Friends and all of us around the parish and Highland Park neighborhood will be glad to hear that former St. Andrean and Highland Parker (Wayne Road) John Scott (grandson of the late Phil MacLachlan, also a St. Andrean and Highland Parker) was recently promoted to the rank of Colonel, U.S. Army, in a ceremony at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center, in Washington, D.C. His mom and dad, our good friends Celinda and Barry, of Indiana, Pennsylvania, attended the ceremony and brought back a copy of the program, which I've posted on the bulletin board by the Parish Hall entry. Barry's present assignment is as pediatric cardiologist and as Medical Director of the Quality Management Division at Walter Reed. I know we all remember holding John --and of course Mette, and their kids Soren, Christoffer, and Sofie--so much in our prayers especially during his deployment to Iraq at the beginning of Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003. His awards include the Bronze Star, the Meritorious Service Medal (with one oak leaf cluster), and the Army Commendation Medal (with one oak leaf cluster. He was also awarded the Hoff Memorial prize for clinical research and is a graduate of the AMEDD Oficer Advanced Course, and the Command and General Staff College. So: a prayer of thanksgiving at this time for John's service to our country, for his leadership in the care of our returning troops, and for the life and ministry he and his family have shared with us at St. Andrew's and in the neighborhood. BruceR http://www.standrewspgh.org http://360.yahoo.com/revbmrobison