 
 
Blau, Peter, <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/links.html#news">Scuttlebutt from the Spermaceti Press</a>, (January 1998), 1. 
 
List of 1998 BSI Dinner Attendees (not available at this time) 
 
 
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Recordings</h4>
A recording of portions of the 1998 BSI Dinner is available at Harvard as part of the <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/archive.html">BSI Archive</a>. 
 
 
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Related Material</h4>
<a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.HOUGH:16162476?n=169">1998 BSI Dinner Menu</a> (digitized images at Harvard) 
Two pages. Cover and interior. Sequence 169-170. 
 
<a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.HOUGH:16162476?n=171">The Musgrave Ritual</a> (digitized images at Harvard) 
Distributed to attendees at the 1998 BSI Dinner. Recited at the 1998 Dinner by Paul Singleton. 
One Page. Sequence 171. 
 
Peck, Andrew J., <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.HOUGH:16162476?n=172">“Toast to William S. Baring-Gould.”</a> (digitized images at Harvard) 
Presented at the 1998 BSI Dinner. 
Eight pages. Sequence 172-179. 
 
Izban, Donald S., “<a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.HOUGH:16162476?n=180">A Toast to Mycroft Holmes</a>.” (digitized images at Harvard) 
Presented at the 1998 BSI Dinner. 
Two pages. Sequence 180-181. 
 
Rosenblatt, Albert M., “1997: The Sherlockian Year in Verse,” The Baker Street Journal v48 n1 (March 1998) pp. 14-19 (available in the eBSJ). Judge Rosenblatt’s rhyming retrospective, delivered at the January 10, 1998 Sherlockian Cocktail Reception. 
 
Previous dinner: the <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2016/07/the-1997-bsi-dinner.html">1997 BSI Dinner</a> 
 
Next dinner: the <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2016/08/the-1999-bsi-dinner.html">1999 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 1998 BSI Dinner

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The Dinner celebrating the 143rd anniversary of the Master’s birth was a momentous one.  The usual traditions and toasts were performed, including the Sherlock Holmes Prayer, the reading of the BSI Constitution and Buy-Laws, and the reciting of the Musgrave Ritual. 
 
Robert Katz once again toasted The Second Mrs. Watson, William Hyder toasted Mycroft Holmes, Susan Rice toasted Mrs. Hudson, and Sherry Rose-Bond ended the formal toasts with one to “The Most Dangerous Gang in London.”  Bruce Montgomery regaled the crowd with his father’s “Aunt Clara” and his own set of new verses. 
 
Tom Stix then turned the program over to Mike Whelan, who emceed a riotously funny roast of Tom. Mike Whelan then presented to Tom and his wife Dorothy two beautiful expressions of the BSI’s gratitude for their work on our behalf.  Dorothy received a crystal vase on which was inscribed “Presented with Affection to Dorothy K. Stix, The The Woman, by the BSI, January 10, 1997.”  Tom received a crystal presentation piece, etched with the alternate dust jacket design for the British edition of The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes by Vincent Starrett (published, appropriately enough, in 1934, the year of the founding of the BSI) inscribed “With gratitude to Thomas L. Stix, Jr., Wiggins, for keeping the memory of the Master green, by the BSI, January 10, 1997.” 
 
Tom Stix announced that he was stepping down after eleven years as Wiggins, and was passing the mantle on to Mike Whelan. (Listen to the recording below.) Dante Torrese closed the program with “A Long Evening with Holmes.” 
 
Beverly E. Wolov was honored as “The Woman.” Eight Irregulars received their shillings. 
 
At the next day’s Sherlockian Cocktail Reception, David Stuart Davies performed The Hound of the Baskervilles in a one-man, seven minute performance.  Philip Shreffler was presented with the <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">Morley-Montgomery Award</a>.  Judge Albert Rosenblatt presented his annual poetic account of the BSI Dinner, the Sherlockian Weekend, and the Sherlockian Year. 
 
Dinner Details: January 10, 1997 
24 Fifth Avenue, New York 
 
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Dinner Photo Information</h4>
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<a href="http://files.bsitrust.org/pdf/dinner/bsi-dinner-1997-photo-key.pdf">Key to People in the 1997 BSI Dinner photo</a> (PDF) 
 
 
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BSI Honours List</h4>
Investitures: 
William J. Hyder as A Most Valuable Institution 
Richard J. Kitts as The Battered Tin Dispatch-Box 
Kenneth C. Lanza as His Last Bow 
Theodora Niver as Carina 
Roy E. Pilot as Chemical Laboratory of St. Barts 
Paul G. Singleton as Covent Garden 
Margaret Smedegaard as Criterion Bar 
Dorothy K. Stix as Martha 
* received Investiture at another event during the year 
<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is an Investiture?</a> 
 
