[There are photographs taken at the Convention to be found at either www.wodehouse.org
or www.drones.com/wodehouse.]
Friday
Cricket: The Reginald Jeeves Memorial Match, 10-4
[Click here for article by
Tim Andrew]
Field Trips:
9 am San Jacinto Battleground and Bayou Bend
[Click here for article (with pictures) by
Norman Murphy]
10 am Space Center Houston & NASA
[Click here for article by John Fletcher]
During the day: Games in the Presidential Suite
Gawlf, Egg & Spoon Race, Pot the Top Hat with Hazel Nut, Foozle
Ball.
Booksellers' and Chapters' Tables
5 - 6 pm Meeting of the Senior Bloodstain (combined Wodehouse and
Doyle fans).
6 - 7.30 pm Cocktail Party
During which teams entering the Good Gnus Challenge, putting the verses
by Charlotte Mulliner to music, entertained themselves and the cocktail-swillers.
Saturday
Talks:
Tony Ring: Limp Lavender Leather; an analysis of Wodehouse's poetry
Elin Woodger: Lady Constance's Lover: Sex and Romance à la Wodehouse
Michael Skupin: A Damsel in Distress: The 1937 Movie from a 1999
perspective.
Coffee
Michael Skupin: New Music composed for Selections from The Parrot
Norman Murphy: Wodehouse Among the Animals
[Click here for the full text of this talk, with
all the illustrations]
12 - 1.30 Lunch
Business meeting
Dan Cohen: Wodehouse at the Bar, a lecture-demonstration of drinking in
Wodehouse's stories
Wendy Westfaul: Medicinal Marvels in Wodehouse
Coffee
NEWTS: Skit: Bertie and the Bum Steer
6.30 pm Party Costumes are encouraged
8 - 11 pm Grand Banquet; Presentation of Awards; play, The Story of
William by Blandings Castle West chapter; Dancing to Bob Kuldell and his
Windsong
Band; Fireworks.
Sunday
8 - 11 am: Farewell Breakfast in the Ground Floor Ballroom