he history of the S.C.A. is littered with milestones. One of the first was its 21^st Anniversary in 1945. The occasion was marked with the publication of The Magic of the S.C.A edited by Dick Armour. A good friend of the club in these years was a Scottish-born American magician Max Holden who toured the variety theatres of Britain with an act which included shadowgraphy. When he gave up performing he returned home to New York, became a world-famous magic dealer and subsequently published an American edition of the S.C.A. book.

The 30^th Anniversary was celebrated with a dinner and entertainment at "The Gordon Restaurant". The surprise of the evening was the appearance of Jack and Mary Kinson, who were playing the Pavilion Theatre that week, and to everyone's delight they presented their music hall act, which closed a splendid evening.

Next came the big one, the Golden Jubilee in 1974. This was a gala occasion, which began with a Civic Reception in Glasgow City Chambers. The action then moved to the Bellahouston Hotel with a one-day convention featuring lectures by Alfred Gabriel and Harold Taylor, followed by a Dinner and Entertainment presented by the lecturers plus Van Buren and Greta. Mac Wilson represented The Magic Circle and Bill Stickland the British Ring of the International Brotherhood of Magicians. A book titled Fifty Years Later, edited by Alan Hodgson and Stuart McMillan, was published to mark this landmark in the S.C.A.'s history.

A decade later the Diamond Jubilee was an international affair, graced by the presence of Jay Marshall from Chicago, and held at the same venue. Lectures by Alan Shaxon and our Honorary Life Present, Dr Eddie Dawes, preceded a Dinner and a great Cabaret, presented by Jay Marshall and Lefty (his glove puppet), Alan and Anne Shaxon, Leslie Melville and John Shearer.