 
Two-Shilling Award: 
Benton Wood* 
 * received the Award at another event during the year 
<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is a Two-Shilling Award?</a> 
 
The Woman: 
Beverly E. Wolov 
<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is The Woman honour?</a> 
 
"Stand with me here upon the terrace..." 
(as named at this Dinner, not their year of passing) 
Not listed in the 1997 BSJ report. 
<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is the origin of “standing on the terrace?”</a> 
 
Morley-Montgomery Award: 
Philip Shreffler, "Quintessence of Irregular: The Original Series of The Baker Street Journal" 
The Baker Street Journal v46 n4 (December 1996) pp. 7-12 (available in the eBSJ). 
<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is the Morley-Montgomery Award?</a> 
 
 
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Reports on the Dinner</h4>
The Baker Street Journal v47 n1 (March 1997) pp. 59-64 (available in the eBSJ). 
 
Hyder, William, “Toast to Mycroft,” The Baker Street Journal v47 n1 (March 1997) p. 61 (available in the eBSJ). Presented at the 1997 BSI Dinner. 
 
Blau, Peter, <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/links.html#news">Scuttlebutt from the Spermaceti Press</a>, (January 1997), 1. 
 
<a href="http://files.bsitrust.org/pdf/dinner/bsi-dinner-1997-photo-key.pdf">Key to People in the 1997 BSI Dinner photo</a> (PDF) 
 
 
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Recordings</h4>
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Thomas Stix at the 1997 BSI Dinner</div>
 
Thomas L. Stix, Jr. (The Norwood Builder) became the head of the BSI (Wiggins) after the <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2016/03/the-1986-bsi-dinner.html">1986 BSI Dinner</a>.  At the 1997 BSI Dinner, Stix announced that he was stepping down and that Michael Whelan (Vincent Spaulding) would be the new head of the BSI.  You can hear his announcement in this 7 minute vignette from the 1997 BSI Dinner.  Stix (whose father was also a BSI member) was invested at the <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/07/the-1961-bsi-dinner.html">1961 BSI Dinner</a>. 
 
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A recording of portions of the 1997 BSI Dinner is available at Harvard as part of the <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/archive.html">BSI Archive</a>. 
 
 
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Related Material</h4>
<a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.HOUGH:16162476?n=165">1997 BSI Dinner Menu</a> (digitized images at Harvard) 
Two pages. Cover and interior. Sequence 165-166. 
 
<a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.HOUGH:16162476?n=167">The Stetaks BSI Dinner Favor </a>(digitized images at Harvard) 
Distributed to attendees at the 1997 BSI Dinner. 
Two pages. Cover and interior. Sequence 167-168 
 
Rosenblatt, Albert M., “Verse for the Baker Street Irregulars on January 11, 1997,” The Baker Street Journal v47 n1 (March 1997) pp. 66-69 (available in the eBSJ). Judge Rosenblatt’s rhyming retrospective, delivered at the January 11, 1997 Sherlockian Cocktail Reception. 
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Previous dinner: the <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2016/07/the-1996-bsi-dinner.html">1996 BSI Dinner</a> 
 
Next dinner: the <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2016/08/the-1998-bsi-dinner.html">1998 BSI Dinner</a> 
 
For an index to all BSI Dinners and photos, see our<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/dinner-summary.html"> BSI Dinner Summary</a> list. 
 
 
The BSI Archive is located at the Houghton Library at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Archival material may be used by any qualified scholar, subject to the normal rules and regulations of the Library. For links to a detailed finding aid and related information, see our <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/archive.html">BSI Archive at Harvard </a>page. 
 
Page composed on 7/29/2016 by Tamar Zeffren 
Page updated 7/30/2016 by Andrew Solberg. 
This page last updated 3/31/20 by Randall Stock.

The 1997 BSI Dinner

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The 1996 BSI Dinner

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The Dinner celebrating the 142nd anniversary of the Master’s birth included the usual traditions and imaginative toasts.  Tom Stix was at the podium for the dinner, thankfully looking well after a recent illness. Sherry Rose-Bond toasted Peter Steiler the Elder. Robert Katz’s annual toasts to The Second Mrs. Watson have become legendary, and, once again, he did not fail to outrage the attendees.  The theme of the 1996 BSI Dinner was “My collection of M’s is a fine one,” and this was reflected in presentations by Joseph Moran and Shirley Purves. Evelyn Herzog also celebrated Canonical M’s in verse.  Tom Stix announced that <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/06/robert-thomalen-interview-oral-history.html">Bob Thomalen</a> would be stepping down as Cartwright of the BSI, and Mike Whelan would be filling this position. With the sad loss of the BSI’s secretary, John Bennett Shaw, Tom and Ruthann Stetak will officially take over the title of Simpsons, a role that they had been performing during the past year. 
 
