Honorary Member of ‘Let it Blaw’
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Honorary President
2024
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Honorary Vice President
2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
President
2010, 2011, 2012
Vice-President
2007, 2008 2009
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Treasurer
1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002
2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008
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Proposer of the Toast “The Immortal Memory of Robert Burns” 1982, 2005, 2019
Proposer of the Toast “New Members” 1984
Proposer of the Toast “The Artistes” 1989
Proposer of the Toast “Let it Blaw – the Balerno Burns Club” 1993
Recited “Tam o’ Shanter” 1996, 2000, 2003, 2014, 2021
Recited the Address “To a Haggis” 2013
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Ken became a member of ‘Let it Blaw’ in 1978 and was first mentioned in the Toast List/Programme 1982.
Ken’s 15 years as Club Treasurer is the second longest anyone has held that office in the long history of ‘Let it Blaw’. However, for all the administration work that he has devoted to the Club, he’s probably best known for his word-perfect recitations from a memory that seems to have no limit. In a Club where the norm is members knowing one or two poems which they repeat periodically, Ken’s most notable recitations, in addition to Tam o’ Shanter on five occasions, are :
Address to the Deil
2004, 2013
Holy Willie’s Prayer
2006
Epistle to a Young Friend
2007
To William Stewart
2008
The Inventory – In answer to a mandate by the Surveyor of the Taxes
2009, 2015, 2024
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The Ronalds of the Bennals
2017
To the Guidwife of Wauchope House
This list will no doubt continue to grow.
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