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The 2000 BSI Dinner

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Sherlock Holmes’s 146th Birthday and the BSI’s 66th anniversary were commemorated in “thoroughly enjoyable” fashion. Wiggins (Michael Whelan) noted that, to honor of this BSI milestone, the evening’s menu was the same(!) as at the inaugural 1934 dinner. He then thanked the many on whom he relies, especially Don Pollock for his stewardship of the Baker Street Journal, and announced that Steven Rothman would be succeeding Don as Editor. 
 
Wiggins gave special acknowledgment to the two Sherlock Holmeses in attendance that evening - <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2016/05/douglas-wilmer-interview-oral-history.html">Douglas Wilmer</a> (the portrayer of Holmes on BBC television in the 1960s) and Roger Llewellyn, who was to impersonate the Master on stage the next evening.  The esteemed attendees also included four people who have been Irregulars for forty years or more—Poul Anderson (40), Peter Blau (41), David Weiss (42), and Art Levine (44). At the dinner were representatives from the United States, Canada, England, Denmark, Sweden, Switzerland, Japan, and Australia. 
 
Wayne Swift read the BSI Constitution and Buy-Laws. An excellent range of toasts followed, including Leslie Klinger’s toast to Holmes’ individuality, his single-mindedness, and drive to do the right thing. Paul Smedegaard’s toast to Mrs. Hudson, Kate Karlson’s toast to Mycroft, Gordon Speck’s toast to Watson’s Second Wife, and Bob Coghill’s toast to the great Sherlockian Tupper Bigelow.  Ralph Hall read the Musgrave Ritual.  “The Master Over Three Centuries” began with Bernard Davies speaking of the 1800s and how the century changed. Julie Rosenblatt described the 20th century as the century of Sherlock Holmes. Poul Anderson spoke of the future, saying that Holmes will endure. 
 
Other presentations were in the form of a medical panel, chaired by Robert Katz, MD, who talked about Professor Moriarty.  Richard Caplan, M.D., stated that “The Adventure of the Creeping Man” boiled down to sex. Marina Stajic, M.D., discussed the death of Enoch Drebber.  Paul Martin, M.D., discussed the aneurysm from which Jefferson Hope suffered.  Then, Evelyn Herzog and Ray Betzner proposed a new Constitution for the BSI.  However, Andrew Fusco replied that the existing Constitution has no provisions for amendment; therefore, a convention of the original drafters would be required to change it. Paul Herbert read the Vincent Starrett poem “221B.” 
 
Eleanor O’Connor was heralded as <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">The Woman</a> and received, in due tribute, a Golden Door inscribed with “221B.” Eight Irregulars received their Shillings. The Two Shilling Award was presented to Scott Bond. 
 
At the next day’s Sherlockian Cocktail Reception, Certificates were distributed to those Sherlockians who had attended this year’s trifecta of dinners of the Sherlock Holmes Society of Denmark, the Sherlock Holmes Society of London, and the BSI. Judge Albert Rosenblatt performed his annually remarkable summation of the Festivities in verse. 
 
Dinner Details January 14, 2000 
Union League Club, New York 
 
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Dinner Photo Information</h4>
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Key to People in the 2000 BSI Dinner photo (not available at this time) 
 
 
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BSI Honours List </h4>
Investitures: 
Karen Anderson as Emilia Lucca 
Donald E. Curtis as Jabez Wilson 
Douglas Elliott as Canadian Pacific Railway 
Anders Hammarqvist as Jacob Shafter 
C. Frederick Kittle as Jack Stapleton 
Michael A. Meer as The Englischer Hof 
Jean Upton as Elsie Cubitt 
Ben Vizoskie as Alexander Hamilton Garrideb 
Douglas Wilmer as The Lyceum Theatre 
* 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: 
Scott Bond 
<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is a Two-Shilling Award?</a> 
 
The Woman: 
Eleanor O’Connor 
<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 D. Clark (The Politician, the Lighthouse, and the Trained Cormorant, 1965) 
Herman Herst (Colonel Emsworth, V.C., 1968) 
Ezra A. Wolff (Sir James Damery, 1971) 
Robert W. Hahn  (Colonel Ross, 1963) 
Alvin E. Rodin (Palmer, 1989) 
Rex Pinson (Inspector G. Lestrade, 1973) 
Richard B. Shull (An Actor and a Rare One, 1986) 
Alan Addlestone (The Addleton Tragedy, 1985) 
Norman S. Nolan (Godfrey Norton, 1972) 
<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is the origin of “standing on the terrace?”</a> 
 
Morley-Montgomery Award: 
S.E. Dahlinger, "The Sherlock Holmes We Never Knew" 
The Baker Street Journal v49 n3 (September 1999) pp.7-27 (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 Dirda, "On Glancing Over My Notes: Some Reflections on Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars" 
The Baker Street Journal v50 n2 (Summer 2000) pp. 6-17 (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 v50 n1 (Spring 2000) 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 2000), 1. 
 
