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Reception
Honoring the Receipt of Letters Patent
Granting a Coat of Arms to the
CATAWBA
VALLEY SCOTTISH SOCIETY
Thursday, June 8, 2006,
10:30 AM
 On
Thursday morning, June 8, 2006 the Catawba Valley Scottish Society, Inc. of
Mecklenburg County,
North Carolina was presented with a Letters Patent Document granting a Coat
of Arms to The Catawba Valley Scottish Society, Inc. from Robin Orr Blair,
Lieutenant of the Royal Victorian Order, Writer to Her Majesty Queen
Elizabeth IIs Signet, Lord Lyon King of Arms.
This
public unveiling was made at Historic Rural Hill, the home of
Revolutionary War patriot, Major John Davidson. Romilly Squire of Rubislaw,
O.St.J., D.A., FSA Scot., F.R.S.A., S.H.A., Baron Bailie of Plean and
Rathdown, Acting Secretary of the Standing Council of Scottish Chiefs, and
Chairman of the Heraldry Society of Scotland, traveled from Scotland
to make this special presentation to the local historical organization.
Receiving
the Letters of Patent Document for The Catawba Valley Scottish Society, Inc.
were Richard Hembree Taylor, President Emeritus, Keets Farquhar Taylor,
Executive Director of Rural Hill -Center of Scottish Heritage, Bob
Deaton, Chairman and Founding Director of the Catawba Valley Scottish
Society,
and Phyllis Belk Deaton, Founding Member..
Romilly
Squire noted that this is the
First and
Only Coat of Arms granted to a Non-Profit Corporation involved in presenting
a Scottish Highland Games anywhere in the World.
Scottish
Games are held throughout the world to include Scotland,
the United States, Canada, Australia, Great Britain, and even in Indonesia.
The
Letters Patent note that the Catawba Valley Scottish Society, Inc. is a duly
registered non-profit corporation in the State of North Carolina, and that
the objects of said Society are to promote projects and activities providing
education on the culture and heritage of the Scots and Scots-Irish peoples
and their contribution to the cultural development of the United States of
America and, in particular, to provide venues for such activities.
The Letters of Patent Document concludes with:
 KNOW YE
THEREFORE that We have Devised, and Do by These Presents Assign, Ratify and
Confirm unto the Petitioners the following Ensigns Armorial … upon the 105th page
of the 81st Volume of
Our Public Register of All Arms and Bearings in Scotland, and by
demonstration of which Ensigns Armorial the Incorporation is, amongst all
Nobles and in all Places of Honour, to be taken, numbered, and accounted as
an Incorporation Noble in the Noblesse of Scotland.
Those in attendance were
Jenny Michael, representing United States Senator, Elizabeth Dole, Mayor Kim
Phillips of Huntersville, Chairman of the Mecklenburg County Commissioners,
Parks Helms, and Brad Pearce, Mecklenburg County Parks
and Recreation Commission, along with 50-60 guests and visitors.
Support groups that were
represented were the Loch Norman Pipe Band, the Scottish American Military
Society, the Second South Carolina Continental Line, American Revolutionary
War reenactment unit, the 78th Frazier Highland Regiment
reenactment unit, the American Legion Post 86, and the hospitality staff of
the volunteers of the Catawba Valley Scottish Society. |
