SUMMER 1994 NUMBER ,207
Xl;:'vV rd LJSEUM OF SCOTI,A,YI)- PICTURE OF MODEI, QPBninf AnPr~iu'~bltripfy uf Bliorr~ingfon. %(?I.Lhx:&r 3 Christmas Walk 5 Jefferson Cup Luncheon THE NEWSLETTER I1 Board of Managers Meeting 4007 David Lanc 19 Jefferwn Cup Luncheon-Ladies Day Alexandria, V A 2231 1 Puhlish~lhy The Saint Andrew's ,%:iety of Wa$hington, D.C, and clistril~utexlwithout charge to meml~n,cxmtrihutexs and patrons of the Scwiety's ac:tivitim ,4clvertising ic; acxq~tenland rates are January available from the Business Manager. 2 Jefferson Cup Luncheon 5 MEMBERS ANN LIAL DLTNER MEETIILC, EDITOR Henry H. Osborne, Jr, 10 brdof Managers Moeting (703) 820-9132 16 Jcfferson Cup Luncheon 28 BI JIWS ElCJIT DIWEH ASSISTANT EDITOR Ralph M, Ghormley (703) 241-8488 RELATED REGI JLANL Y W1CLEL)I JLEL) AC,TIVITIlS ASSOCIATE EDITOR Jerry V. Zillion (703) 253-7738 JEFFERSON C1 JP LI JNCNEOIVS First and third Mondays cif each Month - except as othenise BUSINESS MANAGER John Cameron Stewart notcd in schedule. (301) 929-0850 Pier 7, Maine Avenue Contact: Thomas Murray - (301) 949- 6193, or SAINT ANDREW'S SOCIETY OF VASHINGTON, D.C. Robert McKay Whitc (703) 971-4041 4.007 David Lane Alexantlria, VA 22311 xOTTL,Sli CX)\JNTRY DAYCJNC, Washington Area CJaw The Ol>jRc:tives of The Saint ,4nclrew's Society are to afford assiszance to Scntsmen and lineal clestxn(lants of Scotsmen, to Society ptx-petuate httish traditions and cwlture and to promote social Monday-!!ottish Cauntry L)ance of WashingtonJ.C activities among its rnemhm. Membership iq limited to men of National htitutes of IIealth Scottish hirth or ancestry. I)ua are $50.00 per ye=. The Society Fitness Ccnter. Bldg. T-39 is not affiliated with any religious institution G)ntril)uticns to 9000 Rockville Pike, hthesda, MI) the Society's charital~lefunds are deductible for federal incmmt: Contact: Macauley Howard, (202) 3622071, or tax pnrpm% Betty Lee Barnes, (202) 966-3595
I Monday - Baltimore Scottish Dancers Catonsville Presbyterian Church 1400 Frederick Road, Catonsville, -!+ID Cantact :Bannir Kopplcman, (301) 4352112, or COMING EVENTS Uonna Ellis (301) 547-7304
July Tuday - St Cnlumha's Sottish Cauntry Dance Group 18 Jrffemn Cup Luncheon Washington Epi~opalSchool 2324 Virginia Scottish Games 5601 River Road, Bethda, LMD Contact :Bill Cxawford, (301) 230 2327, or Auguqt Arlene Mdkrmick brio, (3010 7948042 1 Jrffcmn Cup Lunchmn 15 Jefferson Cup Lunchcon Wdnday - Northrrn Virginia Branch, RSCIDS hantRecreation Cmter, Srytembcr Alexandria, V A 6 hrdof Managers Mrcting Cantact :Carol Porter, (703) 379-5779 8 MEMlIEKS DIN3ER MEETING 19 Jefferson Cup Luncheon
October 3 Jcffcrson Cup Lunchmn 4 hard of Managers Mrrting 17 Jcffermn Cup Lunchcon
Rovember 1 bard of Man ers keting 5 HA(;QS SH~ 7 Jcfferson Cup Luncheon 11 TARTAN BALL 1Reviw-I Date !1 21 Sefferwn Cun Luncheon SAIN'I' ANDREW'S SOCIETY CHARITY AND EDUCATION FUND 1 a. Thanks are exterlded to the following persons for FLOWERS OF THE FOREST their generous contributions to the Charity and Education :9'' ,,A ;'4. fund: * t4-! CaL Donald Angus Sanders, IJSA (Ret) 5 Charles T. Alexander 3 ,. Dr, Allan M. McKelvie William R. Alexander Dr. Norman 1,ee Rarr, Jr. John Fitzhueh Rr~rns Col. Roderick Tir. Clarke Dr. Williarn J. Cochrane I,uciati D. Drake Dr. Robert F. Dyer, Jr. Thornas I,. Edgar NEW MEMBERS Welene Worthington Goller (:apt. Walter H. Graham We welcome the following new members and McLeat~M. Grant hop that they will enfiy their association with the Ralph A. Hoffman Society and will kmeinvolved in c~ntrihutingto its Catesby P. Jones activities. Roy F'. Lindquist William E. McGregor Robrt Henry Kamn Guy H. Nelson William Morgan Kames David Frank Armstrong Norcross Brig. (knMelvin D. k,y,l JSA(Rct) John A. Stoddart ('apt. Thomas CJ. McGinlay, 1JSN (Ret.) William A. Struthers James M. McPhemn Philip H. Terzian William Alan Martin Alexander Turnbull Stewart Shaw Mills Kenneth Ralph Murray The following individuals or organizations have generollsly Richard Dallas Murray contributed to the Charity and Education Fund in loving Grahame Thomas Smallwood, Jr. rnerrlory of Elizabeth Macleay: Alan James Steele, John Phillip Wallam Charles T. Alexander Frank A. Anderson Richard S. & Christine Badger Wallace M. fL Marilyn C. Ruell SECRET 01; SlJRVIVAI.? John H. Cornwell [Front (111 eclrly F'ebr~~(~ry199.2 fioston rlel4l.syrrprr-7% (irtk:,s to Stuart C. Davidson Kcrlph Ghormley. 