Oxford Byron Society Inaugural Dinner

Trinity College Hall, Oxford, 7 June 1985

Invitation

Present:

Tony Bailey
Jane Blumberg
Richard Cohen
Danny Colwell
Anna Golla
Danny Henrey
Peter Mahre
Pamela Nadash
Chris Oakley
Raymond Paretzky
Amanda Scanlan
Richard Schulze
Deirdre Small
Kara Tan
John van Doren
John Whitworth

Poems presented:

• The Destruction of BLV 666; by Danny Henrey. A tragic tale about the supposed immersion of Richard Schulze's vintage Aston Martin in cow dung.
• Ode to a College Trifle; by Chris Oakley. A high notarial elegy to a comestible.
• Childe Danny's Pilgrimage (or No Race for the Weary); by Raymond Paretzky. An account of the Trinity M.C.R. rowing eight in Trinity term, 1985. [Winner of the Byronic Laurels].
• Trinity Bards and Oxford Reviewers; by Richard Schulze. A lament for the lack of virginal purity amongst Byron Society lags.