Hostess Kate Donohue (r) with MarilynWeary and
Dave McConnell

Va Commssioner Stan Darroch (ctr) and DC Commissioner Fiona McDonald (r) check the lenght of Bill Yoder's kilt

Bill Johnson meets Fiona and her husband, Marcus Brubaker, and long-time Mid-East member
Jim McDaniel

"There's something going on behind me isn't there?"

Attendees were afforded a first chance at obtaining rare books donated by Clan Donald USA founder (and Mid-East member) Ellice MacDonald

Stan tries to convince new member Bob Clemence that the sausage in the cassoulet was not stolen from the Campbells

Youth member Alex Feidt and Youth Convenor Dakota Isaacs compare sporran contents

Md Commissioner (and Dad) Walt Isaacs and Youth Commssioner (and older brother) Mike Feidt aren't sure they want to know

Kaye Donaldson-Asbill, who came up from Richmond with husband William, shares a lugh with Mid-East Commissioner David Rankin

Time to pipe in the haggis

Jim McDaniel plays his electric pipes (so as to not deafen the gathered with the real thing)

The procession ends.....

and the piper gets his dram
(of Tamdhu)

Leslie Keller holds the haggis - watching closely as Fiona wields the dirk and begins "Address to a Haggis" by Robert Burns

The cut is expertly made...