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Glengarry
Highland Games
Aug 1-2, 2008
The Clan Hannay Society will again have a
table at the Glengarry Highland Games in Maxville, Ontario,
Canada, on the weekend of August 1st and 2nd. The Maxville
event is one the largest annual Scottish gatherings in the
world, and home to the North American Pipe Band Championships.
For more details, visit the
official website.
Largest
Multi-Clan
Gathering in History:
Edinburgh 2009
Tickets are going fast for The Gathering
2009, part of Homecoming Scotland, a Scottish government
initiative to welcome home those with Scottish roots.
Details can be found
here.
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If you are a member, but you have not been
receiving correspondence from the Clan Hannay Society, it is
possible that our records are out of date. Please send
your latest contact information to:
The Secretary,
The Clan Hannay Society
Mrs. E. M. McArthur
7 St. John's Crescent
Edinburgh
EH12 6NX
SCOTLAND
THANK YOU TO SORBIE TOWER VISITORS
Stephen Hanna, our resident Sorbie Tower
Guide, would like to thank all visitors to the tower
-- members and non-members alike -- for being so generous with
their donations. The amount given so far from tours stands
at around GBP1,500.00 ($3,000) over a period of two years.
Visiting Sorbie and
Want a
Tour?
Stephen Hanna, who runs the Harbour Stores,
South Crescent, Garlieston (Tel, 01988 600 279, email sphcb@aol.com),
has a range of clan goods available for sale and is often
available to show cousins around the grounds of Sorbie Tower.
Garlieston is only a few kilometres east of Sorbie. See this
map for
more information on the area.
Archived
News
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Chief to Attend
Glengarry Highland Games
August 1-2, 2008
Maxville, Ontario, Canada
Dr. Hannay will also visit
Montreal Scottish Festival
Dr. David R.
Hannay will be attending the
Glengarry
Highland Games as part of his North American visit this
summer. See article, top left, for more details on the
event. The following day, August 3rd, Chief David will be at the
Montreal Scottish Festival.
Come on out and meet
the chief!
2008 Clan Hannay Gathering
and Annual General Meeting Report
A
successful clan gathering was held on Saturday afternoon May 31st,
when about 50 people were piped to
Sorbie
Tower by the new clan
piper, David Hanna from
Northern Ireland. In the morning there
was an AGM and lunch at Garlieston Village Hall and in the evening a
dinner with ceilidh/dance in Newton Stewart. At the AGM, amongst other
matters, the following two items were agreed:
1)
After consideration by the clan council, it was decided that the
arrangements agreed in 2002 whereby overseas branch members paid one
third of annual fees to the main society (and so became full members of
the main society) would cease. This was because, with some exceptions,
this had not happened.
Instead, it was agreed to
offer life membership to all annual members, allowing for fees
already paid (whether to a branch or main society ) on a pro-rata basis.
Annual membership would still be available, but only by direct debit.
The newsletter is currently sent to 527 members of whom 92 are annual
members. Of these, less than half have kept their subscriptions up to
date, but still receive the newsletter. Annual members will be written
to during the next few weeks about this.
2) Next year there is an international clan gathering in Edinburgh on July25th & 26th,
with a highland games in
Holyrood
Park, and on Saturday a
parade up the Royal Mile to a pageant at the Castle. It was
therefore decided to have the clan AGM and dinner in Edinburgh
on Friday evening July 24th,
before the international gathering , rather than have a gathering at
Sorbie at the end of May.
Clan Hannay society have already booked a tent for the highland games
and some passports for the parade and pageant. Passport tickets have
recently gone on sale and may be
sold out soon. Details can be found on
www.clangathering.org
2007 Newsletter Now
Available Online
The 2007 newsletter is
now available
online
(requires member login). Paper copies should already be
arriving in the mailbox of members.
Not a member yet?
Find out how to join.
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