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The Spring Dinner200 8 Approximately forty ASH and friends gathered at Bill’s Gay Nineties Restaurant in Manhattan on May 31 for the annual spring meeting. This year’s gathering was a luncheon instead of the traditional dinner. We welcomed enthusiastically many of the nineteen newly-announced male ASH.
Each attendee received a beautiful handmade Sherlockian note card from Pj Doyle,
and new ASH Al Rosenblatt won the door prize, a set of note cards donated by Pj.
Anyone who has ever received a Christmas card or note from Pj knows that she is
an extremely talented artist in the paper medium. Many thanks to Pj for her
thoughtfulness!
The traditional toasts were as follows: Mickey Fromkin, Queen Victoria; Pj
Doyle, Irene Adler; Nancy Dean, The Master; Bill Vande Water, Dr. Watson;
Jacquelynn Morris, ACD; and John Baesch, Friendship. You’ll find John,
Nancy, and Pj’s toasts in this issue.
The theme for this meeting was the letter V—which provided our presenters with a
wide range of opportunities. Not surprisingly, for Mickey Fromkin V means
Victoria Regina. However, for Marina Stajic, Victoria means Woodhull. Judith
Freeman took us down a more frightening path as she discoursed on vipers and
venomous lizards. But most ASH associate the letter V with Violet, and all four
were recognized. Evy read Dorothy Belle Pollack’s verses on Violet Westbury, as
well as giving her own toast to Violet Hunter, while Julie Rosenblatt took on
the case of Violet Smith. Marilynne McKay took on Miss de Merville with “What
Was Violet’s Problem Anyway?” The Serpentine Muse is copyrighted by the Adventuresses of Sherlock Holmes, and written permission must be obtained for reproduction of an article in another publication or website. Contact the Webmaster at mmckayATL@comcast.net |
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