{"id":15770582,"date":"2025-04-10T00:33:23","date_gmt":"2025-04-10T05:33:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wodehouse2.websitesforasong.com\/?p=15770582"},"modified":"2025-06-05T11:08:01","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T16:08:01","slug":"convention-philadelphia-pa-2001","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wodehouse.org\/test\/convention-philadelphia-pa-2001\/","title":{"rendered":"2001: Philadelphia, PA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: A Wodehouse Odyssey: October 12\u201314, 2001<br \/>\n<\/b><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Speakers: John Fletcher, John Graham, Gary Hall &amp; Linda Adam-Hall, Elliott Milstein, Norman Murphy, Erik Quick, Brian Taves, Gretchen Worden<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We returned to our Pennsylvania roots for 2001\u2019s Wodehouse Odyssey, hosted by Chapter One. The convention opened informally on Thursday evening with the announcement that Norman Murphy and Elin Woodger had married, thus cementing the special relationship between the U.S. and U.K. societies. Norman also expanded the presidential regalia with his presentation of a Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother medallion on ribbon, to be the presidential badge of office. When the TWSCC played at the Merion Cricket Club (America\u2019s oldest cricket club), we could only imagine how proud Bill Blood would have been to see how far his society had come. In addition to the usual program of talks, food, and drink, there were tours, games, exhibitions, and discussion groups to enjoy. The Friday reception included a couple of informal talks and the appearance of Dan Cohen in a gorilla costume. The Saturday talks concluded with another NEWTS skit, and certain British Wodehouseans were spied tap dancing following the banquet. At the Sunday morning brunch, Blandings Castle members read, brilliantly, the sublime story \u201cLord Emsworth and the Girl Friend\u201d\u2014a perfect end to another perfect convention.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">See the full report of this convention in <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/wodehouse.org\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/PL_v22_nr4.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Plum Lines<\/span><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Volume 22, No. 4 (Winter 2001)<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<div id=\"6a392a15e4c68\" class=\"gg_gallery_wrap gg_true_gallery gg_masonry_gallery gid_15770719 gg_hidden_ol gg_ol_bottom_mode gg_main_ol_show_on_h \" data-col-num=\"4\" data-gid=\"15770719\" data-nores-txt=\"No images found\">              <div class=\"gg_loader\">            <div class=\"ggl_1\"><\/div>            <div class=\"ggl_2\"><\/div>            <div class=\"ggl_3\"><\/div>            <div class=\"ggl_4\"><\/div>        <\/div>  <div 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