Wednesday, April 3, 2019

Cherry plum: Fettes College - "MacLeod Award" - "The Rt Hon Iain Macleod (Mo 1927-1932) Travel Award for interesting and unusual projects" - 1978, ... Splendid to have seen you, George, too in 2004, I think, when I was studying at the University of Edinburgh in the School of Celtic and Scottish Studies in 2003-2004 , (and wrote a social science paper about visiting St. Kilda / Hirta virtually) ... and with links too to my actual-virtual Harbin Hot Springs' project here, Am impressed with Google's approach to such student records, and World University and School, (of which I'm the President, Founder, and at which I'm also a Professor of sociocultural Anthropology / Sociology) * * * WUaS would be very interested in having Fettes College students matriculate online. Students would be studying from home * * * Re Fettes becoming an IB school fairly recently, it would be fascinating to explore how this might work re sponsorship for World Univ and Sch's planned online IB degrees


Thank you for this "The Iain Macleod Award" ...

Just came across this on the Fettes College, Edinburgh, Scotland, web site:

https://fettes.com/fettes-people/past-pupils/gordon-macleod/ (posted below as well)

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Two recent blog posts (Apr 2, Apr 3, 2019) about the Fettes College "The Iain Macleod Award"-

Saraca asoca (the ashoka tree): Thank you for this "The Iain Macleod Award" ...
- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/04/saraca-asoca-ashoka-tree-thank-you-for.html -


Cherry plum: Fettes College - "MacLeod Award" ...
- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/04/cherry-plum-fettes-college-macleod.html -



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Hi Scott

Splendid to know that you flourish and still remember me! I think we have communicated over the years and I remember you well but I have discovered a problem which must be rectified forthwith.

To my great surprise I find that I do not have you listed in my Fettes Register and you do not appear in either the 1976 or 77 Ki House photos. I presume that Henry found you via winners of the Ian MacLeod Award. I can only assume this omission was due to you not arriving until after the Autumn term started and possibly you left before the House photo was taken. I am creating a record for you

Dick Cole-Hamilton and I maintained the Register and hoped that the first digitised Fettes List published in 1984 was definitive. In 1998 I foolishly agreed to add valete information this for the Millennium. A stupid thing to do because creating the register entries was a massive (almost impossible) job and it is still incomplete.

I look forward to reading your tale of enterprise in the piping world - assume you have the Gaelic in order to speak to other professionals! Our Police cars now have the Gaelic word for this - at least I presume that is what it says. (There are more Polish speakers in Scotland that Gaelic!)

All the best

George
George Preston, Fettes College, (Former Housemaster of Kimmerghame House), Edinburgh, Scotland

Keeper of the Fettes Register

George Preston (Sh, CW 1944-1950) (Staff 1955-1991) Senior OF Science


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Dear George, and All,

Splendid to have seen you, George, too in 2004, I think, when I was studying at the University of Edinburgh in the School of Celtic and Scottish Studies in 2003-2004, (and wrote a social science paper about visiting St. Kilda / Hirta virtually - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2017/10/greyhound-how-best-to-co-create.html - wherein you can find a link to the paper itself, and with links too to my actual-virtual Harbin Hot Springs' project here).

An email within the past year or so from you, George, raised the question in my mind of whether I attended Fettes in 1977-'78, (and not '76-'77) - see, too: https://fettes.com/fettes-people/past-pupils/gordon-macleod/ - and this could make sense since I graduated from Shady Side Academy in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1979, beginning to study at Reed College in Portland, Oregon, that autumn, and my Fettes' 1st year 6th A Levels' year was in a way a junior year abroad at the high school level, directly preceding my senior year at Shady Side Academy/SSA. Will seek further confirmation from other documents / sources with time. Yuen Lok or Andrew - can you corroborate this at all? If this is the case, this would suggest too that I received the Iain Macleod award in 1978 and not '77, per our emails yesterday, Tuesday, April 2, 2019. I have since changed my blog (web log) post from yesterday to read that I was at Fettes in 1977-'78 - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/04/saraca-asoca-ashoka-tree-thank-you-for.html (until ... ). Would the Kimmerghame House photos have evidence of my being there in the spring of '78 (or autumn of '77)?

I am impressed with Google's approach to such student records, and World University and School, (of which I'm the President, Founder, and at which I'm also a Professor of sociocultural Anthropology / Sociology), will likely build out of Google for Education (which WUaS has for free), and the Google ecosystem/platform for our related record keeping, as we begin to first license with the state of California's Bureau of Private Postsecondary Education (and then likely accredit with WASC senior, which accredits Stanford and UC Berkeley and the others UCs +). (WUaS attended a day long workshop with the CA BPPE on 2/20/19, another green light re initial licensing with CA - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/02/red-veined-darter-day-with-state.html - and receiving a 'green light' first in 2013 - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2013/07/bee-in-poppy-quakers-accreditation-and.html - both significant milestones in the emergence of World Univ & Sch). Such Google student WUaS matriculant records, with machine learning and machine translation eventually, will be invaluable in the future - and in many languages, not just Scots' Gaelic or Polish. Depending on how long the BPPE and WASC senior processes take, CC-4 MIT OpenCourseWare-centric World Univ & Sch may be seeking online undergraduates this autumn 2019 for free-to-students' Bachelor degrees in English. Please let Fettes' students and the 'university admissions/advising' office at Fettes know of this remarkable and far-reaching opportunity. Signing up / Registering / Applying will emerge from here - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/ - re - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/The_College_at_World_University_and_School - where students will be taking MIT OCW courses and related Stanford OCW in their studies.  