List of 2000 BSI Dinner Attendees (not available at this time) 
 
 
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Recordings</h4>
A recording of portions of the 2000 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=194">2000 BSI Dinner Menu</a> (digitized images at Harvard) 
Two pages. Cover and interior. Sequence 194-195. 
 
<a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.HOUGH:16162476?n=196">The Musgrave Ritual and We Never Mention Aunt Clara </a>(digitized images at Harvard) 
The Musgrave Ritual in both English and Italian. Also, the words to the song “We Never Mention Aunt Clara.” Distributed at the 2000 BSI Dinner. 
Two pages. Cover and interior. Sequence 196-197. 
 
Karlson, Kate. <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.HOUGH:16162476?n=198">“BSI Toast to Mycroft”</a> (digitized images at Harvard) 
One page. Sequence 198. 
 
Rosenblatt, Albert M., “The Sherlockian Year (And Millennium) In Verse: Baker Street Irregulars, January 15, 2000,” The Baker Street Journal v50 n1 (Spring 2000) pp. 9-11 (available in the eBSJ)  Judge Rosenblatt’s rhyming retrospective, delivered at the January 15, 2000 Sherlockian Cocktail Reception. 
 
Dirda, Michael, “<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPcap/2000-02/06/037r-020600-idx.html">Excursions</a>,” The Washington Post (February 6, 2000): P. X15 
Michael Dirda, Pulitzer Prize winning Literary Critic at the Washington Post, wrote about his experience at the 2000 BSI Weekend. 
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Previous dinner: the <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2016/08/the-1999-bsi-dinner.html">1999 BSI Dinner</a> 
 
Next dinner: the <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2016/09/the-2001-bsi-dinner.html">2001 BSI Dinner</a> 
 
For an index to all BSI Dinners and photos, see our <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/dinner-summary.html">BSI Dinner Summary list</a>. 
 
 
The BSI Archive is located at the Houghton Library at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Archival material may be used by any qualified scholar, subject to the normal rules and regulations of the Library. For links to a detailed finding aid and related information, see our <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/archive.html">BSI Archive at Harvard</a> page. 
 
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The 2000 BSI Dinner

Sherlock Holmes’s 146th Birthday and the BSI’s 66th anniversary were commemorated in “thoroughly enjoyable” fashion. Wiggins (Michael Whe...

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The 1999 BSI Dinner

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The Dinner celebrating the 145th anniversary of the Master’s birth began with the “surprise presence of New York Governor George Pataki,” who was greeted with effusive applause. He had recently appointed Albert Rosenblatt to the Court of Appeals and had presided over Judge Rosenblatt’s swearing-in ceremony. Governor Pataki was the first state governor to attend a BSI annual dinner, though it was noted that New York Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt had been a Sherlockian and had gone on to serve as President of the United States. Peter Blau’s account of the Dinner (see Reports on the Dinner) notes that “the governor did not seize the opportunity to announce his future plans.” 
 
The Buy-Laws were read by Kenneth Lanza. Toasts: to Mrs. Hudson by Harold Niver; to Mycroft by Tom Francis; to Watson’s Second Wife by Steven Rothman; and to Sherlock Holmes by Michael Kean.  Daniel Posnansky toasted two Old Irregulars James Keddie (both père et fils). Shirley Purves led the recitation of the Musgrave Ritual. George Fletcher and Jon Lellenberg traced the history of BSI dinner venues; John Linsenmeyer offered a new supposition on Charles Augustus Milverton as “victim” of unfortunate ladies who caught his attention. 
 
A lively debate on the favorite and least favored stories in the Canon was moderated by Judge Albert Rosenblatt.  The debaters included George McCormick, Susan Rice, David Stuart Davies, and Andrew Fusco. Robert Katz gave a stirring remembrance of Tom Stix, who had passed away the previous year.  Tom had led the BSI for eleven years, taking over from Julian Wolff just after the <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2016/03/the-1986-bsi-dinner.html">1986 BSI Dinner</a> and announcing his retirement at the <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2016/07/the-1997-bsi-dinner.html">1997 BSI Dinner</a>. 
 
