James McPherson (USA)

On March 27, 2000, Princeton history professor James McPherson delivered the 29th Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Concert Hall. The Jefferson Lecture was established in 1972 as the highest honor the federal government bestows for distinguished intellectual and public achievement in the humanities.

This past spring, Public Gaming  Research Institute presented Cluny Macpherson, Atlantic Lottery Corporation President, with the Institute's highest honor, the Lottery Lifetime Achievement Award for the year 2000. The Award was established in 1993 and named for its first recipient, Major Peter J. O'Connell, the award singles out top lottery executives with outstanding qualities and achievements similar to the implacable integrity  O'Connell demonstrated in 20 years as director of the Rhode Island Lottery.

Cluny Macpherson started with the Atlantic Lottery Corporation in 1978 and is now the senior North American Lottery CEO and has surpassed O'Connell's record as continuous executive director of a lottery organization. Macpherson runs the lottery operations for the provincial governments of New Brunswick,, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland and  Labrador

Cluny Macpherson, President of the Atlantic Lottery Corporation, was elected as a member of the World Lottery Association executive for a two-year term at its Conference 2000 when it met in Glasgow this past June. 

Denmark

And just look at that great tartan they be wearing!

Holbaek Pipe Band

Holbaek Pipe Band from Denmark, playing proudly in the Macpherson Hunting Tartan. Became 2nd in grade 3b at the world Pipe Band Championships in Glasgow August 2000. and the next year played in grade 3a.