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Social Seens... Photography by Gram and Noraa The Order of Salvador The Salvador Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg established the Order of Salvador during its first year of operation to honor and recognize patrons of the museum. The Order is based on knightly historical orders and members are given a medal engraved with an insignia based upon one of Dalí’s paintings. Individuals are promoted through a series of ranks, each having its own type of ribbon and bezel for the medals and members of the Order proudly wear their medals to museum functions. This Ceremony of Investiture and Elevation occurs once a year at the Dalí. Charlotte Kendall was proud that her husband Jerry, a member of the museum’s board of trustees, was presented with the Morse Award that evening. Betsy Schweitzer, a docent at the museum, was inducted as a member into the Order of Kamal Majeed, a member of the museum’s Salvador by the Grand Chancellor Tom James. board of trustees and his wife Najla were presented with Endowment Medallions in JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2017 | TAMPA BAY MAGAZINE 167 recognition of their donation to the museum’s endowment fund. Brad Morse, the grand master, and his wife Mary Ann Morse, the grand registrar of the Order, presented the elevations in the Order at the ceremony along with Tom James. Emmanuel and Montserrat Cerf were elevated at the event to Knight and Dame Commander 1st Class in the Order of Salvador. Tom James, the grand chancellor of the Order of Salvador, wore the Collar of the Order as his wife Mary and he displayed their new Endowment Medallions.


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