Realising Scotland's Excellence

Realising

Scotland’s The elegant splendour of the Royal Museum of Scotland, where nearly 400 people contributed to the immensely successful Classics and Comedy evening on Midsummer’s Eve that raised over £35,000 for Excellence the Society. Thank you to all Fellows who through their donations and through support of the Classics and Comedy evening have donated to the Society’s fundraising.

The Marchioness of Aberdeen Professor P S Corbet Professor P M Grant Dr H M Adam Professor J F Cornwell Professor N Grassie Professor J A Allen The Hon Dame Mary Corsar Mr I R Guild Professor K J Anderson Professor A Coull Professor F D Gunstone The Viscount of Arbuthnott Professor J M G Cowie Dr A J Hale Sir James Armour Professor G Y Craig Professor M J Hamlin Sir Michael Atiyah Professor W A Cramond Mr P Harris Lady Balfour of Burleigh Sir John Crofton Professor D C Heggie Sir Ivor Batchelor Professor D W T Crompton Dr P Heywood Professor J S Beck The Rt Hon Lord Cullen Professor J Helszajn Mr B T Bellis Professor E G Cutter Professor B Henderson Professor R J Berry Professor D Daiches Professor A W Hendry Dr S Billington Professor J E Dale Professor P W Higgs Professor C C Bird The Hon Lord Davidson Dr A R Hill Sir James Black Dr I M Dawson Mr A V Holden Dr E Blackadder Professor G B Donaldson Sir Frederick Holliday Professor C Blake Professor R J Donovan The Right Reverend Richard Holloway Professor J H S Blaxter Professor C P Downes Dr G D Holmes Sir Walter Bodmer Professor R S Downie Professor P H Holmes Sir Michael Bond Dr M R Droop Professor M L Hooper Professor F F Bonsall Professor C M Duffus Dr A M Hopgood Professor I A D Bouchier Sir James Dunbar-Nasmith Professor A Howie Professor S H U Bowie Professor E A V Ebsworth Professor J M Howie Professor A W Bowman Judge D A O Edward Professor P W Howie Professor W C Bowman Professor D Edwards Mr J H Hull Professor L J Bown Sir Gerald Elliot Sir Laurence Hunter Mr A W Boyne The Lord Emslie Sir Peter Hutchison Professor D J Breeze Professor D H Everett Sir Andrew Huxley Professor J S Brimacombe Professor D S Falconer Professor D S Ingram Professor A Broadie Professor A E Fallick Dr N L Innes Professor A J Brook Dr V C Farmer Professor R D S Jack Professor E Brown Professor W E J Farvis Sir David Jack Professor J G Buchanan Dr B F Fell Dr L G Jaeger Professor B Burchell Professor P B Fellgett Professor G Jahoda Sir John Burnett Professor M A Ferguson-Smith Professor K James Professor D T Burns Professor J R S Fincham Professor W F H Jarrett Sir John Cadogan Professor C D Forbes Professor P G Jarvis The Rt Hon Lord Cameron of Professor J O Forfar Dr T L Johnston Lochbroom Professor R Foster Professor M E P Jones Professor R S F Campbell Dr J M Francis Professor N H Keeble Professor Sir David Carter Sir William Fraser Professor R E Kendell Dr T C Carter Professor S C Frazer Professor A C Kennedy Dr A C Chandley Sir Ronald Garrick Professor G W Kirby Professor E M Clive Professor A F Garvie Dr R C Kirkwood Sir John Clerk of Penicuik Professor R M Gaze Professor H J W Kleinpoppen Dr D J Coats Professor C H Gimingham Professor R J Knops Professor W Cochran Professor R H Girdwood Professor A A Lacey Professor F Cockburn Sir Abraham Goldberg Professor E W Laing Professor A P Cohen Sir Gerald Gordon The Lord Laing of Dunphail Sir Philip Cohen Professor W M Gordon Professor A I Lamond Professor J G Collee Professor N A R Gow Professor P T Landsberg Professor W D Collins Professor B G Gowenlock Sir David Lane Professor J J Connell Professor D I Graham Professor E B Lane Sir Alan Cook Professor L G Graham Professor J D M H Laver Mr J Cook Professor N B Graham Professor W Ledermann The Society also thanks those who have chosen to remain anonymous or who have donated in other ways.