Barbara Herbert was honored as “The Woman.” Eight Irregulars received their shillings. The Queen Victoria Medal was awarded to Robert Thomalen for his work as Cartwright on behalf of the BSI. (See the <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/09/the-1969-bsi-dinner.html">1969 BSI Dinner</a> for background on the Medal.) 
 
At the next day’s Sherlockian Cocktail Reception, Margaret Nydell was presented with the <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">Morley-Montgomery Award</a>, the first given since 1980.  Judge Albert Rosenblatt presented his now traditional and always creative poetic account of the BSI Dinner, the Sherlockian Weekend, and the Sherlockian Year. 
 
Dinner Details: January 12, 1996 
24 Fifth Avenue, New York 
 
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Dinner Photo Information</h4>
Click on the above photo to see a larger version of it, and maximize your browser window to see the most detail. 
 
<a href="http://files.bsitrust.org/pdf/dinner/bsi-dinner-1996-photo-key.pdf">Key to People in the 1996 BSI Dinner photo</a> (PDF) 
 
 
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BSI Honours List</h4>
Investitures: 
Steven T. Doyle as The Western Morning News 
Ralph Hall as Smack! Smack! Smack! 
Hugh T. Harrington as Wisteria Lodge 
Peter Horrocks as The Inner Temple 
Katherine Karlson as The Evening Standard 
John E. Pforr as Police-Constable Cook 
Marsha L. Pollak as A Small But Select Library 
Robert J. Stek as The Mysterious Scientist 
* 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 1996. 
<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is a Two-Shilling Award?</a> 
 
The Woman: 
Barbara (Mrs. Paul D.) Herbert 
<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 1996 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: 
Margaret Nydell, "On the Chaldean Influences in Cornish" 
The Baker Street Journal v45 n1 (March 1995) pp. 24-30 (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 v46 n1 (March 1996) pp. 8-14 (available in the eBSJ). 
 
Rose-Bond, Sherry, “Toast For Peter Steiler The Elder,” The Baker Street Journal v46 n1 (March 1996) pp. 8-9 (available in the eBSJ). Presented at the 1996 BSI Dinner. 
 
Katz, Robert S., “To The Second Mrs. Watson — 1996,” The Baker Street Journal v46 n1 (March 1996) pp. 9-11 (available in the eBSJ). Presented at the 1996 BSI Dinner. 
 
Herzog, Evelyn, “My Collection Of M’s Is A Rhymed One,” The Baker Street Journal v46 n1 (March 1996) pp. 11-14 (available in the eBSJ). Presented at the 1996 BSI Dinner. 
 
Blau, Peter, <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/links.html#news">Scuttlebutt from the Spermaceti Press</a>, (January 1996), 1. 
 
<a href="http://files.bsitrust.org/pdf/dinner/bsi-dinner-1996-photo-key.pdf">Key to People in the 1996 BSI Dinner photo</a> (PDF) 
 
 
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Recordings</h4>
A recording of portions of the 1996 BSI Dinner is available at Harvard as part of the <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/archive.html">BSI Archive</a>. 
 
 
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Related Material</h4>
<a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.HOUGH:16162476?n=163">1996 BSI Dinner Menu</a> (digitized images at Harvard) 
Two pages. Cover and interior. Two copies. Sequence 163-164. 
 
Rosenblatt, Albert M., “The BSI Dinner, January 1996,” The Baker Street Journal v46 n1 (March 1996) pp. 16-17 (available in the eBSJ). Judge Rosenblatt’s rhyming retrospective, delivered at the January 13, 1996 Sherlockian Cocktail Reception. 
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Previous dinner: the <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2016/07/the-1995-bsi-dinner.html">1995 BSI Dinner</a> 
 
Next dinner: the <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2016/07/the-1997-bsi-dinner.html">1997 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 7/23/2016 by Tamar Zeffren. 
Page updated 7/23/2016 by Andrew Solberg. 
This page last updated 1/11/20 by Randall Stock. 
 
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The 1996 BSI Dinner

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The 1995 BSI Dinner

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The Dinner celebrating the 141st anniversary of the Master’s birth boasted a diverse slate of presentations, including Marina Stajic’s “put-‘em-on-one-at-a-time” presentation on Victorian undergarments; Paul Herbert’s report on two Sherlockian films that never made it from script to screen; Tom Stetak’s discussion of Canonical lawn ornaments (which might well have been subtitled “beware the deadly sundial”); David Stuart Davies’s well footnoted report; and Sherry Rose-Bond’s toast to the “Second Most Dangerous Man in London” (not who one might think!). 
 
