T HE N ORWEGIAN E XPLORERS OF M INNESOTA, INC. ©2012 Spring, 2012 EXPLORATIONS Issue #65 EXPLORATIONS PUHVLGHQW¶VFROXPQ It has been an exciting time lately for Garry Peterson and Michael Miller performed the Explorers! We celebrated Sherlock their quiz during the Gaslight Gala. At the Holmes in many ways through the end of William Gillette Memorial Luncheon, Karen 2011 and the beginning of this year. We Murdock, ASH, won the 2012 WHIMSEY had an enjoyable movie night last fall were award for the 6HUSHQWLQH0XVH¶V most ZHZDWFKHG³$6WXG\LQ6FDUOHW´ZLWK3HWHU KXPRURXVDUWLFOHRIWLWOHG³'R<RX Cushing and Nigel Stock in the BBC :ULWH/LNH$UWKXU&RQDQ'R\OH"´$QG3KLO production. We had a new Downey/Law %HUJHPUHFHLYHGKLVLQYHVWLWXUHDV³%LUG\ major studio movie to take in, as a group, on (GZDUGV´LQWRWKH%DNHU6WUHHW,UUHJXODUV² Inside this issue: December 17th at the St. Anthony Main congratulations Phil Bergem, BSI! Recently, we had a great afternoon with InsideDr. Bryce this Crawford issue: 2-3 7KHDWHUDQGWKH%%&¶V6KHUORFNVHULHVKDV three new episodes that will attract new Bob and Lucy Brusic and the rest of the cast at Holmes Sightings 4 Sherlockians to the fold. And, Larry Millett the Pavek with another excellent performance Holmes Movie Night 4 ("Sherlock Holmes in Minnesota") was our of a radio play by the Red Throated League. (Look for a review in our next issue.) Play Review 5 featured speaker at our Annual Dinner at the Minneapolis Golf Club in December. The Study Group is still busy working its SinS: Toronto 2011 5 We again paid tribute to Sherlock ZD\WKURXJKWKH&DQRQ:H¶YHDOVRDGGHGD An Evening with Peter 6 Holmes on his birthday (New York, QHZOHDGHUZLWK0DU\/RYLQJ$QGZH¶OO 2011 Annual Dinner 7 London, and Minneapolis) in January. Our soon start the planning process for the 2013 Conference. The Dinner Toasts 8-9 Baker Street West celebration was held on January 22nd DW'L[LH¶VRQ*UDQGEXWVRPH +DQJRQWR\RXUGHHUVWDONHUVLW¶VJRLQJWR local (Minnesota) Explorers even became be a fun 2012! part of the New York festivities as well. ~Gary Thaden fURPWKHHGLWRU¶VGHVN After a minor hiatus, Explorations is Issue 65 also has reviews from many EDFNRQWUDFN,W¶VEHHQDERXWVL[PRQWKV of our recent Explorer events. I appreciate since the previous issue but you should all the hard work of our contributors who expect to receive three issues in 2012. took time to jot notes and submit reviews Explorer John Bergquist spoke about for us all to enjoy. the life of Dr. Bryce Crawford, Jr., BSI, And as always, submissions for during our Annual Dinner in December. Explorations are welcome. Email them Dr. Crawford passed away in 2011 and directly to me in plain text or in Word was the last surviving founder of The format to: [email protected] Norwegian Explorers of Minnesota. John modified his presentation into an essay for ~Tim Reich the readers of Explorations. (It is featured on pages two and three of this issue.) Page 2 EXPLORATIONS Dr. Bryce L. Crawford, Jr., BSI Dr. Bryce Low Crawford, Jr., invested into WKH%DNHU6WUHHW,UUHJXODUVLQDV³7KH 6ROLWDU\&\FOLVW´GLHGRQ6HSWHPEHU at the age of 96. He was the last remaining member of the distinguished group of U. of M. professors (four of them, including Bryce, later to become deans) who co-founded The Norwegian Explorers in 1948. Bryce was born in 1914 in New Orleans. Because his father worked for the railroad, the family moved often during his early years. Having skipped several grades, at the age of 15 the precocious youth graduated from high school, in El Paso, Texas, where he also first ³%U\FH¶V discovered the world of Sherlock Holmes in the academic vita public library. As the first-place winner in the National Edison chemistry essay contest, the 16 reads almost like -year-old future professor was flown to Menlo a parody ± too Park, New Jersey, where he was introduced to Henry ford and Thomas Edison! His youth was JRRGWREHWUXH´ not entirely taken up by cerebral matters, however; as a teenager he spent his summers working as a ranch hand in New Mexico. (Those of us who knew Dr. Crawford only as the distinguished gentleman of his later years Dr. Bryce L. Crawford, Jr., BSI have a hard time visualizing him driving cattle on horseback.) %U\FH¶VDFDGHPLFYLWDUHDGVDOPRVWOLNHD parody ± too good to be true. After needing to founder Theodore C. Blegen in that post. He lie about his age to be admitted to Stanford at was home secretary of the National Academy WKHDJHRIKHHDUQHGKLV%DFKHORU¶VGHJUHH of Sciences for many years and was awarded 0DVWHU¶VGHJUHHDQG3K'LQ3K\VLFDO the Priestly Medal for distinguished service in Chemistry at that august institution by the age the field of chemistry by the American of 22. He then did post-graduate work, first at Chemical Society in 1982. Harvard and than at Yale. To our great benefit, in 1940, at the age of 25, he accepted a teaching Although Bryce contributed writings to the position in the Chemistry Department at the 1RUZHJLDQ([SORUHUV¶SXEOLFDWLRQExploring University of Minnesota. He and his wife, Sherlock Holmes, co-edited Cultivating Ruth, put down roots in the Twin Cities and Sherlock