The Pibroch Official Journal St. Andrew’s Society of Baltimore standrewsbaltimore.org

February - March 2015 * Volume 209 Issue 2 * Stuart Blair Editor

SASB Celebrates 209th Anniversary “Breithl’a Sona!”

The 209th Anniversary Dinner honoring St. Andrew was held on Thursday, December 4th, 2014 at the North Baltimore Plaza Hotel in Timonium. One hundred and sixty-four members and guests feasted on Prime Rib of Beef or Poached Salmon with libations flowing at the President’s Reception beforehand. Good humor and fellowship permeated the evening. Elements of the Baltimore City Pipe Band piped in honored guests, Past Presidents, Chaplains, as well as performing for the Haggis Parade. President Herb Glasby paid tribute St. Andrew, Scotland’s patron saint and presented Christopher Wilson the prestigious “Spirit of St. Andrew’s Award.” Alumni of the Maryland State Boychoir, under the direction of Stephen Holmes, sang the anthems after the toasts and put on an outstanding a canella performance for the evening’s entertainment. In case you missed it, Stephen has agreed to do it again next year.

I wish to extend a personal gratitude to all who assisted in the preparation of this event; Bill Kommalan, Herb Glasby, Ed McFarland, along with Russ Tagg, Greg Scott, and Dr. Jack Gordon. Applause also goes to Tom McCausland for stepping in to be the drummer for the evening.

Ernie Brandt

President’s Wee Word

2015 Past Presidents’ Heritage Scholarships

I just want to offer a word Your Application is Due March 15, 2015 of thanks to all those who helped with the Qualified high school seniors of Scottish descent Anniversary Dinner, the planning to attend an accredited four-year college or Alexandria Christmas university in the or Scotland starting in the Walk, and the Pearl fall of 2015 are encouraged to apply for a 2015 Past Harbor remembrance Presidents’ Heritage Scholarship by March 15, 2015. onboard the USCGC Taney. Your involvement The Saint Andrew’s Society of Baltimore Foundation will in the activities of our make available the following 2015 Scholarships: (a) Society is greatly $2,500 to the first place winner; (b) $1,500 to the second appreciated. place winner; and (c) $1,000 to the third place winner.

Four days after the Anniversary Dinner I had total To compete for one of these scholarships, please replacement surgery for both knees with the hope of complete a 2015 Scholarship Application which must being back in circulation by the Burns Nicht Supper. My be postmarked by March 15, 2015. For requirements, special thanks to those Members who sent cards, made additional information, and to download an Application, phone calls, and visited during the early rehab process. please see the Society’s new Website: I can safely report that most of the swelling is past, the incisions are healing and the pains are becoming www.standrewsbaltimore.com “livable”. Member Steve Grant is taking me on as a project at Cypress Creek Therapy in their Severna Park and click the Scholarship tab to review the office. It is still my goal to attend the Burns Nicht Supper requirements and to download a 2015 Application for under my own locomotion so I hope to see many of you completion. at the Maryland Club that evening. Your Application (with attachments) will be reviewed by Winter months are fairly quiet for the Society as we Members of the Society’s Benevolence th make plans for our Stated Meeting on March 12 and for Committee, subject to the terms of the Society Privacy marching with the Kiltie Band of York in the Baltimore Policy, a copy of which you will receive with your City St. Patrick’s Day Parade. Planning ahead to Application Acknowledgement. warmer weather, we have in April the Tartan Ball and the Kirkin’ o’ the Tartan at the Cathedral of Mary our Queen, so keep your eyes on the Pibroch announcements.

Trivia Question Yours aye,

Herb Glasby, III April 6, 1320 Scotland declared tits independence 54th President by the signing of the Declaration of Arbroath by Ph: 410-437-0848 Pope John XXII. What other historical event email: [email protected] occurred during the year 1320?

a. Rotterdam Netherlands founded b. Duke Wladyslaw Lokietek becomes king of Poland

c. Battle of Salado, Spain: last Moorish invasion driven back. d. Fifty-four members of the Knights Templar are burned at the stake in France for being heretics.