Professor M R Lee Sir Fraser Noble Mr J B Smith Professor W R Lee Professor G B Ong Sir Robert Smith Dr G M Lewis Professor D C Pack Dr R H Smith Dr A K Lough Dr A L Panchen Professor W E Spear Mr G I Lumsden Professor D F Parker Professor J I Sprent The Hon Sir William McAlpine Professor E M Patterson Professor P Sprent Professor A C McBride Sir Bruce Pattullo Professor K J Standley Sir Donald McCallum Professor L E Payne Mr J Stevenson Mr J F McClelland Professor K J Peach Sir William Stewart Professor Sir Neil MacCormick Sir Alan Peacock The Rt Hon Lord Stewartby Professor R G L McCrone Dr J D Peacock Professor D W N Stibbs Dr P McDonald Professor G C Peden Professor J A Strong Lord MacFarlane of Bearsden Mr F D Penny Professor C J Suckling Professor P W MacFarlane Professor C R Pidgeon Professor H B Sutherland Professor J A McGeough Professor W S Pitcher Lord Sutherland of Houndwood Sir Ian McGregor Professor M A Player Dr I P Sword Professor D B McIntyre Dr J W Porteous Dr C E Taylor The Very Rev Professor John McIntyre Professor L F Prescott Dr D Ter Haar Professor W McKane Professor E R Priest Sir John Meurig Thomas Sir Donald MacKay Professor V B Proudfoot Mr C E Thompson The Rt Hon Lord MacKay of Clashfern Professor P N Pusey Professor D S Thomson Professor C A McKean Professor J A Raven Professor J M Thomson Professor M D McLeod Sir William Reid Mr M T Thyne Sir Malcolm MacNaughton Professor M J Rennie Professor J Tinsley Professor J MacQueen Professor J Richmond The Lord Tombs Of Brailes Professor Sir Roderick MacSween Sir Thomas Risk The Very Revd Professor Thomas Professor A G Mackie Professor D S Ritchie Torrance Dr N Mackie Professor D A Ritchie Dr P Tothill Professor R MacKie Professor D F Roberts Professor G R Tristram Professor B E H Maden Professor R J Roberts Sir David Tweedie Dr H S Marsden Professor F W Robertson Professor P N R Usherwood Dr D Martin Mr J D M Robertson Professor V Van Heyningen Dr W B Martin Sir Lewis Robertson Professor A C Walker Dr C Masters Professor J J Robinson Professor D M Walker Professor J B L Matthews Dr W D I Rolfe Dr D A Walker Rt Hon Dr Bruce Millan Mr L A L Rolland Professor E K Walton Professor A Miller Professor G J Romanes Professor A C Wardlaw Dr J A Miller The Rt Hon Lord Ross Dr C D Waterston Professor J Millgate Dr H E Ross Professor J R L Webb Professor C F Mills Dr J K Rowling Professor T S West Professor A D Milne Professor W C Russell Professor R J Wheater Dr B D Misselbrook Professor D H Saxon Professor A Whiten Professor H K Moffatt Professor A I Scott Dr G Wiener Dr B E Moon Mr J A Scott Professor M B Wilkins Professor R G Moorhouse Professor R D Scott Professor P C Wilkinson Professor H G Morgan Dr R F Sellers Professor J H Williamson Professor R G M Morris Professor P F Sharp Lord Wilson Of Tillyorn Revd Andrew Morton Sir John Shaw Professor H W Wilson Professor W D Munn Dr D M Shepherd Professor P N Wilson Professor J L Murray Professor D C Simpson Professor C R Wolf Professor M Murray Professor A S Skinner Sir Ian Wood Dr A M Neville Professor B D Sleeman Professor J A Wyke Lord Nickson Professor D M Sloan Professor A H Wyllie Professor W S Nimmo Dr E B Smith Sir Eric Yarrow Professor S D Nisbet Professor G Smith Sir Roger Young FELLOWS’ FUNDRAISING The Fellows fundraising has been generously supported by almost 30% of Fellows and will reach its target of £400,000, a figure that looked ambitious at the start of the campaign. Your contributions are helping the Society to develop Event activities and the Young Peoples’ programme and your support is gratefully recorded on these pages. The Appeal Fund remains open for Fellows who would still like to make a contribution.

PROJECT FUNDRAISING New grants of £5m mean that the campaign to develop “partnership projects” has also reached its target. The Lloyds TSB Foundation for Scotland is supporting research into ageing; a major new award to support Innovation will be funded by the Gannochy Trust and a new series of grants from Scottish Enterprise will create an expanded programme of Enterprise Fellowships. Project grants are strategically important to the Society, because they demonstrate its ability to make a high quality contribution to issues of importance to Scotland and also increase its profile. However the money flows directly through the Society Participant in Young People’s Programme. into the projects and this means the Society still needs to create free reserves to [Photo Stirling University Media Services.] fulfil the programme laid out in the Corporate Plan.

NEXT STEPS The next phase of fundraising will involve THE PATRONS’CIRCLE, the aim of which is to create an eminent forum in which select companies can make a significant contribution to Realising Scotland’s Excellence. If Scotland is to maximise the opportunity of Devolution it needs to take advantage of all the talents at its disposal and develop a co-ordinated approach to the key economic and social issues that affect the country. The RSE is in a pivotal position. Its impartiality, internationally; stimulating new thinking and independence and quality of output are acknowledged. inspiring new initiatives. Its ability to bring together key elements of the nation · Increase the output of impartial, independent expert creates the opportunity for the Patrons’ Circle to opinion for use in public and private sector policy become a significant contributor to issues important to making. the well-being of all in Scotland. ·Develop programmes of Research and Debate that The support of major organisations will be an will contribute to the realisation of Scotland’s investment in Scotland’s future and enable the Society economic, social and cultural potential and address to: ways in which the societal needs of Scotland can best · Bring together key people in Industry, Academia and be met. Government to develop thinking on areas of mutual The Society looks forward to pursuing these objectives concern. under the presidency of Lord Sutherland and would like · Act as an independent forum and focus minds on to thank Sir William Stewart for his initiative which issues of importance to Scotland, the UK and brought this campaign into being.

Auction winner commands firing of “One O’clock Gun”. [Photo by Sharon Jesson, RSE]