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Sherlock Holmes Birthday Weekend 2008
As is our custom, we’ll be reporting on those birthday weekend events that
featured Adventuresses. On Wednesday night over 45 ASH and friends gathered
informally at O’Casey’s. The high point of the evening was the presentation of
ASH membership certificates to Adventuresses invested after the original
certificates were made in the early 90s. Thanks go to the ASH design team of
Laurie Fraser Manifold and Marilynne McKay for these and Dorothy Belle Pollack’s
Poet Laureate award. (ASH not attending the weekend will receive their
certificates by mail.)
Thursday morning, Doré Nash delivered the famous jelly donuts in Grand Central
Station as she and Jim Cox led the Morley walk from the Algonquin to McSorley’s.
Morleyites comment that the route changes a little each year as landmarks
topple—see ’em next year before they’re gone!
As always, the Gillette luncheon was ably hosted by Susan Rice and Mickey
Fromkin. Attendees were visited by the
Gillettes themselves: Tyke Niver as
William Gillette and Teddie Niver as Helen. Al Gregory presented the Muse’s Jan
WHIMSEY (Whimsical Humour Is My Speciality, Enjoy Yourself) Award to Warren
Randall
for “A Visit to 104 Berkeley Square,” a riff on
“221b.” The award, a handsome certificate and a check for $221, honors
Al’s late wife, ASH Jan Stauber.
The program was a reprise of an original work by the Friends of Bogie’s, which
was first performed at a 1984 ASH dinner. ASHes Andrew Joffe, Sarah Montague and
Elyse Locurto, along with Paul Singleton, appeared in this delightful literary
parody. And, of course, ASH history was made as Principal Unprincipled Adventuress Evelyn Herzog invested nineteen men as full-fledged ASH, the first since 1991.
At the BSI dinner, Marilyn MacGregor toasted Watson’s second wife and Marina
Stajic honored The Master. Sherry Rose-Bond
read the Musgrave ritual, and Betsy Rosenblatt
was a featured speaker. To top things off, Betsy received her BSI investiture as
Lucy Ferrier
and Sherry Rose-Bond received the BSI two-shilling award! At the BSI cocktail party on Saturday, ASHes Kate Karlson, Elyse Locurto, and M.E. Rich all appeared in the Jerome Coopersmith play. Betsy Rosenblatt and father Al delivered the traditional year-end poem, and Mary Ann Bradley introduced The Women. Joanne Zahorsky-Reeves donated a made-to-order dressing gown for the BSI auction, and Patricia Guy provided a rare bottle of Italian wine and carrier for the raffle.
The Sunday ASH brunch at the Oldcastle Pub & Restaurant was the perfect ending
to the weekend—thanks to organizer Judith Freeman.
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