| Report
on the Convention by Robert Bruce (click here to view) Programme of
Events
Friday 8.8.2003
Convention
convenes.
Displays
notably of playing cards from Elliott Milstein (pictured
above with his wife, Elyse) backed with famous authors
Cricket
Jean Tillson clean bowls Bill Franklin
Professor Westfall, the expert cricketer who dropped in.
Cocktail
Party at the College with pig and pig-girl (called Monica
Simmons?)
Detroit's Pickering Players in Ukridge's Accident
Syndicate; Richard Scrimger as Ukridge, Curtis Armstrong
as Corky, Elliott Milstein as Teddy Weeks
Saturday
1. Elliott Milstein: An (academic) thesis on Wodehouse.
2. Dennis Chitty: The Maestro's Amazing Memory
3. Tony Ring: Wodehouse on the Boards (PGW's straight
plays)
4. Jan Kaufman: Dr Wodehouse and Mr Waugh
5. Richard Scrimger: One Chump or Two: an Ontological
Examination of the Master-Servant Relationship.
6. Helen Murphy (read by Elin Woodger Murphy): Wodehouse
as a Feminist
7. Curtis Armstrong: Nodders I have Known.
(Major Tom Smith, and Norman Murphy impressed by his
medals)
8. Major Thomas Smith (U. S. Army, retd.): The Military
Men in Wodehouse
Jan Kaufman (above) as Vice-President becomes President.
Jean Tillson (above) is elected Vice President
The 2005 Convention will be at Hollywood, also known as
Dottyville-on-the-Pacific.
The Banquet:
Beef (beautifully cooked, with a sort of au poivre sauce);
or equally marvellous salmon; followed by apple tart
dessert just like mother used to make.
Next morning
Brunch. In which from my memories there is never enough
time to talk to all the fascinating company.
Away.
Thursday
Evening
Kristine Fowler and Hilary
Bruce
Norman Murphy and Amy Plofker
Hilary Bruce (UK Chairman) and Robert Bruce (cricket
commentator)
Friday
Cricket
Friday
Evening
Tony Ring and prizewinners
Elin Woodger Murphy and Jean Tillson
A party
Tony Ring receiving
his birthday cake.
Elliott Milstein apparently shared the same birthday and
the same cake. Both are obviously very young.
The
Banquet
Sunday
Brunch
The Blandings Players, including Marilyn MacGregor, Ed
Ratcliffe, and Bill Franklin
Toronto's skyline
Choice
of Accommodation
St Michael's' College (cheap)
and Sutton Place Hotel (elegant)
For one adventure
described by a College-lodged member, click
here.
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