Re: [Mid] Comments from Court

I like that idea about holding the award and having a list of people who
should present themselves except I also would love to be totally surprised
by getting the award. Any ideas on how to do something like that without
giving that away? Also what we did once as a shire-several of us were at an
event where one of our shire members was called into court to receive a
Guide Star. This person was not at the event, and we knew that she had
never been able to recieve an award in court and wanted to. This event
happened to be the weekend before an event in our shire that their
Highnesses would be attending, so our group's herald went up to recieve it,
but instead of taking the scroll, explained the situation and they agreed to
hold it and present it to her at our event. The bunch of us at the event
swore an oath of silence to make it a total surprise for her. It was
wonderful to watch her recieve it the next weekend-and see the reaction to
how we'd kept it a secret. :)
Siobhan nicInis

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>From: "Susan Carroll-Clark" <nicolaa@columbus.rr.com>
>To: <sca-middle@midrealm.org>
>Subject: Re: [Mid] Comments from Court
>Date: Tue, Nov 2, 1999, 9:05 PM
>

> Greetings!
>
>>Pardon my ignorance, but dosn't the court harold or somone check the court
> agenda against the event sign in sheets to see if intended award recipients
> are present?
>
>
> Not normally. For one thing, just because someone's there in the afternoon
> is no guarantee they'll be there for an evening court. The other problem is
> in the sign-in sheets themselves. I've seen a number where they don't even
> request your SCA name--just your legal name and signature.
>
> I'm certainly with Dafydd on this one. I'd rather not see a scroll given out
> other than to the recipient in person. For one thing, I've seen too many
> scrolls go missing, or people forget to tell the awardee that they got the
> award at all.
> What Berus and Marion, who were the final Prince and Princess of Ealdormere,
> did was to hold scrolls for people who were not at an event where they were
> to get an award. At the beginning of each subsequent event, as well as in
> the newsletter, a list of gentles who were "commanded to present themselves
> before Their Highnesses at their earliest convenience" was
> announced/published. At the end of the reign, there were still a few awards
> where the person had never been able to make it in person, and only then
> were they entrusted to a proxy.
>
> Nicolaa
>
> From: "Susan Carroll-Clark" <nicolaa@columbus.rr.com>
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