C S Forester Society

The 2018 annual meeting of the C.S. Forester Society will be held in Brest from 21-23 September. Check the Society website for further info.

Latest info from the C.S. Forester newsletter:

https://csforester.wordpress.com/

Also have been informed that a Tom Hanks will be doing Greyhound in 2019 which is based on Forester's book The Good Shepard. Have to investigate this further:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6048922/

For those interested in the annual meeting of the 'society', here are the minutes of the 2018 meeting held in Brest:



https://csforester.wordpress.com/about/society/2018-2/

Society member John Maunder has compiled a detailed listing of ships that appear in the Hornblower series (along with other particulars) that will be of interest to all 'Hornblower philes':

https://csforester.wordpress.com/about/publications/reflections-online/names-of-ships-from-the-hornblower-books/

"First Call" for those interested in attending the 2019 annual meeting of the C.S. Forester society which will be held beginning 11 Oct at Dover Castle. More info posted on the societies website.

Society member John Maunder has 'updated' his listing of names from Hornblower series:


https://csforester.wordpress.com/about/publications/reflections-online/names-from-hornblower-2/

From the C.S. Forester society website:

A tribute to John Forester, 1st son of author C.S. Forester, who died on 14 April 2020 at the age of 90, in San Diego, CA.  He was a major supporter of the society.

From 'the society' reprising the 1976 edition of Hornblower one more time:


https://csforester.wordpress.com/about/publications/reflections-online/c-s-foresters-hornblower-one-more-time/

Early word concerning the 2020 annual meeting of the C.S. Forester society (if the current Covid-19 restrictions to travel are lifted in time) the 3 day meeting will be held in Barcelona/Rosas Spain. Sign in to the society webpage for the planned itinerary.

Just received notice from 'the society' that the previously scheduled 2020 annual meeting scheduled for Barcelona/Rosas Spain this Fall has been cancelled due to the restrictions related to the Covid-19 pandemic.

The current 'plan' is to have a combined 2020-2021 annual meeting in the Spring of 2021 with the location TBD.  More to follow.

Just received from the C.S. Forester Society concerning the 2021 meeting previously scheduled for Rosas, Spain in mid-October of this year (2021):


Dear friends and members,

I am sending you today a word from our Chairman:
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Dear Friends and Members of the Society,

Unfortunately the Corona situation and the corresponding worldwide travel restrictions have not “ebbed away” as we hoped they would when we set the date of our AGM for 22 – 25 October 2021. We have therefore decided to cancel the AGM at that date and hold instead a

Virtual Meeting on
23 October 2021 at 22:00 hours
CET (Central European Time).

We chose the hour in such a way that our members in Australia/Asia, Europe as well as in the Americas can easily attend. The virtual meeting will be opened with reports by the officers of the Society on the state of their respective fields, thereafter each attendee will be invited to introduce her/himself with a short statement.

If you are interested in attending the virtual meeting, please answer by return mail latest by15 October 2021. You will receive in time the necessary information for the dial-up-process.

The “real” AGM is postponed, but not forgotten. Based on how the Corona situation develops, we plan to hold it in the spring of 2022 in Roses according to the programme you already received.

With best regards

Ludwig Heuse

Chairman