This week , the news in Atlanta has been the funeral of Coretta Scott King, widow of slain Nobel Peace Prize winner, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. It was only a week ago that I took some visiting South Africans friends to the King Memorial complex here in Atlanta. It is one of the most popular tourist sites in the city and I am always impressed by the variety of nationalities that visit it each day.
Having visited the site on many occasions, I normally breeze through the exhibits, but this time, I happened to notice some small yellow cards beside one exhibit. I took up a card and noted that it was an invitation to help make the world a better place by signing the card and pledging to:
Respect all people
Live a life of loving, not hating
Choose patience over anger, non-violence over force
Promote freedom, justice and peace
It's a pledge I hope we all can make in honor of this remarkable couple.
One way of promoting peace is through sports. And sports have always been a big part of our experience at KC. They are a big part of this month's newsletter which contains several sports related articles.
We continue the history of KC cricket with chapter II of Gary Neil's paper and you can read about a couple of young Old Boys who are headed down under to represent Jamaica in Table Tennis at the Commonwealth games in Melbourne, Australia. You can also read about Kane Watson, reigning Jamaican Junior Table Tennis Champion and recent KC graduate whose father and grandfather are also KC Old Boys.
On the more serious side, KC Old Boy and Jamaica's bioethicist, Dr. Derrick Aarons, shares his thoughts on stem cell research while KC Old Boy, Senator Delano Franklin, explains the opportunities and challenges facing the Caribbean Single Market Economy (CSME) in a reprint of his address at UWI recently. We also introduce you to the three winners of the Citizen's Award sponsored by Toronto and the KC Old Boy, Dr. Ossie Harding, who earned the first PhD in Philosophy from the UWI. And if you ever wondwered why KC boys are different, you can find out in the article entitled, "KC Boys: What Makes Us Who We Are?" by Derrick Wright.
Looking ahead, the Toronto chapter is hard at work planning this summer's KCOBA summit which will be held in Toronto. We are printing Toronto's entire calendar of events for 2006 as well as the "Case for the KCOBA Summit," written by Lance Seymour.
The last article we received for his month's newsletter, "TEMPUS in Rhythm at the Oval," by Basil Waite, introduces a video clip of Michael Holding's spectacular performance at Kensington Oval in London in 1976. We have access to this video through the technical skill and dedicated efforts of Roy Bloomfield aka "Bloomy." Bloomy has also put video of the Kingston College Chapel Choir on the web and you can link to it below:
