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EVENTS SECTION ONE - Page 2 www.hebevents.com 07/09/17 - 04/10/17 Trans-Atlantic career of top Point-born academic Mackenzie, D.D, Professor By Eilidh Whiteford of Biblical Theology, he life of Point-born Professor Donald Mackenzie, Domhnall died in Princeton, USA, TSeonaid, is the topic of the 2017 Colm Cille Lecture, on October 19, 1941, delivered this year by educator and author Iain Smith. following a full and Born on Lewis in 1947, his maternal grandmother coming from expansive life which saw Swordale, Iain has researched and written about school teaching him educate and minister and – more recently and more interestingly – about Hebridean on both sides of the educational history. Atlantic. Iain himself began his schooling at Lionel School in Ness, before After completing his transferring to The Nicolson Institute, and then to further education at secondary studies at the University of Glasgow. The Nicolson Institute in Stornoway, Professor He went on to spend some 40 years as a teacher, initially in Mackenzie continued at Aberdeen University, receiving a Master of secondary education and then extensively in teaching teachers, Arts degree in 1905. latterly as Dean of Education (2001-2007) at the University of Strathclyde. From 1906 to 1909 he took up the post of Assistant Professor of Logic and Metaphysics at the University, also serving for some time During his career, Iain has worked in locations outside his native as Examiner in the department. home of Scotland, including various places in England, in Brazil, China, Uzbekistan, and Pakistan. Mackenzie returned to studies in 1909 as a student at the Universities of Halle and Berlin, graduating in 1910 from the United Earlier this summer Iain and his wife Joan Forrest’s book ‘Saints Free Church College in Aberdeen. & Sinners: Tales of Lewis Lives’ was published by Acair – and includes tales of the life of Professor Mackenzie of Aird, which will That same year witnessed his ordination, and his entrance upon the be further explored through the Colm Cille Lecture 2017, organised fi rst of four Scottish pastorates undertaken by Mackenzie as Minister, by Urras Eaglais na h-Aoidhe (The Ui Church Trust.) Iain reveals: at Craigdam, Oban, Tain, and Aberdeen. “The talk draws on the chapter in the book; but has quite an amount Throughout World War I, Mackenzie served as Chaplain of of additional material, both photos and text, mostly drawn from the a Scottish regiment in France; and he made his fi rst visit to the archive material in the new Stornoway museum.” United States in 1927, delivering a series of lectures in the Western Born in Aird, Point, on May 30th, 1882, Reverend Donald Theological Seminary at Pittsburgh. Shortly after, Mackenzie was elected to the Professorship of Systematic Theology in Western Seminary and during his tenure of the post – from 1928 to 1933 – won distinction not only as a teacher, but also as a preacher, lecturer, author, and leader in religious conferences. In 1931 Washington and Jefferson College conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Divinity – an honour bestowed again on ]QJQ`VR G7 Q1J :JR :JR11H@ `% Mackenzie three years later by his own University of Aberdeen. May 1933 also saw Mackenzie elected to the Charles T. Haley `Q`VQ` :H@VJ<1VQ`1`R7 Professorship of Biblical Theology at Princeton Seminary, where he QI.J:CC#VQJ:1R continued to teach until his death in 1941. Professor Mackenzie’s life has been the subject of considerable research by Iain Smith and wife Joan Forrest; and Iain is delighted to G7 :1J#I1 . deliver the 2017 Colm Cille Lecture and deliver further revelations and experiences of the former Point lad. ' # * : 8]I The 2017 Colm Cille Lecture takes place on Friday, September .