We have our first knight! The governor of Victoria on behalf of the queen of Englandknighted Fred Davidson a Knight Hospitaler in the Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, a British royal order of chivalry, the sovereign head of which is Queen Elizabeth. The Hospitalers originated as an order caring for the sick in the Holy Land 1,000 years ago. Because Fred became an Australian citizen in 1987, he can accept the honor of “Sir Frederick” and all that goes with it. Fred recently accepted a board position as member of the council of Melbourne Scotch College, which is one of Australia’s finest private college preparatory schools. He is giving back to education this way because, due to distance, he cannot be involved with Dartmouth or Loomis School (now Loomis Chaffee). Bill Brigiani received the Municipal Court Practioner of the Year Award from the Middlesex County (New Jersey) Bar Association in March. He was honored in April as a past Middlesex County Bar Association president (1986-87). Another award-winner is Karl Holtzshue, who received the Professionalism Award, the highest award given by the real property law section of the New York Bar Association, which has 4,600 members. He was chairman from 2007 to 2008. Continuing to practice law is Ron Kehoe, who is working full time as an assistant attorney general for Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley. He revels at being the oldest person in a 500-person law firm serving the public interest. He feels they think he knows a lot because of his white hair. Martha recently said publicly of Ron, “We hope he never retires.” Ron takes that “as sort of a life sentence!” Bob Carter moved to Florida, where he is executive director of ArtStage, a dance company, and is helping fund a trip to Austria to compete in the Dance World Cup. ArtStage is the first competitor from the United States. Mal Halliday practices piano two hours daily. His granddaughter, one of 10 grandchildren, is an award-winning concert pianist who will be going to the University of Massachusetts to study with a Russian pianist. Inga and Mal keep in touch with friends in Iceland, where they met when Mal was on a Fulbright Scholarship. They recently took a 35-day cruise of Greenland, Iceland, Norway and Ireland (“a must for Dartmouth Viking folks”). Mal sees Rick Leudke often as Rick has children in the Washington, D.C., area. Kurt Wehbring is on a City Club of Portland, Oregon, research study group to give recommendations for improving the teaching of civics in high schools. Donna and he took a cruise to Mexico and Hawaii, where they snorkeled for the first time. Kurt leads the Dartmouth Book Club of Portland, while Donna, a former English teacher, leads a book club of former students who are now professionals. Jeanne and Rennie Spaulding ran into Judy and Lefty Cline at the Tides Hotel in Mexico. The Clines were making their 32nd visit to the resort. It was the Spauldings’ second visit. 


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