Friday, September 2, 2011

A Thank You Package Arrives

A wonderful Thank You gift and card arrived. Linden Miller, the young woman whose mother had tuned her harp in a different key at the Ohio Scottish Games, wrote to thank me for helping get her harp re-tuned correctly before the competition. This really touched my heart!

Monday, August 29, 2011

Engraving the Traveling Trophy

It took several calls to the various engravers around town to find someone who could add my name to the the name plate on the traveling trophy for the National Scottish Harp Champion of America. Below are the champions that are engraved on the trophy.


The Herbert P. MacNeal Trophy for the National Scottish Harp Championship of America
1984 Angus Fallon MacGregor
1985 Sue Alleshouse Richards
1986 Martha Clancy
         Mary Fitzgerald
1987 Tracie Brown
1988 Sue Alleshouse Richards
1989 Barbara Duhl-Emswiler
1990 Sue Alleshouse Richards
1991 No Competition Held
1992 William A. Taylor
1993 Peter McNaughton
1994 Sue Alleshouse Richards
1995 Russet (Jennifer) McMillan
1996 Carol Rose Duane
1997 Janet Jackson Biely
1999 Wayne Eugene Elrod
2000 Cynthia Cathcart
2001 Russet Jennifer McMillan
2002 Cynthia Cathcart
2005 Cynthia Shelhart
2006 Tracie Brown
2007 Tracie Brown
2008 Sairey Miller
2009 Chad McAnally
2010 Steve Schack