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The 2008 ASH Autumn DinnerOver 50 Adventuresses and friends gathered for a Chinese Banquet at the S Dynasty Restaurant in the Radisson Lexington Hotel. Evelyn Herzog noted the loss of Adeline Skillman Tinning from the ranks of Adventuresses and welcomed ten new ASH to the fold:
Carol Cavalluzzi
The Agony Column Nancy Minogue Dean
A Disreputable Statuette
Audrey Epstein
Allegro Barbara Herbert
Pals of the Dook
Richard J. Kitts
The Lyceum Theatre (BSI:
The Battered Tin Dispatch-Box) Lyndsay Faye Lehner
The Fascinating Daughter of a
California Millionaire Joseph W. Moran
An Honourable Soldier
(BSI: Sir Augustus Moran, C.B.) Karen Murdock
May Blunder E.J. Wagner
The Record of Old Cases Richard Wein
The Hans Sloane of My Age (BSI: Silver Blaze)
The traditional toasts were given to, and by, the following:k the Queen, Mickey Fromkin;
Irene Adler, Paula & Mike Riezenman; Sherlock Holmes, Joe Moran; John Watson,
Peter Crupe; Arthur Conan
Doyle, John Baesch; and friendship, M.E. Rich.
Special toasts on the theme of our Chinese venue included Lynn Walker on General
Charles "Chinese" Gordon, Philip Shreffler on Tibet, Al Gregory on Opium, and
Marilynne McKay on Tea in the Canon (in the form of an open quiz). Bill Nadel
spoke about Judge Dee and Bob Katz shared "A Tale of Two Portraits"
after which favorite ASH songs
were sung.
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