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March 2008
Donation to support Year of Homecoming 2009 Celebration
The MacDougall McCollum Heritage Foundation announces a donation to support the Clan in getting a program set up for the Year of Homecoming 2009 celebration. Proposed brochure information is as follows:
1. 2009 Programme at Dunollie Info
2. Clan MacDougall Year of Homecoming 2009
By lending early support the MMHF hopes to allow these programs to become reality. If you would like to make a donation to support this cause and get a US tax deduction, make a contribution today and 100% of your donation will go to the project of your choice. Make a donation. More information on the Year of Homecoming 2009 can be found at http://www.homecomingscotland.com/.
Scholarship Recipient Reports:
Sept 07 - Victoria Rumble - Scholarship Report (pdf file)
July 07 - Darlene Weisz and Diane McDowell - Scholarship Report
July 2007
Applications Now Accepted
for 2008 John S. Carasik Scholarships
If you've read the reports from our first recipients of the Scholarship in 2007 you will be glad to hear that the application process is now open for 2008. Once again there will be two scholarships awarded for 2008 of $1000 apiece. Please click "Scholarship" and submit your application as soon as possible. The deadline is May 1, 2008 so we will have plenty of time to notify our recipients in order to allow them to make plans.
The John S. Carasik Scholarship Fund was established in memory of John who was an avid fan of Scottish history in his short but fulfilling life. The two scholarships of $1,000 each are available for volunteers who will assist the Lismore Museum and/or the MacDougall Collection at Dunollie House in preserving Clan history.
June 24, 2007
Comments from the first scholarship recipients
From MacDougall McCallum Heritage Foundation scholarship recipients Darlene Weisz and Diane McDowell:
"We are working each day on heritage projects on Lismore Island and on the MacDougall collection at Dunollie House and Ganavan. On Lismore our project is to map, with the help of the Internet, some books, and older islanders with great memories, the ruins of dwellings and farms from the clearances and emigration from the Island in the last 200 years. It is an exciting treasure hunt". "We've been well taken care of and kept busy at the heritage center on Lismore, meeting the dearest, kindest, welcoming Islanders. Our project involves locating old dwellings, farms and fields on a survey map of Lismore with the help of Donald Black and other Islanders"
From Catherine Gillies, co-project manager:
"We are having the most wonderful fun with our first two scholarship "guinea pigs" . Darlene and Diane have fitted into Lismore and Oban as if their ancestors had never been away and they seem to be excited about everything. The other MacDougall McCallum scholarship recipient, Vickie's work will center more on Dunollie than Lismore. Her expertise will be focused on mountains of interesting, previously hidden gems from the attic."
May 15, 2007
John S. Carasik Scholarship Fund Recipients
Recipients of the MacDougall -McCallum Heritage Foundations' John Carasik scholarship for the year 2007 have been selected. Darlene Weisz and her sister Diane McDowell will share one of the $1,000 scholarships. The sisters will assist in projects at the Lismore Gaelic Museum (Ionad Naomh Molaug) on Lismore Island and aid in organizing the MacDougall Collection at Dunollie House in June. Darlene is active in the Southern California MacDougall Clan Society and lives in Mission Viejo, California. She has an MA in education and has been a secondary teacher, an educational psychologist and is involved in several volunteer organizations. Diane lives in Beaverton, Oregon and has traveled frequently in Scotland learning about the MacDougall and McDowell clans. Diane's background includes a BA in Anthropology/Sociology, has an MS in education and has taught for over 25 years.
The second $1,000 scholarship was awarded to Victoria Rumble from Florence, Alabama, and a member of Clan MacDougall who will go to Scotland in August. Vickie has a long list of accomplishments including historian, researcher, genealogist, and author of several historical books. She has traveled in Scotland and studied Scottish artifacts and material culture at the Highland Folk Museum. Each of these women impressed the committee with their special skills, commitment and enthusiastic interest and will all three be a great asset in volunteering at Lismore and Dunollie.
April 24, 2006
Welcome to the MacDougall McCallum Heritage Foundation website.
The Foundation was recently established to support the preservation of artifacts and properties of the Clan in Scotland. The MacDougall McCallum Heritage Foundation was founded by the descendants of John MacDougall and Isabel McCallum MacDougall to promote and preserve Clan history and culture by allowing US citizens the opportunity to support these causes with an IRS tax deductible advantage. We in the U.S., who take pride in our Scottish history and culture, now have the opportunity to contribute to our heritage in Scotland in a tax deductible manner.
Donors will have the opportunity to contribute to
worthy causes of our Clans and direct their money to the projects of their choice or to the Foundation in general. Future projects will be considered as the need arises. Names of the donors will be acknowledged on the website but not the amounts. Donors may direct where their contributions will go with 100% going to the project of their choice. You are invited to send contributions to the foundation at 33681 Capstan Drive, Dana Point, CA 92629.
The Foundation is also involved in other projects concerning Scottish heritage. Recently money was donated to pay for the cost of etched windows for the Isle of Lismore Museum. The windows are etched with scenes of Lismore designed by the children of Lismore Primary School.
Benefit of the contributions will be the planned the Hope MacDougall Collection in Oban, the Isle of Lismore Gaelic Historical Museum, the preservation of Dunollie Castle and United States citizens
who will receive monetary aid to travel to Oban and assist in museum and related work in Scotland. Check back here frequently because the application will be posted here soon. The first awards will be announced in time for travel in the summer of 2007.
Questions or comments can be emailed to Ruth MacDougall McCartin at macdougalltartan@yahoo.com,
Apply online now with our Scholarship Application.