Answer to trivia question on page 7

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The Almoner’s Report Flowers of the Forest Rev. Dr. George Gray Toole

"Lufe God abuve al, and Shirley Knott Alger yi nychtbour as yi self." Died at the Stella Mans Hospice Center on Sunday, Some words are timeless in January 4, 2015 after a whatever language or dialect. sudden illness. He was born These words are old but ever on September 15, 1927 in fresh in their truth. The message was true when Charles Town, Jesus quoted them from the and was the son of Shirley Eldon Alger and Mary Old Testament [Leviticus “Kenna” Knott Alger Travell. 19:18] and equally true for us today as members of the St. He graduated from Charles Town High School (‘46); Andrew's Society of Baltimore. enlisted in the Marines and later attended the U.S. Naval Like you, I am sometimes asked, "What is the St. Academy. He graduated from Shepherd College with a degree in English. He received his Masters in Public Andrew's Society?" On the surface we are those who School Administration from the College of William and celebrate our Scottish heritage, but I have found that the Mary in Williamsburg, VA and was a dissertation shy of real nature of the Society is in the caring and support we his PhD from Cornell University. have for one another. We are neighbors of the heart as well as having a Scottish bond. Therefore, we care about Mr. Alger was an officer in the U.S. Navy on active duty and later retired from the Naval Reserves as a one another. Lieutenant Commander. He married Jane Tilghman

Howard Alger on March 7, 1953. They eventually settled In the light of that, here are some of our folk and their in Baltimore, MD and Mr. Alger went to work for Social families who would welcome our support. Our President, Herbert S. Glasby, III had both knees replaced and is Security as a Systems Analyst, retiring in 1993. He was recovering well. Eleanor Macqueen, wife of member the administrator of the Knott Nursing Home when his mother became unable to do so for herself. He married Arthur H. Macqueen broke a shoulder in a fall and is Ruth Matthews Eglseder on November 6, 1993. awaiting surgery. We have been saddened by the death of Shirley K. Alger. He was an avid hunter and fisherman, having returned

Let us "lufe yi nychtbours as yi self!" from South Dakota this past October from pheasant hunting. He enjoyed numerous club activities, including having been a Mason and Past Master of his lodge, Mt.

Moriah, a member and president for several terms of the Yours aye, St. George’s Society, a member of the St. Andrew’s George Society of Baltimore since 2007.

Mr. Alger was an active member of the Second Gone are Bearing Grudges Presbyterian Church, having served a Deacon, Elder and Treasurer. He was also a member of St. Andrew’s Christian Community in Roland Park. “Let today be the day you finally Mr. Alger was preceded in death by his parents and first release yourself from the wife of forty years, Jane Howard Alger in 1993. He is imprisonment of past grudges and survived by his second wife of 21 years, Ruth Matthews Alger, two daughters, Jane D. Jshrnan and her husband, anger. Simplify your life. Let go of the Michael of Shepherdstown, WV; Susan A. Worley and her husband, Lawrence of Perry Hall, MD. A memorial poisonous past and live the service was held in the Sanctuary of St. Andrew’s abundantly beautiful present... Christian Community Church.. today.”

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Escort to the Colors 44th Annual Alexandria Scottish Christmas Walk

The 44th Annual Scottish Christmas Walk was held on “E.T.C.,” the Escort to the December 6, 2014, presented in partnership with The Colors is the unofficial “face” Scottish Government, The Saint Andrew's Society of of the St. Andrew’s Society of Washington, D.C. and the City of Alexandria. The Baltimore. signature event, the Scottish Walk Parade, featured U.S. Based Senior Diplomat of the Scottish Government We welcome your joining us Donnie Jack as grand marshal. Donnie led Scottish in the fun and camaraderie clans, pipe and drum bands, Scottish dancers, our own we share, so please contact St. Andrew’s Society of Baltimore representation, re- Bob Kennick: (410-654-1021 enactment groups, canine marchers, local dignitaries [email protected]) and, of course, Santa Claus, through the streets of Old Al Schudel (410-435-7725) Town.

Pearl Harbor Memorial Ceremony The Scottish Christmas Walk is the largest fundraising activity for The Campagna Center and is coordinated Sunday, December 7, 2014 and planned by The Junior Friends of The Campagna USCGC TANEY Center. Pier 5 - Baltimore's Inner Harbor Historic Ships in Baltimore honored those who served during WWII with a ceremony on board USCGC TANEY, marking the 73rd anniversary of the December 7, 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii with keynote speaker, Admiral Paul F. Zukunft, Commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard.

Participating in support roles were Members of the Pearl Harbor Survivors Association, U.S. Coast Guard, U.S. Navy, Maryland National Guard and iur own St. Andrews Society of Baltimore.

Col Al Schudel led the SASB ETC on the ship with U S military flags of each branch of service and addressed the special guests in a commemorative ceremony.

