Welcome to the Online Clann Tartan Newsletter for January 2006

COME ONE, COME ALL, TO FIRST FOOTING!

The day will begin with the Airing of the the Tartans, which is held at Augsburg Park. This traditionally was a time to lay out all your woolens in the snow to clean them. This would allow all the oils, grease, fats, and assorted critters to freeze out of the wools and you would have "fresh" plaids. We like to have everyone bring all their plaid and see how much we can lay out. Let's go for a record! We also have a short drill (length depends a lot on the weather,) and sometimes shoot off the muskets.

Following the Airing, we descend upon our members houses for a progressive dinner, or "First Footing". It is considered good luck if the first person to enter your house on New Years Day is a dark haired male stranger. Well, they don't get much stranger than we do…

The Airing of the Tartans will be at noon on the First.

The four courses for the dinner are:

1:00 Appetizers at Mary McKinley's
3:00 Soups at Cate Hesser's
5:00 Main course at McDavids'
7:00 Desserts at Byers'.

Come to as much of this event as you can! Please call or email Julie Yoder to let her know what you will be coming to and what dishes you will bring.

ST. PAUL WINTER CARNIVAL PARADES!

We encourage our brave and hardy members to join in these events. Do we need to tell you to dress warmly?

If you wish to participate, please let Julie Yoder know. We will not know about our assigned time and place for lineup until about a week before the parades. Julie will see to it that participants are advised of this essential information.

If you are even entertaining a hint of a thought that you might participate, you must fill out a waiver. Waivers will not be accepted on parade day. Waivers will be available at all First Footing events, or see Bruce or Julie Yoder.

Board Elections

Saturday, February 4 at noon we will be holding the Annual Members
Meeting. This is your chance to vote for your new Board Members. 
The positions that will be open are:


Vice President (Special election to fill vacancy for the remainder of position term-1 year)

President

Treasurer

Camp Representative


If you're interested in any of these positions but have questions on the
duties and responsibilities, please contact a current Board Member for
more information. It's not too early to get your nomination in!

 
 
Ballot for the Board Elections; Offices open:

Vice President:                              Treasurer:
(No one has been nominated)
Other _________________                      Bruce Yoder ______________

Other _________________                      Other _________________
                                        
                                 
Camp Representative:                         President:
Diana Steben _______________                 Mary McKinley ______________

Other ______________________                 Other _____________________  



Please make sure that votes are emailed to Glenn McDavid, at gmcdavid@comcast.net by Feb. 2.

Clann Tartan is pleased to announce the opening of Colonel Gaffneis Official Sutlery!

The online store can be found at www.cafepress.com/clanntartan.

Drill

Board Minutes

Minutes of Clann Tartan Board and Membership Meeting
November 5, 2005

In attendance:  (Board) Herb Lindorff, Bruce Yoder, Mary McKinley, 
Glenn McDavid, David Vavreck

(Staff) Julie Yoder, Marty Byers

Judy Byers, Betsy Bolton, Mia McDavid, Laurie Ford, Nick Nelson,
Mercedes Tuma-Hansen, Jonathan Palmer, Jaimie Zaugg


Minutes of the October Meeting were approved as corrected.

OLD BUSINESS
============
MANUAL REVISION: Maeve has the new manual on disk.

PAPER DOLLS: Still waiting for a report from the full committee.


REPORTS
======
DANCE GUILD:  Still looking for a Wednesday site.  Betsy and Marty both
suggested possibilities.  The Guild will follow up on these leads.

SWORD GUILD:  Doing OK.  Needs a Winter Site.  Applying to use Corcoran on
Thursday nights.

FIBER GUILD: No report
MUSIC GUILD: No report

PUB NIGHT: Molly Quinn's is now closed on Tuesday.  So we need a new
site or a new night.  The membership responded with many suggestions,
and there was considerable discussion of these, including some broader
issues (St. Paul/Minneapolis, smoking policy, availability of
parking/access by Public Transit) The issue was referred back to Bruce.

TREASURER: A Treasurer's report was submitted and discussed.  A couple
checks have not yet been deposited.  We are still trying to get some
information from the previous Treasurer.

SECRETARY/COMMUNICATIONS: The Newsletter is going out in both electronic
and hard copy forms.  Another request for hard copy was noted.

QUARTERMASTER:  Welding repairs on the trailer are to be done in
December at Herb's place.

Tent Repairs:  Looking to have fabric repairs done professionally.
The Cook's Tent in particular needs work.  The Quartermaster will
meet with the Staff and determine the extent of the necessary work.  
We will get an estimate for the work from a local vendor (Harris).

There are also issues with tent poles.  All of the uprights for the
Cook's fly should be replaced, along with the ridge pole.

Pots and Lids:  We need to inventory these.

CAMP REP: No report
COMPANY REP: No report

HISTORIC SITE: Tactical next year will conflict with the Minnesota
Scottish Fair and Highland Games.  We have dealt with such schedule
conflicts in the past and should be able to manage this one.

STRALSUND:  Six people are definite, and two maybes.  The van will leave
Thursday morning and return late Monday.  The event was strongly
recommended by those who had been there in 2003.

FUTURE TRIPS:  Our next trip year will be 2007.  That year the
Quadricentennial of the founding of Jamestown will be celebrated.
Events are being scheduled for March through October.

UPCOMING EVENTS
===============

Jan. 1: First Footing -- New and old staff will work together for this.

St. Paul Winter Carnival Parades -- Looks OK.  Maeve is tracking this.

Annual Meeting (Feb. 4) -- Same day as Torchlight Parade above.  Board
Elections.  President, Vice President (see below), Treasurer, and Camp
Rep positions will be open.

NEW BUSINESS
============
David resigned as Treasurer.  Consideration of the By-Laws indicated
that an election was necessary if the position was to be filled.  Bruce
resigned as VP, ran for Treasurer, and was elected to serve until the
Annual Meeting on Feb. 4.

This left the position of VP vacant.  No nominations were made, so this
position will remain vacant until the Annual Meeting.

STAFF REORGANIZATION
====================
It was generally agreed that the Staff organization needed to change.
There was some question about whether the Bylaws permitted this at this
meeting, but the current staff positions are defined in the General
Regulations, not in the ByLaws themselves, so we were able to proceed.

The proposal Mary presented in recent Newsletters was taken as a
starting point, and three variants emerged during the discussion and
were put to a vote.  The New structure is

1) Chief of Staff
2) Captain and HCF (one of each)
3) Understaff -- the terms "Henchmen" and "Henchwomen" quickly emerged
for this level.  

We would eventually like staggered terms for the staff positions, but
for now these will all be filled for one year.  We may wish to alter
this organization in 2006.

It was noted that staff duties fell into two distinct categories:  Pre-
show planning and at-show execution.  Communication among the staff
members was seen as critical to the success of our shows.

STAFF ELECTIONS
===============
Rob Johnson was elected Chief of Staff
Marty Byers was elected Captain
Julie Yoder was elected HCF
Eric Ferguson, Maeve Kane, David Vavreck, Betsy Bolton, and Mia McDavid
were all willing to serve as understaff, and the newly elected Senior
Staff (Rob, Marty, and Julie) invited them all to serve,


OTHER BUSINESS
==============
Jaimie announced that he had a copy of Jeff Nordin's bonnet pattern.

Marty presented the Captain's Clann achievement award to Diana Steben,
with loud applause from all.

Jaimie passed on the happy news that Mark Hansen was doing very well
after just having gall bladder surgery

Next Board Meeting Monday, December 5, 7 PM at the Yoder's.  A Staff
meeting will follow immediately.

Board & Staff

If you need to contact someone associated with Clann Tartan, here is where you find out how. If you are unsure who to contact, you can always email us at: info@clanntartan.org

Guilds

Calendar of Events

Event Schedule for the 2006 Season:

The following is a list of the dates of the events that are currently on the schedule for this year. The staff has met and decided to keep this running list of events in the newsletter to give you a chance to get an idea of what is going on this season as well as keep you updated to changes in the schedule.