Myrtle T. Robinson was honored as “The Woman.” Eight Irregulars received their shillings. Dr. Robert S. Katz was honored with the Two-Shilling Award. 
 
At the next day’s Sherlockian Cocktail Reception, William R. Cochran, editor of The Baker Street Journal announced that the <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">Morley-Montgomery Memorial Award</a> (established by Lew David Feldman in 1958 for the best contribution to the BSJ) has been revived. The author of the best paper published in 1995 will receive a prize of $500 during the 1996 BSI Weekend. 
 
Dinner Details: January 6, 1995 
24 Fifth Avenue, New York 
 
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Dinner Photo Information</h4>
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<a href="http://files.bsitrust.org/pdf/dinner/bsi-dinner-1995-photo-key.pdf">Key to People in the 1995 BSI Dinner photo</a> (PDF) 
 
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 BSI Honours List</h4>
Investitures:  
David Stuart Davies as Sir Ralph Musgrave 
Thomas J. Francis as The Imperial Opera of Warsaw 
Theodore Friedman as The Commonplace Book 
Marina Stajic as Curare 
Dante M. Torrese as Von Herder 
Gerald N. Wachs as Godfrey Emsworth, changed to Sir James Saunders 
Kathryn White as The Musgrave Ritual 
Ronald S. White as The Cabinet Photograph 
* received Investiture at another event during the year 
<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is an Investiture?</a> 
 
 
Two-Shilling Award: 
Robert S. Katz 
<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is a Two-Shilling Award?</a> 
 
The Woman: 
Myrtle T. Robinson 
<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) 
Herman Beerman (Sir James Saunders, 1964) 
Morency R. Dame (Colonel Lysander Stark, 1982) 
James O. Duval (The Battered Tin Dispatch-Box, 1984) 
Robert E. Matthews (The Coptic Patriarchs, 1958) 
R. Irving Paxton (Mr. Sandeford, of Reading, 1961) 
Ralph F. Turner (Colonel Carruthers, 1983) 
John Bennett Shaw (The Hans Sloane of My Age, 1965) 
<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is the origin of “standing on the terrace?”</a> 
 
Morley-Montgomery Award: 
No awards were given from 1981-1995. 
<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is the Morley-Montgomery Award?</a> 
 
 
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Reports on the Dinner</h4>
The Baker Street Journal v45 n1 (March 1995) pp. 44-46 (available in the eBSJ). 
 
Blau, Peter, <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/links.html#news">Scuttlebutt from the Spermaceti Press</a>, (January 1995), 1. 
 
<a href="http://files.bsitrust.org/pdf/dinner/bsi-dinner-1995-photo-key.pdf">Key to People in the 1995 BSI Dinner photo</a> (PDF) 
 
 
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Recordings</h4>
A recording of portions of the 1995 BSI Dinner is available at Harvard as part of the <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/archive.html">BSI Archive</a>. 
 
 
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Related Material</h4>
<a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.HOUGH:16162476?n=159">1995 BSI Dinner Menu</a> (digitized images at Harvard) 
Two pages. Cover and interior. Two copies. Sequence 159-162. 
 
Rosenblatt, Albert M., “1994: The Sherlockian Year in Review,” The Baker Street Journal v45 n1 (March 1995), 47-51 (available in the eBSJ). Judge Rosenblatt’s Rhyming Retrospective of 1994 and the 1995 BSI Festivities, delivered at the January 7, 1995 Sherlockian Cocktail Reception. 
 
Previous dinner: the <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2016/06/the-1994-bsi-dinner.html">1994 BSI Dinner</a> 
 
Next dinner: the <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2016/07/the-1996-bsi-dinner.html">1996 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 7/5/2016 by Tamar Zeffren 
Page updated 7/9/2016 by Andrew Solberg. 
This page last updated 1/11/20 by Randall Stock.

The 1995 BSI Dinner

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The 1994 BSI Dinner

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In addition to the 140th anniversary of the Master’s birth, this year marked the 60th anniversary of the founding of the Baker Street Irregulars by Christopher Morley in 1934. In honor of this signal occasion, the birthday weekend was marked by numerous celebrations. The BSI Dinner agenda featured the usual toasts and traditions and Bruce Montgomery's melodic tribute to his grand-aunt Clara and to his father. It then focused on 60 years of BSI history, including George Fletcher's anecdotal history of The Baker Street Journal, Susan Rice and Mickey Fromkin’s survey of Irregular poetry through the decades, Steve Rothman's discussion of the very early meetings of the BSI, and reminiscences of the annual Dinners by David Weiss (a stalwart attendee for more than 40 years). Bill Schweickert's poetic birthday tribute to the Master ended the program.  Theresa (Mrs. Robert E.) Thomalen was honored as “The Woman.” Twelve Irregulars received their Investitures at the Dinner. 
 
