Jan TBA  The  Annual Y’Alls Burns Ceilidh (click to see last year's.) Pot Luck Supper, Speeches and Ceilidh Dancing  (not forgetting the NEEP ROLLING!)- To commemorate our National Bard’s Birthday, a Burns Supper and Ceilidh will be held at a time and place to be announced.

Feb 25  Annual General Meeting dinner dance in addition to our normal business of reviewing the year and electing new directors and officers. The date is tentative and will be firmed up soon with more information about the activities during the event.

April 28   Offshore Technology Conference Scottish breakfast, 9:00 am at the Hilton Post Oak Hotel, presented again by Houston/Grampian with The British-American Business Council. Last year was a tremendous success and we will have another great speaker at the 2012 event to be announced soon with more details.

June TBA  Her Majesty's Birthday Tea - Houston Grampian Association invites you to attend Her Majesty’s official Birthday Tea and June is the month to celebrate. Watch for the date, time and place.

Feb 24   Annual General Meeting at the Braeburn Country Club. We will gather at 11 am and have lunch at 11:30. The format this year will again be a luncheon at 11:00 am instead of a formal dinner. Cost will be announced soon. There will be a superb guest soloist to sing Scottish, Irish and British songs, in addition to our normal business of reviewing the year and electing new directors and officers.

The nominating committee would like to present the following nominees for election for a three year term: Ross Davidson and John Lee. These nominees will be voted on, and nominations can also be made from the floor. The following are still on the board finishing out their terms:

Carol Decker 2 years     Carol Mills 2 years
John Fowler 2 years      Rebecca Roberts 2 years
Moira Holden 2 years    Quin McWhirter 1 year
Kevin Howard 2 years    Joanne Zumbrun 1 year

April 30  Offshore Technology Conference Scottish breakfast, 9:00 am at the Hilton Post Oak Hotel, presented again by Houston/Grampian with The British-American Business Council - Houston. Our guest speaker this year will be Bob Ruddiman, Partner Head of Energy with McGrigors Law Firm in Aberdeen. Mr. Ruddiman is a native of Aberdeen who has worked in the industry for over 20 years with experience in a wide range of activities around the world in the oil industry. The McGrigors Energy practice covers clients in the UK and overseas in an extensive range of upstream and downstream activity. He is a member of the Court and Operating Board of the University of Aberdeen and a member of the Editorial Board of the International Energy Law Review. Bob's speech will be "Energy Perspectives in an Ever-Changing World."

Prices for members $35, Non-Members $45, Table Sponsors $699, Corporate Sponsors $999. To make reservations now, use the drop-down box arrow to select your status (member, non-member, etc.) and click the "Buy Now" button to initiate payment process on our Pay Pal system. If you want more than one ticket/table, you can indicate that after you're taken to the "order summary" page. When you check out, you will either log into your own Pay Pal account, or click "Don't Have a Pay Pal Account?" and you will be prompted to pay with your credit card.

OTC Breakfast Option 1 Member $35.00 Option 2 Non-Member $45.00 Option 3 Table Sponsor $699.00 Option 4 Corp Sponsor $999.00

We are grateful to the organizations who are sponsoring the breakfast this year and appreciate very much their enabling our successful accomplishment. Our Corporate Underwriters and Corporate Sponsors are:

Corporate Underwriters FOSTER QUAN, LLP THE WOOD GROUP TURNER & TOWNSEND Corporate Sponsors BOYAR & MILLER MAXWELL DRUMMOND MCGRIGORS LLP ROYAL BANK OF SCOTLAND UK TRADE & INVESTMENT WOOD MACKENZIE

May 14 - 29   This year's HBU nursing exchange students are Brianna Estelle Tyler and Traci Milan Estacio. They departed Houston for their Aberdeen exchange visit on May 14 and will return on the 29th, assuming no more problems from the Iceland volcano. The Wood Group has graciously offered to underwrite the exchange program and we are deeply grateful to them.

June 25  Her Majesty's Birthday Tea - Houston Grampian Association invites you to attend Her Majesty’s official Birthday Tea, to be held on Saturday, June 25th, 2-4 pm at the Hotel ZaZa Ultimate Ransom Room, 5701 Main Street Houston, Texas 77005. Bring your teapot for the best teapot competition (we will use them on the day!) plus we will have a Silent Auction. There will be a really nice door prize for the best tea pot and we are requesting donations of items to be used in the raffle we will have.

Please RSVP to RebeccaRoberts2006@gmail.com, phone 281-460- 3596. The cost is $25.00 for members, $27.50 for non-members and you can make reservation payments now by using the drop-down box arrow below to select your status (member, non-member, etc.) and click the "Buy Now" button to initiate payment process on our Pay Pal system. If you want more than one ticket, you can indicate that after you're taken to the "order summary" page. When you check out, you will either log into your own Pay Pal account, or click "Don't Have a Pay Pal Account?" and you will be prompted to pay with your credit card.

QUEEN'S TEA Member $25.00 Non-Member $27.50

Sep 15 - 30   Student nurses Kay Strachan and Valerie Stephen from Robert Gordon University School of Nursing will be in Houston for their exchange visit with Houston Baptist University. They are both in the Adult Nursing Course at RGU. At the conclusion of their visit, tentatively on September 28, we will have a dinner at HBU honoring the student nurses from both Houston and Aberdeen with discussion of their experiences. Location is the Dillon Room II in the Hinton Center at 7 PM. The student nurses will make a Power Point presentation of their two exchange visits, and this has proven most interesting in the last two years and stimulated much discussion. There will be a Q & A session after their presentation.

** indicates events not sponsored by HGA, but which are of interest to our members.

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