USCGC TANEY is the last fighting ship afloat today to witness the December 7, 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. ETC Coming Events

St. Patrick’s Day Parade Sunday 15 March

Kirkin – Cathedral Mary Our Queen Sunday 19 April

Details: “Calendar of Events – Men in Kilts” INSERT

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Hospitality

Jack Gordon, MD

The winter has already St. Andrew’s Society of Baltimore reared its ugly head with the nd cancellation of the Jan. 62 Annual Tartan Ball board meeting, but by the Boumi Temple time you read this, we’ll have celebrated at the Nottingham, MD annual Robert Burns dinner and will be looking forward Saturday April 18, 2015 to the March stated meeting and the Tartan Ball in April. Celebrate our Scottish Heritage with However, as the new hospitality chairman, my first order of business is to dinner, dancing and the tradition of thank Wm. Hay (Bill) Kommalan for his energetic and haggis and the Grand March successful organization of the past stated meetings and the many and varied speakers he provided. I can only hope to emulate Bill’s outstanding record. Details enclosed insert

The first stated meeting of 2015 is March 12th. It should start with a bang as we will have the NRA Museum Firearms Specialist Logan Metesh trace the evolution of firepower and gunpowder along with the contribution of our Scottish ancestor Reverend Alexander Forsyth. From the discovery of gunpowder in early China right up "Albannach Cuideachd" until today, all users of firearms throughout history have had one thing in common: the quest for more firepower. Membership They were all looking for an effective way to harness the power of this chemical reaction, getting a bigger bang for Well the recent membership the buck, so to speak. Frustrated by his flintlock fowlers, dues renewal period has Reverend Alexander Forsyth of Scotland sought to ended and we still have create a better gun for duck hunting. In the process, he several members we have cemented his place in the history of firearms evolution as not heard from. If you have we know it and enabled inventors to use his system in not paid your dues please their continued search for more firepower. Logan will forward them As Soon As also bring examples of Forsyth’s percussion locks and Possible. If you have paid other unusual 19th century percussion firearms that your dues, thank you. sought to improve firepower. Please ask your fellow members if they have paid Brief personal bio: their dues, if not remind them to pay them. If you have not sent your dues please send them now. If T. Logan Metesh is the Firearms Specialist at the NRA you are under 70 years of age please forward your $50 Museums. He holds a B.A. in Historic Preservation from dues payment, 70 years old or over please forward your the University of Mary Washington and has previously $35 dues payments. If you have not heard from me by worked for the National Park Service and the phone you will be receiving a reminder call in the very Smithsonian Institution. He and his wife live on a farm near future. Once those reminder calls are completed and your dues near Marshall, Virginia, with their two horses. th have not been received by February 28 you may forfeit your membership from lack of dues payment. Aye, Without your membership we cannot afford to continue Jack Gordon some of our activities and provide the services our Hospitality Chair membership has become accustom to. Please contact me or forward your dues now.

Greg Scott Membership Vice President 52nd President

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Scottish Immigrant Craik warned Washington about the plots of the Conway

Cabal, and treated the wounds of General Hugh James Craik * Mercer at the and Gilbert du Métier, Marquis de La Fayette at the . Physician General Mercer died of his wounds, but La Fayette was more fortunate. Washington persuaded him to move his 1730 – 6 February 1814) practice to Alexandria, Virginia, where he built his was Physician General house Vaucluse (plantation), where he died. He also had (precursor of the Surgeon a town house at 117 South Fairfax Street, 209 Prince General) of the United Street, and then 210 Duke Street. Washington States Army, as well as summoned Craik out of private practice in 1798 in George's personal connection with the Quasi-War against France, installing physician and close him as Physician General of the Army on 19 June of that friend. year. After the conclusion of hostilities, Craik mustered out on 15 June 1800. Born on the estate of Arbigland in the parish of , County of Kirkcudbright, Scotland, Craik was Dr. Craik's grave marker, in the Old Presbyterian the son of Robert Craik, a member of Parliament. He Meeting House cemetery studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, then As Washington's personal physician, Craik was one of joined the British Army after graduation and served as three doctors to attend on him during his final illness on an army surgeon in the West Indies until 1751. Craik 14 December 1799. Washington complained of then opened up a private medical practice in Norfolk, respiratory distress, described by Craik as "cynanche Virginia, and shortly thereafter relocated to Winchester, trachealis". When Washington proved unable to swallow Virginia. medicines orally, Craik and the other two physicians (Dr. Elisha C. Dick and Dr. ) On 7 March 1754, Craik resumed his military career, treated his condition with bloodletting, the application of accepting a commission as a surgeon in Colonel Joshua various poultices, and a rectal solution Fry's Virginia Provincial Regiment. While with this force, of calomel and tartar. Washington's condition continued he became good friends with , at to deteriorate, but Craik and Brown decided against that time a lieutenant colonel in the regiment. Craik saw Dick's suggestion of a tracheotomy (which might have a great deal of action in various battles of the French been lifesaving, but likely would have spread the and Indian War. He fought at the Battle of the Great infection and caused sepsis), and Washington died at Meadows and participated in the surrender of Fort 10:10 p.m. Brown and Craik co-published an account of Necessity, then accompanied General Edward their treatment in December 1800. Braddock on Braddock's unsuccessful attempt to recapture the region in 1755, treating Braddock's Craik died in Alexandria in 1814; he is buried in the ultimately fatal wounds. Craik then served under graveyard of the Old Presbyterian Meeting House. Washington in actions in Virginia and Maryland, during various engagements with Indians.

