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President
Fran Weekley
619-262-5512
Vice-President
Rachel Adams
858-354-1871 [email protected]
2nd Vice-President
Hosting coordinator
Meegan Gosseline
619-469-0510 [email protected]
Secretary
Rich Braun
619-517-1357 [email protected]
Treasurer
Melvin Weekley
619-262-5512
619-851-5514 cell [email protected]
Trustees
Steve Gonzales
619-260-8178
Dave Tooley
858-672-2593
HPR Delegates
Fran Weekley
Mel Weekley
HPR Alt. delegates
Rachel Adams
Sandra Yeaman
Alex Yeaman
Webmaster
Melvin Weekley
619-262-5512
619-851-5514 cell
Newsletter Editors
Frances Weekley
Melvin Weekley
HOUSE OF ENGLAND www.houseofengland.org House of Pacific Relations- Intl Cottages
2294 Pan American Plaza, San Diego, 92101
Balboa Park, San Diego, CA
NEWSLETTER- APRIL 2016
MARK YOUR CALENDARS
NEXT MEETING: Tuesday, April 5, 2016 at the HALL OF NATIONS at 6:30pm. There will be stew and bread by Selina, short meeting and then another one of our fun games. Yes, Selina has come up with another fun game and will be heading it up! Bring lots of cash to the meeting! Selina is bringing discounted bargains from her shop. We want to purchase all we can to help with the store closing costs. NEXT HPR MEETING: Sunday April 3, 2016 at noon in the Hall of Nations. Sit in and see how our umbrella organization operates! You could be a delegate in the future! NEXT LADIES AUXILIARY LUNCHEON: Wednesday April 13, 2016. Hosted by House of Iran at the Hall of Nations. The meal, cultural presentation and good fellowship is only $4 each. New members: We welcome Stephanie French and Robin Clarke on board. Member news: Beryl Clarke is doing well at home. Her family has moved in with her to help. Annette York has moved to a seniors village in Santee and doing well. Jean Harrison is doing better- at home with 24hour care and able to go on short outings. Roy had surgery recently and is recovering nicely under Eileen’s tender care. Gill had eye surgery and hopes to be able to drive after dark soon. Keith Willis has returned to San Diego! We look forward to seeing him again soon. Birthdays in April: Rich, Dennis, Jeanne, John G. Village Fete and Lawn program: Sat/Sun April 9 and 10. We will have a full lawn of activities for the fete on Saturday and the Baja Bugs Beatles tribute band playing on the stage on Sunday- see flyers on pages 3 and 4. Please sign up to volunteer and/or deliver baked goods and /or wear a costume! We had a wonderful turn out of volunteers last year and hoping for same again this year. AND, thanks to Lory, we have replaced the heavy Tudor façade, and the heavy tables so setting up and taking down of booths will be much lighter work- YEAH! Thank you Lory. HPR Kitchen box and the Cutlery plan for events: Both completed! St George’s Day parade and service at St Paul’s: Sunday April 24th. Meet at the church by 5pm to march in the parade, participate in a wonderful service and partake of an amazing High Tea afterwards! See Fran if interested in doing this. Ethnic Food Fair: Sunday May 29th. Mark your calendar and plan to bring lots of baked goods to sell. Details later. Hosting donations record broken! Craig, Mi Linda and Fran brought in $165 in donations hosting on Easter Sunday. It was a very busy day but great fun.
Our amazing Queen Elizabeth II turns 90 on April 21st.
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HOSTING AND HOSTESSING AT THE COTTAGE Thank you to our volunteers.
Call our hosting chairperson, Meegan Gosseline to volunteer for future dates. 619-469-0510
Commitment is from 12 noon to 4PM, providing light refreshments and milk (teabags, sugar and paper products are provided) and chatting with the visitors. Donations are accepted for upkeep of the cottage.
(Cottage must have the doors open a minimum of 4 hours between 12:00 noon and 5:00pm) Mar 6 Emma, Steve, and Fran/Mary from England Mar 13 Emma and Dottie Mar 20 Mike and Roberta Mar 27 Craig, Mi Linda and Fran Apr 3 Steve, Aileen and Fran April 10 LAWN PROGRAM- all hands on deck! Apr 17 EARTH DAY- cottage closed Apr 24 Chris B, Charlotte and Fran Fran will work with anyone hosting for the first time to show how we do it! Reminders: It is acceptable to take $10 per host from the donations towards cost of milk and food- just let the Treasurer know for accounting purposes. Also, please let Fran know if you notice that any supplies need replenished. House of England Lapel Pins: These are on display at the cottage. If a visitor donates to obtain one, please let Mel know when turning in the donations money. (Pins are $4 each).
Interested in joining House of England? Print a membership application from the website (www.houseofengland.org/member) or get one at the cottage on a Sunday afternoon and mail, with check for $12 made out to the House of England, to: House of England, c/o Mel Weekley, 1951 47th St #61, San Diego, CA 92102 (Renewals are $10 per year)
House of England Queen Miranda/Princess Teia Fran’s friend Mary came to visit- and donated the Lifeboat chart tea towel.
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New record for Sunday donations! Craig and Mi Linda brought in $165.00!
They also brought in new displays (Football and more Beatles) AND a gift to the cottage of a British mat!
