Biographical Notes

This contribution to the "Interim Newsletter" obviously proved of real interest, for more members have now given details of their careers and families - an interesting selection from all over the world. We do not intend that inclusion here will prevent a more complete biography being published in a later issue.

The Misses Kathleen and Helen Sinclair of Winnipeg both worked for Canadian Broadcasting Corporation; Miss Kathleen has just recently retired.

George P Scrimgeour joined the Cavalry - the 3rd Dragoon Guards - in September 1924, as a trooper, a young fellow looking for adventure and finding real hard healthy work. He found something he was really good at - horseriding - and became in turn Regimental Rough-Rider Corporal, Sgt-Major, finishing that part of his career as Riding Master at Sandhurst from 1936-39. War service followed and he is now retired in Hove with the rank of Major after 32 years service as a "professional soldier".

Miss Alice M Scrimgeour in her capacity as President of the Deaconess Council of the Church of Scotland has recently attended a conference in New York. She lives in Glasgow but runs a holiday home in Skelmorlie and addresses guilds and fellowships on her youth work.

Miss Margaret E Scrimgeour of Nantwich has returned to her former career and is a theatre sister.

Charles M S Scrimgeour is Depute Principal of the Lawers School of Agriculture near Crieff where Mrs Scrimgeour also teaches dairying and poultry-keeping part-time. Their son John has just wona Bursary to Aberdeen University where he will study for an honours degree in civil engineering. Charles and Mary are still at school.

Dr Prueter is a Professor at the University of Toronto and Director of Field Services. Mrs Prueter taught. Their son William, having got his BL Hons, a Bronze Medal and a scholarship, is beginning his career in law and Susan has just graduated.

Dr Kenneth G Scrimgeour is Professor of Bio-Chemistry at Toronto University.

Miss Margaret Archibald is a Secretary in Toronto.

William A Scrimegour, Victoria is a Bank Officer with an Australian Bank.

Dougal Scrimgeour of Dundee is meantime studying accountancy in Aberdeen.

James Scrimgeour now retired in Butterstone, Perthshire farmed in the Loch Awe area of Argyllshire.

Dr Joseph A Scrimger now living in Victoria, Canada ia a graduate of Durham and Saskatchewan Universities. His current occupation is as a scientist with the Department of National Defence, Government of Canada, specialising in underwater acoustics and oceanography.

Joe Marks and his son Brian are in the real estate business in Windsor. Mrs Marks is an enthusiastic gardener and lover of the countryside, her family have farmed in Ontario.

Miss Margaret Scrimgeour, now settled in Toronto, was an educational missionary in the West Indies.

Dr HC Scrimgeour is at present working for the International Grenfell Association in Labrador but expects to move to British Columbia later this year.

Mrs Jean D Wilson, daughter of a Trinidad missionary, now living in Fort Saskatchewan is the Assistant Director of nursing with the City of Edmonton but looks forward to her retiral soon on Vancouver Island. She served with the RCAMC in England in 1942.

Mrs Verne Cameron of Galt, Ontario is Book Store Manager at Conestoga College of Applied Arts and Technology in Kitchener.

George K Scrymgeour, now retired and living with his daughter in Arlington, Virginia was an officer and director of one of the leading architectural firms in the USA with headquarters in Detroit.

Miss Isabel Scrimgeour of Saskatoon is a teacher there.

Mrs Isabella Duncan works in a shop in Blairgowrie.

Jamie Scrymgeour of Cottlesloe, Western Australia, has had a most varied and interesting career having been a jackeroo, farmhand, wool-classer, farmer, accountant and finally hospital administrator in Freemantle. He now enjoys life in well-deserved retirement.

Dr David Beavis's present address is New Guinea where he practices medicine, but in October he is taking a course at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Rev Lewis Maclachlan is Chaplain at Green Pastures Free Church Home in Bournemouth but will soon be retiring.

Leslie G Scrymgour of Wattle Park visited Scotland during service with the Australian Imperial Forces in 1914-18 and is now a director of several companies in South Australia.

John A Scrymgeour has extensive interests in oil and lives in Calgary.

Miss Flora Scrymgeour, now retired in Newport-on-Tay, had a lifelong career in journalism - she was "Aunt Kate" in "The Peoples Friend" (a favourite weekly paper with Scots people) for fifty years.

Dr Alison W Scrimgeour was brought up in Edinburgh but has practised for some years now in hospitals in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Among other activities, she is Director of Sickle Cell Disease Clinic in Blodgett Memorial Hospital, and claims some success in dealing with this disease, which appears to affect negroes exclusively.

Her father, David A B Scrimgeour, now of Longniddry, East Lothian, retired in 1970 from the post of General Manager and Actuary of The Scottish Provident Institution for Mutual Life Assurance, Edinburgh. He was President of the Faculty of Actuaries in Scotland in 1960-62; among other offices with that body he was Editor of the Faculty's Transactions for several years and was Editor-in-Chief of the Transactions of the 17th International Congress of Actuaries held in London and Edinburgh in 1964.