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POINTS OF INTEREST 2008
Hamish MJ Ritchie (1960) played himself in as the Captain of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews for 2008-09 on 18 September, 2008. (Sept 08)
Andrew WS Marr (1977) won a BAFTA award in the Specialsist Factual category for his BBC TV series History of Modern Britain. (May 08)
Jamie Pendergrass (2005) has been awarded his Half Blue for Fives at Oxford University: he played No. 1 in the match against Cambridge in 2007. (May 08)
Iain C Conn (1980) is Managing Director of BP. (Feb 08)
POINTS OF INTEREST 2006-07
Craig D Morrison (2003) graduated with First Class Honours from his Masters degree in Law at Cambridge University in June 2007, having graduated first in his year from his undergraduate degree at Cambridge in 2006. (31 Oct)
W Michael B Brown (1963) has been appointed Chairman of the R & A Championship Committee.
Jennifer C Costello (née Wilson) (2000) graduated with first class honours in psychology from Queen's University Belfast.
Alistair M Darling (1971) has been appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer.
Robert S Dewar (1967), has been appointed British High Commissioner to the Federal Republic of Nigeria wef December 2007. From 2004 - 2007 he has been in Addis Ababa as Her Majesty's Ambassador to Ethiopia and Her Majesty's Non-Resident Ambassador to Djibouti and Permanent Representative to the African Union.
Professor Mark S Currie (1980), following teaching appointments at the Universities of Dundee, Westminster and Anglia Ruskin, has been appointed to the Chair of Literature and Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia at Norwich
W Ruthven Gemmell (1975) is President of the Law Society of Scotland.
David R McCreath (1960) was awarded the OBE for Services to malting industry in the 2006 New Year's Honours
Professor Rory W McTurk (1960) has been appointed to the Chair of Icelandic Studies at the University of Leeds .
Alex J McNeil (1985) has been appointmented Maxwell Professor of Mathematics at Heriot-Watt University.
Roseanne Niven (2005) gained her full Scottish Golf Cap in 2006 and has joined the University of California, Berkeley, in January 20007 on a golf scholarship, to study English.
Keith Miller (1967), Group Chief Executive for the Miller Group, has received an Honorary Doctorate of Engineering from Napier University in July 2005.
JA (Sandy) MacC Orr (1957), Executive Chairman of City Inn Hotels has been awarded the OBE in the 2006 Birthday Honours for Services to Hospitality.
Alex M Poots (1985) is Director of the Manchester International Arts Festival.
Revd Professor DWD Shaw (1940) has been awarded a Doctorate of Divinity by the University of St Andrews
Martin RF Shuker (1980) is Managing Director of KFC UK.
Robert R Steedman (1946) has been awarded an Honorary Degree (DLitt) by the University of St Andrews for Services to Architecture - the first architect to be so honoured in the university's history.
David JR Strang (1976), having been the Chief Constable of Dumfries and Galloway Constabulary since 2001, has taken up a new appointment as the Chief Constable of Lothian and Borders Police.