Aberdeen Dinner 2016
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“Formality-with-fun” has proved the growing theme of the successful annual Aberdeen dinners of the Order, with reaction from those attending this latest event in October 2016 judging it as “the best yet”.
Speeches were kept to a minimum, with those given being short and pithy.....for the Aberdeen event has long been declared a bore-free zone.
Organisers Duncan Cameron, Albert Thomson and Gordon Casely have succeeded in presenting an event that
’s colourful, entertaining, and above all, fun – and that’s quite apart from good food, wine and much singing.
Golden Day for Neil
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On Thursday the 1st September 2016 a small group of members of the Grand Bailiwick of Scotland gathered in the Royal Scots Club in Edinburgh for a very special occasion. HE the Chev Neil F. Donaldson, GCLJ, CMLJ was presented with the Gold Cross of Merit GCrLJ, by the Grand Baillie of Scotland, Colonel John L. Kelly MBE KCLJ BSc. FRGS.
The Grand Baillie explained to the assembled gathering that Neil joined the Order in 1992 and has worked hard to develop and promote the work of the Order in Scotland. He was appointed Secretary General in 2002, reorganising the administration in Scotland.
Pilgrimage to the Holy Land
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The Hospitaller of the Grand Priory of Hungary, Dr. Sándor Pellek PhD, KLJ and his son, Dávid Pellek OLJ have undertaken a Pilgrimage to the Holy Land in Israel, representing the Military and Hospitaller Order of Knights of Saint Lazarus of Jerusalem, for the third time.
They saw the crowd of people at the Wailing Wall, in preparation for the autumn religious holidays, and passed the St. Louis French Hospital, which is linked to our Order. Their visit to the site of the Last Supper and to King’s David tomb was especially moving.
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On August 17, 2016, the Grand Priory of America celebrated the investiture in to our Order of Gregory M. Aymond, Roman Catholic Archbishop of New Orleans. His Archdiocese covers eight Louisiana civil parishes, home to about a half million Roman Catholics. The Investiture was conducted at the Notre Dame Seminary Chapel in New Orleans, by Grand Prior Kenneth P. Moritsugu GCLJ and by Prelate George Appleyard EGCLJ. Approximately, 80 members of our Order representing the Grand Commandery of the South and the Imperial Calcasieu Delegation were in attendance. Following the investiture, everyone was invited to a lovely reception at the Archbishop’s residence.