 Jamie Cuthbertson (1978)
Jamie, who was nominated by his daughter Megan, has been chosen to carry the Olympic torch when it comes to Scotland this summer.
Jamie lost his sight when he was only 26 in an accident while he was a captain in the Royal Engineers. A box of detonators exploded in his face and he was nursed back to health at St Dunstan’s in Brighton, now known as Blind Veterans UK.
He has taken part in a variety of impressive fundraising events in recent years including running an ultra marathon (150 miles) across the Sahara in seven days, a marathon across the ice in the North Pole and a tandem cycle last August from Land’s End to John O’Groats.
He and his supporters have raised over £20,000 for a variety of charities including St Dunstan’s, the UK Children’s Cancer Study Group and Sightsavers.
Jamie is pictured abseiling the Glasgow University Tower to raise funds for Beason brain tumour research fund.
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Alan F Rodger, The Rt. Hon. The Lord Rodger of Earlsferry, (1961) the former Lord Advocate, Lord President and Supreme Court Judge, who died on 26 June 2011 was honoured with the Lifetime Achievement Award at The Law Awards of Scotland ceremony on 8 September 2011. The awards chairman, Lord Browne of Ladyton, said that Lord Rodger was “universally popular and respected within the law profession”, adding : “He has been described as one of Scotland’s truly great legal minds.”
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 Professor Lorne Crerar has been appointed by Ministers as Chair of Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE). Lorne left Kelvinside Academy in 1972 to study law at Glasgow University.
A former Scotland under-21 rugby international, who was forced to stop playing at 20 through injury, Lorne went on to chair the Scottish Rugby Union's disciplinary board, a position he still holds. For many years he was a club-level match referee before the same injury forced him to retire before he could graduate to officiating in Five Nations games.
Lorne is a founding partner and Chairman of Scottish commercial law firm Harper Macleod LLP, which has offices in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Inverness and has held the part-time Chair of Banking Law at Glasgow University since 1997. Lorne was formerly Deputy Chairman of Scottish Enterprise Glasgow and one of three Chairmen of the Housing Improvement Task Force which completed its work in 2002.
He was appointed as Convener of the Standards Commission in June 2003 and resigned from this office in September 2006 to take up the Chair of the 'Independent Review of Regulation, Audit, Inspection and Complaints Handling of Public Services in Scotland' which reported in September 2007. Lorne was a non-Executive Director of the Scottish Government Justice Programme Board until November 2010.
Professor Crerar has been a member of the HIE Board since April 2008 and is also Chair of the HIE Risk and Assurance Committee.
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 The following article about Jamie Andrew (1987) appeared in the Sunday Mail on January 29th 2012.
A SCOTS mountaineer whose hands and feet were amputated after a climbing tragedy in the Alps will inspire troubled children to live “beyond their wildest dreams”.
Jamie Andrew, from Edinburgh, lost his hands and feet to frostbite after spending five nights stranded by a storm near the summit of Les Droites in the Mont Blanc mountain range.
His rescue, 13 years ago tomorrow, was one of the most dramatic in Alpine history.
But it came too late to save his pal, Jamie Fisher, who died as temperatures plummeted to –30C.
Jamie, 42, has overcome his handicap and learned to walk on artificial legs, which have enabled him to take up skiing, running and climbing again.
He has inspired thousands by completing marathons and gruelling iron-man triathlons.
Now he has become the first person with such a disability to achieve a Mountain Leader Award, allowing him to pass on his outdoors skills to groups in Scotland.
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Next month, Jamie, who won the Sunday Mail Great Scot Award in 2002, will lead a party of school kids from “challenged backgrounds” in to the Perthshire hills.
Jamie said: “I want to show other people that, by focusing on the positives rather than negatives, they can surpass their dreams.”
Alan Fyffe, executive secretary of Mountain Leader Scotland, said: “Few, if any, have had to adapt so much but Jamie is an inspiration.”
As co-founder of the 500 Miles charity, dad-of-three Jamie will deliver a speech about his work with amputees in deprived areas of the world to launch the University of Glasgow’s Sport and Wellbeing Week tomorrow.
Grant Reilly, spokesman for the event, said: “His story inspires others.”
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 Congratulations to Matthew Bennet (2005) who has just become a Royal Marines Officer, earning his coveted green beret, after he successfully completed 60 weeks of gruelling commando training. Lieutenant Matt Bennet has now joined Fleet Protection Group Royal Marines based in Faslane, where he will command a group of Royal Marines. Matt said "It has been a tough 15 months but all the guys bonded very quickly and I feel I have made lifelong friends. Earning a green beret is my greatest honour yet".
Matt's brothers are also in the armed forces. George Bennet (1997) is an interpreter in Afghanistan after learning to speak Dari and before that he was a Captain with 42 Commando Royal Marine. Simon Bennet (2000) is a junior doctor.
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