Chartwell Bulletin NUMBER 21 • SEPTEMBER 2009 ® • [email protected]
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the Churchill Centre & Museum at the Cabinet War Rooms Chartwell Bulletin NUMBER 21 • SEPTEMBER 2009 ® www.winstonchurchill.org • [email protected] “I have arranged to have one of those great mechanical diggers...he will do more than forty men do...His first task will be to make your ‘haha.’” —WSC to CSC, C hARtWELL , 1 J ANuARy 1935 Left: our new website. Report on page 6. In this issue: ANNUAL REPORT 2008-09 2 Executive V.P. Phil Reed 3 Development Cynthia Faulkner 4 Education Suzanne Sigman 6 Website John David Olsen 7 Publications Richard Langworth 2-10 Auditor Reports & Notes EDUCATION 11 What I Admire about Churchill Timon Ferguson 12 Coming Events & Local News ASPIRATIONS 16 Long-Range Permanence: A 1996 Policy Paper your name here 19 Churchill Centre Branches, Chapters and Affiliates ANNUAL REPORT 2008-09 Looking Back: July 2008 - June 2009 PHIL REED, EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT [email protected] • Tel. +44 (0) 207 666-0122 to make our organisation more professional, financially sound and more widely he past twelve months annual and ever more popular acclaimed and respected and, have been a period of and prestigious events. of course, to produce a larger tturmoil during which the the Board of trustees membership. the investments Churchill Centre, like any has been expanded, bringing in support staff, fundraising, institution, has been affected resources of prestige, connec - programmes and the web by a severe economic down - tivity and income, while the have all been geared towards turn, and has had to trim its Committee structure estab - these ends. In a period of sails in order to face the lished below the Board now economic gloom, such invest - headwind. It has achieved operates as a conduit for ment can seem—and I know this with some success, information and exchanges of to some has seemed—a rash meeting almost all of its com - ideas in relation to all our investment, but it is vital in mitments to educational functions, but especially order to keep ourselves on projects and cutting back on chapters and communica - track. the Chairman and I costs such as travel and tions. In the latter field, the have the interests of the administration, without launch of our newly designed Centre as paramount, and are recourse to any major use of website has finally produced a confident that these aims will reserves. the main victim has new format and content, be achieved. I look forward to been the employment of though members and other the Churchill Centre being an speakers to travel around to users are encouraged to send organisation known across our chapters, and it is with their views on site, helping to the world and respected for some deep regret that I had ensure that it reflects people’s all it does to protect the her - to curtail this function, which wishes and needs. itage and memory of Winston I see as an essential if the Central to the Chairman’s Churchill— and to members Centre is to have a greater and my ambitions since everywhere feeling proud to sense of being a joined-up joining the Centre has been be a part of it. , body and a priority which I am keen to restore as soon as our finances look up. Despite the economic sit - uation our membership rolls have been sustained, the 2008 Boston Conference was a great success (due in no small part to the immense hard work and skills of Joe hern), and the 2009 Conference will go ahead as usual, this year in San Francisco, after it was gener - ally agreed that a 2010 London Conference was likely to be a serious financial risk in the present climate. We have also now managed to mount, with great support from the New york Churchillians, two successful Churchill Polo tournaments in a row at Greenwich Connecticut, and are hopeful for their establishment as Chartwell Bulletin 21, page 2 Ways and Means CYNTHIA FAULKNER, DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT two more major 2009 events— [email protected] • Tel. (207) 233-1040 a London dinner for Leader of the opposition David Cameron was pleased to join the (See news reports.) MP on 20 october, and a recep - Churchill Centre last A little over a week later tion and dinner honoring Iautumn as Director of on 7 June, the Churchill Centre Marriott International Chairman Development and quickly and the New york Churchillians and devoted Churchillian Bill began an evaluation of the co-hosted the Winston S. Marriott on 10 November. Centre’s two-year budget Churchill International Polo Cup We are scheduled to host requirements. We created a in Greenwich, Connecticut. the four major events in 2010 hon - comprehensive development event, which raised funds for oring men and women of strategy and finance plan, tCC’s traveling Lifeline Exhibit, Churchillian mold in Los which built on some of the was hosted by Winston and Angeles, New york and other Centre’s past efforts and Randolph Churchill and cities across the country. focused on four major sources included remarks by Phil Reed, We are researching and of funding including direct mail, Executive