July 4th 2015 Loch Sloy! Volume 6 Issue 3 Special Issue! The Official Quarterly Magazine for CMW, Inc., ©2015 Welcome to Clan MacFarlane Inside this issue: Worldwide Looking Forward and 6 Looking Backwards When CMW was founded on July 4th, 2010, we Happy 5th! - Laurie 7 were excited, nervous, and tenuous among other McFarland Jackson adjectives. The core group that began the process of forming our new or- Happy Birthday—Sandy 9 ganization was determined to succeed and after five years the foundation McFarland Morgan has been solidified and now CMW is thriving. Happy Birthday—Neal 10 This is a proud time for Marie and Steve Robb, Laurie and Don Jackson, MacFarlanes in Australia 11 my wife, Cheryl, and me. To think that the initial thoughts of starting our own organization began simply enough around the dinner tables in CMW Annual Members’ 14 Meeting Information Scotland is amazing to think about. CMW Founders’ Birthday 15 With a lot of planning, organizing, heartache, trials and tribulations, we Wishes officially established CMW on September 11, 2010. CMW and all Clan CMW Membership 21 MacFarlane members, have established an organization that ALL Application MacFarlane’s can be proud of, not just our ever increasing membership. Cheryl and I personally want to thank everyone (the list is too long to give everybody’s name) that has taken our fantastic organization from its mea- ger beginnings, to the juggernaut it has become. HAPPY BIRTHDAY CLAN MACFARLANE WORLDWIDE!!! I look forward to celebrating many more! Yours Aye and Loch Sloy! Randy McFarland Founding Member/President CMW (2010—2012) 5th Birthday Special Issue 2015 Loch Sloy! Loch Sloy! Clan MacFarlane Worldwide was incor- Published Quarterly by porated on July 4th, 2010 in Kansas, Clan MacFarlane Worldwide, Inc. USA. The idea itself was born a year 1202 Union Rd. earlier almost 2 thousand miles away sur- Lawrence, KS. 66044 rounded by the deep waters of Loch Lo- http://www.clanmacfarlane.org mond and in the shadow of Ben Lo- mond. It was on the island of Inveruglas, EDITOR a former Macfarlane stronghold, that the Steven A. Robb founding members put forth their idea of 1-785-640-4648 a Society that would embrace all de- [email protected] scendants of the clan no matter their cur- Contributing Columnists: rent location. A So- Laurie McFarland Jackson ciety that would Randall McFarland work to preserve the Malcolm Lobban physical and cultural Marie Robb aspects of Clan MacFarlane. A Society Sandy McFarland Morgan that would build lasting relations with Neal McFarland the inhabitants of Arrochar, Tarbet, CMW Founding Members Ardlui and other ancestral lands. A Soci- ety for you! Note from Your Editor: It would be easy for me to say, it’s hard to believe it’s been five years since we formed CMW, but that is far from the case. All of us who helped form CMW knew in our hearts that we needed a new and positive organization to carry on the traditions and heritage of all MacFarlane’s and their septs. We all should be proud of what we have accom- plished over the last five years. With the constant growth of membership and the fantastic success of our face book page, we all deserve a big pat on the back. With all, I mean everyone who is asso- ciated with CMW. From the original founders, paying members, fellow members and face book followers, you all have been a big part of making us who we are, and to all of you a big Aye. As we continue into the future, I am confident that CMW will remain a success due to ability of our board members and members. With that, I encourage all qualified members to seek and hold of- fice as a board member. This will help bring in new ideas and energy in keeping CMW going for years to come. To all, I want to thank you again for all you have done and am looking forward to a great future. Please enjoy the well wishes of all the founding members who have wholeheartedly participated in this birthday celebration. Steve July 2015—5th Birthday Issue Loch Sloy! 2 Officers and Directors President 2015 — Peter McFarlin; Director 2010 through 2013, 2014 through 2016 [email protected] Vice President 2015 — Greg McFarland; Director 2013 through 2015 [email protected] Secretary 2015 — Annette McFarlane; Director 2015 through 2017 [email protected] Treasurer 2015 — Chuck Poland; Director 2014 through 2016 [email protected] Director — Mary Helen Haines; Director 2010 through 2012, 2013 through 2015 [email protected] Director — Preston McFarland; Director 2015 through 2017 [email protected] Director — Sandy Morgan 2010 through 2012, 2013 through 2015 [email protected] Director — Barbara Duff; Director 2015 through 2017 [email protected] Director — Melissa Knox; Director 2015 through 2016 [email protected] Committee Chairs Website — Preston McFarland [email protected] Genealogy — Mary Helen Haines [email protected] Highland Games — Greg McFarland [email protected] Membership — Sandy McFarland Morgan [email protected] Heritage — Peter McFarlin [email protected] Elections — Marie Robb [email protected] Finance — James MacFarlane [email protected] Facebook — Karen McFarlin [email protected] Marketing Chair — Laurie McFarland Jackson [email protected] Merchandising — Melissa Knox [email protected] Publication — Steve Robb [email protected] July 2015—5th Birthday Issue Loch Sloy! 3 CMW Delegates and Hosts Please feel free to contact the following Clan MacFarlane Delegates with your questions about CMW and upcoming Games in your area. Randy and Cheryl McFarland—Washington, Oregon [email protected] Steve and Marie Robb — Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas [email protected] Michael A. McFarland — Missouri/co-delegate [email protected] Eric Funkhouser — Illinois, Missouri/co-delegate [email protected] Greg McFarland — Colorado/ co-delegate, New Mexico, Wyoming [email protected] Betsy McFarland — Texas/co-delegate [email protected] Melissa Knox — Texas/co-delegate [email protected] Jim and Jo MacFarlane — Alabama [email protected] Charles McFarland — Virginia/co-delegate [email protected] July 2015—5th Birthday Issue Loch Sloy! 4 CMW Delegates — Continue Chuck Poland — Virginia/co-delegate [email protected] Ian and Dottie MacFarlane — Georgia/co-delegate [email protected] Preston and Paula McFarland — Utah [email protected] Cheryl McFarlin Corey — Florida/co-Delegate [email protected] Terry and Lorraine Sandeen — Florida/co-Delegate [email protected] Peter F. and Karen McFarlin — New England and New York [email protected] Don and Laurie MacFarland Jackson — California [email protected] Andrew Macfarlane — New Zealand [email protected] Anne Wolf Fraley and Kenneth W. Fraley, Sr. — Kentucky, Georgia/co-Delegate [email protected] © Taxgedo, 2015 July 2015—5th Birthday Issue Loch Sloy! 5 Looking Forward and Looking Backwards Welcome to a special issue of your Loch Sloy! Although this is a Birthday issue for Clan MacFarlane Worldwide, Inc., it is also the start of what we hope will be a look at MacFarlane his- tory as well as current global activities of MacFarlanes. We normally talk about our past and we all enjoy the stories of our roots and where we come from. Who doesn’t love to hear the stories and imagine walking the same earth our ances- tors walked? But we are also here today. So we thought it would be interesting to create a time- line of MacFarlanes. We will reach back as far as we can to create a timeline that we can all add to, correct, argue about, enjoy and keep growing. But what a timeline that will be! This issue will start with a nice article by a new addition to the editing team, Malcom Lobban. He is contributing a piece about the history of the Clan MacFarlane Society Australia, Incorporated. Then in September, I will do my very best to present you with a timeline of what I can find about MacFarlanes from our past up until about 1978. I do expect to hear from you for additions! Keep your fingers crossed! This will be quite the task. But the idea is that if you have a piece of your family history that you can add, we will build it in. We will not get too detailed. I think where this will lead us will be a surprise to us all. And as we reach current day, we will con- tinue to add what we know of MacFarlanes and ourselves as we live our lives now. As Steve has noted, we have received numerous birthday wishes for CMW. We will start with Laurie McFarland Jackson’s message, followed by Sandy McFarland Morgan’s, Neal McFar- land’s, and then Malcolm’s article. We will then follow with the rest of the wishes. All the birth- day wishes are wonderful. Hopefully these will motivate you to participate in CMW activities whenever you can, because we really are having lots of fun. Which brings me to the upcoming AMM in Pleasanton, California. We will gather in September for our annual meeting. Laurie has included a separate mes- sage about the AMM, and in particular reminds us all that CMW has negotiated an incredibly low rate at the Highland Games hotel (a Marriott). However, time is running out to leverage that dis- count. So don’t dally! Can’t make it? Email a Board member and give them your proxy for voting at the AMM. So here we go… and Happy Birthday CMW! It is a pleasure to be a part. Marie Robb July 2015—5th Birthday Issue Loch Sloy! 6 Happy 5th Birthday to US! By Laurie McFarland Jackson, Founding Member Former Director, Treasurer and Secretary Gob smacked… that’s me.