1 - Winston Churchill

LEFT: Amb. Paul Robinson with the ICS Stores crew: Alan Fitch, John Cox, Jack Nixon, Joanna Green, Bill Williams, Pat Fitch, Brock Comegys.CENTER: Don Feder of the Boston Herald is talked into a chance on a Holland-America Cruise by Parker Lee, who sold many a ticket.RIGHT: Ellen Triebwasser (New York) explains the contents of the registration packet to Peter Suzuki (Nebraska), Parker fields a call.company! We never heard another word from the firstthree, who had apparently mistaken our own team's radiomessages for theirs and sent three non-official conveyances.Whoever they were, they worked for freeThursday night!The other nits were incidental, but you shouldknow that we've made notes. The dinners as usual ran toolong. Larry Arnn says the way to fix this is to have bothsalad and the dessert on the table when we sit down —we'll try the salad but it would have been sacrilegious toadvance-plant the delectable hazelnut mousse in itschocolate tulip cups. (Hardly any were left untouched.)Mr. Buckley's speech was selectively inaudible becausetwo of seven speakers were accidentally mute; we compensatedby sending every attending party a tape. Thereception for Professor Schlesinger's speech was in thePlaza Bar, which was too crowded to stand and too darkto navigate. But skillful organization left very little else tocriticize. Among a broad array of speakers I was glad towitness the abundance of that Churchillian quality Iadmire most: humor and courtliness among people ofentirely opposite political persuasions. They proved, asChurchill did, that political discourse can and should becivilized and decorous.The Conference organizers cannot be thankedenough. Barbara Langworth conceived of most of theevents, while Parker Lee applied his years of corporateconference experience to achieve precision throughout.Our volunteers were superb. The result was the smoothestrun conference in history. As several said later, Bostonproved that this Society has come of age as a mature, settledorganization, confident in its values and goals, andsecure in the devotion of those who serve it so selflesslly.SUPPORTERS & SPONSORS• Corporate Support: Philip Morris Companies Inc., HollandAmerica Lines Inc., Books on Tape Inc., Pol Roger Champagne,Alfred Dunhill Ltd., Churchillbooks, Frederick Wildman & Sons.• President's Club: Mr. Fred Farrow, Mr. & Mrs. Gary J. Bonine,Mr. & Mrs. Richard H. Leahy, Mr. & Mrs. Parker H. Lee, III,Ethel M. Pont, Mr. & Mrs. James Snell, Reese Taylor, Mr. & Mrs.John Utz, Mr. Steven R. Wolf, Mr. & Mrs. Alex M. Worth• Patrons: Mr. & Mrs. Colin D. Clark, Mr. & Mrs. WilliamIves, Dr. & Mrs. Cyril Mazansky, Mr. & Mrs. Terrance W.McGarry, Mr. & Mrs. Charles D. Platt, Ambassador & Mrs. PaulRobinson, Jr.• Associates: Mr. & Mrs. Paul Alkon, Mr. & Mrs. David C.Boler, Mr. & Mrs. Walker B. Comegys, Mr. Orlin R. Corey, Mr.Raymond Lavine, Mrs. Ruth J. Lavine, Dr. & Mrs. Richard Streiff• Student Sponsors: Mr. Donald Best, Mr. Louis Burnett, Dr. &CMrs. Yong-Min Chi, The John T. & Mable Hay Fund, Mr. & Mrs.Mr. Nathan Hughes, Mr. Derek Lukin Johnston, Drs. Terrance andMary Leveck, Mr. Rich Lowry, Mr. & Mrs. Paul L. Meaders, Dr. &Mrs. John Michenfelder, Mr. & Mrs. Earl Nicholson, Mr. & Mrs.John G. Plumpton, Dr. & Mrs. Jack Proctor, Mr. & Mrs. SergeRoger, Dr. David J. Schreiber, Mr. Jens H. Schulthes, Mrs. HelenBecker Silverstein, Mr. & Mrs. Jonah I. Triebwasser, Dr. & Mrs.Allen P. Webb, Mr. & Mrs. Bill WilliamsLEFT: A long-overdue Blenheim Award went to Barbara Langworth (Ian, right) for fifteen years of service. CENTER: Another Blenheim, equallymuch delayed, to John Plumpton for his own thirteen years of dedication to ICS Canada and to Finest Hour. RIGHT: The Farrow Award, ICS'slatest, for notable achievement in Churchill Studies, was presented by Fred Farrow to Prof. James MuUer, University of Alaska Anchorage.FINEST HOUR 89/22