After the war's end, Craik opened another medical practice at Port Tobacco, Maryland, and on 13 November 1760, he married Mariamne Ewell at her family's estate, Bel Air, located in Prince William County, Virginia. Marriamne would later become the great-aunt The voice of Nature loudly cries, of Richard S. Ewell. They had six sons and three And many a message from the skies, daughters. In 1760, he moved to Charles County, Maryland, where in 1765, he built La Grange near La That something in us never dies. Plata, Maryland. In both 1770 and 1784 he went on surveying expeditions with Washington, examining military claims in Pennsylvania and what is now West Robert Burns Virginia.

With the outbreak of hostilities during the , Craik once more rejoined the army. He served as an army surgeon, ultimately advancing to the second-highest post in army medicine.

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Scottish Humor “Stiùradair” (Quartermaster)

Stuart Blair 410-665-6440 or email: Wullie was having his appendix out and was [email protected] driving the doctor mad with questions.

"Will Ah be able to play the bagpipes after ma Do you have these items? If not, we do! Shoulder patch SASB Flashes operation?" he asked. Badge BB Cap (choice of colors) Lapel pins Golf Shirt "Of course you will!" snapped the doctor. Decals Specialty items by request

Specials "That's amazing!" marvelled Wullie. 20 oz Etched SASB Pub glasses 2 for $10 "Ah couldna play them before!" SASB emblem pattern (dress shirt) Tie $25 Baseball Cap (embroidered emblem) $12

BOOK “Scots in Maryland” Book Review History of the St. Andrew’s Society of Baltimore 1806 – 2006 “Crow Bait” Christopher T. George chronicles the colorful story Douglas Skelton of Scots in Maryland and the growth of the St. Published by Luath Press LTD, Scotland Andrew’s Society of Baltimore the first 200 years.

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A gory and razor-sharp crime novel from the start, Douglas Skelton’sCrow Bait moves at breakneck speed like a getaway car on the dark streets of Glasgow, the city where this story takes place. Davie McCall is released after ten long years as a guest of her majesty to find the underground gang scene now tied up with Pinroch via Email drugs. He must second guess who remains trustworthy Many SASB members will be receiving the newsletter by email. If you still desire a hard copy of the Pibroch, contact: during run-ins with an ex flame and fellow gangsters. If Stuart Blair 410-665-6440 that wasn’t enough to contend with, Davie has family issues, being pursued by his manic father, trying to take Event Pictures On-Line him down at every turn. SASB select photographers have been passing the photos of many events to the Society’s webmaster, Jim Wallace, who Crow Bait progresses at a quick clip like good crime has been posting them on our website: novels should. Some of this story – as is often the case http://standrewsbaltimore.org/. You may find these photos in genre pieces – is a little predictable, but the novel under the “Photo Albums” section or by going directly to remains a classic gangster/detective 'who done it' set in http://standrewsbaltimore.org/photoalbum/index.html. a colorfully realised Glasgow. Skelton's visual language allows the reader to truly picture that shadowy figure closing in with the chib. There are a few good jokes and one-liners to add another layer, subtly showing character rather than simply telling the reader. For example, when Answer to Trivia Question describing a dodgy flat: 'An enthusiastic salesman might call it a fixer upper, but really the only thing that would fix Duke Wladyslaw Lokietek becomes king of Poland this place up was a can of petrol and a match.' We’ve all been there.

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