Thank you both for a great day of volunteering.
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This year Her Majesty Queen
Elizabeth II turns 90 years old
- the only British monarch to
reach this milestone. To mark
this special occasion a new £5
coin has been released.
200th Anniversary of Charlotte Bronte’s Birth:
Charlotte Brontë's former home in Yorkshire,
England will be the site of celebrations for the
200th anniversary of her birth in 2016.
English novelist and poet Charlotte Brontë is
best known for writing Jane Eyre, a book she
authored under the pen name Currer Bell.
Reception of the book upon its release in 1847
was mixed, but when speculations arose that a
woman wrote it, sales soared. Today the work
of fiction remains a classic, and Brontë and her
famous family are inextricably linked to the
landscape of Yorkshire’s sweeping moors.
To commemorate Brontë and all of her literary achievements, the Brontë Society and Brontë Parsonage
Museum in England will be hosting a series of events to mark the 200th anniversary of her birth. The
celebration begins on February 1 with the opening of a year-long exhibition called “Charlotte Great and Small,”
curated by Tracy Chevalier, author of the novel The Girl with the Pearl Earring. The exhibition will feature
Brontë-inspired contemporary art by Ligia Bouton, Serena Partridge, and Tamar Stone. The National Portrait
Gallery in London will also feature artwork by the Brontës all year. On April 21 (Brontë’s birthday), a day of
special talks and activities will be held at the Brontë Parsonage Museum, where Charlotte lived alongside her
novelist sisters, Emily and Anne.
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400 Years after His Death, Shakespeare's First Folio Goes Out On Tour.
One of the world's most precious volumes starts a tour on Monday, in
Norman, Okla. The Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C., is
sending out William Shakespeare's First Folio to all 50 states to mark
the 400th anniversary of the bard's death. Published seven years after he
died, the First Folio is the first printed collection of all of Shakespeare's
plays.
"If you had to pick one book to represent Shakespeare, this is it," says Folger director Michael Witmore.
Two of Shakespeare's pals put it together in 1623, after he died. John Heminges and Henry Condell were fellow actors who felt the plays should be collected in a single large volume.
They also added in 18 of Shakespeare's plays that had never appeared in print, explains Witmore. "Without this book we probably wouldn't have ... Twelfth Night, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, The Winter's Tale ..."
It adds up to a total of 36 plays in the Folio. The others had been printed, as individual works in smaller format
(quarto — single pages folded in four, and bound). Some of those were published in Shakespeare's lifetime.
Shakespeare didn't spend much of his time coordinating or supervising the printing of his work. He really just wanted to write. He wrote on vellum, with a goose quill pen he cut himself, and ink he may have made.
There was a ready audience for Shakespeare's work, which was sold in bookseller shops and stalls in London. For 20 shillings ($200 in today's money) you could buy loose sheets of paper and take them to your binder, who put them between hard covers. Of the approximately 750 copies of the First Folio that were printed, 233 survive. The book was so popular that more editions were printed and eventually there were four folios. Each time it was printed, someone made changes in the text — which has kept centuries of Shakespeare scholars busy!
Eighteen of the Folger Shakespeare Library's First Folios will be touring the country — six at a time for a year
— to mark the 400th anniversary of the master's death.
Jun 4 – Jul 7: San Diego Public Library with The Old Globe, San Diego, CA
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Study Discovers the Loss of Shakespeare's Head: (Newspaper article from March 28, 2016)
William Shakespeare's words have lived on, but the Bard has long been dead. However, new reports revealed
that the famous playwright's head is missing from his grave and possibly stolen by 18th-century robbers looking
for the key to Shakespeare's genius.
Trophy hunters whisking away Shakespeare's head is a story that has long circulated, but an archaeological
investigation recently used non-invasive ground-penetrating radar (GPR) to study Shakespeare's resting place at
the Holy Trinity church in Stratford-on-Avon and supported the claim. Through the technology, archaeologists
found that the skull of the world's most celebrated playwright indeed appeared to be missing from the shallow
grave.
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Although the scan of Shakespeare's grave supported the reports of his skull being taken, the evidence remains
inconclusive. The vicar of Holy Trinity, the Rev Patrick Taylor, acknowledged the knowledge gained from the
recent study but he is not convinced that the robbery did take place.
Prince William and Kate celebrate their 5th Wedding anniversary on April 29th.
REELZ has announced that in celebration of Prince William and Kate Middleton's fifth wedding anniversary in April, the four-part documentary special WILLIAM AND KATE: THE JOURNEY will make its U.S. premiere Monday, April 18 with the first two parts airing back to back starting at 10pm ET/ 7pm PT.
William and Kate: THE JOURNEY is an inside look at the most talked about couple of the millennium: Prince William, future King of the United Kingdom and Kate Middleton, the Duchess of Cambridge from Berkshire.
From the grounds of St Andrews University in Scotland to the glamorous Swiss slopes where they shared their first public kiss, to the day that captured the nation's heart at Westminster Abbey and through to the births of Price George and Princess Charlotte, William and Kate: THE JOURNEY relives these momentous milestones and will provide unique insight into one of the greatest love stories of the century.
William and Kate: THE JOURNEY is produced by Legacy Distribution.
Parts 1 and 2 on April 18th. Parts 3 and 4 on April 25th.