 The Clan MacLeod Society of South Africa
President:
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News letter Editor :
President's Note
 Dear Fellow Clansfolk,
It has been an honour and privilege to have been elected as your President
this year and though our Society has shrunk in numbers since we started nearly
25 years ago, it is my intention to stabilize and grow it this year — with your
help, please.
I would like to welcome our new members this year, especially Evelyn McLeod
and his sons, Charles and Graham, his daughter, Joan, and his grandson Matthew
— all of whom I look forward to meeting.
And I specially wish to thank Evelyn for his sterling support and effort
in recruiting members. How I wish we had had him as a member 25 years ago!
Whilst recruiting new members is vital for the health of any organization,
I believe that it should be secondary, though, to first serving and looking
after our existing new and ‘old’ members, for without their support we would simply ‘fade away” — something that
we, with Scots blood in our veins, are unlikely to allow!
I plan for us to have between three and four social gatherings between June
and the end of this year, with the focus being on our heritage and developing a
greater interest in Scottish piping and dancing, as well as learning more about
where we come from and our proud traditions.
I also plan to have regular monthly committee meetings
throughout the year so that all of our local Clan Society issues and matters
can be efficiently, timeously and professionally addressed.
Until we can establish a viable ‘social sub-committee’ elsewhere in South
Africa to organize local social events for members outside of Cape Town, we must continue to rely on keeping up our
links and fellowship through our regular newsletter and receiving as many
contributions to it from you, our members, as possible. Please, wherever you are, write/email your
contributions to our secretary,
I look forward to seeing you all this year — if not before, then at least
at our November Annual Dinner!
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