2013 AUTUMN LUNCHEON

9 November, 2013—52 ASH and friends gathered at Moran’s restaurant for the Autumn Luncheon. The traditional toasts were given: Mickey Fromkin to Victoria Regina, Lyndsay Faye to Irene Adler, Delia Vargas to Sherlock Holmes, Karen Wilson to John H. Watson, Bill Vande Water to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and Marina Stajic and Nora Myers to Friendship.

Special toasts were given by Susan Rice on the centenary of John Bennett Shaw and William Baring-Gould and by Warren Randall to Dr. Joe Bell. E.J. Wagner discussed the real-life model for Charles Augustus Milverton, while Maggie Schnader’s topic was the opening of DEVI if had been written by Henry James or P.G. Wodehouse. Many of these toasts and papers will appear in this and subsequent issues of the Muse.

We concluded with the traditional ASH songs, enhanced by Laurie Fraser Manifold’s cleverly illustrated song sheets.