Kristy just graduated, making her the most qualified member of our family: she’s now a Master of Arts in Applied Linguistics, and now has lots of letters after her name should she choose to use them (cf. the title of this post).
She now ranks as the 3rd-most educated Freney ever (to my knowledge), after my mum Denise (MA DipEd BA) and grandfather John (DSc PhD MSc BSc). I’m not convinced any of us are going to top the DSc - that’s a Doctor of Science, an award that recognises a body of significant scientific contribution. It’s a big deal. All I’ve got is BE.
(My grandfather has written a bunch of obscure books on his speciality, agronomy (soil science; specifically, nitrogen and fertiliser use in soils related to rice paddys, etc). Because they’re so narrowly-focused, they print about 6 copies and sell them for $279 or $299. Wow.)
Nice work, Kristy. (Master Freney?)
Massive congratulations to Kristy, mate! Great news.
And what about your grandfather?! I love that the Amazon page says, “No image available”.
I think if you order any of his books, they commission a special print run. And not only is he one of the top scientists in the world in his field, he’s build half a dozen houses, played competition tennis, had a golf handicap of 8, and so on.
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