2012 Churchill Birthday Dinner

February 15, 2013 | In the News | churchillnola | 0 Comment

From the Times Picayune, December 12, 2012:
Nell Nolan, Social Columnist

The Churchill Society of New Orleans’ annual Birthday Dinner Honoring Sir Winston Churchill took place in the New Orleans Country club, launched with musical levity by pianist Jimmy Maxwell. then it was on to a duel under the oak. Well, that’s what it looked like when guests moved to the founder’s Room for a fencing exhibition by Andrew Stout and Richard Exnicios (Tulane Fencing Club coaches), whose en garde activity was played out in front of a huge window overlooking the club’s centuries-old oak tree. Stephen Chesnut was enlisted as the referee.

After a hearty hand for the fencers, the society’s set lifted shiny silverware for the delicious dinner of turtle soup, Bibb lettuce salad, Angus beef filet and vanilla ice cream with chocolate sauce.

Notables included Churchill Society President J. Gregg Collins with spouse Joan Malter-Collins, Treasurer Bill Reeves with Sally, Secretary Ted martin with Louise, herschell Abbott (who does a fine Churchill imitation) and Anne, John Bullard with Catherine Burns Tremaine (who hosted the launch of Debra Shriver’s book, “In the Spirit of New Orleans” at her lovely home), Orlan and Shirley Trusty Corey, Donald and Kathleen Theriot, Dr. Phillip and Mary helen Schaeffer, Hill Riddle Jr, Wendel and Betsy Stout, Honorary Swiss consul Alexandra Mora and Walter Wolf, Dr. and Mrs. kenneth Addato, Lois and jay Van Kirk, Richard and mary McConnell, Anne and James Morse, Lisa Slatten, Patricia Strachan, Ren and Andrea Wilkes, and Dr. Ollie and karen Edmunds, recent first-time grandparents, thanks to little Julian Edmunds.

Churchill Quote:

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. the inherent virtue of Socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.

Churchill: A Timeline

1874 Birth occurs at Blenheim Palace, Nov. 30

1888 Pupil at Harrow public school

1895 Commissioned soldier in Fourth Hussars

1899 War correspondent in South Africa; captured and escapes

1900 Elected Minister of Parliament for Oldham

1908 Marries Clementine Hozier at St. Margaret's Church, Westminster.

1910 Home Secretary

1911 First Lord of the Admiralty

1915 On Western Front - World War I

1921 Colonial Secretary

1922 Buys Chartwell

1924 Chancellor of the Exchequer

1939 Returns as First Lord of the Admiralty, World War II declared

1940 Prime Minister

1945 Defeated by Labour in General Election.

1951 Returns as Prime Minister

1955 Resigns as Prime Minister after two strokes

1965 Dies Jan. 24 in London. Hundreds of thousands hold vigil.

1977 Wife, Clementine Churchill, dies. Both buried together at Bladon.

Books By Churchill

My Early Life – An autobiography covering the first twenty-five years of Churchill’s life
The River War – Lord Kitchner’s reconquest of the Sudan in 1898. Published in 1899; (2 vols.) Also published in a one volume abridged edition.
A History of the English Speaking Peoples
Marlborough – a biography of his ancestor, John Churchill, 1^st Duke of Marlborough, Published in four, six, and two volume editions.
The World Crisis – a six-volume history of the First World War.
The Second World War – six volumes, sometimes reprinted as twelve volumes
Painting as a Pastime – an essay on the joys of painting