Officers: D.N. Gale, President; K. Kemp, Past President; G.F. Drewery, F.H. Grewe, Dr M.S. Sanders, E.D. Scull, Vice-Presidents; B. Ward, Secretary; R.W. Smalley, Treasurer; K.N. Parsons, Editor of 'Humberside'; P.W. Hick, Master of Revels. Council: A.G. Bell; B. Burgess; R.A. Morton; A. Newton; F.G. Patten; P.W. Rathbone; N.S. Staveley; R.D. Turner.

Syllabus:

'Antoine de Saint-Exupery' by David Gale, 7 Oct 1996; 'Guys and Dolls - Damon Runyon' by Tony Garratt, 14 Oct 1996; 'F. Scott Fitzgerald' by Michael Sanders, 21 Oct 1996; 'Newman, Elgar and The Dream of Gerontius' by Andrew Penny, 28 Oct 1996; 'D.G. Rossetti - Painting and Poetry (illustrated)' by Keith Parsons, 4 Nov 1996; 'In Memoriam William Morris' by Geoffrey Bell, 11 Nov 1996; Short Papers and Book Reviews, 18 Nov 1996; 'The Idea of History' by Keith Kemp, 25 Nov 1996; 'Osip Mandelstam' by Alan Newton, 2 Dec 1996; Yuletide Revels, 16 Dec 1996; Ladies Evening 'A Contemplation on Sacred Asian Texts' by Peter Rathbone, 6 Jan 1997; 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintebnance by Robert M Pirsig' by Raymond Hodge, 13 Jan 1997; 'Freya Stark' by Peter Hick, 20 Jan 1997; 'Sir Thomas Browne and Robert Burton - Two Seventeenth Century Scribblers' by Frederick Patten, 27 Jan 1997; 'The Best Medicine - Wit and Humour in Non-Fiction Prose' by Geoffrey Annis, 3 Feb 1997; Short Papers and Book Reviews, 10 Feb 1997; 'Dona Barbara by Romulo Gallegos' by Ron MacDougall, 17 Feb 1997; 'A.E. Housman' by Ray Bloomfield, 24 Feb 1997; 'Aristotle and the Western Tradition' by Heinz Grewe, 3 Mar 1997; Annual General Meeting and Review of the Session, 10 Mar 1997.

Meetings held 7.30pm at Guildhall.