I posted these on our facebook page, but I had forgotten to post the link to the photos here. Enjoy Ian

Come and join us for the first official happy hour of the year at Gordon Biersch downtown:
http://www.gordonbiersch.com/restaurants/index.php?pg=location&sub=loc&location_id=7

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=900+F+Street+NW+Washington,+DC+20004&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&split=0&gl=us&ei=UoyQScW3GYT6MoHDzZgL&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&resnum=1&ct=image

The bar is conveniently situated near to Metro Center and Gallery Place metro stations.

If you haven't been to any events before, this is a great opportunity to come and meet everyone and find out more about the events we are planning for this year.

Hope to see lots of you there!

The university just contacted me letting us know that Billy Kay an Edinburgh Alum, who is based in Scotland will be a speaker at the forthcoming Burns Symposium in Washington DC this month.

For more information and a chance to sign up please see

http://www.loc.gov/folklife/Symposia/Burns/

Committee Meeting January 23rd 7PM

With 2009 coming up quickly it is time to have another committee meeting to plan out the events for 2009. We will be holding an open committee meeting on January 23rd for anyone interested in joining the committee. Liz Cooke from the University will be in town so we are taking the opportunity to meet on the Friday night while she is here. We have a number of opportunities to help out so if you are interested please come along.

John Chadwick has kindly offered to host the meeting at his office next to the Ballston Metro Station in Virginia. Please RVSP to info at eduni-dc.org so we can make sure we have a large enough room, and so we can send out directions on how to get there.

We have a number committee member positions open including treasurer. As a committee member you would be expected to attend most of the in person committee meetings and also be available via email. I would like to try something a little different this year. I would like each committee member to take on a specific event or project and be the point person for that event. Our current committee consists of myself Ian Macdonald (Present), Rebecca Husband (VP), Paula Fearon (Events/Treasurer).

If you are interested in taking on this responsibility please let me know via email at info @ eduni-dc.org, that way we can vote on the nominations at the meeting.

Agenda

* Discuss planned events
* Introduce new committee candidates
* Vote on new committee members
* Nominate event owners
* AFUE and support for clubs
* International Recruitment
* Careers
* Any other business

Events/Projects

* Burns Supper in January 24th (2009), in connection with St Andrews University (Ian)
* Group Outing to the Barns of Wolf Trap to see BattleField Band March 19th 2009
* Q1 Happy Hour
* Q2 Happy Hour
* Q3 Happy Hour
* Q4 Happy Hour
* Scottish Walk in Alexandria (dec 2009): Organize a group of alumni to take part in the scottish walk, this could also be join scottish universities event.
* Lunch meetup after the scottish walk
* Burns Supper (jan 2010)
* Meetup events for the 6 Nations Rugby (Rebbecca)
* Ceilidh sometime in 2009
* Working with university to support international recruitment (Ian)
* Investigating internships for Edinburgh Students/Alumni in the US (John)

What other events would people like to see in 2009?

Just to remind people this is a committee meeting not a happy hour, but we may retire to a local watering hole afterwards :)

Ian Macdonald
President

Just a reminder that the deadline for sending in the RSVP for the burns supper is coming up on the 16th of January. You can get the RSVP from http://www.eduni-dc.org/mediagallery/download.php?mid=20081216233208127.

So far we only have 13 RSVPs from Edinburgh which is less than half the 29 Alumni from Wooster College, I would love to see more of our Alumni at the dinner, especially since this is our first big event and we will be looking very closely at the numbers to see if we have enough support in the DC area to sustain an Alumni group.

Full details of the event at

http://www.eduni-dc.org/article.php?story=20081216233322743

Dear Edinburgh Alums,

Please Join EdAlumNY for "Eight", a series of 8 witty and touching
monologues written by Edinburgh alumna Ella Hickson. Join us for a reception
at Solas (232 East 9th Street, new York, 212 375-0297,
http://newyork.citysearch.com/profile/11322770/new_york_ny/solas.html) on
Thursday, 22 January, at 6 pm, with the playwright herself, followed by the
play at a close by theatre. The show begins at 8 pm. The play won several
awards at the 2008 Edinburgh Fringe Festival. The price of admission is a
discounted $20 (for EdAlumNY guests). To purchase discounted tickets and for
venue information, visit this page:
http://www.edinburghcampaign.com/News/View.aspx?PageID=227&id=567.

