May 11 - 26 
Student Nurse Exchange Program The HBU nursing exchange students for this
year are Noelle Deaton and Lauren Limb and they will depart Houston for Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen to initiate our annual student nurse exchange visit on May 11, and will
return to Houston on the 26th. They have also been invited to join us for the OTC Breakfast May 3 so our members can meet them there. The student nurses for the exchange visit from
Robert Gordon University to HBU have also been selected and they are Kirsty Brown and Jennifer Cruikshanks. Their visit to Houston will be September 13 - 28. Once again, the Wood Group has agreed to underwrite the exchange program and we are most grateful
for their generosity.
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June 22 
Her Majesty's Birthday Tea - Houston
Grampian Association invites you to attend Her Majesty’s official Birthday Tea at the Braeburn Country Club from 2 - 4 PM. We're pleased to announce that Alistair Donkin will join us again to
entertain and share his talents with us. Alistair was with the Original D'Oyly Carte Opera Company which was formed to produce Gilbert and Sullivan Comic Operas. As a performer he has appeared with the London Savoyards and the Magic of Gilbert & Sullivan. He has sung with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, the
Bournemouth Sinfonietta, the BBC Concert Orchestra (broadcast on BBC Radio 2) and the English Philharmonic Orchestra, appearing at all the major concert venues, including the Barbican Hall, the Royal Festival Hall, the Royal Albert Hall
and the new Birmingham Symphony Hall. He will walk amongst us and sing directly to us and his performance is not to be missed. Ladies, bring your husbands - they will enjoy the tea and programme.
You can make reservations now by filling out the reservation form HERE and sending it and a check to Mary Metz at 11806 Spruce Hill, Houston, TX 77077.
You can also make reservations using Pay Pal or a credit card by clicking the "Buy Now" link below. The cost this year is the same for members and non-members but please indicate
which category is appropriate for you when you elect this option.
Sep 13 - 28 Student nurses Kirsty Brown and Jennifer Cruikshanks from Robert Gordon University School of Nursing
will be in Houston for their exchange visit with Houston Baptist University. At the conclusion of their visit, tentatively on September 25, 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.
Completed 2013 Events
Feb 21
Annual General Meeting
luncheon at the Braeburn Country Club at 12 noon. We will conduct our normal business of reviewing the year and electing new directors and
officers. Invitations will be sent to our membership soon with a request to RSVP for your attendance.
April 27-28 
Houston Celtic Festival and Highland Games
Houston Farm and Ranch Club - 1 Abercrombie, HOUSTON 77084. SW Regional Highland Dance Championship, Scottish Heavy Athletics, Piping and Drumming Competition, Celtic Vendors and Eateries,
Celtic Animals, Children's activities, historical exhibits . . . and more! Music headliners - Brian McNeill, Ed Miller, Jiggernaut, JIL Chambless & Scooter Muse, and Clandestine. Presented by
Houston Highland Games, British School of Houston and Clan MacIntyre Society. For more information, visit WWW.HOUSTONHIGHLANDGAMES.COM. **
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May 4 
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.
Our guest speaker will be Ed Rawle, Chief Economist at Wood Mackenzie, discussing energy trends in the US, Europe and Asia in a speech entitled, "The Global Economy: Around the world in 80 minutes". Ed joined Wood Mackenzie in March, 2009 and heads up their
Economics Team. Based in Houston, the team is responsible for developing and maintaining Wood Mack's global macroeconomic outlook. Prior to Wood Mack, Ed was Head of Econometrics at CRU Group in
London, where his team developed price forcecasting econometric models for base metals and steel. Before moving into commodities, Ed held Senior Economist positions at HM Treasury and the UK
Debt Management Office. He also served as an Economist at the Home Office in London, and the European Central Bank in Frankfurt where he focused on Latin America. Ed graduated with an MSc in
Economics from Southhampton University and a BSc in Economics from the University of Birmingham. He is also an alumnus of the London School of Economics.
Prices for members $35, Non-Members $45, Corporate Sponsors (previously called "Table Sponsors") $699, Corporate Underwriters (previously called "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. Note: Using Pay Pal will benefit HGA so, if you do have an account, we hope you will choose to use it.
We are grateful to the organizations who are sponsoring the breakfast
this year and appreciate very much their enabling our successful accomplishment. Thus far our sponsors are as follows:
Corporate Underwriters
(previously called "Corporate Sponsors")
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Corporate Sponsors
(previously called "Table Sponsors")
MAXWELL DRUMMOND
PHILLIPS 66
ROYAL BANK OF SCOTLAND
SCOTTISH DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL
WOOD MACKENZIE | |
** indicates events not sponsored by HGA, but which are of interest to our members.
