Scottish News In Minnesota is an E-newsletter published on behalf of the Tartan Day Cooperative for the Scottish-American community in Minnesota & the Greater North Country Sends news & announcements to lawrencewinans@ yahoo.com no later than the 25th of the month and address changes to macraeclan@gmail. com
The community of Richfield sponsors an Independence Day march and the Minnesota Coalition of Scottish Clans is assembling Scots for the trek. Contact Jack MacMillan for more info — jacmacm@aol. com or check the Richfield website at www.richfield4thofj uly.com Twin Cities Scottish Club — Scottish Community Picnic will be held on July 11, 2009 starting 10am at the Picnic Shelter, East Bush Lake Beach, Bloomington — Bring your lunch, towels & lawn chairs — Fun & games planned for all ages — If you say you’re with the Club, parking is free Did you know? The Chief of the Cherokee Nation from 1828 to 1866 was Scottish. John Ross was 1/8 Cherokee and 7/8 Scottish and a descendant of Metis, those of mixed heritage, who was repeated elected principal Chief of the Cherokees. Ross as a planter and as an entrepreneur was likely the richest of the Cherokees and one of the wealthiest men in the nation. As a leading member of the Cherokees’ constitutional commission, Ross incorporated elements of the American Constitution into the Cherokee constitution. Independence Day It is well known that Scots played a key role in the winning of independence and the founding of the American republic. They contributed equally to the foundation of the nations of Canada, Australia & New Zealand. What is less known is that a Scot was one of the founding fathers of India as well. Allan Octavian Hume, as many Scots before him, joined the civil service in India serving the British Raj. After a time he concluded that the English were ill-serving their Indian subjects and began to agitate for Indian self-government. He was the first General Secretary of the Indian National Congress, the organization advocating for independence, and laid the groundwork for Mohandas Gandhi’s later activities. *** Robert the Bruce This King of Scotland was born on July 11, 1274 *** Minnesota Police Pipe Band — July Summer has been bright and sunny for Minnesota Police Pipe Band no matter what the weather. Grade 3 has had a very successful competition season so far with first place results at the Minnesota (MSR and Medley and Best Bass Section) and Chicago Highland Games (MSR, Best Drum Corps and Best Bass Section). At the Alma Games, Grade 3 won the Medley with Best Bass Section and placed third in the MSR. They ranked third in the US Open Pipe Band Championships at Alma.
Coming up in July you can see Minnesota Police Pipe Band at the
following parades
July 4 10:00 a.m. Edina Parade
July 4 01:00 p.m. Richfield Parade
July 11 05:30 p.m. Pan-O-Prog Parade, Lakeview MN
July 12 12:45 p.m. Basilica Block Party Community Day (free)
July 19 12:00 p.m. Hastings Rivertown Days Parade
July 26 1:00 p.m. Glenwood Waterama Parade, Glenwood MN
More information is available on our website calendar page:
www.mppb.org
***Scottish American Center and Heritage Resource
Located within the Danish American Center at
3030 West River Parkway South, Minneapolis, MN 55406
The Center will be open following our Grand Opening, to be announced soon.
Grand News! New Location! We are moving to a new location, and hope to be visited by YOU soon.
The Scottish American Center will be located at 3030 West River Parkway South, Minneapolis; just at the west end of the Lake Street Bridge. We will be spending part of the month of June making the move, and will have a Grand Opening sometime in the month of July. Stay tuned!!
Meanwhile, we STILL have need for folks to help volunteer for a time to help meet and greet. Call Tommy King (651-776-4316) to find out how and when you can help out at the SAC. Volunteer to take a shift now and then by calling Tom or email info@scottishameric ancenter. org.
New Management: The Scottish American Center is under “new management”. The Board of Directors has elected Dr. J Scott McKechnie, FSA Scot, to the position of Chairman Emeritus. Scott will be available for advice and consultation, so he is not lost to the organization. The new and current Executive Director and Chairman of the Board of SAC is John McKeen. We also have some new members of the Operating Board and we are making a major effort to pump some new energy into the organization. If you would like to get involved, we welcome your interest. You can reach John at 651-228-0022.
Donors: Those of you that have contributed your time and financial support in the past have done a wonderful thing! And we wish to acknowledge your help! Soon you will be receiving a letter of appreciation. We are making a major effort to clarify donations that have come in over the past 12 months and will be contacting you soon! We continue to have a need for support to help finance the move to our new location! At this time, we have two anonymous donors that are willing to match any new donations, up to $500.00, will qualify. This is one Great way to help the SAC.
www.scottishamerica ncenter.org Call (612) 721-8885. Saint Andrew’s Society News
The Annual General Meeting of the St. Andrew’s Society of Minnesota was held on June 14, as announced in the Thistle and Quill and previous emails. We want to share two very important pieces of information that resulted from that meeting.
First of all, St. Andrew’s has a new president. Lyaman (Mac) MacPherson was elected president. Mac and his wife Dorothy (Dee) have been members in the past, but have been inactive for a while due to their involvement with the Scottish Fair. Many of you probably know Mac through that. Mac also is a past president of the Minnesota Coalition of Scottish Clans. We are very fortunate to have Mac and Dee choose St. Andrew’s as their way of becoming reinvolved in the larger Scottish community and Mac will do a great job as president.
Denise Schlaeger was elected to fill out the one year remaining on the First Vice President term. Since Neil Johnson left for Boston, that position has been vacant. Denise will be working on putting together another great Burns Dinner, as well as other major events for St. Andrew’s. She continues as chair for the Tartan Day Cooperative and will be a great link between St. Andrew’s and Tartan Day.
Tom King and Jack MacKinnon were reelected as Treasurer and Secretary, respectively. New Delegates at Large are Don and Jo Luther, Phil Sutherland, Wells Wright, Jr., and JoAnn Wahl. New members of the Board of Governors are Judith Palmateer, Ron McRoberts, Angie Schwartz and Neil Johnson.
Second, the proposal to partner with the Scottish American Center passed overwhelmingly. As discussed in the Thistle and Quill, this will not be a merger of the 2 organizations, but a 3 year trial partnership where we will work together to promote SAC and SAS, to grow them both, and to provide SAC with some greater stability and potential volunteers to help them . SAC will be moving to a new location, in the former Danebo facility in Minneapolis, very soon. It is located just south of East Lake Street on West River Road. It will be a great facility with space and access for St. Andrew’s to use and to host some smaller events. Everyone from both organizations is very excited about this partnership and the opportunities it provides to both organizations.
Finally, the membership thanked out-going President Bob Olsson for his 4 years of service as president. Bob and Lori have done a wonderful job of leading this organization, bringing it back with a much larger membership, and planning for its future. Thank you Bob and Lori! Bob, as immediate past president, will now be chairman of the Board of Governors, and has promised to maintain a significant involvement in the day to day operations of St. Andrew’s. Bob, we intend to hold you to that promise!
July 4th March in Richfield