For more information, or to sign up to receive information about upcoming
events, go to our website, www.edalumny.com, or our facebook page:
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/group.php?gid=9393482271&ref=ts

Cheers,
Ben Haley, Publicity Officer
EdAlumNY

Robert Burns Supper
A Tribute to Scotland’s Most Famous Poet

Saturday, January 24, 2009
6:00 p.m.

DA’s RFD Washington
810 7th Street NW
Washington, DC 20001
www.lovethebeer.com

You are invited to join other University of Edinburgh alumni, parents, and friends living in the greater DC area for a wonderful celebration of Scottish culture. Our evening will include a dinner of traditional Scottish fare, Burns’ poetry and songs, as well as bagpipers. Alumni of St. Cross College Oxford, St. Andrews University, and College of Wooster in Ohio will also be joining us.

Robert Burns was born in 1759 to Agnes Broun and William Burness, a poor tenant farmer. He spent his youth working on his father’s farm, but was extremely well-read. Burns penned his first verse at the age of 15 and later as an adult, became far more interested in poetry than farming. His first collection of poems was published with much critical acclaim and, in a matter of weeks; Burns was received as a national celebrity. The last years of Burns’ life were devoted to writing the poetic masterpieces for which he is known. On the anniversary of his birth, Scots celebrate their national bard with the Robert Burns Supper.

We hope you will be able to join us for this Edinburgh University Alumni event. Wooster College has agreed to coordinate bookings for this event. To make a reservation, please mail or fax the RSVP form by January 16, 2009. If you have any questions, please contact Sharon Rice in the Office of Alumni Relations (srice at wooster.edu) all other questions should be directed to Ian Macdonald, President of Edinburgh University Alumni Club of Washington DC (info at eduni-dc.org).

Menu (Please indicate your selections on the RSVP form)

First course: Steamed Haggis – OR - Vegetarian Haggis (both entrees served with mashed potatoes and mashed turnips).

Second course: Grilled salmon with baked potato and steamed broccoli – OR - Broccoli & Brie Crumble served with green beans and carrots.

Please save the date

The Edinburgh University Alumni Club of Washington DC invites you to a Robert Burns Supper, Saturday, January 24, 2009 at 6:00 p.m. In Chinatown Washington DC.

Alumni of St. Cross College Oxford, St. Andrews University, and College of Wooster in Ohio will also be joining us.

More information and details on how to make a reservation will be posted at http://www.eduni-dc.org when they are finalized.

For any other information about the Alumni group in Washington DC please contact Ian Macdonald at info at eduni-dc.org

On Saturday December 6th at 11am Alexandria has its annual Scottish Walk.
A group of us will be gathering at Union Street Public House on South Union (http://www.usphalexandria.com/) after the Scottish Walk at about 12:30, we are not sure what time the walk will finish, so please RSVP to info at eduni-dc.org so I can pass out a cellphone number and keep people up to date, we will try and grab a table upstairs and drape a Scottish flag on it.

For more information about the Scottish walk please see http://dc.about.com/od/christmasevents/a/AlexScotWalk.htm

On a different note we also have 3 open committee positions open, if you are interested in taking on responsibility for organizing an event please let me know at info at eduni-dc.org. We will be having our next committee meeting in January.

Please save the date. We are planning a Burns Super on January 24th at RFDs in China Town in DC, once i have the final information I will post the details on the website. We are Sharing this event with St-Andrews, College of Wooster so tickets will be in demand.

Just in case anyone on our list is in New York

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Subject: EdAlumNY
From: "Allan Rooney" <allan@allanrooneyesq.com>
Date: Wed, October 29, 2008 10:18 am
To: allan@allanrooneyesq.com

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Dear All:

On behalf of the EdAlumNY club and committee I would like to say we are
hopeful of seeing many of you at the University's Reception at Le Cirque
tonight. Details at <http://www.edalumny.com>; www.edalumny.com

Please also be advised there is a special for members being offered by the
Princeton Club of New York for a limited time (See attached).

Lastly, if you fancy a wee heeland fling this fall, the Scottish Ball this
year shall benefit EdAlumNY, should you wish to attend please note EdAlumNY
in the memo section of checks so that your attendance tallies to us. Any
profit share due us shall be determined by our numbers in attendance.
Details at <http://www.scottishball.com/ticket.html>;
http://www.scottishball.com/ticket.html

Yours, For A' That,

Allan Rooney
President, EdAlumNY