Announcements


The Annual Dinner will again be held at the New Orleans Country Club, on the evening of November 30, 2023, the great man’s 149th birthday.  The event is open to members and their guests.  The Victory Belles will again entertain, and the speaker will be the distinguished World-War-II-Museum historian, Michael Bell, who will lecture on the “special relationship” of the USA and Great Britain.  The first Herschel Abbott Award will be presented at the dinner.  The cost to attend is $150 per person.  Checks should be mailed or hand-delivered to Ms. Ouida Laudumiey, 6048 Coliseum Street, New Orleans, LA 70118, and must be received by her no later than December 27, 2023

2022-2023 High School Essay Contest

The winners of the 2022-2023 contest are as follows:

First Prize ($1,500):  Apollo Stafford, Saucier, MS
Second Prize ($500):  Carson Collins, Austin, TX
Third Prize ($250) (tie):  Anthony Lawler, Metairie, LA and Caleb Haber, Long Beach, MS

The rules for the Essay Contest for the 2023-2024 school year are found at the “Essay Contest” page.

 

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, 1st 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