Society Initiatives

TWS founder Bill Blood first proposed placing a marker in Remsenburg, where both Plum and Ethel are buried, in 1984, but it wasn’t until 2011 that members Bob Rains and Andrea Jacobsen took on the task and carried it off brilliantly. That year they did the...

It was past TWS president Florence Cunningham who suggested that the society honor P. G. and Ethel Wodehouse with a —famously known as “the little church around the corner”—in New York City. The estimated cost was $1,500. With the church willing and funds donated...

Following the death in 2016 of the noted Wodehouse scholar Norman Murphy, then TWS vice president Tom Smith conceived the Norman Murphy Award as a way to honor him. Tom designed a medal with an image of Norman on one side and a pipe and stack of books on the other,...

From the society’s earliest days, efforts were made to honor P. G. Wodehouse with a commemorative U.S. postage stamp. TWS’s records show that the very first attempt began in December 1980; it was led by Pauline Blanc with the idea of marking Plum’s 100th birthday...

Discussions about creating a special TWS tie for members began back in 1993, but wasn’t until near the end of that decade that Shamim (Pongo) Mohamed designed a tie that had broad, diagonal stripes of brilliant red and black separated by narrow stripes of gold—very...

At the 1987 convention in San Francisco, it was suggested that the 1989 binge could take place in Dulwich, England, and planners swung into gear. Eventually, it was agreed there would still be a U.S. convention, but the plans for England proceeded. In addition to a...

It all started at the Chicago convention in 1997, when two TWSers, Alekh (Gussie) Bhurke and Shamim (Pongo) Mohamed, gathered up a bunch of other Plummies, found a spot to play, and held a cricket practice session at which those who knew what they were doing...