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Andy McCulloch
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 Posted: Sat Jun 11, 2011 3:41 pm Post subject: Congratulations |
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Congratulations to the recently mentioned Stephen Taylor who has been awarded the OBE.
Order of the British Empire
Members of the Order of the British Empire
Stephen TAYLOR, Teacher, Greenwood Academy, North Ayrshire. For services to Schools Chess
Found this on the ECF. |
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Mike Scott
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| Posted: Sat Jun 11, 2011 3:54 pm Post subject: |
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| Great news - well deserved! |
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Donald Wilson
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| Posted: Sat Jun 11, 2011 5:26 pm Post subject: |
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It's an MBE actually, but still there are precious few honours that come the way of the chess community, and it's richly deserved.
Well done, Stephen! |
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Andy McCulloch
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| Posted: Sat Jun 11, 2011 5:52 pm Post subject: |
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Being a bit of a pleb, I did not know the difference, and I only registered the first line. 
Still a very worthy recipient. |
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Craig Pritchett
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| Posted: Sat Jun 11, 2011 10:24 pm Post subject: |
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| I would like to add my congratulations to Stephen, too. Very well done and very good, too, for chess in Scotland, more widely. |
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admin
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| Posted: Sun Jun 12, 2011 8:29 am Post subject: |
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| Fantastic news. Well done Stephen |
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David Deary
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| Posted: Sun Jun 12, 2011 9:20 pm Post subject: Not before time... |
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As one of the many thousands of players Stephen has taught over the years I offer my congratulations.
Never has someone more deserving been honoured. I'm thrilled. 
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robin moore
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| Posted: Sun Jun 12, 2011 9:27 pm Post subject: |
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| Official recognition at last auld yin ! There are so many young players that Stephen has helped through the years and I am lucky enough to have been one of the first and hopefully far from the last. Congratulations my friend, you thoroughly deserve it. |
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Paul Denham
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| Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2011 3:44 pm Post subject: |
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Congratulations Stephen on a well deserved award.
If every high school in the land had 1 teacher even half as dedicated to chess and putting in time and effort when after school clubs for many sports have disappeared from many schools as yourself, we would have a scholastic chess system, junior chess system and club/congress system that would be the envy of many countries (The Netherlands and The Armenia's included)
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Graeme Kafka
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| Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2011 3:56 pm Post subject: |
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| Many congratulations on this richly-deserved recognition. |
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