Uncle Allister's gift
The Record kindly ran a picture my family and me in the April People and Places, regarding the official announcement and presentation of a bequest from the estate of my late uncle, Allister Irwin MacDonald, former professor of English at Acadia University. His will contained a provision that the bequest, likely to top $200,000 once the estate is settled, be made to King's, New Minas, N.S., in memory of him, his late father and mother, Daniel and Ella MacDonald, and his five brothers, including the late Rev. Joseph R. MacDonald and the late Rev. Dr. Donald C. MacDonald, onetime moderator of the Presbyterian Church in Canada.