The 1999 Wodehouse Convention,
Houston, Texas

[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