The 2009 Annual General Meeting
was held at
GATLINBURG, TENNESSEE
during
the 28th Anniversary Celebration of the
Gatlinburg Scottish Festival and Games
15-17 May 2009
The Host was Region IV RVP,
Wendell D. Farris
dwight.farris@dsainc.com
Officers
elected at the session are:
Region 2 Vice-President (incumbent) Robert T. Ferguson
Region 4 Vice-President (first term) W. Dwight Ferris
Region 5 Vice-President (first term) Steven D. Butler
Region 6 Vice-President (first term) David Ferguson
Region 8 Vice-President (incumbent) Robert F. S. Ferguson
Region 10 Vice-President (first term) Benjamin S. Ferguson
FOR YOUR INFORMATION:
In accordance with the CFSNA constitution and by-laws, the Executive Committee consist of five Officers - the President, the President Elect, the Secretary, the Treasurer, and the Immediate Past President. Four of these Officers, the Pres., the Pres-Elect, the Sec., and the Treas., also make up the members of the Trustees of the Society, who make decisions, mainly, concerning scholarships. The "EC", together with the RVPs constitute the Board of Directors. The two combined make decisions at the AGM, but the EC can, and frequently does, act independently of the BOD as necessary to act in the best interest of the Society.
Regions not listed above were not up for election this year.
Their information, and all officers and appointees are listed on page two of The Bee Line.
The next issue of The Bee Line will be mailed late in August, 2009
A question has arisen . . . what is the meaning of "sept".
Ferguson
and Fergusson are the two most common renderings of the name found
through out the world. However the following names are also included as
septs of the Clan Fergusson; Forgan, Fergie, Fergus, Fergushill,
Fergussill, Farries, Ferrie, Ferries, Ferris(s), Forgie, Furgerson,
Grevsack, Hardie, Hardy, Ehsanian, Hemmati, Kiddie, Kydd, Keddie,
Keddle, Ketchen, Kidd, Madani, MacTavert MacHerries. The Gaelic name
has been rendered through translation into the forms, MacFergus,
MacFerries, and MacFerris. Since the 'f' and 'g' are silent in the old
language such variations as MacAdie, MacCade, MacErries, MacHerries,
MacKerras (especially common in Argyll and Australia), MacKersey,
MacKestan, MacFhearghuis, MacMagnus and even MacIrish, MacInlay were
formed.
Clan Septs and Dependents
The variety of surnames
within a Scottish clan do not represent separate and definable
sub-clans but instead reflect the vagaries of transition of the Gaels
into the English naming system as well as marriages, migrations and
occupations. The main family itself may have developed a variety
of surnames. The preferred modern usage is to avoid the use
of the term "sept" and to simply describe these names as what they are
- surnames of the family and of allied or dependent families. It
is preferable to speak of "The names and families of Clan X" rather to
call a name "a sept of Clan X". "Sept" is actually a term
borrowed from Irish culture in the nineteenth century to explain the
use of a variety of surnames by members of a single clan. Scots
would say "MacGregor and his clan", an Irish historian might say
"O'Neill and his sept".