At the following day’s reception for all Sherlockians, Catherine Cooke received an Investiture. Eleanor O’Connor received the Queen Victoria Medal in recognition of her many years of assistance at the BSI annual dinners (see the <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/09/the-1969-bsi-dinner.html">1969 BSI Dinner</a> for background on the Medal). There were also Jon Lellenberg and Clint Gould's "March of Time" report on the history of the BSI, a performance by Paul Singleton and Philip Brogdon of an excerpt from Jeremy Paul's play "The Secret of Sherlock Holmes," a warm tribute to Tom Stix delivered by <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/06/robert-thomalen-interview-oral-history.html">Bob Thomalen</a>, and poetic reports by Al Rosenblatt and Marilynne McKay on the events of the previous evening. 
 
This 60th birthday weekend was a fine testament to the reality that, as BSJ editor William Cochran phrased it in his “Editor’s Gas-Lamp” article, “The Irregulars survive because all orders of Sherlockian are as inseparable as Holmes and Watson.” 
 
Dinner Details: January 7, 1994 
24 Fifth Avenue, New York 
 
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Dinner Photo Information</h4>
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<a href="http://files.bsitrust.org/pdf/dinner/bsi-dinner-1994-photo-key.pdf">Key to People in the 1994 BSI Dinner photo</a> (PDF) 
 
 
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BSI Honours List</h4>
Investitures: 
Catherine Cooke as "The Book of Life"* 
Peter J. Crupe as The Noble Bachelor 
T. Michelle Fromkin as The Missing Three-Quarter 
Anthony D. Howlett as John Hector McFarlane 
Donald B. Izban as Market Street 
Thomas J. Joyce as A Yellow-Backed Novel 
Bruce Montgomery as The Red Circle 
Geoffrey S. Stavert as The Shingle of Southsea 
Ruthann Stetak as The Camberwell Poisoning Case 
Francine Morris Swift as The Wigmore Street Post Office 
Hirotaka Ueda as Japanese Armour 
Thomas D. Utecht as Arthur Charpentier 
William H. Vande Water as An Enlarged Photograph 
* 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: 
Donald A. Redmond (in absentia) 
<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is a Two-Shilling Award?</a> 
 
The Woman: 
Theresa Thomalen 
<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 1994 BSJ report. 
<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is the origin of “standing on the terrace?”</a> 
 
Morley-Montgomery Award: 
No awards were given from 1981-1995. 
<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is the Morley-Montgomery Award?</a> 
 
 
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Reports on the Dinner</h4>
The Baker Street Journal v44 n1 (March 1994), 49-50 and 54-55 (available in the eBSJ). 
 
Blau, Peter, <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/links.html#news">Scuttlebutt from the Spermaceti Press</a>, (January 1994), 2. 
 
<a href="http://files.bsitrust.org/pdf/dinner/bsi-dinner-1994-photo-key.pdf">Key to People in the 1994 BSI Dinner photo</a> (PDF) 
 
 
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Recordings</h4>
A recording of portions of the 1994 BSI Dinner is available at Harvard as part of the <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/archive.html">BSI Archive</a>. 
 
 
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Related Material</h4>
<a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.HOUGH:16162476?n=157">1994 BSI Dinner Menu</a> (digitized images at Harvard) 
Two pages. Cover and interior. Sequence 157-158. 
 
Rosenblatt, Albert M., “BSI 1994,” The Baker Street Journal v44 n1 (March 1994), 46-48 (available in the eBSJ). Judge Rosenblatt’s Rhyming Retrospective of the 1994 BSI Festivities, delivered at the January 8, 1994 cocktail reception. 
 
Lellenberg, Jon, “The March of Time.” The Baker Street Journal v44 n1 (March 1994), 40-45 (available in the eBSJ). Performed at the January 8, 1994 cocktail reception by Jon Lellenberg and Clint Gould. 
 
Previous dinner: the <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2016/05/the-1993-bsi-dinner.html">1993 BSI Dinner</a> 
 
Next dinner: the <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2016/07/the-1995-bsi-dinner.html">1995 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 6/15/2016 by Tamar Zeffren 
Page updated 6/25/2016 by Andrew Solberg. 
This page last updated 1/11/20 by Randall Stock.

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