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Joint SST/St. A's Spring Picnic. Sunday, June 8th - 2:30pm-6:00pmTo be held at the home of the St. Andrew's Society President, Stacy Apelt in Norfolk.The meats (Don's BBQ !!), sodas, and waters will be provided by the St. Andrew's Society. Scottish Society members will provide the desserts. Part
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1. President’s Report Scottish Society of Tidewater
June 3rd, 2008
2. Joint SST/St. A’s Spring Picnic Sunday, June 8th - 2:30pm-6:00pm
To be held at the home of the St. Andrew's Society President, Stacy Apelt in Norfolk.
The meats (Don's BBQ !!), sodas, and waters will be provided by the St. Andrew's Society.
Scottish Society members will provide the desserts.
Participants should bring a side dishes, adult beverages, lawn chairs, and musical instruments.
3. Upcoming Events TFFM presents Aoife Clancy
Daughter of Bobby Clancy
Formerly with Cherish The Ladies
Saturday, June 7th, in the Library
7:30pm-9:30pm
$20, TFFM Members $16
Call 626-3655 for reservations
4. Upcoming Events 3rd Annual William Wallace Day Commemoration
Saturday, August 23rd - Blackfinns in Waterside
5. Upcoming Events Scottish Fiddle Legend - John Turner
Friday, September 5th, 2008
Contemporary Art Center of Virginia
$15 per person - You can pay and reserve your ticket TONIGHT!!!!!
Jam session after the concert
Fiddle workshop on Saturday, September 6th
6. A Fond Farewell … Tonight we bid a fond farewell to two important SST families, who will soon be moving on to new opportunities
Carol, Iain, and Megan Amarosi will soon be joining Dave in Italy (reportedly a five year hitch!)
Stacey, Stephen, Rachael, and Rebekah Hood are off for sunny California, where Stephen has taken a new position at Pepperdine University
The SST wishes you all well - keep in touch!
7. A Fitting Tribute Dr. Elsie Inglis
Born in India in 1864
MD from Edinburgh in 1899
Founded Scottish Women’s Hospital for Foreign Service in 1915
Founded the Scottish Women’s Suffrage Federation
8. A Fitting Tribute Undeterred by the English War Office, who told her to “stay home and knit”, she sent two units to France, and within months had established the Abbaye to Royaumont Hospital
Eventually, 14 units, or about 1000 women, were deployed all over Europe, and cared for hundreds of thousands of wounded soldiers
She was taken prisoner in Serbia, and her release was eventually negotiated
Immediately, she organized another SWH team to head to Russia, in 1916
Tragically, she died the day after her return to the UK, of illness (cancer) and exhaustion
9. Epilogue She received a full military funeral in Scotland, and her body lay in state at St. Giles Cathedral (where there currently is a plaque in her honour)
Following the second world war, the SWH was disbanded, and the remaining funds were used to build the Elsie Inglis Memorial Maternity Hospital in Edinburgh
This year, to mark the 90th anniversary of the end of WWI, a memorial in honour of Dr. Inglis will be unveiled at the abbey in France that was the site of her first hospital
10. References
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/7432094.stm
Elsie Inglis: The Woman with the Torch http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/18530
11. Next SST Meeting Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008