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Scotkilt is a family business owned and run by Gary Smyth in the heart of the capital city of the Scottish Highlands. Gary, who gained his passion for Highland Dress whilst serving as a drummer in the Pipes & Drums of the 1st Battalion Queens Own Highlanders, learnt his trade, first as a kilt-maker and then as a Production Manager, with the world famous Hector Russell Kiltmaker Group. Scotkilt’s attention to Gary can advise on detail includes pressing proper etiquette when all their kilts, skirts, it comes to Highland trews and jackets at Dress, and provide various stages of the outfits - kilts, kilted manufacturing process skirts, tartan trews, to ensure a well-fitting and some jackets - all garment which will made and finished on guarantee complete the premises in the customer satisfaction. heart of Inverness. Barry McMillen, MN, USA, ordered his kilt and plaid from the United States: Canoeing for Cancer Relief “Gary did a great job for me and I’d thoroughly recommend Scotkilt.” at the Inverness Gathering The Scotkilt shop stocks a full range of Highland Dress accessories, such as jackets, waistcoats/ vests, sporrans, kilt pins, tartan ties and scarves - as well as numerous souvenir items. Scotkilt also have a full Hire Department, which This issue includes: offers a choice of nine tartans in three Outfit Styles. Publishing Macmillans’ Tree Issue No. 9 Scotkilt, 92 Academy Street, Inverness, IV2 1LU. Chief George in the Carolinas and Texas Tel: 01463-221800; Fax: 01463-221799. November 2007 A MacMillan DNA Study California 2008 www.scotkilt.co.uk Covenanting MacMillans in Galloway 28 1 Scenes from Inverness 2007 Photos here and on page 27 by Mike McMillen, Tom Szczepanik and Graeme Mackenzie 2 27 The Programme for the August 2008 International Gathering of Clan MacMillan & Septs in California TOURS UNIVERSAL STUDIOS Clan MacMillan Sunday morning we will board a bus at 11:00 a.m. to take us to International Centre Universal Studios. You will see where many movies and TV series are filmed and experience first hand a great adventure in being part of the at Finlaystone movie set. There is also a main street with many trendy shops. The drive time will be approximately one hour. The buses will depart from the Chairman: studios to the campus at 5:00p.m. This will allow ample time to go on George G. MacMillan the studio tour and to do lots of shopping. This is $75, which covers the of MacMillan and Knap bus, entrance & tour. Trustees: Photo by Mike McMillen David Brown, Scotland LOS ANGELES & SANTA MONICA Clan MacMillan International Magazine Peter MacMillan, England Monday morning we will board a bus for a sightseeing tour of Los Angeles and the surrounding area including the Issue No. 9, November 2007 prehistoric Tar Pits where remains of dinosaurs have been found. We will be dropped off at the Kings Arms (British John B. McMillan, Canada Pub) in Santa Monica. This is a wonderful chance to see one of Southern California’s famous beaches and walk around Lamar McMillin, USA Santa Monica proper. The cost is $35 but the lunch tab is your responsibility. Connall Bell, USA CONTENTS Phillip McMillan, USA HUNTINGDON LIBRARY & GARDENS Tuesday morning and afternoon will be spent at the Huntington Library & Margaret Pool, New Zealand 4 Editorial & Clan Centre News Gardens situated in Pasadena. The gardens contain practically every species June Danks, Australia of flowers and plants known to man. The Library is known for its 5 News About the Clan Worldwide Centre Curator: Gainsborough and Reynolds pictures including “Blue Boy”, and every quarter Pauline Simpson 6 From Greenville to Austin by George MacMillan new items pertaining to different artists are added. The cost is $50, which includes the entrance fee. If you wish to have afternoon tea - served from Genealogist & Editor: 8 Early Clan Connections by Nigel Macmillan noon until 3:30 p.m. at $26 per person - you will need a reservation (contact Graeme Mackenzie. the Bells). Picnics are not allowed, but there is a small café, which is available 9 Covenanting MacMillans by Somerled MacMillan for a sandwich lunch. The Clan MacMillan International Magazine is published twice a year, and sent free to all 12 The Loch Ness Experience by Mike McMillen members of Clan MacMillan International SCHEDULE 14 Publishing Macmillans’ Family Tree (CMI), the worldwide organisation based at the home of Clan Chief George MacMillan. 