BSI Dinners: Some Later Years
BSI Dinner menu and photograph, 1971.
BSI Dinner menu and photograph, 1982.
Dinners Before 1992
The fashions change and the number of attendees grows, but until the 1992 dinner, the BSI remains an organization for men only.
Shown here are the 1971 and 1982 BSI dinner menu covers with their corresponding attendee photo.
BSI Dinner menu and photograph, 1992.
BSI Dinner, 1992
In 1991 at the annual cocktail reception on the Saturday of the BSI Weekend, BSI leader Tom Stix announced the investitures of six women members: Dame Jean Conan Doyle, Evelyn A. Herzog, Katherine McMahon, Edith Meisner, Susan Rice, and Julia Carlson Rosenblatt. Three of these women are pictured in the 1992 dinner photo: Herzog (142), Rice (41), and Rosenblatt (45).
Herzog had loved the Sherlock Holmes stories since childhood, and while at Albertus Magnus College, she organized a group of fellow students to discuss the stories and novels. The group corresponded with prominent Sherlockians, and in 1968, picketed the annual BSI dinner to protest the exclusion of women. That same year, Herzog and others founded the Adventuresses of Sherlock Holmes (ASH), now the oldest women's Sherlockian society.