- CWS Annual Directors Meeting 2008
- CWS Convener Dorothy Knight Interviewed by ElsctricScotland
- Burns Statue Restoration Project
- Presidential Proclamation makes Tartan Day official!!!
- Culloden Paving Stone Donation
- Beth's Family Tree Newsletter
- "The Vision at Wallace Monument"
- William Wallace's Crawford Connection
September 25-26, 2008
The Officers & Directors of the Clan Wallace Society - Worldwide will meet in Boise, Idaho, USA for the Annual Directors Meeting 2008. The meeting is open to all members of the Society. The meeting will will be followed by attendance at the Treasure Valley Celtic Festival and Highland Games on Saturday, Sept. 27.
CWS Annual Directors Meeting 2008
August 23, 2008
Dorothy Knight, who is the Canadian Director for the Clan Wallace Society and a Convener at many or the Canadian Games & Festivals, was interviewed by Alastair McIntyre of ElectricScotland.com at the The Selkirk History Faire, Selkirk, Ontario. To view the video, click on Selkirk History Faire 2008 Videos and then click Clan Wallace.
CWS Convener Dorothy Knight Interviewed by ElsctricScotland
June 12, 2008
Pursuant to our Articles of Incorporation and by-Laws, the Society recently contributed $360 to the Milwaukee (WI) St. Andrews Society. Member's donations to the CWS Rewards Program and membership dues make such donations possible. The Societies contribution will be recognized with a brick that is scheduled to be laid during October 2008.
The CWS brick will become part of a new apron around the statue of Robert Burns in Burns Square. Nearly one hundred years ago the Milwaukee Saint Andrews Society presented the 12' tall, 2,200 pound statue to the city. It is a duplicate of the Burns statue in Kilmarnock, Scotland. Wisconsin weather has taken a toll of the statue and the county park system cannot preserve and maintain the statue due to constrained budgets. Consequently, The Milwaukee St Andrews Society has reached an agreement with the county to create a preservation project. The project is selling engraved bricks to raise funds to preserve and maintain the statue.
The CWS brick will be engraved with the Wallace cap badge and the words: "Clan Wallace Society Worldwide 2008."
More information about the Burns Statue Restoration and Preservation Project is available at the Milwaukee St Andrews Society Buy A Brick web page and on page 55 of the May/June 2008 issue of The Highlander Magazine.
Thank you to the membership for making it possible for your Society to support this Scottish heritage preservation effort.
Burns Statue Restoration Project
April 4, 2008
President George Bush today signed a document proclaiming April 6, 2008, as National Tartan Day! This is a huge victory for us Scottish Americans. We give humble thanks to the members and associates of The Scottish Coalition USA, and many of you, for your ten years of hard work to make this possible.
Since the passing of Senate Resolution 155 in 1998 and House Resolution 41 in 2005, The Scottish Coalition and others have been actively asking the American-Scottish community to request the President of the United States to sign a proclamation proclaiming April 6, in perpetuity, as National Tartan Day. Today's Presidential Proclamation makes National Tartan Day a national holiday observance on every April 6th, similar to Flag Day, thus placing National Tartan Day on the official United States of America calendar.
Presidential Proclamation makes Tartan Day official!!!
You may view the Presidential Proclamation on the following link:
The White House Presidential Proclamation
Christie Harrison
President, Council of Scottish Clans & Associations (COSCA)
president@COSCA.net; www.cosca.net
January 2008
The Clan Wallace Society Worldwide has made a $3000.00 donation to the National Trust for Scotland. The contribution will go towards assisting the Trust complete upgrading and restoring the historic Culloden Battlefield site near Inverness.
Culloden Paving Stone Donation
Click Culloden Paving Stone for the full story and pictures. Scotland on TV has a video clip at "Colloden Visitor Center Opening"
July 2007
It's back! Beth's Newfangled Family Tree (BNFT) started publication on 1st June 2007 and is produced in Adobe Reader format so that visitors can print it out if they wish. The BNFT newsletter is hosted on Electric Scotland who is celebrating its 10th Anniversary as an online publication. BNFT is very large, in three sections, each almost 4Mb. The publication is monthly and you will always get the current issue at the above link. They are archiving all issues so older issues can be obtained by clicking on the Archives link.
Beth's Family Tree Newsletter (BNFT)
June 2007
Here is a link to Electric Scotland and a very interesting poem by the Scottish author Edward Torrance.
The Vision at Wallace Monument By Edward Torrance
Disclaimer: CWS does not endorse any political position or party in any country. CWS is only linking to the poem because of references to the Wallace Monument and the reflections about Wallace it caused the writer.
May 2007
C. Joanne Crawford, Ph.D., Vice President, Clan Crawford Association, has written a very interesting paper on the connections between William Wallace and the Crawfords. This article was published in a recent Clan Crawford Newsletter. We thought Clan Wallace members should know this part of the Wallace history.
William Wallace's Crawford Connection
Click The Legacy of William Wallace & His Crawford Relations to open the PDF file.