16 A Kiwi in Glenurquhart by Laurie Macmillan SATURDAY, AUGUST 2 TUESDAY, AUGUST 5 12:00 noon Registration Opens 07:30 a.m. Breakfast – campus dining room Subscriptions to CMI – which is open to all 18 A MackMillion DNA Study by Gary McMillian Afternoon free to explore the town 09:00 a.m. Business Meeting for CMSNA M’millans and septname bearers – help of Claremont 11:00 a.m. Buses leave for Huntington Gdns fund the work of the Clan Centre 21 Community of the Tonsured Servant 05:00 Dinner – campus dining room 04:30 p.m. Buses leave for Pitzer College “...to collect, preserve, display and disseminate 07:00 – 10:00 p.m. Meet & Greet in Hospitality Room 06:00 p.m. Dinner – campus dining room 22 More International News material about Clan MacMillan and its Septs for 07:30 p.m. Lecture on Celts – Morgan Mullins the benefit of clan members and other interested SUNDAY, AUGUST 3 08:30 – 10:00 p.m. Hospitality Room open 24 MacMillans and Friends in the Limelight 08:00 a.m. Breakfast people; and to assist the chief, clan societies and 09:00 a.m. CTS Meeting WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 6 individual clanspeople around the world in the 26 California 2008 Gathering Programme 11:00 a.m. Buses leave for Universal Studios 07:30 a.m. Breakfast – campus dining room promotion of the clan and its ideals” (about an hour’s drive) 09:30 a.m. Buses depart for church (Clan Centre Mission Statement drawn up 05:00 p.m. Buses depart for Pitzer College 10:00 a.m. CTS Ceremony at Clan MacMillan Conclave in June 2000). 06:30 p.m. Dinner First Methodist Church, Ontario 08:00 – 10:00 p.m. Hospitality Room 12:00 noon Buses depart for Pitzer College The annual subscription for 1st January to 01:00 p.m. Lunch – campus dining room 31st December 2008 is UK £15 or US $30. MONDAY, AUGUST 4 02:00 p.m. Conclave Session Cheques – in UK pounds or US dollars Right: Chief George 07:30 a.m. Breakfast – campus dining room 05:00 p.m. Buses depart for formal only please – should be made out to 09:00 a.m. Buses leave campus for sightseeing Gala Dinner preparing to take Clan MacMillan International and sent to: part in the Cancer tour of Los Angeles 05:30 p.m. Cocktail hour 11:00 a.m. Buses drop off at Santa Monica 06:30 p.m. Gala Dinner Clan MacMillan International Centre, Relief Clan Challenge 02:00 p.m. Buses depart for Pitzer College 09:45 p.m. Buses depart for Pitzer College Finlaystone, Langbank, using the paddle presented to him in 03:30 p.m. CMIC Trustees’ meeting PA14 6TJ, Scotland. 06:00 p.m. Dinner – campus dining room THURSDAY, AUGUST 7 2002 by the Glengarry 08:00 – 10:00 p.m. Hospitality Room open 08:00 a.m. Farewell Breakfast – dining room For more information go to: and Ottawa Valley www.clanmacmillan.org Branch of the clan Details of venues and travel information can be found on the website at www.clanmacmillan.org/CA2008.html from whence further registration/booking forms can also be downloaded. They must be received by 31 Jan 2008 Printed by Speedprint, Unit 3, with deposit of 50% of total amount owed; the balance will be due by 30 April 2008. Lotland Place, Inverness, IV1 1PB. Application fee of $15 required from non-CMSNA members. Tel. 01463 710928. www.quick2print.co.uk 26 3 Editorial and Clan Centre News This edition of the Clan a generous act of sponsorship would be no diminution in the MacMillan International by our chief. While we would total amount of news and Magazine is something of an hope to attract more advertising features - indeed, we hope we’d experiment - both with layout in future issues, and similar acts be able to fit more in - and, and with the use of colour on of sponsorship from others, most importantly, no net some pages. there may be another way in increase in overall annual New Companions of the Tonsured Servant with Abbot Blanche & Chief George Photo by John B. McMillan The more professional look which we could fund colour expenditure. inside is inspired by the printing on a regular basis. If this proves feasible we excellent cover layout The suggestion is that hope it would meet with our Brigadier Alistair Macmillan (Howwood, Renfrewshire, Scotland), sometime suggested by professional instead of producing two members’ approval, and we Treasurer of the Clan MacMillan International Centre, has been invited to graphic artist Mike McMillen similarly-sized black and white look forward to receiving your become a Colonel Commandant of the Royal Army Medical Corps for five (Minneapolis) to whom we’re publications a year we might views on the matter - either years from 2008. most grateful. instead have one larger and directly or via the Clan Centre Alistair attended the recent clan gathering in Inverness with his father, Sir The use of colour printing partially coloured “magazine” - Trustees. In the meantime we Graham Macmillan, his brother Donald and his wife Julia, his sister Janie and her on this occasion has been made like this - and one smaller black hope you enjoy this packed, husband John Howell, and his sister Catriona Macmillan.
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