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Thistle September 2009 Letter from Edinburgh Saint Andrew’S Society Los Angeles the Gathering 2009, Holyrood Park, 25/26 July Calendar of Events September 2009 SEASIDE the HIGHLAND GAMES histle OCT. 9–11 VENTURA ’ s S o c i e t y t n d r e w o f L o s t . A A n COUNTY e S g e l T h e s FAIRGROUNDS a message from John Benton, M.D., President Springtime he year, believe it or Edinburgh castle. in China Seaside Highland Tnot, is approaching Many of you will have Games its close. By the time attended our Ceilidh on September The Rev. Dr. Charles (Chuck) October 9–11 you read this, summer will 12, the first we have organized for Robertson is a member of SASLA. officially be over and Fall will be many years. You will find a He visited China, his fourth visit, upon us. This year has been a photographic review on page 5 of for two weeks in May 2009. Here Oh! I do like to be beside the tumultuous and memorable one for this newsletter. I want to thank all are some highlights of his seaside Scots all over the world, including of you who supported this event. fascinating trip. I do like to be beside the sea! us in Los Angeles. Our own society We can provide functions like this I do like to stroll upon the has increased in membership and because a lot of folks volunteer visited China for a Prom, Prom, Prom! added new events to its calendar. their time and skills to organize Ifortnight in May Where the brass bands play: But what has made 2009 different and plan – they don’t just with a delegation "Tiddely-om-pom-pom!" for Scots worldwide is the happen! I hope you enjoyed the under the auspices of So just let me be beside the celebrations for Robert Burn’s 250 results of their efforts, I certainly Educational Resources & seaside anniversary, marked in his country did! Referrals-China (ERRC) of I'll be beside myself with glee of birth by Homecoming Scotland Our next event is the annual Berkeley, California. And there's lots of girls and The Gathering in Edinburgh. Kirkin’ O’ The Tartans at the ERRC places people with a beside, The gathering of clans in Beverly Hills Presbyterian Church master’s degree or more and life I should like to be beside Edinburgh was an event that, if you – let’s make it a record turn-out. experience in their field in Beside the seaside! were fortunate enough to attend, Work is also well advanced for our Chinese universities to teach — Beside the sea! you are not like to forget for a very 2010 Burn’s Supper which will be agriculture, business, long time. Scots from southern held at The Thursday Club in La engineering, the sciences, etc.— f any of you remember Jill California attended, including Canada, January 30 – mark your in English to Chinese doctoral and IDaniels (I don’t) you will Cindi McIntosh, who many of you calendar! post-doctoral students to enable remember that familiar will remember as the piper from them to present, write, and refrain, usually wafting our Tartan Day celebration in April, publish in English, and to give from the Marconi steam and our own Annie and Rod occasional lectures or seminars in John Benton radio that adorned the Schreckengost. They walked in the their field. The trip provided me Contact John Benton via email dining room sideboard in clan parade up the Royal Mile from at: taverman hotmail.com homes throughout Britain Holyrood Palace to the esplanade of 1@ Please see CHINA, page 6 during WWII. What’s that got to do with large men throwing heavy In Gear – If my body were a Car objects? Not much, except they do it beside the seaside! f my body were a car, this is as it once was. I slip and slide my exhaust Got it? Ithe time I would be thinking and skid and bump into things backfires. The Saint Andrew’s about trading it in for a newer even in the best of weather. My CASH FOR CLUNKERS Society of Los Angeles is, as model. I've got bumps and dents whitewalls are stained with you know, a contributing and scratches in my finish, and my varicose veins. It takes me hours I QUALIFY sponsor of Seaside and, as paint job is getting a little dull. But to reach my maximum speed. My How about such, these games hold a that's not the worst of it. My fuel rate burns inefficiently. But You? special place in our calendar. headlights are out of focus, and it's here's the worst of it – Almost especially hard to see things up every time I sneeze, cough or Please see SEASIDE, page 5 close. My traction is not as graceful laugh, either my radiator leaks or Anonymous. 