US $4.00 CLAN WALLACE SOCIETY WORLDWIDE The Guardian A Quarterly Publication for the Clan Wallace Summer 2013 Established In 1966. Vol 47, Number 3 A Letter From Our President The Grandfather Mountain Festival members are welcome to attend the sponsored a COSCA meeting on Thurs- meeting on Friday and at the Festival day and Saturday to discuss the pro- on Saturday. For further information posed Gathering in Scotland for the concerning the Festival, one should Bannockburn 700 celebration, and to visit their website at: begin to establish the basis for COSCA http://charlestonscots.org. member Clans and Societies to in- The Clan Wallace Society has been crease our effectiveness dealing both invited to attend the North East Florida with the Clans and Societies outside Celtic Festival as the honored Clan and within Scotland. Russ Harper, our next February. It would be wonderful if Executive Vice President and our CO- we could have as many Society mem- SCA representative, Ralph Wallace, our bers attend this very lovely one day Secretary, and I attended the meeting festival. Remember that it is held in where we were presented with com- January and the weather in the Jack- ments by Lord Jamie Sempill and Mal- sonville, Florida, area is usually in the colm MacGregor of MacGregor con- low 70's or high 60's. Those living cerning the events leading up to the north of Florida will find Jacksonville a proposed Gathering and the Bannock- welcome break from the ice and snow burn 700 celebration. As most proba- of winter. bly know, the proposed Gathering in 2014 is not going to occur. The Ban- Thanks to all! nockburn 700 event has not been CWSW President Larry Slight planned as a replacement, but is a stand-alone event to be held at Stir- Larry. Greetings! It's summertime and the ling, Scotland. We are planning to be living is easy. Or at least that's what included in the Scottish Clan Village, Lawrence Slight, President, CWSW the song says and for those of you which will hold at most, 40 clan tents. who are retired, it actually may be We will attend the event for the 3 days true. As for me, I have another five of June 28, 29 and 30, 2014. It’s a Fact! months before my opportunity to fi- As most know, the Society is planning nally reach retirement will arrive. In our trip to and tour of Scotland in June There are as many the meantime, I continue to be gain- 2014. All who are interested in joining fully employed in a career that has Scottish people in this fun filled event should contact now spanned forty plus years. Lois Wallace at the address provided in living in North Over the weekend of July 11, 12, 13 this newsletter. If you plan to attend, America as in and 14, we attended the major Scot- you should submit your tour applica- Scotland, with tish games and Festival at Grandfather tion now, because half of the tour res- Mountain in the Boone, North Carolina ervations have already been sold. The censuses in the area. My wife, Judy, and I enjoyed a tour will include attending the Ban- United States and soggy weekend on the mountain after nockburn event and a dinner with our Canada identifying a week’s vacation in North Carolina. Acting Chief, Andrew Wallace. We visited a few friends in the western around five million Additionally, our Annual Directors part of the state along with a tour of Meeting is planned for the Charleston, people claiming the Biltmore Mansion in the Asheville South Carolina, Scottish Festival over area. Scottish ancestry. the September 20-22 weekend. All PAGE 2 THE GUARDIAN SUMMER 2013 Contacts What’s a “Gléidhidh”? President Lawrence Slight 906 Red House Branch Road St. Augustine, FL 32084 [email protected] Executive V.P. & Conveners' Affairs Russ Harper Many of the conveners who represent Below is an article from the March the Clan Wallace Society at cultural 2001 edition (Vol 35, No 1) of “Am 111 Hilary Court festivals have in their possession fear-gléidhidh/The Guardian” on the Lewisville, NC 27023-9547 Wallace Tartan banners inscribed with proper pronunciation of “the Gaelic.” convener_affairs@scottish- the words “Am fear-gléidhidh.” In fact, Incidentally, back-issues of the Soci- harpers.com this newsletter went by the same ety’s award-winning newsletters are moniker until three years ago. available at the CWSW website. Secretary Ralph L. Wallace Reprinted from the March 2001 newsletter 11751 Arbor Glen Way Reston, VA 20194 [email protected] Content Editor R. Wayne Jones Ranson, WV [email protected] Layout Editor Tom E.S. Wallace Sackville, Nova Scotia [email protected] Membership Chair Karen Wallace 4634 N. Beechwood Dr Macon, GA 31210-2304 Tel: 478-471-7489 [email protected] Webmaster Jim “Bowie” Wallace It’s a Fact! Bowie, MD 20720 [email protected] the official animal of Scotland is actually the clanwallace.org unicorn. PAGE 3 THE GUARDIAN SUMMER 2013 Jean R. Wallace Recognized Editorial Women of the Year Award. The vote to sense of commitment bear witness to present this award to her was unani- her belief that accepting any position We all know Jean R. Wallace from Ar- mous. The award was presented by of responsibility should be met with a kansas as a former director of the Clan Steven B. Jones, the Secretary of the great sense of obligation. It is refresh- Wallace Society – Worldwide. From state Democratic Party (DPA). She was ing to see someone actively involved in 2003 until 2012 she served admirably, very surprised and humbled, and so their political beliefs when most people never missing an annual meeting. Jean thankful to her friends who supported in the country don’t want to get in- was Director of Convener Affairs for six her for this award. It was indeed a well volved. No matter which political party years and conducted those duties in a deserved reward for her tireless ef- you support, you may well agree that meritorious manner and made changes forts. this kind of dedication is rare. designed to assist Society conveners more effectively represent the Society. As with her dedication to Clan Wallace, Congratulations, Jean, on receiving She also transcribed three of the Wal- she has only missed one meeting since this prestigious recognition of your lace books to electronic format making becoming involved with the DPA. We accomplishments! it much easier to update. And yet, here are certain that her dedication and is more to her story! In 2003, the same year Jean became a Board Member, she became seriously involved in Arkansas politics. Her high school friend, General Wesley Clark, was asked to run for President of the United States. With a background in politics going back to high school where she was in a group that formed Young Democrats, and experience in campaigning for Congressman Dale Alford running for Governor of Arkan- sas and Senator Dale Bumpers, she jumped right into the race. In fact she was on her way to the Clan Wallace Annual Board Meeting when General Clark made the announcement that he was running. She was on the staff for the “Draft Clark Campaign for Presi- dent,” wherein she traveled to six states rallying and canvassing with him and his staff. Since then, Jean has had many accomplishments that highlight her enjoyment of the political process, including serving on the Executive Committee of the Arkansas Democratic Party; being awarded Humanitarian of the Year from the Arkansas Federation of Democratic Women; elected dele- gate to the 2012 Democratic National Convention; and named 2012 Little Rock-Pulaski County Democratic Woman of the year. With all these accomplishments, it should be no surprise that in June, Jean was presented with the “Gressie Carnes” State of Arkansas Democratic Steven B. Jones presents to Jean R. Wallace the “Woman of the Year” award. PAGE 4 THE GUARDIAN SUMMER 2013 Convener’s News one joining CWSW on Sunday. This may were in town again to a rousing welcome be an attendance record for the Clan both days from those in the Yolo County Wallace tent at the Texas Scottish Festi- Fairgrounds. A new band to us, 1916, val & Highland Games. There was a from Bakersfield, not quite as good as the "Scotland of Old" laminated map on dis- Tinkers, but kept a good size crowd lis- play that drew a large number of folks to tening through each of their sets. Smaller it to find where their ancestors came groups also performed at the several from. Part of the map is visible in the stages set up inside the fairgrounds. attached picture of Frank & Jim taken in Several of our Ayrshire “cousin” clans front of the CWSW tent. Overall, a good were at the grounds: Boyd, Bruce, Craw- time was had by all! ford and Lindsay. Our thanks to Clan Lindsay for offering a sip of Wallace Woodland Games Scotch Liqueur brought back recently By Bob Wallace from Scotland. Among other things, Clan Lindsay has also been to some number of The 137th Anniversary Sacramento Valley the castles in Scotland, including Craigie, Scottish Games and Festival was held in just a few miles outside Kilmarnock and Woodland, California over the April 27-28 Riccarton. They brought back pictures of weekend. Attendance was great on Sat- what they saw, although they were un- urday, but dwindled again on Sunday, able to get close enough for a good look Frank Leslie and Past President Marcus something that's been readily apparent in due to cows being in the field adjacent to “Jim” Wallace in their finery.