Holmes, and was instrumental in raised their three children here. Bryce remained helping establish what is now The Sherlock with the U. of M. until his retirement in 1985, Holmes Collections at the U. of M. Library, he DOWKRXJKKHWRRNVDEEDWLFDOVLQDQG¶WR probably is most celebrated in the Sherlockian study at Cal Tech and Oxford as a Guggenheim world for having penned the inscription on the fellow and then again at Oxford as a fulbright plaque placed at Reichenbach falls in fellow. (Stanford, Harvard, Yale, Oxford ± Switzerland in 1957 by the Norwegian how he avoided Cambridge is a mystery!) Explorers and the Sherlock Holmes Society of During his career at the U. of M. he held the /RQGRQ7KHLQVFULSWLRQUHDGV³$FURVVWKLV titles of Chairman of the Department of µGUHDGIXOFDXOGURQ¶RFFXUUHGWKHFXOPLQDWLQJ Chemistry and Dean of the Graduate School, event in the career of Sherlock Holmes, the succeeding his fellow Norwegian Explorers (Continued on page 3) Page 3 EXPLORATIONS (Continued from page 2) ZRUOG¶VJUHDWHVWGHWHFWLYHZKHQRQ0D\ U. campus. After being introduced at the head 1891, he vanquished Prof. Moriarty, the table and receiving a hearty round of applause, he 1DSROHRQRI&ULPH´%U\FHKDGXQGHUWDNHQD stood, braced by his cane, and delivered a reconnaissance mission to Switzerland, characteristically eloquent off-the-cuff brief talk following up on an earlier mission by Dr. Philip about what Sherlock Holmes and the Norwegian Hench, to determine the exact spot of the Explorers had meant to him. He said that he was encounter and, thus, where the plaque should extremely gratified to have helped start an be placed. Upon his return, he submitted an organization all those years ago that was still expense report to the Sigerson requesting thriving under the guidance of a new generation, reimbursement for the approximately 32 cents specifically citing our conferences and U.S. he had paid for a funicular ride to the top publications. It was quite a compliment to our JURXSFRPLQJIURPDSHUVRQRI%U\FH¶V ´he probably is of the falls. His request was denied because of lack of sufficient documentation, which became accomplishments. most celebrated a continual source of amusement. To his Now that Bryce has joined his illustrious in the Sherlockian delight, finally in 1998, the Norwegian colleagues, perhaps somewhere beyond the Explorers board belatedly presented him his 32 Reichenbach they still gather to debate the finer world for having cents in a nicely matted frame. points of a Holmes adventure. I would like to penned the 0DQ\RIXVUHFDOO%U\FH¶VODVWDSSHDUDQFH think so. at a Norwegian Explorers event, when he was a inscription on the guest of honor at our annual dinner some ten or ~John Bergquist, BSI, 2s plaque placed at twelve years ago at the Radisson hotel on the Reichenbach )DOOV´ Page 4 EXPLORATIONS Holmes Sightings An Anatomy of Addiction In An Anatomy of Addiction, Howard anesthetic. About the same time, Doyle was Markel writes about Sigmund freud, William writing A Study in Scarlet, with Sherlock Halstead, and cocaine, the miracle drug. Holmes enjoying a 7 percent solution of Despite addictions to cocaine, both freud and FRFDLQH0DUNHOUHSRUWVWKDW)UHXGZDV³RQHRI Halstead made great contributions to science. &RQDQ'R\OH¶VPRVWDYLGUHDGHUV´0DUNHO The book has a good brief history of cocaine also notes that with the publication of Sign of and how it affects the brain. from 1863 into the Four³&RQDQ'R\OH¶VSUHFLVHGHVFULSWLRQ the 1900s, Angelo Mariani, a french chemist, RI+ROPHV¶VFRFDLQHVHOI-administration in this sold Vin Mariani, a coca-laced Bordeaux wine. novel could just as easily be applied to The beverage gained and large following and +DOVWHDG¶VWHFKQLTXHDQGPRWWOHGDUP´ UHFHLYHGHQGRUVHPHQWVIURP³7KRPDV$ ³0DUNHOUHSRUWV Edison, Auguste Rodin, Jules Verne, Arthur ~Mike Eckman that Freud was &RQDQ'R\OH´DQGRWKHUV+DOVWHDGD surgeon, successfully used cocaine as an µRQHRI&RQDQ 'R\OH¶VPRVWDYLG UHDGHUV¶´ Holmes Movie Night On Tuesday, October 5, the Norwegian 7KLVZDVDIDLUO\IDLWKIXODGDSWDWLRQRI³$ Explorers enjoyed another movie night in the 6WXG\LQ6FDUOHW´ZKLOHWULPPLQJDQG Andersen library at the University of modifying the story to fit into the hour running Minnesota. This year John Bergquist selected time. Most of the Utah elements were excised, DQDGDSWLRQRI³$6WXG\LQ6FDUOHW´IURPWKH leaving the action mostly focused on Holmes 1968 BBC TV series, Sherlock Holmes, starring and Watson. This adaptation did not include Nigel Stock as Doctor Watson, with Peter the meeting of the pair, suggesting that they Cushing taking over from Douglas Wilmer as had been working together for some time; Sherlock Holmes. Cushing had previously therefore, it was a bit surprising to see Watson starred as Holmes in the 1959 Hammer films FDXJKWXQDZDUHVE\+ROPHV¶VNLOOV Cushing SURGXFWLRQRI³7KH+RXQGRIWKH%DVNHUYLOOHV´ brought some nice, canonical mannerisms to and so when Wilmer declined to participate in his portrayal of Sherlock Holmes, and additional episodes of the well-regarded series, comments afterwards compared him favorably Cushing was considered a fit replacement.