1 Mrs. Robert I,. Dick "For now, my stmtegy for surviving wir~tc:r can bc rc'clucccj Peter Arrott Dixon Mary Jane 8r Samuel Estill to thr(.c sinlplc words: siriglc rrwlt Scbotch." James C. 8r Dora 0. Gregg John Spooner, aulhor oriti irwestmerzt counselor Walter Krueger, Jr. James E. Lamb, Jr. John R. f?r Macy Lumsden James CL Almut MacCIregor PIPES AND DRUMS Col. Stewart R. McCarty, Jr. Macleay, Lynch, Gregg & Lynch, P.C, of the Kleber S. Masterson ST. ANDREW SOCIETY John P. McAdams Constance W. McElhinney Individual pipen or a full band Thomas McCee Richard Murray Newman with complement of Highland dancers Edgar H. Parsons available for your function. Bertha R. Pence David & Helene C. Potter For information call P/M Gregory O'Brien James W. & Senga Reid Dr. C. Allan Young (703) 356-4135 ST. ANDREUrS SCHOLARSHIP AWARDS - WALL !5TREET JOURNAL 199495 BAD MOUTH'S HAGGIS !
The Charity and Education Cmmmittee has selected 12 [It seems that 'The WaU Street .Loud1'has students to receive awards for the upcoming school year. taken to addressing topics regading which thek James S. McLeod, the Chairman, submitted the following list knowledge is less complete than it is in the field of of names. finances. The fol/owing shows a deplordle lack of is The Charity and Education Committee met on April 26, knowledge as weJ as a pmjudiced attitude. It presented for your consideration.-Ed] 1994 to review the 43 applications which we received this year. Twelve students were selected to receive the awards "FANS INVOKE ROBERT BURNS'S MUSE: totalling $15,000 as authorized by the trustees at their recent A STEAMING PILE OF SHEEP INTESTINES" meeting. R Paul Reckett The students, their place and course of study and the amount special to lYHE WaLsmEET/ouRNAL of award recommended are shown on the attached listing . "At dinner tables the world over tomorrow night, all eyes-if not all appetites will be focused on a steaming heap James & Mary Dawson Scholarships for Scots study of sheep's innards, oatmeal, onions and spices sewed from in the U.S. a sheep's well-scrubbed stomach. "Meet perhaps the most peculiar of Scottish Fiona P.S.McNeil1 $3000 Columbia University idiosyncrasies: the haggis, an indigenous dish that is the culinary st.ar of traditional "Burns suppers," held on the Glasgow, Scotland Cmmparative Literature anniversary of the birth of the Scottish poet Robert Burns. At the American-Scottish Foundation's black-tie supper in Jeremy Richmond $2000 Haward University Manhattan, the haggis will be paraded on a tray around all Ayr, Scotland Law the guests to the accornpanirnent of bagpipes, then presented to a table of dignitaries. Donald Malcolm MacArthur Award for American "An emcee will publicly address the haggis with study in Scotland the Burns poem "To A Haggis," in which Burns lauds it as the "Great Chieftain o' the Puddin-race." At the poem's climax, he will ceremoniously thrust the dagger into the Judlth Good $2500 University of Edinburgh heart of the stomach, as it were, and the haggis will be Roscommon, Michigan Artificial Intelligence spooned out and sewed. "Rut while haggis commands reverence among Other Awards Scots and Burns aficionados, it is far from flavor of the month at the 1J.S. De~artmentof Agriculture." Because the government restricts meat products from countries with a Kimberly Binststead $1 500 University of Edinburgh record of bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or "mad-cow Blain, Washington Artificial Intelligence disease," importing Scottish haggis is illegal. Even tinned haggis is verboten; it wouldn't be much use at a Burns Jessica A. Kidd $1500 Purdue University supper anyway. "You can't stick a dirk [Scottish dagger] Alexandria, Virginia Veterinary Medicine through a tin,' says Alan Bain, president of the Arnerican- Scottish Foundation. "Instead, Burns supper organizers in America C>me J.Christcnsen $1000 Brigham Young U. depend on domestic toil. Charles Davidson, a Scottish Orem, Utah Elementary Education butcher who owns the Royal Market in Kearny, New Jersey makes about 1,000 pounds of haggis for Burns suppers Troy Jamison $1000 University of Virginia nationwide. Springfield, VA Electrical Engineering "It takes three days to make a haggis. On the first day, Mr. Davidson cooks, cools and grinds the innards. On Nargaret Devine University of Glasgow the second. he mixes it with onions. oatmeal and "s~ecial $500 spices" and then stuffs the mixture'into the stomach. On Manchester, Mass. Scottish Literature the third day, he boils the stomach for an hour-and-a-half