Deborah Fusco was honored as <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">The Woman</a>. Five Irregulars received their Shilling. 
 
At the next day’s Sherlockian Cocktail Reception, Jon Lellenberg received the <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">Morley-Montgomery Award</a> for his Baker Street Journal Christmas Annual on “’Entertainment and Fantasy': The 1940 BSI Dinner.”  Beverly Wolov read a poem in honor of “The Woman.” Jay and Trish Pearlman displayed their miniature reproduction of the sitting room at 221B.  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 8, 1999 
Union League Club, New York 
 
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Dinner Photo Information</h4>
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Key to People in the 1999 BSI Dinner photo (not available at this time) 
 
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 BSI Honours List</h4>
Investitures: 
William Dorn as The Newgate Calendar 
H. Paul Jeffers as Wilson Hargreave 
June L. Kinnee as Miss Hatty Doran 
Leslie S. Klinger as The Abbey Grange 
Marilyn MacGregor as V.V. 341 
* 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 1999. 
<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is a Two-Shilling Award?</a> 
 
The Woman: 
Deborah Fusco 
<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) 
William Berner (Aloysius Doran, Esq., of San Francisco, Cal., 1983) 
Elic Denbo (The Ferrers Documents, 1974) 
Henry W. Enberg (John Garrideb, 1991) 
Robert B. Frier (Colonel Upwood, 1960) 
Thomas F. Grady (Mr. Hilton Soames, of the College of St. Luke's, 1962) 
George Kreuzberger (Archie Stamford, the Forger, 1956) 
Robert A. W. Lowndes (Langdale Pike, 1973) 
Thomas L. Stix (The Norwood Builder, 1961) 
<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is the origin of “standing on the terrace?”</a> 
 
Morley-Montgomery Award: 
Jon Lellenberg, "'Entertainment and Fantasy': The 1940 BSI Dinner" 
The Baker Street Journal 1998 Christmas Annual (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: 
Owen Dudley Edwards, “Dr. Watson: Portrait of a Genius,” 
<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 v49 n1 (March 1999) 7-16 (available in the eBSJ). 
 
Blau, Peter, <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/links.html#news">Scuttlebutt from the Spermaceti Press</a>, (January 1999), 1. 
 
List of 1999 BSI Dinner Attendees (not available at this time) 
 
 
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Recordings</h4>
A recording of portions of the 1999 BSI Dinner is available at Harvard as part of the <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/archive.html">BSI Archive</a>. 
 
<h4>
 Related Material</h4>
<a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.HOUGH:16162476?n=182">1999 BSI Dinner Menu </a>(digitized images at Harvard) 
Two pages. Cover and interior. Sequence 182-183. 
 
<a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.HOUGH:16162476?n=184">The Musgrave Ritual </a>(digitized images at Harvard) 
Distributed to attendees at the 1999 BSI Dinner. Recited at the 1999 Dinner by Shirley Purves. 
One Page. Sequence 184. 
 
Niver, Harold, <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.HOUGH:16162476?n=185">“Toast to Mrs. Hudson.”</a> (digitized images at Harvard) 
Two pages. Sequence 185-186. 
 
Francis, Thomas J., <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.HOUGH:16162476?n=187">“A Toast to Mycroft Holmes.</a>” (digitized images at Harvard) 
Three pages. Cover note and toast (two copies). Sequence 187-189. 
 
Kean, Michael, <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.HOUGH:16162476?n=190">“A Toast to Sherlock Holmes.” </a>(digitized images at Harvard) 
Four pages. Sequence 190-193. 
 
Rosenblatt, Albert M., “The Sherlockian Year in Review 1998,” The Baker Street Journal v49 n1 (March 1999) pp. 8-11 (available in the eBSJ). Judge Rosenblatt’s rhyming retrospective, delivered at the January 9, 1999 Sherlockian Cocktail Reception. 
 
Previous dinner: the <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2016/08/the-1998-bsi-dinner.html">1998 BSI Dinner</a> 
 
Next dinner: the <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2016/08/the-2000-bsi-dinner.html">2000 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 1999 BSI Dinner

The Dinner celebrating the 145th anniversary of the Master’s birth began with the “surprise presence of New York Governor George Pataki,”...

