Clan Douglas Society Annual General Meeting 2013

Clan Douglas Society of North America

Annual General Meeting 2013

The Clan Douglas Society of North America is happy to announce the upcoming 2013 Annual General Meeting to be held September 5^th – 8^th 2013 at the Longs Peak Scottish Highland Festival in Estes Park, Colorado. 

Our AGM host hotel will be the Rocky Mountain Park Inn located within 3 blocks of the Park entrance where the games will be held and the hotel offers a free shuttle service to Clan members who want to attend the games.  Please make your reservations and tell them you are with Clan Douglas before August 1^st, 2013. You may contact the hotel directly at 800-803-783 or 970-586-2332.  You can also view the hotel accommodations and directions at www.rockymountainparkinn.com

Rocky Mountain Park Inn is offering rooms at $ 119.00 per night on Sept 5^th Thursday and Sept. 8^th Sunday, room rates on Sept 6^th Friday and Sept 7^th Saturday are $ 189.00 each night.  There are other hotels and resorts in the area and you can always stay at one of these if you wish. Also available are RV Campgrounds such as Estes Park Campground and Estes Park KOA just to name two.

 The Annual General Meeting will be held at the Rocky Mountain Park Inn in Estes Park on Saturday evening Sept 7^th in one of the banquet rooms where the meeting will take place and dinner will be served.  The estimate for the cost of the dinner will be $ 34.00 per person if we have 50 or more people attend or the cost could be higher if less attend.  It will be important to know as quickly as possible who is planning on attending so we get a proper head count. Once we have our head count I will require that everyone who is planning on attending will need to send me their payment for the dinner as the hotel requires that everything be turned in by August 1^st so the hotel can reserve the room and plan on the dinner.  

 Menu for AGM Dinner

Rustic Baguette with Bruschetta Tomatoes

Mixed Greens with Balsamic Vinaigrette

Prime Rib with Au Jus & Horseradish

Grilled Mahi-Mahi with Pineapple Poblano Salsa

Seasonal Steamed Vegetables

Colorado Roasted Potatoes with Rosemary & Garlic

Ciabatta Rolls

Carrot Cake

Ice Tea & Water

There will also be a No Host Bar for those of us who wish to have a wee dram or whatever drink that you might like.  Let’s make this the best AGM ever and have as many of us as possible attend this year.  The setting for the Long Peak Scottish Festival is beautiful and should not be missed, for those out here In the West, this will be a wonderful opportunity to meet with fellow members from all over the country.  I will continue to provide information for the AGM on the Clan Douglas website www.clandouglassociety.org and in our Dubh Ghlase quarterly newsletter.  Cora and I hope to see as many of you as possible at the 2013 AGM

Best Regards,

Mark A. Peterson - Vice President

Clan Douglas Society of North America

New Regent for New Mexico

I am happy to announce that Eric Vigil has agreed to represent the Clan Douglas Society of North America as the new Regent for New Mexico. You may contact Eric at ericrvigil@yahoo.com and welcome him to our extended family!

Cora and I first met Eric 5 years ago at the Kern County Scottish Games in Bakersfield, CA. He has long been active in Southern California with CDSNA.  He recently has moved to New Mexico and has kindly volunteered to be the Regent.  Eric will represent at his first game on May 18th, 2013 at the Rio Grande Valley Celtic Festival in Albuquierque, NM.

Welcome on board Eric and we look forward to working with you!

Mark A. Peterson

Vice President

Clan Douglas Society of North America

SEARCHING for OLDER CDSNA NEWSLETTERS – 1995 to 1999

Dear Clan Douglas members, 

Over the past two years, many generous members have donated their stashes of older CDSNA newsletters to a collection and archiving project. So far, donated newsletters are complete from the initial newsletter written in 1975 to the last newsletter of 1994 and from the first issue of 1999 to current day. Only a few years issues are still ‘lost’ and I am sure someone has them collecting dust somewhere.
Once the entire collection is assembled, the plan is to digitalize the back issues and (hopefully) place them on our clan website.

Check your attics, basements, and closets and see if you have the missing issues. If you do, contact me and we can arrange the details for getting those items to me.

Thanks for looking. This is a valuable clan history resource that we need to find and protect before those now lost issues become forever lost.

Harold Edington
clan.douglas@yahoo.com