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5/4/13 DARTMOUTH CH CHAPTER OF OF TH THE E NEVIL SHUTE SOCI CIETY 04 4 May 2013 TODAY About the Dartmouth Chapter The new website/blog Comments/ questions about the group? Discussion of Ruined Ci City

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DARTMOUTH CH CHAPTER OF OF TH THE E NEVIL SHUTE SOCI CIETY 04 4 May 2013 TODAY

  • ¡About the Dartmouth

Chapter

  • The new website/blog
  • Comments/

questions about the group?

  • Discussion of Ruined Ci

City

  • Questions for discussion
  • Next meeting and topic
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ORGANIZATION People interested in reading and discussing the works of the internationally known author, Nevil Shute MONTHLY MEETINGS

  • Discuss one of his works in

detail

  • Exchange information

about the Nevil Shute Norway Foundation and the Dartmouth Chapter

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AFFILIATION

  • The Dartmouth Chapter is

not related to Dartmouth College or the Nevil Shute Norway Foundation.

  • Membership is open to

anyone wishing to attend

  • ne or more meetings.

FEES There is no membership fee and the meetings are free to all who wish to attend.

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NEVIL SHUTE NORWAY FOUNDATION

Website: www.nevilshute.org Visit the website for all the latest news and information about Nevil Shute Norway and his careers as an engineer and author. BORROWING LIBRARY Books and videos can be borrowed from the U.S. Library of the foundation. Contact Laura Schneider at uslibrary@nevilshute.org.

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DARTMOUTH CHAPTER WEBSITE www.nevilshutedartmouth. wordpress.com

Visit the website for all the latest news and information about the Dartmouth Chapter.

CONTRIBUTE TO THE WEBSITE

If you would like to become a contributor to the website, please contact CJ Smith c.j.smith@dartmouth.edu

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1938 BRITISH MONEY

Exchange rate in 1938: 1 GBP = 1.60 USD basic unit = 1 penny (pl. pence) 1 farthing = ¼ penny 1 ha’penny (“heipni”) = ½ penny Threepence (“thrupence”) = 3 pence 1 shilling = 12 pence 1 florin = 2 shillings 1 pound = 20 shillings 1 sovereign (gold coin) = 1 pound 1 guinea (gold coin) = 21 shillings

BRITISH MONEY TODAY

Exchange rate today: 1 GBP = 1.56 USD Decimal system (SINCE 1971) basic unit = 1 penny (pl. pence) 2 pence 5 pence 10 pence 20 pence 50 pence 1 pound = 100 pence 2 pounds = 200 pence

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BRITISH MONEY SLANG

Quid (or nicker) = pound(s) Bob = shilling Yellow-boy = guinea Fiver (or Lady Godiva) = £5 Tenner = £10 Ton = £100 Pony = £25 Monkey = £500 Half a ton = £50 Grand = £1000

QUICK PLOT SUMMARY

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Henry Warren, highly respected director of an English banking house, decides to buy and reopen a deserted shipyard in order to help a depressed city and boost the tradition

  • f

British shipbuilding

Warren works hard at making a go of the business and has faith in his goal

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Along the way, he cuts a few legal corners to help the company but continues to do so in order to provide work for his new employees His legal shortcuts get him into trouble with the law but he is at peace with his decisions.

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CHARACTERS, COMPANIES, AND PLACES

Henry Warren

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Morgan and Warren Sons & Mortimer Moresley Corporation Elise Warren & Prince Ali Said

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Lord Cheriton Sir John & Lady Cohen Sharples and the Barlows Company

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  • Dr. Miller

Miss MacMahon, the Almoner

Do you know Miss MacMahon’ s first name?

al·mo·ner no noun \ˈal al-mə-n

  • nər,

, ˈä-m ä-mə-\

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British : a so social-se service worker in a hosp spital

Miss ss Ma MacMaho cMahon‘s n‘s first name is s Alice

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Colonel Demetrios Mavrogadato, Minister M. Theopoulas, Mr. Potiscu,

  • M. Petre Vislan & the

Laevatian Oil Development

  • Mr. Pennington, British

Commercial Secretary

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Pepita, dancer at Gonea Herr Braum & the Germans

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  • Mr. Heinroth
  • Mr. Castroni & Mr. Todd

Laevol Ltd. Donald Grierson and the Hawside Ship & Engineering Co. Ltd

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Miss ffolliot-Johnson Canon Ward-Stephenson Parkhurst Prison (Isle of Wight)

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the new Henry Warren QUESTIONS TO CONSIDER

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Through his “shady investment scheme”, Henry Warren saved Sharples and got the shipbuilding business started again. On the

  • ther hand, several investors lost

money to make it happen. The results were great, and Warren was a hero in the town, but do you think he was as much a hero given the people who were duped

  • ut of their investments?

Do you believe the people at the hospital were naïve or just not concerned that Warren wasn’ t what he seemed to be—an unemployed bank clerk?

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Do you have personal experience or know of cities that have become ruined when a major industry left town? Do you think the accepted social morality of the day (1930s) in Shute’ s books, regarding minorities, women, smoking and drinking, affects your opinion of his writing?

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Would you be willing to commit a crime and go to prison to help others?

FALL 2014 NEVIL SHUTE COURSE Lead by Laura Schneider Contact Lisa King @ ILEAD for information 603 646 0154 lisa.king@dartmouth.edu

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