to~ two~ --...--- hours. Ruth E. Grant $500 University of Edinburgh "There is one major difference between Mr. Valley Stream, NY Scottish History Davidson's haggis and the old-country type. 'Back in Scotland they use the 'plucks1--the heart, the lungs, the Merideth T. Harley $500 University of Edinburgh liver and the intestines,' Mr.Davidson says. 'Here, the USDA won't allow you to use lungs. I try to put most of the New Bern, NC Scottish Music others in, but I use primarily liver."' Marta Muckenfuss $500 Univ. of South Carolina Lexington, SC English Idterature
Laura S. Sugg $500 University of Edinburgh Alexandria, Virginia Celtic Christianity PRESERVING THE ANCIENT TONGUE: GAELIC "'So niany of the symbols by which we differentiate ourselves as Scots are in fact the Highland symbols: the By Donald Smith NA JIONAI (iEO(;RAPHIC bagpipe, the whisky and the tartan,' Professor William Gillies, who holds the Celtic chair at Edinburgh University, tells National Geographic. [ Wa1lnc.e 6i~eNprovided this nrticle printed in Ee WW3shinptonTinws tiom which this disci~ssionof the c.irrrent wti~'?tionrqqarn'lng the Gaelic l~ngi1'3gein ScotL?nd was "CNAG estimates that as many as 5,!)00 Scots have extrac-tedI been studying Gaelic for a year or more through various organizations and through classes conducted by local "Call it a Gaelic irony. When Donald Lamont first authorities and self-improvement groups. During the first applied for college, he was turned down by universities in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen. Although he speaks three months of a British Broadcasting Co. television language course, 21,000 viewers wrote in requesting study English perfectly well- with a mild brogue -the young native materials or further information. More Gaelic television of this island in the Inner Hebrides couldn't satisfy the programs than ever are being broadcast in Scotland. Since schools' exacting English-language requirements. He scored 1989, the British government has spent about $1 h million higher in Gaelic, his native tongue. a year to produce as much as six hours a week of Gaelic programming. "Gaelic, Mr. Lamont explains with a wry grin, was the subject he wished to study at these venerable Gaelic arts, especially traditional music and dance, institutions. Instead, Mr. Lamont settled for Sabhal Mor have experienced a revival. Since the first officially Ostaig, Scotland's only Gaelic-language college, on Skye. sanctioned "feil" (festival) held on the Outer Hebrides island Mr. Laniont, now 22, graduated last year and works at the of Barra five years ago, about 30 such events have sprung college, which operates in a group of converted stone barn across the Highlands and islands. A Scottish rock group, buildings and trailers. Sabhal Mor Ostaig is in the vanguard ilp Kunrig, and a folk ensemble, Capercaille, use Gaelic in their of a last-ditch effort in Scotland, much of it underwritten by performances. They have attracted many young followers. the British government, to preserve the ancient tongue from obliteration, a fate many predict it will suffer if current 1994 A1 ,I!XANDRIA GAMES trends continue. Thanks arc cxtcridcd to the (:orps of Stcw~arilsfir "'While the progress we've made has been dramatic. the help that thcy proviclccl ill 11lannirig the Socictv tcnt and encouraging, we're under no illusions that we've just ciurillg the recent Alcxi~nciria Highland Games. John started, and the situation is still extremely critical,' says 1-umsdcn has idctltificd the fi)llowillg rncn~bcrsas hcillg of Allan Campbel I, director of Comunn Na Gaidhlig (CNAG), particular assistal1c.c. a quasi-governmental agency based in lnverness that seeks John Aakcsson to