Lifetime Achievement Award
Beginning in 2003, the Minnesota Tartan Day Cooperative has honored members of our community for their outstanding contributions to the preservation, continuation, and celebration of Scottish Culture and Heritage with a Lifetime Achievement Award.
The first award in 2003 went to George McCracken, Scottish Ceilidh dance instructor and co-founder of the Twin Cities Scottish Club.
The award in 2004 was give to Florence Hart who brought Scottish Highland Dancing to Minnesota and trained many championship Highland Dancers including Kira Cogswell, whose National Championship in 2005 gave her the title 4 out of the past 5 years.
John and Ardis McIntyre Ivory were the co-winners of the 2005 Lifetime Achievement Award. The Ivorys were part of the founding group of the Minnesota Coalition of Scottish Clans and the Twin Cities Scottish Club.
The 2006 recipient was David Sinclair Bouschor, founding member of the Duluth Scottish Heritage Association, Founder and Pipe Major of the DSHA Pipe Band, instigator of the DSHA School of Highland Dance, 20-year national president of Clan Sinclair, and personal representative of the Chief of Clan Sinclair in the United States.
In 2007 the Minnesota Tartan Day Cooperative looked within its own ranks and chose Barbara Fayth Humphrey to receive the 5th Annual Lifetime Achievement Award. In addition to founding the Tartan Day Celebration in Minnesota, she is the founder to the Scottish News In Minnesota, the founder of the Northern Lights Branch of Clan Cameron of North America, past board member of St. Andrew’s Society of Minnesota and the Minnesota Coalition of Scottish Clans.
We encourage all Minnesotans, whether Scots or not, to join us as we proudly celebrate our heritage. And if you can't attend in person, be sure to wear your tartan and a Tartan Day Button!
For more information about how you can participate in Tartan Day, contact Tom Lucas (e-mail president@mncsc.org).
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