CBS Soaps In Depth, 05/08/01
With Honors

Each year, The Lab School in Washington, D.C., honors high-achieving dyslexics at their annual awards gala. Last year's recipients were political strategist James Carville, actress Kelly McGillis, Ford Motor Credit Company Chairman and CEO Don Winkler and Chicago Tribune columnist Clarence Page, but this year the ceremony hit closer to home for Guiding Light when David Andrew Macdonald (Edmund) was recognized with the school's award for an outstanding alumnus. "It was very nice to hear that I was being honored," admits Macdonald, who attended the school as a young child. Although the actor hasn't been involved with the school's program since his education, he is highly active with the New York branch of the International Dyslexia Association. "I've been doing some speaking events for them," he says. "I think through those grapevines, what I've been doing got back to Sally Smith, who's been running the school since it's beginning."

That's A Fact: Macdonald's family lineage can be traced back to Scotland's royal family.