The column titled status will include the following information.

Tentative- this means that an event organizer or clann has expressed a strong enough interest in doing this event that it warrants reserving space on the calendar for the event.

Pending- this is the next stage of an event. This means that Maeve has entered serious discussion about Clann doing an event but we are still not committed to the event. You should however if possible think about weather or not you may be able to attend this event.

Scheduled- this level means that the board and staff have approve the event and we are committed to providing manpower to making the event happen. When an event is assigned this level please let Julie know as soon as possible if you can or can not attend this event.

Canceled- This means that for various reasons an scheduled event has been removed from the current season. We will try and give as much notice as we can prior to canceling an event.

If you have any questions about this, please feel free to contact me regarding this matter

Thanks,
Rob Johnson.

Maps

 

Map to Board Meetings Bruce and Julie Yoder's Home	Map to St. Paul location St. Christopher's- Dance
Map to Board/Quarterly/Annual Meetings Corcoran Park, Minneapolis	Map to the Mpls Comm & Tech College 1st & 3rd Wednesdays dance location Helleand Building

NOON–1:00 Airing of the Tartan and Drills
Augsburg Park 70th and Nicollet - Richfield, MN

From the North, take the Portland Ave exit south from Crosstown/ Hwy62 to 70th. Turn right and go to Nicollet Ave.

From the South, take the Nicollet Ave exit North from 494 about 1/2 mile to 70th St

FIRST FOOTING NOTICE

1:00 Appetizers at Mary McKinley's 651-699-6853 1363 Jefferson Ave St Paul From Augsburg Park Go out to Nicollet Ave. Turn Right (South) South on Nicollet to 494 E 494 E to Hwy 5/St. Paul exit Hwy 5 to the Edgcumbe Rd exit Follw Edgcumbe Rd to the top of a hill at which you'd take the left fork which is Fairview Ave. Follow Fairview to Jefferson Ave Take Right on Jefferson(East) and follow one mile to Mary's House is on Left(North) side.	3:00 Soups at Cate Hesser's (651)917-2327 1239 Charles Ave - Saint Paul, MN From Mary's Go East to Hamline Ave. Take Hamline Left(North) To Charles Ave Turn Right on Charles Ave Go 1 and 1/2 Blocks and the house is on the Left(North) side of Charles Ave.
5:00 Main course at McDavids' 651-490-1842 340 Brooks Ave West, Roseville From Cate's Head East on Charles to Dale St. Then Go north on Dale (left) to County Rd. B2. Go East on B2 to Western. Go north (left)again on Western to Brooks, which is 2 blocks down. The street sign may be obscured by a tree branch, but have faith! Turn right on Brooks. 340 is about one block in, on the right. There are large white numbers on the garage. *** OR Take Highway 36 East to Dale St. in Roseville. Go north on Dale to County Rd. B2. Go east on B2 to Western. Go north again on Western to Brooks, which is 2 blocks down. The street sign may be obscured by a tree branch, but have faith! Turn right on Brooks. 340 is about one block in, on the right. There are large white numbers on the garage.	7:00 Desserts at Byers'. 651-483-1173 2821 Churchill St, Roseville From Mia and Glenn's Take Western Ave N to Co Rd. C Left to Lexington Ave Right on Lexington to Woodhill Ave. Right on Woodhill, take 1st Left which is Churchill St. House will be on the left (west) side when you're facing North. *** Or Hwy 36 to Lexington Ave At bottom of ramp, take Left if coming from West, Right if coming from East (go North) Follow Lexington North to Woodhill Ave, and Make Right (East) Right on Woodhill, take 1st Left which is Churchill St. (North) House will be on the left (west) side when you're facing North.

Grande Day Parade - St. Paul, MN
Saturday, Jan 28 2006
1.30 pm

Vulcan Victory Torchlight Parade - St. Paul, MN
Saturday, Feb 4 2006
6.00pm

Call Julie Yoder for details on where to meet.