President Mike Jane welcomed fourteen other members and guests Clive and Gail Horton.
Derek Hall spoke about the first Burns Supper held five years after the death of Robert Burns by the first Burns Club at Greenock — which became the mother club. It was held at Alloway on January 29 1802, because the date of the Bard's birth was initially wrongly recorded when it should have been January 25. The club's object was to encourage the love and use of the Scots language.
Mike Jane said that Burns died as a result iof a dental abcess, which was not uncommon in those days because there were no antibiotics. A colleague of Burns made a major contribution to public health by stabilising the chemical element iodine — to be found in Ayrshire seaweed to this day — for medicinal use to prevent the spread of infection.
Gail Horton made the weekly draw for a whisky miniature, currently Deanston, and the winner was Alastair Wilson.