# 50*# 29th, in Ionad Stoodie, Garrabost, Point. It is free to attend, doors open from 6.30pm and the lecture begins at 7.30pm. Following the event, there will be tea and coffee, with the chance to meet and discuss the lecture with Iain. HOW TO CONTACT US For further information about event organisers Urras Eaglais na h-Aoidhe, please visit www.uichurch.co.uk Editor: Fred Silver 01851 705743 [email protected] Design and layout: Andrew Jeffries [email protected] Advertising: Caroline Henderson 01851 705743 [email protected] Administration: Marie Anne Macdonald 01851 705743 Distribution - online and in-print: Judi Hayes 01851 705671 [email protected] Feature writers/reporters: Eilidh Whiteford, Elly Welch, Katie Macleod, Roz Skinner 01851 705671 [email protected] Additional design: Keith Stringer Event promotion in EVENTS and welovestornoway.com: NEXT EDITION: The deadline for information and advertising is Tuesday [email protected] September 26th. The newspaper will appear on Wednesday October 4th EVENTS is published by Intermedia Services (Stornoway) Ltd, Offi ces 1-3, Clintonʼs Yard, Rigs Road, Stornoway, HS1 2RF Tel: 01851 705743 07/09/17 - 04/10/17 www.hebevents.com EVENTS SECTION ONE - Page 3 #I uT rrThqvpxT hCT!69 Ury) '$ &$&('hi th qrpx Shetland runner has strong Harris links By Iain A MacSween “The Celtic Games were structured quite similarly to the Island Games, which was good.” runner with strong Harris connections is being tipped for Seumas began running at the age of eight, when he was signed the very top, after stunning victories at the World Island A up to the Shetland Amateur Running Club. He began competing Games in Sweden, and then at the Celtic Games held in Dublin seriously only two years ago, and while the 800m is his main event, on Saturday August 4. he also competes in 1500m, and 4x400m races. Seumas Mackay is only 16, but his double-gold triumph is already “I do track training with the Club four times a week, and I do a prompting conversation within the very highest echelons of UK steady, long run each Saturday,” he said. athletics. Seumas hopes to go to university once he fi nishes school in His mother is Karen Mackay (née Macaulay), originally from Shetland, although he hasn’t quite yet decided what he wants to do. Strond in South Harris, and his grandparents – Murdo and Katie – still live there. Karen is a midwife in Shetland, while dad Duncan “I will defi nitely keep going with the running, as it has become (originally from North Uist) is an air-traffi c controller at Sumburgh such a large part of my life,” he said. Airport. Seumas has an older sister (Curstaidh) and younger brother And he is determined to fi nd space in his hectic schedule to fi t in (Calum). trips to Harris, too. “We go on holiday to Harris as a family every In Gotland, Seumas won gold in the 800 metres with a time of year,” he said. 1:53:32, having achieved a personal best in the heats. On Saturday August 4, he destroyed all competition with a time of 1:54:07 to claim his second successive 800m gold at the Celtic Games in Dublin. And a blistering last lap also saw him propel his 4x400m relay team to a silver medal. It’s all been a bit of a whirlwind for the softly spoken athlete. “I only went to Gotland to get a bit of experience under my belt,” Seumas said. “I honestly didn’t expect a medal, far less a gold. I reckoned I could make a fi nal, as throughout the season my times had been coming down, but I didn’t think I was in with a shot. “Thankfully everyone else did, however, and they kept urging me on, so when I got the gold I was over the moon. It came as a really nice surprise.” The World Island Games experience, said Seumas, acted as a springboard for the Celtic Games on Saturday. “It defi nitely helped with my confi dence as I knew that I could compete with fast Karen Mackay Seumas Mackay runners,” he said. Mosque plan approved by Council ermission for the conversion of a derelict building in James Street, adjacent to the former new centre will give their members additional attended but can’t participate and that makes PStornoway property to a mosque and Church House premises of ND Macleod Ltd. social and religious support, help new members them feel left out too, and we don’t want anyone community centre for the Western Isles The new building will be used for religious to feel more at home in the islands, and increase to feel like that, especially after the traumatic congregation opportunities. Muslim community has been granted by events, weddings and funerals as well as worship experience they have had coming from a war Comhairle nan Eilean Siar. by the Muslim population in the islands, which Speaking to www.welovestornoway in July, zone.” The change of use planning application was has been boosted recently with the arrival of a spokesperson for the community said: “We decided on Thursday, September 31st at a meeting several Syrian refugees.