East Kingdom Gazette
Covering the Eastern Realm of the SCA
The agenda for the July 20, 2019 Board of Directors meeting is now available at the following link: https://sca.org/BOD/agendas/July-20-2019-Audience-Agenda.pdf The start time for this meeting is 9:00 am. If you wish to send in comments, please use “July 20, 2019, BoD Agenda Comment” as the subject line. Comments are strongly encouraged and can be sent …
Effective immediately, the qualifications to be an East Kingdom Rapier Marshal have been modified to remove the requirement to have current authorizations in 3 weapons forms. This change is intended to accommodate marshals who are unable to maintain authorizations due to long-term injury or other life circumstances, but still want to participate and support the …
The EK Ministry of Lists is transitioning ownership of marshallate records from their office to the corresponding kingdom officer. The first step of this process is to ensure the current list of rapier marshals is correct. If you are an East Kingdom Rapier Marshal, please take a moment to locate your name on this list. …
The Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA) is seeking candidates for the position of Society Webminister. This position reports to the SCA Board of Directors through the Office of the President. The Society Webminister is a supervisory position of Kingdom Webministers and is not involved in the maintenance of the Corporate website (www.sca.org). The Society …
Members of The Society: I have some sad news to share with you all. We have recently learned of the passing of the Society Webminister, Lord Markus der Jäger (Uwe M. Donaldson). Uwe was a long time, extremely dedicated member of the Society, and held a variety of offices before taking the office of Society …
The current Ombudsman assignments are: Craig Carter – Chairman Ombudsman for: President, Society Seneschal, Corporate Office, Financial Officers, Executive Assistant John St. Dennis – Vice-Chairman Ombudsman for: Board Recruiting, Ansteorra, Gleann Abhann, Meridies, Trimaris Natalie Degerstrom -Director Ombudsman for: An Tir, Caid, West, Marshal, Membership Committee T.S. Morgan – Director Ombudsman for: Information Technology (Webminister …
John Fulton, President for the SCA, has announced that a report from his office is now available on the SCA website. This report contains the publishable summaries and commendation sections from each Society Officer’s reports, as well as publishable summaries submitted by various Board committees. The report can be located here: https://sca.org/BOD/PresReport/April2019BoardMeetingPresidentsReport.pdf Questions or comments regarding …
The Board of Directors would like to announce the appointment of Gigi Coulson, M.S. (Giata Magdalena Alberti, OL ) as Interim SCA Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Officer. Ms. Coulson is an interdisciplinary sociologist and biologist with experience in both qualitative and quantitative social assessments, environmental impact statements, and diversity initiatives, among other things. Mistress Giata …
In response to many requests for gender-neutral period titles, the SCA College of Arms has been conducting research and taking commentary on several proposed titles. The research project is being supervised by Mistress Ursula Georges of the Middle Kingdom, the Palimpsest Herald. The College of Arms recently approved the first three gender-neutral titles – two …
The following is a statement released by the Board of Directors: After careful review and consideration of all feedback, the Board of Directors has decided to update the mission statement to be more inline with current society practices: The Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA) is an international non-profit volunteer educational organization. The SCA is devoted …