promote Scotland's Celtic culture and language. John Rcllasai Paul Rrc~knian "In Ireland, just over 1 million people, 31 percent Jack Burns of the population, speak that country's dialect of Gaelic a - Kichdnl 1)unlap close relative of Scottish Gaelic. In Wales, more than half a Johri Grahani million people, 19 percent of the population, speak Welsh React Harlnicr a more distant linguistic cousin. The 1991 census found Rob Hardy only 66,000 Gaelic speakers in all of Scotland 1.2 percent - (:atc.shy ~cincs of the population. The fortress of Gaelic culture is the outer Stewart hlacrae Hebrides, with their 29,500 inhabitants." Nathan h.larsltcli Jirn MacGrcgor [ Tl7e beginning of the declihe of Scotti~hGaelic Jan~cshIcPhcrson rested on the major defeat of the /ncobites at Culloden and John Nuvcau the ensuing genocidal massacre of the H&hlanders by the John Wallacc British troops under "ButcherJ'Cumberland The forces that ensured this decline would continue were put irrevocably A special thanks is due John Wallacc who spcnt in place by the misgiridedpolicies of the "Clearances': that almost all of both days at the tcnt. were based upon the misgutded notion that short term John hopes that he did not omit the names of any profits caused sheep to be .more desirable tenants than Stewards who were at the tcnt but perhaps were not on the people. A fir this the terrible losses of yoirng men in was advance list. In atidition, President Dick Badgcr, anti various substantially reduced the existing Gaelic speaking past presidents and Society members spcnt time at the tent population and came close to eliminating the fathers for greeting those who stoppctf by to say hello or inquire about hture generations.] rhc Society. Congratulatio~ato John Wallace who has been sclectcd as Associate Chairman of the Corps of Stewards. THE EARL OF PEKTH, Ah%', AND HAMISH HAMISH VIEWS CONSTRUCTION
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~niinuedNext P+ge turlnd out in spite of tl~cit~tcn~peratc wcathcr. At ollcc SAINT ANDREWS S(X:TETY YOUTH CORPS , tlic ratings ar,pcarcd IJcaririg trays of fimd and drink (or u1as tt t ic otlxr way an)uiicl?) while the piper playc~i011 the deck. Thc Board of hlanagcrs is tliscussing the establishment of a I,(ird Pcrth wc1a)mcd the "other" ~ocsts,apparciitljr Youth Corps for sons of Society rncmbcrs and other young Icadcrs of iliclustnr. the arts aiic1 all of, Scottish dcscerlt. men bemrcen the ages of 14 to 18 who are of Scottish ancestry ant1 sponsored by a member of the Society. c€isplavpof ~cotlan~I'b' huge trcasui-c tl.chc, having lanpuishcd ill otxcscurit~for ten) long. "The ambassador t3oilitc.d to tllc l( )titr li~icof Scottish The purpose of the Youth Corps would be to intcrest our iilvciitors, cii riiic&.i and othcr g~aisiii ~irtuallyall young men in the workings of the Socic~and prepare them fields of cli'kavor aticl carried that l~critagcto all for everlnlal inelllbership. Through n \rc)uth coor~iinator, conrrs of tlie earth and, latterly, s )ace. After all tl~erc ~\~cntswould be held cspcciall\; for thcsc vonng nlcn to attcnd arc oiil\l 12 n~illioilScots ill Great h ritaiii, but a11othcr and gct to know each othcr. ~~cntscn\;isioncd inclu~lctrips 40 n~illioiiof Scottish dcscetl t 011 this coiiti~lctltalo~ie ! to sporting cvcrlts, cultural events, ctc.. I suspect inany c rrcstioos were asked aiid p~ssibly aiiswcrcd judgiilg \ JY the dill oil the elaiii dcc of this bcau~ifi~l nrc discmbarkcd, with rcloctancc, If JY)~havc aythoughts or commcnts concerni~lg this follo~ringthe plasiiig of thc aiitlicms 1~ thc Royal proposer1 progranl please sent1 them to hlr. Jarnes Fargo, Marine l>a~i~l. 7506 Willowbrook Road, Fail-fas Station, VA 22039-21 14. "5 At 2000 hrs., the final event i>cga11at thc .ircncrahlc New York Racquet Club for some 120 quests it1 ad~iitio~ito 0111. group. After a nramming drink we took our assignc~1places at r011ii~1tables tor tile ditlilcr . 'T'hlrc courses along, Lord Pert11 was back on his fcet, apolosizii~gfi )r t llc iicccssit~of i~lfi)rn~i~~g11s of thc Jurposc octhis exercise, the icalization of the late 1~1-'1 kutc's \.ision of tllc new Muscunl- his life-long dream.
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