The Society

Abstract

The Presidents’ Annual Dinner, with guest of honour Sir Ma x Rosenheim, attained its traditional level of elegant conviviality. Wine and wit flowed merrily enough and once more it became hard to imagine how the Society could ever have conducted such an evening without the grace (and organising ability!) of
the ladies. The formality of the dinner has always occasioned the wearing of white ties and tails by the chief guests and hosts. However this year continued the trend towards the wearing of the simpler black tie and dinner jacket and although a certain uniformity of dress is aesthetically preferable it would be a pity if any difference of opinion about what constitutes suitable attire were to blossom into a big-enders versus little-enders struggle.