Officers: A.J. Penny, President; P.W. Hick, Past President; G.F. Drewery, A. Newton, F.G. Patten, Dr M.S. Sanders, 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; M.A. Jacques; K.O. Kemp; L.V. Murphy; P.W. Rathbone; J.W. Roach; N.S. Staveley; Dr R.D. Turner. Syllabus:

'Twentieth Century Blues' by Andrew Penny, 5 Oct 1998; 'Passing Bells - Poetry of the First World War' by John Crawley, 12 Oct 1998; 'Eliot's The Waste Land - An Appraisal' by Keith Parsons, 19 Oct 1998; 'Kafkas's Short Stories' by Michael Sanders, 26 Oct 1998; 'Virginia Woolf - Essayist' by Philip Harrison, 2 Nov 1998; Short Papers and Book Reviews, 9 Nov 1998; 'Robert Frost - Unofficial Poet Laureate' by Keith Kemp, 16 Nov 1998; 'Muriel Spark's C.V.' by David Gale, 23 Nov 1998; 'Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Magic Realism' by Barry Ward, 30 Nov 1998; 'Kingston Upon Hull - A Century of Change (illustrated)' by Geoffrey Bell, 7 Dec 1998; Yuletide Revels, 14 Dec 1998; Ladies Evening 'Wit Monday - Some Twentieth Century Humourists' by Peter Hick, 11 Jan 1998; 'W. Somerset Maugham - The Supreme Storyteller' by Tony Jacques, 18 Jan 1999; 'The Singularity of Percy Wyndham Lewis (illustrated)' by Frederick Patten, 25 Jan 1999; 'Wittgenstein and the Culture of the Twentieth Century' by Heinz Grewe, 1 Feb 1999; Short Papers and Book Reviews, 8 Feb 1999; 'The Novels of Saul Bellow' by Geoffrey Annis, 15 Feb 1999; 'The Music Criticism of George Bernard Shaw' by Stephen Burgess, 22 Feb 1999; 'Regeneration - The Pat Barker Trilogy' by Peter Rathbone, 1 Mar 1999; 'Seamus Heaney - An Art That Knows its Mind' by Alan Newton, 8 Mar 1999; Annual General Meeting and Review of the Session, 15 Mar 1999.

Meetings held 7.30pm at Guildhall.