 |
The Seventh Biennial conference was held in Seattle, Washington, USA, |
| |
The Seventh Biennial conference was held in Seattle, Washington, USA, |
To date, there have been six major gatherings of Shutists:
In addition to the major international gatherings, local gatherings have taken place in the UK and USA.
A play of "Requiem for a Wren" was put at Exbury house in June 2005.
In April 2004, John Stanley launched his new book "The Exbury Junkers" at Exbury House where David & Kate Dawson-Taylor represented the foundation.
In the UK, a local gathering was held on 15th and 16th May 2004 at the Gateway to York Hotel in YORK.
A further mini-convention was held in Oxford in May 2006, organised by John Anderson
Alison Jenner organised a weekend in Dartmouth UK in May 2008.
A gathering of Shutists took place at Shrewsbury School, UK, over the weekend of 25/26th June 2010. Click here to see a narrative report by Andy Burgess.
In the USA, there are regular gatherings (locally known as "Chapters"), all a direct result of the efforts of dedicated USA Shutist Art Cornell. For information on existing local USA chapters, contacts, and scheduled activities, see below. Those interested in forming a local chapter might like to contact Art Cornell. He obviously knows how to go about it!
This Chapter was founded by Art Cornell and Paul Shein in Montclair, New Jersey. Art thought it would be called a Nevil Shute Fan Club but Paul suggested Nevil Shute Society. It was voted on and Paul's suggestion carried at the first meeting in March 1992. After other chapters were formed it was called the New Jersey Chapter. The chapter has met about four times a year. Meetings are usually held on Saturday evenings with a potluck dinner followed by discussions. A book selected at the previous meeting is discussed with respect to why Shute wrote it and anything else the members bring up. The number of members varies between 10 and 15. The current president is Steve Holzel and the corresponding secretary is Pat Holzel. For a schedule of coming meetings, contact Pat.
The Colorado Nevil Shute Chapter was founded by Art Cornell at OZ2001 for the six Colorado residents who met there. The first meeting was held in Littleton, Colorado in May 2001. They average about twelve people at each quarterly gathering held at a member's home, sharing a potluck meal and "show and tell" of items of interest from our chosen Nevil Shute title for discussion. New members and visitors are welcome.
Please E-mail
Babette Hills if you will be visiting the Rocky Mountains or wish to join our fascinating group. We now have a Colorado Chapter web site developed by Candace Ruiz.
To access it click
here.
The Cape Cod Nevil Shute Chapter began shortly after Art and Joan Cornell moved to Cape Cod Massachusetts in 1999.
Previously they had lived in New Jersey where they started reading Nevil Shute.
It was there they fell in love with his books and thought they would enjoy meeting other Shute readers.
Art and Joan live now on Cape Cod only two miles from where Donald Ross in
An Old Captivity
landed his seaplane and found the stone left by the Vikings.
The Nevil Shute Newsletter of April 1, 2002 describes how Art found the stone again.
Our Chapter has a web site with our History, Meetings, Members and Minutes of meetings. To see it click
here
