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OTHER CLAN NEWS
CTS
TO SPEARHEAD LONGTERM CLAN CENTRE FUNDRAISING
The Community of the Tonsured Servant, who are already the leading donors
of funds to the Clan Centre, are to shoulder the main responsibility for
long-term fundraising for the Centre. The Clan Centre Trustees have
decided that it no longer makes sense to have both the Centre and the CTS
trying to raise funds for the same thing, and that in future the CTS
executive should take the lead in this, working with the retired Dean of
Cornell University, Glenn MacMillan (New York) who has offered to devote
his lifetime of experience in fundraising for charitable and educational
bodies to doing the same for the Clan Centre. Glenn was pictured in the
last issue of the newsletter with his wife Flower whilst attending the
Maritimes gathering in Canada.
CTS Abbot Blanche McMillan (Burlington, Ontario), who is pictured left, has achieved something of a coup by persuading the authorities on Iona to allow the CTS to hold their Investiture Service - part of the July GR2002 International Gathering - in the historic abbey there. A number of new Companions will be inducted, and many existing Companions are taking this unique opportunity to renew their vows in the church described by Chief George as "the cradle of Scottish Christianity" (please see back page for more info on this special event).
CTS Founder, and Abbot Emeritus, Rev. Canon A. Malcolm MacMillan has announced his engagement to Doctor Patricia McCormick Dwyer. The happy couple will be married on the 4th of May, and "Father Mac" will be bringing his new bride to Scotland for the first time in July for GR2002.
CHIEF
IN CALIFORNIA:
Chief George and his wife Jane enjoyed a wonderful visit to California in
February, as the guests of the Clan MacMillan Pacific Branch and Clan
MacMillan Arizona. Among the many notable events that they attended was a
gathering and dinner on board the retired ocean-liner Queen Mary, and a
visit to the Grand Canyon. George and Jane are pictured right with fellow
chief James McBain of McBain and his wife Peggy at the Highland Games they
attended as Distinguished Guests in Arizona, where the McBains live.
For pictures of George and Jane in California please go to the website of
the Pacific Branch Southern
George and Jane will be returning to the USA at the end of May for the Glasgow Highland Games in Kentucky.
For PDF of original News page: Page 2
Issue No. 18 also
contains a summary of the Clan Centre accounts for the year 2001
and a list of branches/societies and individuals who made donations to
the Centre
between 1st July 2001 and 1st April 2002 (Page
7)
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