WUaS would be very interested in having Fettes College students matriculate online. Students would be studying from home - and in something like Google group video Hangouts conceptually, with MIT faculty in video, and MIT and Stanford graduate students as instructors / tutors teaching 'sections,' an approach which works with BPPE licensing / WASC senior accreditation. (World Univ & Sch plans to offer online Bachelor, Ph.D., Law, M.D. and I.B. high school degrees in each of all ~200 countries' official / main languages, and will begin licensing for the Bachelor and Ph.D. degrees in English with CA's BPPE).

Wonderful to hear from you, George, and will keep you posted re my "tale of enterprise in the piping world." And thank you for the Iain MacLeod award.

All the best, 

Scott
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Dear Scott,

I think you were there in my last year 1977-1978.

Best wishes, Andrew


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Dear Andrew, Yuen Lok, and George, 

Thanks! You may well be correct. Just to confirm this, Yuen Lok, when we shared a study on the ground floor of Kimmerghame House, we were both in the 1st Year 6th Form, What year was that, and what year did you sit your A Levels? 

Re Fettes becoming an IB school fairly recently, it would be fascinating to explore how this might work re sponsorship for World University and School's planned online IB degrees - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/WUaS_International_Baccalaureate_Diploma_and_Programme - and eventually in many languages, with CC-4 MIT OCW High School at its center in part - https://ocw.mit.edu/high-school/ . There's an enterprising opportunity here as well. And Fettes' British excellence might be something Fettes could extend online in these regards. 
the IB organization seems to have some headquarters in Wales - https://www.ibo.org/globalassets/publications/become-an-ib-school/rules-for-ib-candidate-schools-en.pdf - in these regards. If Fettes and WUaS could launch an online MIT OCW High School-centric curriculum partly with a MIT computer science / engineering focus, who would be the Fettisians to talk with about this?

Thank you again for the Fettes' "Iain Macleod award" - and with regards to 1978. 

Best wishes, Scott



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Just came across this on the Fettes College, Edinburgh, Scotland, web site (probably thanks to George Preston):


https://fettes.com/fettes-people/past-pupils/gordon-macleod/


Gordon K. MacLeod III (Scott MacLeod)

House and Years at Fettes:
Kimmerghame 1977-1978

Qualifications and career: 
I have a Master's Degree in sociocultural Anthropology. I've taught college, most recently a course on "Information Technology and Society" on Harvard's virtual island in Second Life.
I'm presently developing the free, open, 'edit this page' World University & School - like Wikipedia with MIT Open Course Ware - potentially in all languages, countries, subjects and levels.
http://scottmacleod.com/
What is your most cherished memory from your time at Fettes? 
The milieu of beautiful Fettes - its buildings and grounds, Kimmerghame House and the main building, Scots' accents, making friends - especially coming from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, which was a very different 'world.'
And your least?
Being an 'outsider' can be unknowingly difficult, - unfamiliar with Fettesian and Scots' cultural patterns as I was.
What event or personality left a lasting impression on you? 
I enjoyed the atmosphere of good will which our Housemaster and Housemistress, Mr. and Mrs. George Preston, created in Kimmerghame House. I also enjoyed getting to know the Headmaster and his wife, Mr. and Mrs. Chenevix-Trench, through a cooking class Mrs. Chenevix-Trench taught where they lived.
I also enjoyed playing in the Fettes College Pipes & Drums. When competing against Gordonstoun in 1977, we took second place in piping; just starting to grow a spotty beard then, and coming out of liberal America, which had slightly less emphasis on Dress than a Scots' Pipe Band does, I hadn't shaved, and the judge commented on this. I wondered if this contributed to our taking second prize, instead of a first, because we were playing well. We also piped in the Edinburgh Castle, which was exciting for a 17 year old from the States.
Were you a conscientious student?
In some respects.
Outside the classroom, how did you spend your free time at Fettes?
Travelling. I visited family friends, the Cuthbertsons on holiday in a hunting lodge in the very north of Scotland near John O'Groats, the MacKays and Schradings in Edinburgh, and I spent some time on the Isle of Mull, camping in a tent in windy April, and I also visited friends I made at Fettes in their families' homes in Scotland.

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Saraca asoca (the ashoka tree): Thank you for this "The Iain Macleod Award" - "Iain Macleod Award Feature in Old Fettesian Newsletter," "We spend every summer holiday on the West Coast. My son, at Edinburgh University, took up chanter at school and I tried again. It’s very difficult and I admire you keeping up the bagpipes," Am continuing to envision my upcoming "Honey in the Bag" Scottish small pipes' CD in 2020 here+ - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/03/common-bluebell-ongoing-envisioning-of.html - and potentially with Google's Bach Doodle AI for bagpipes and TensorFlow for visuals * * * Some pretty good Grateful Dead jams - "5 Hour Grateful Dead "Jam Only" Compilation 1971-1983" ... but they left out all the good stuff like the parking lot scene, and dancing at the concerts themselves ... but we can do this in a realistic virtual earth for AI and music too ! :)

- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/04/saraca-asoca-ashoka-tree-thank-you-for.html -

Cherry plum: Fettes College - "MacLeod Award" ...
https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/04/cherry-plum-fettes-college-macleod.html


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Thank you for this "The Iain Macleod Award" ...

Two recent blog posts (Apr 2, Apr 3, 2019) about the Fettes College "The Iain Macleod Award"-

Saraca asoca (the ashoka tree): Thank you for this "The Iain Macleod Award" ...
- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/04/saraca-asoca-ashoka-tree-thank-you-for.html -

Cherry plum: Fettes College - "MacLeod Award" ...
- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/04/cherry-plum-fettes-college-macleod.html -





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