ST HOUR - Winston Churchill

DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE, GOVERNORS,UK & CANADA REPRESENTATIVES MEETThe Churchill Center Governors' Annual GeneralMeeting at the Army & Navy Club, Washington on 14-15 November, was augmented for the first time by representativesof the International Churchill Societies ofCanada (Randy Barber) and the UK (Nigel Knocker).Paul Robinson, chairman of Trustees of ICS UnitedStates, also attended. The Center is most grateful to thedirectors of ICS Canada and UK for sending theirPresident and Chairman respectively to our meetings andhope that they will continue to lend their counsel andadvice, which were instrumental in discussing the internationalprograms and activities of the Center and ICS.At this meeting, The Churchill Center set its 1998budget (about $400,000), re-elected William Ives andJohn Plumpton as Governors for 1998-2000, appointed anominating committee to fill open seats, appointed threeBritish scholars, Sir Martin Gilbert, Paul Addison andJohn A. Ramsden, to the Academic Advisory Board, discussed1998-99 ICS and CC activities, set dates for boardmeetings (see below), readopted scholarships for an"American and Canadian student at the Centre for SecondWorld War Studies, University of Edinburgh; adopted• guidelines for Center Trustees and Center publishingactivities, and distributed project proposals by GlynneJenkins, Michael McRobbie and John H. Mather for considerationin the Spring.ENDOWMENT CAMPAIGN BEGINSMeeting on November 13-14th the DevelopmentCommittee and Governors formally launched theEndowment Campaign, which is in full flood as you readthis. Intrinsic to this effort are the Gregory Peck video anda fascinating new Prospectus on Giving, listing the manyways in which you can benefit yourself and your heirswhile aiding the Center and becoming a Churchill CenterAssociate. If you are interested in the Associates Program,and have not yet been contacted by one of our Governorsor committee members, please telephone Parker H. LeeIII, toll-free at 888-WSC-1874.CHURCHILL AS PEACEMAKER LAUNCHEDIn Washington August 29th, the Center launched itsfirst book developed out of a symposium, which is nowavailable through the New Book Service. Churchill asPeacemaker, edited by James W Muller, challenges theconventional view of Churchill as a Man of War, bringingtogether ten readable essays by scholars from Britain,South Africa and the United States, most of them basedon papers delivered at the First Churchill Symposium in1994. Covering conflict from Queen Victoria's "littlewars" to the Cold War, the book provides a fascinating,hitherto unavailable examination of Churchill's successesand failures as a peacemaker. Churchill as Peacemaker isavailable for $50 (+$5 shipping), a $10 discount, from theNew Book Service, c/o the Editor, Finest Hour.THE CHURCHILL CALENDARLocal event organizers are welcome to send entries for this calendar; owing to our quarterly schedule, however, we need copy at least three months in advance.19985 January: "Painting as a Pastime" reception with David Coombs hosted by ICS, UK, Sotheby's, 34-35 New Bond St., London5-17 January: "Painting as a Pastime" Exhibition of Churchill Paintings, Sotheby's, 34-35 New Bond Street, London6-7 March: Churchill Center Board of Governors Spring Meeting, Chapel Hill, North Carolina26 April: ICS United Kingdom Annual General Meeting, RAF Museum, Hendon10 May (tentative): Launch of A Connoisseur's Guide to the Books of Winston Churchill, Brassey's (UK) Ltd.14-17 May: Third Churchill Center Symposium, "Winston Churchill's Life of Marlboro ugh," Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire14-26 May: Ninth International Churchill Tour: Blenheim, Lake District, Edinburgh, Scottish Lowlands, Yorkshire15 June: International Churchill Society Thirtieth Anniversary (founded at Camp Hill, Pennsylvania, 1968)2 September: Battle of Omdurman Centenary Dinner, Boston, MassachusettsSeptember (tentative): Churchill Center Panel, American Political Science Convention, Boston, Massachusetts25-26 September: Churchill Center Board of Governors Annual General Meeting, Washington, D.C.5-8 November: 15th International Churchill Conference & First Annual Churchill Lecture, Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia30 November: Sir Winston Churchill's 124th Birthday1999Sprine- Student Seminar . Summer or Autumn: Sixteenth International Churchill Conference ... South Africa TourV h ' 200014-17 September: Seventeenth International Churchill Conference, Anchorage, Alaska200114 February- Centenary of Churchill's Entry into Parliament Autumn: Eighteenth International Churchill Conference2003Twentieth International Churchill Conference and 50th Anniversary of the Bermuda Conference, Hamilton, BermudaFINEST HOUR 96/6