Can you kindly tell me if that grand old man, Fergus MacLarty is still around and active with the St. Andrew's Society of the State of New York?

If he is, ask him if he recalls the time in 1978 when, for the first (and likely only) time in the history of the society that he - after much bemused deliberation at the door - allowed a woman to attend the Society's Burn's Supper at the University Club on Fifth Avenue? I had the honour of being the escort for the deliciously delightful Miss Farquaharson of Gretna Green. I was invited to attend and bring a Guest, but I didn't realise that it was a Stag Affair. Had Miss Farquharson not been so provacatively, yet tastefully dressed in her shimmering silks and tartan sash, I have no doubt she would not have been allowed in. The Address to the Lassies was surely one to remember that night, I can tell you!