2 the thistle september 2009 Letter from Edinburgh Saint Andrew’s Society Los Angeles The Gathering 2009, Holyrood Park, 25/26 July Calendar of Events attended the I heard the lovely Gaelic singing IHighland Games of Julie Fowlis, while I waited for October 9, 2009 President Whisky Tasting/Scottish Evening John Benton, M.D. and Scottish Festival the famous Red Hot Chilli Pipers. Four Points Sheraton, Ventura Vice President opened by the Duke I passed the Talisker whisky John Lowry of Rothesay, as Prince Charles tasting tent (entry at £5 a ticket) October 10 & 11, 2009 Treasurer David Moffett is known in Scotland. because I have my own supply at Seaside Highland Games Secretary It was sunny and pleasantly home! At one point I had to move Seaside Park Ventura Margaret Steiner warm and joining the crowds quickly to avoid (being trampled October 25, 2009 entering the grass surfaced on by) the Lonach Highlanders a Board of Trustees Annual Kirkin O’ The Tartan Mary Corcoran, Ph.D parade ground I headed for the band of men from the Strathdon clan village of over 100 square area (North of Ballater) Jack Dawson January 30, 2010 pagoda tents many with their Aberdeenshire. Burn’s Supper Alan MacDonald own clan chiefs, some of J. David MacPherson For more information visit whom wore eagle feathers in www.saintandrewsla.org Victoria Pushee their bonnets. I visited my Ian J. Skone-Rees own clans of Stewart and then useful!), and afterwards to my Sinclair where I purchased a bus, walking about the same copy scroll of the Genealogy distance and more than half the of Prince Henry St. Clair, or route later taken that evening by Sinclair, the ‘Discoverer’ of the Parade of the Clans. America in 1398, and then Thousands of participants The Thistle is the official called in at some others not including many from outwith publication of the Saint Andrew’s Lonach Highlanders. Society of Los Angeles. It is forgetting Clan Currie, and Scotland and the UK, led by pipe published four times a year. the only St Andrew Society Many families sitting on rugs bands, marched up the very Deadline for each issue is the represented – Singapore! had quite sensibly supplied their steep cobbled roadway of the first day of March, June, I was too late to get a seat own picnic lunch while others Royal Mile to Edinburgh Castle September & December. Submit articles, photographs, for the Deuchars World Highland were forming long queues at the Esplanade where a pageant and address changes to the Games Heavy Events food outlets, but as it was too hot entitled Aisling’s Children editor at: [email protected]. or Championship but could watch for me to do that, and having celebrating Scotland’s history The Editor them on an enormous screen enjoyed my visit (well worth my was performed, thereby Saint Andrew’s Society, Los Angeles 12240 Ventura Blvd., Suite 101 erected for the purpose. £18 ticket money even though I completing the City of Studio City, CA 91604 I was amused to see that could not attend on the second Edinburgh’s contribution to the www.saintandrewsla.org hundreds of people had climbed day), I reckoned that I had been almost year-long Homecoming The publisher accepts no responsibility for the opinions various hilly parts of Arthur’s on my feet for nearly six hours Scotland 2009. expressed, accuracy of information, Seat (Edinburgh’s ‘Mountain’) and seen all I wanted to see, I or similarity of names submitted by authors. which overlooks the parade left the Gathering area around Kenneth Sinclair Stewart CONTRIBUTORS ground some distance away, 4:30 to go home. John Benton presumably in the hope of Passing the controversial Secretary of the World Federation of David Cargill Rev. Dr. Charles Robertson seeing the event for free! Scottish Parliament Scottish Societies Kenneth Sinclair Stewart Later I saw youngsters take building opposite Ian Skone-Rees part in the Highland Dancing Holyrood Palace on PUBLISHER EDITOR AND GRAPHIC DESIGN Competition, and in time I joined my way, I walked Ian Skone-Rees a crowd of folk in front of the up the Canongate PHOTOGRAPHY Wee Stage for an hour long (the Royal Mile) for Margi Kent Susie Mieras demonstration of Scottish country a welcome hot Ian Skone-Rees dancing including audience Turkish meal in my Kenneth Sinclair Stewart participation which was great fun favourite Café PRINTING and enjoyed by all. Truva owned and Coronet Printing As I approached the immense run by a friend’s crowd in front of the main stage son-in-law, (very Clan tents in the grounds of Holyrood Palace. 3 St. Andrew’s Society of Los Angeles Scotland’s Influence in the United States A series of articles prepared by David Cargill The Scots were a valuable addition to a developing world.
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