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Bagpipes and Highland dress were the order of the day for the
50th Anniversary celebration of the American-Scottish
Foundation at the annual Wallace Award Dinner presided over by
Foundation president Alan L. Bain in New York. The annual
event which pays tribute to the achievements of Scottish and
Scottish Americans this year honored the prominent
international businessman, Euan Baird.
The American-Scottish Foundation® is dedicated to
strengthening ties between individuals, institutions and
businesses of Scotland and the United States through the
pursuit of contemporary social, cultural, educational,
philanthropic, scientific and economic interests and
activities. The American-Scottish Foundation® champions the
extraordinary and creative relationship between the U.S. and
Scotland for mutual benefit.
The Foundation provides Scots and Americans with a strong,
non-political base and general point of contact. This
association includes institutions and individuals with
cultural, economic, educational, genealogical and travel
interests.
The Wallace Award® was originally conceived as a singular
opportunity to celebrate the extraordinary diversity of
contributions that Scots have made to the world and, in
particular, to recognize individual outstanding achievement or
significant contribution in their field of endeavor by
Scottish individuals or those of Scottish descent in America
and Canada.
The important and wonderfully diverse contributions of the
Scottish and those of Scottish descent are reflected in the
Wallace Award® recipients: Senator Trent Lott, Sir Sean
Connery, Television producers and philanthropists Mr. and Mrs.
Donald L. Taffner, Sr., Academy award winning actor Cliff
Robertson, Empress of Fashion Diana Vreeland, journalist James
Reston, Justice Potter Stewart, U.S. Supreme Court, painter
Robert Motherwell, authors Helen MacInnes and Archibald
MacLeish and Nobel Prize Winner Linus C. Pauling. |