Friday
Night at the Movies |
When: |
Friday,
December 6, 6:30 P.M. |
Where: |
Maui
Taco, 330 Fifth Avenue (between 32-33rd Streets), Downstairs |
The
Program: |
1)
"Meet Nero Wolfe" is a very early adaptation, loosely based
on Fer De Lance. VERY funny indeed.
2) An interview with Rex Stout -- a video provided by his daughter,
Rebecca Stout Bradbury |
Assembly |
When: |
December
7, 2002 -- 2 P.M. to 4:30 P.M. |
Where: |
Bouterin,
420 East 59th Street (a French Restaurant
with Flair, in the shadows of the 59th Street Bridge |
Highlights: |
Guest
Speakers: |
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Dr.
J. Kenneth Van Dover, noted author (including At Wolfe's
Door: The Nero Wolfe Novels of Rex Stout) and Chairman
of the Department of English Language and Literature,
Lincoln University.
Margaret
Happle Perry, a noted culinary authority, provided tips
to the audience to help them succeed in the evening banquet's
tasting
contest of Sauce Printemps.
Ms. Happle Perry is a trustee emerita of the Culinary
Institute of America, formerly an executive with Pillsbury
and Nabisco, and a food and nutrition editor of various
publications including Redbook, Good Housekeeping and Ladies Home Journal.
Ettagale
Blauer, Coordinator of the Assembly, presented an update
on the Wolfe Pack's ongoing slaughter of establishments
selected for Pack events. It seems that over the past
25 years, The Wolfe Pack has a suspiciously high incidence
of restaurant closings immediately following pack events
at the establishments.
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Swap
'N Shop -- Jan & Steve Schwartz assembled a fabulous collection
of Wolfean Gear and Packers swapped and shopped! |
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Refreshments -- Coffee
& a Special Hot Tart prepared by Chef Bouterin, as well
as home made cakes and cookies from Wolfe Pack members. |
Banquet |
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When: |
December
7, 2002 6:30 P.M. |
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Where: |
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Highlights: |
A
Tasting Contest of Sauce Printemps |
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For each
attendee:
- a Commerative
Pilsner Glass imprinted with the Wolfe Pack's Logo
- Courtesy
of the Stout Family -- a match book imprinted on the front
with the Pola Stout logo and on the back with "Nero
Wolfe by appointment only" (Cool!)
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Dinner
featuring the French Banquet from Too
Many Cooks (click to view -- the menu) |
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Presentation
of the 2002 Nero Award for Best Mystery to Linda Fairstein for The Deadhouse (Scribner -- who provided copies for attendees) |
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Guest
Speaker: Barbara Benjamin, Personal Secretary to Rex Stout
while
he served as head of The War Writers Board |
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We were honored that the following members of Mr. Stout's
family and their friends attended:
- Rebecca Stout Bradbury and Bill Bradbury (daughter and
son-in-law)
- Sue and Bill Oelman (Rebecca & Bill's friends who
met Mr. Stout frequently at High Meadow)
- Rachel and Jeff Theilacker (Rebecca & Bill's daugther
and son-in-law)
- Chris Maroc (Grandson of Rex Stout)
- Liz Maroc McAuliffe (Rex Stout's granddaughter)
And the attendees were delighted that Bill Bradbury, Chris
Maroc and both Bill and Sue Oelman provided anecdotal
reminisces of Mr. Stout to the assembled and answered
questions. |
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Fun
and Frivolity:
song
parodies (soon to appear in the next issue of The Gazette)
quizzes
provided by the Pack’s Grand Mistress of puzzlements, Ms.
Tenby Storm (watch for your next issue of The Gazette)
with wine par excellence toasting
and hoisting provided by:
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- Kevin
Gordon to Mr. Wolfe
- Deb
Montague to Mr. Stout
- Michael
and Aaron Rosenblum to Archie Goodwin
- Aileen
Schumacher to Fritz
- Dan
Rogers to The Other
- Unoffical
Toast -- Ellen Krieger, Werowance Emerita and founder, to
The Pack
- Unofficial
Toast -- Gretchen Taylor Grady to The Pack and Mr. Stout
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Sunday
Brunch Hunt |
When: |
December
8, 2002 -- 11 A.M. |
Where: |
Downtown
Manhattan -- Commencing at the City Hall Fountain
in City Hall Park (South of City Hall) and culminating in brunch
at Il
Porto at 11 Fulton Street, South Street Seaport. |
Highlights: |
Similar
to a scavenger hunt, but the ultimate goal is to find the
restaurant for brunch. Once again, we did NOT lose anyone.
With the help of sometimes easy and sometimes impenatrable
clues, the five teams of scavengers found the elusive sites:
- the Bowling Green Bull (aka The Wall Street Bull)
- Rochester Big and Tall at Beaver and Pearl (oops, it
changed into a different men's clothing store in the past
month!)
- the New York Trial Lawyer's Association Building at 15
Beekman (ok, so it was sort of hard to find)
- the seemingly lost brunch location -- Il
Porto restaurant on Fulton Street at South Street Seaport,
featuring a glass enclosed room with a view of the Tall
Ship and the Seaport and a selection of brunch items and
liquid refreshment.
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