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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>. 
 
 
<h4>
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. 
 
Page composed on 7/31/2016 by Tamar Zeffren 
This page last updated 8/6/2016 by Andrew Solberg. 
 
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The 1998 BSI Dinner

The Dinner celebrating the 144th anniversary of the Master’s birth featured a wealth of diverse presentations and toasts. Among the array...

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The 1997 BSI Dinner

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The Dinner celebrating the 143rd anniversary of the Master’s birth was a momentous one.  The usual traditions and toasts were performed, including the Sherlock Holmes Prayer, the reading of the BSI Constitution and Buy-Laws, and the reciting of the Musgrave Ritual. 
 
Robert Katz once again toasted The Second Mrs. Watson, William Hyder toasted Mycroft Holmes, Susan Rice toasted Mrs. Hudson, and Sherry Rose-Bond ended the formal toasts with one to “The Most Dangerous Gang in London.”  Bruce Montgomery regaled the crowd with his father’s “Aunt Clara” and his own set of new verses. 
 
Tom Stix then turned the program over to Mike Whelan, who emceed a riotously funny roast of Tom. Mike Whelan then presented to Tom and his wife Dorothy two beautiful expressions of the BSI’s gratitude for their work on our behalf.  Dorothy received a crystal vase on which was inscribed “Presented with Affection to Dorothy K. Stix, The The Woman, by the BSI, January 10, 1997.”  Tom received a crystal presentation piece, etched with the alternate dust jacket design for the British edition of The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes by Vincent Starrett (published, appropriately enough, in 1934, the year of the founding of the BSI) inscribed “With gratitude to Thomas L. Stix, Jr., Wiggins, for keeping the memory of the Master green, by the BSI, January 10, 1997.” 
 
Tom Stix announced that he was stepping down after eleven years as Wiggins, and was passing the mantle on to Mike Whelan. (Listen to the recording below.) Dante Torrese closed the program with “A Long Evening with Holmes.” 
 
Beverly E. Wolov was honored as “The Woman.” Eight Irregulars received their shillings. 
 
At the next day’s Sherlockian Cocktail Reception, David Stuart Davies performed The Hound of the Baskervilles in a one-man, seven minute performance.  Philip Shreffler was presented with the <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">Morley-Montgomery Award</a>.  Judge Albert Rosenblatt presented his annual poetic account of the BSI Dinner, the Sherlockian Weekend, and the Sherlockian Year. 
 
Dinner Details: January 10, 1997 
24 Fifth Avenue, New York 
 
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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-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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<a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.HOUGH:16162476?n=165">1997 BSI Dinner Menu</a> (digitized images at Harvard) 
Two pages. Cover and interior. Sequence 165-166. 
 
<a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.HOUGH:16162476?n=167">The Stetaks BSI Dinner Favor </a>(digitized images at Harvard) 
Distributed to attendees at the 1997 BSI Dinner. 
Two pages. Cover and interior. Sequence 167-168 
 
Rosenblatt, Albert M., “Verse for the Baker Street Irregulars on January 11, 1997,” The Baker Street Journal v47 n1 (March 1997) pp. 66-69 (available in the eBSJ). Judge Rosenblatt’s rhyming retrospective, delivered at the January 11, 1997 Sherlockian Cocktail Reception. 
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Previous dinner: the <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2016/07/the-1996-bsi-dinner.html">1996 BSI Dinner</a> 
 
Next dinner: the <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2016/08/the-1998-bsi-dinner.html">1998 BSI Dinner</a> 
 
For an index to all BSI Dinners and photos, see our<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/dinner-summary.html"> BSI Dinner Summary</a> list. 
 
 
The BSI Archive is located at the Houghton Library at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Archival material may be used by any qualified scholar, subject to the normal rules and regulations of the Library. For links to a detailed finding aid and related information, see our <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/archive.html">BSI Archive at Harvard </a>page. 
 
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The 1997 BSI Dinner

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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. 
 
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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>
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-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) 
 
 
<h4>
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>. 
 
 
<h4>
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. 
 
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Page updated 7/9/2016 by Andrew Solberg. 
This page last updated 1/11/20 by Randall Stock.

The 1995 BSI Dinner

The Dinner celebrating the 141st anniversary of the Master’s birth boasted a diverse slate of presentations, including Marina Stajic’s “p...

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