To all the NPS members out there, and apologies to others whom this does not concern:
The NPS committee has decided to recommmend to the membership that the Rt. Hon the Baroness Quin of Gateshead (to be known to us as Joyce Quin) become the next president of the NPS. This is subject to ratification by the membership at an EGM to be convened around the end of July. The exact date will be notified to all members in the July newsletter. Joyce was an academic before she became Labour MP for Gateshead & Washington. She is now an active member of the House of Lords, and has a home base in Harbottle. She is a player of our pipes, and once declared them as her "luxury" item when being interviewed on "Desert Island Discs". We look forward to getting to know her better. On an unrelated matter: as a result of a recommendation by his doctor, Colin Ross has resigned as chairman of the NPS on health grounds, and is no longer on the committee. The committee have appointed the vice-chairman, Nigel Barlow, as Acting Chairman, and Anne Moore, acting vice-chairman, until new elections are held at the next AGM in Jan 2010. Both of these can be contacted via their pipers' society addresses, or their private ones. In Anne's case, this has recently changed to: anne.moor...@northumberland.gov.uk, due to local government changes. This information will also be in the next NPS newsletter. Please feel free to pass this on to any pipers who you feel will be interested. Julia Say NPS Hon Sec. To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