Director of the exploring foundation opportuni - events, foundations and spon - Churchill Museum and Cabinet ties and are soliciting sorships. War Rooms, who gave an sponsorships for our annual In addition to the annual overview of the Lifeline Project conference as well as partner - heritage Appeal to members, for the guests and sponsors. ships with organizations which we created a solicitation Planning is underway for can offer our members dis - package to target lapsed counts and benefits. donors as well as our members, former members particularly those of the American who have partici - Friends of the pated in Churchill Churchill Museum Centre programs, (AFCM) who had are our most suc - not contributed to cessful advocates. the Churchill We ask all to Centre. the 2009 share the mission direct mail efforts of the Churchill also include exten - Centre with sive prospecting friends and col - for donors to orga - leagues and nizations which encourage them share the Churchill to join the Centre Centre’s mission. to educate new the package to generations on the lapsed and former leadership, states - donors has per - manship, vision formed very well. and courage of our first of Winston Spencer four fundraising Churchill. events for 2009 I am grateful to was a dinner hon - our devoted board oring our Patron, of directors who Lady Soames, in continue to honor New york on 28 their commitment May. Mr. and Mrs. to the Churchill Winston Churchill Centre and have and Churchill been generous Centre Chairman with their support Laurence Geller despite the global hosted an intimate economic situa - fund-raising event. tion. , Chartwell Bulletin 21, page 3 ANNUAL REPORT 2008-09 Churchill in Classrooms and Curricula SUZANNE SIGMAN, EDUCATION PROGRAMS COORDINATOR [email protected] • Tel. (617) 696-1833 Summer teacher the Churchill Centre’s Board of Institute. Churchill Academic Advisers, offered College, Cambridge, 2008 three sessions on the war rela - tionship of the Allied leaders, with FERI’s Dr. David Woolner his support at and this writer in support. these two venues. In March Professor John Graduate students Ramsden, Vice-Chairman of the used bound galleys Board of Academic Advisers, from a new edition represented the Churchill of Churchill’s Centre at the annual confer - Thoughts and ence of the National Council for Adventures , edited history Education in Boston, by Professor Muller speaking to over eighty he highlight of the past with Paul h. Courtenay and teachers on “Churchill on year’s education programs Alana L. Barton. the availability Revolution.” the conference twas our summer 2008 of these essays to students and theme, Revolutions in history, institute in England for twenty- teachers, in a moderately was addressed as follows: four school teachers, “Winston priced edition with a sparkling Churchill's life both as a Churchill and the Anglo- new introduction and hundreds statesman and as an historian American Relationship.” Funded of footnotes, is a contribution was closely related to revolu - by the National Endowment for to the Centre’s educational pro - tion: he first experienced the humanities and directed by grams that is beyond compare. gunfire in the Cuban revolution, Professor James W. Muller, two one-day seminars for lived through the Russian and chairman of our Board of teachers, in Pittsburgh in Irish Revolutions, and became Academic Advisers, this three- November 2008 and in Phoenix a key figure in the Cold War. As week program was successful in February 2009, again one of the most widely-read by many measures. brought interested groups of historians of his day in the In daily interaction with teachers together with leading English-Speaking world, he was the Churchill oeuvre, including Churchill scholars. Professors a key figure in shaping liberal research in the Churchill David Jablonsky and Manfred opinion: his History of the Archives Centre and exposure Weidhorn led the Pittsburgh English-Speaking Peoples dis - to six Churchill scholars, session, while Barry Gough and cussed the English, American teachers were truly able to Roger Adelson were instructors and French revolutions. Even learn about Churchill in the for a fully-subscribed program his only novel was set amidst a context of the 20th century in Phoenix. We appreciate the fictional “Ruritanian” revolu - and to study him “in the sponsorship of Roger Adelson tionary crisis. this session round.” A full article on the and the history Department at reviewed Churchill's ideas program is in Chartwell Bulletin Arizona State university. about revolutionary change and 18, December 2008 on our Professor Warren Kimball’s their impact on his readers. website (see “publications”). suggestion of examining our final program of the In January and April 2009, “Churchill and Roosevelt: year was to co-sponsor a two- Professors Muller (university of Anglo-American Leaders in day seminar for teachers with Alaska, Anchorage) and Paul WW2” was the impetus for a the hoogland Center for Rahe (hillsdale College) led day-long program in March for teacher Excellence at hillsdale two-day seminars entitled undergraduates at Williams College in Michigan.