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May 2006 Volume 3 No. 5 |
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CHAMPS 2006: Six Love - It was a Dog War
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Photograph by Ronnie Chin |
It is extremely sweet. We had to dig deep, had to find some way of doing it
- Lennox Graham, KC head coach
KC won its sixth straight Mortimer Geddes trophy edging Calabar by two points in the 2006 ISSA/VMBS Boys 'and Full Article
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A few Words from the Editor
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Glen Laman |
Last month, I told you about some of the infrastructure improvements we had made in order to host the KCOBA newsletter on the worldwide web. This month, I am happy to report on some organizational improvements that will further enhance our ability to serve you, our readers.
Winston Stewart ( Atlanta ), Dr. Ivor Nugent ( Miami ) and Errol Lecky ( New York ) have joined the newsletter staff as assistant editors. . Full Article
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Earl W. Adams, KCOBA Atlanta treasurer and KCOBA Newsletter webmaster, recently received the James P. Rozelle Outstanding Programmer Award from the J. Mack Robinson School of Business at Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia.Full Article
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KC old boy Ian "Godfrey Legend" Wilkinson
KC old boy Ian "Godfrey Legend" Wilkinson was recently elected unopposed as Vice President of the prestigious Jamaica Bar
Association at their AGM on Saturday. Ian is also President of the Chess Federation of Jamaica.
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KC Quiz Team Takes 2nd spot in TVJ School’s Challenge
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Members of Kingston College's Quiz Team.
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Kingston College recently took second place in the annual TVJ Schools’ Challenge competition broadcast on local television station TVJ. The North street quartet lost a nail-biter in the finals to defending champions Calabar High School. The final score was 28-26. Congrats to coach Valmore Stewart and the team on a solid performance this year.
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Avian Influenza – A Pandemic in the Making?
This article is the first in our series on the evolving story of the avian flu virus by Dr. Lazarus who works for the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) in Toronto. He will write an article each month that the avian flu remains topical and relevant.
by Cedric Lazarus D.V.M
To date, the dreaded H5N1 Avian Influenza (AI) virus has killed 108 people, all in Asia. In one three week Full Article
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Check out these awsome pictures captured by Ronnie Chin during the 2006 ISSA/VMBS Boys ‘and Girls ‘ Athletic Championships.. Full Article
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KC Old Boy Daryl Strachan was recently voted UWI sportsman of the year.
Daryl was deputy head boy of Kingston College in 2002. He recently represented Jamaica in table tennis at the Melbourne, Australia 2006 Commonwealth Games.
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Toronto First Fortis Friday of 2006
The Toronto Chapter hosted the first Fortis Friday of 2006 at Sydney's
Restaurant in Mississauga owned by KC Old Boy, Courtney. For the first time
live entertainment was provided by three of Canada's most celebrated and
much awarded jazz artists: David Braid, the astonishing young pianist/composer, and leader of the David Braid sextet; Mike Murley, tenor
sax, and Steve Wallace, base.
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Letter to the Editor
I have been looking for my cousin Tony Keyes for many years. I last saw him when we were kids (we were about 12-13 years old), then we lost touch. . I was online on March 16th when I came across an article written by Doug Carnegie in the KCOBA Newsletter and in that article he mentioned Tony, I immediately emailed Doug expressing my desire to find my cousin, Doug Full Article
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Profile of the Month - Dale Keizs
Dale Keizs is a Life Director of KCOBA Toronto and currently its Secretary
Dale Keizs is another KC Old Boy who was born “under the clock” in Kingston. He attended Central Branch, Trench Town, Mizpah and other schools before joining his brother, Manley, at Kingston College in 1958. There were also many sons of family friends who attended at the same time.. Full Article
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A time honoured tradition of the KCOBA in Jamaica is that the head boy and the Principal are both invited to reply to the toast to the School at the Annual Reunion Dinner, which is usually given quite eloquently by a distinguished old boy. No one ever explained why two persons are invited to reply to one toast.. Full Article
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RES CLOVELLAE - 1967
The following is reprinted from the 1967 Kingston College Magazine. Res Clovellae or "Clovellian Archives" is a perennial feature of the annual magazine recapping the year's events in an old English narrative style.
Now it came to pass, in the second and fortieth year of the kingdom of Clovelly , that the elders of the surrounding kingdoms decided that the battles fought in Full Article
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Guess Who?
Lets see who can figure out who this group of students from form 5AD1 are. Now this is a trip down memory lane. Who can step up to this tas? Send your submissions to the the Editor, Glen Laman.
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Dr. Marshall Hall - the banana man
The following article about KC old boy Dr. Marshall Hall was excerpted from the Daily Gleaner.
by Hugh Martin
WHEN THE history of Jamaica's modern banana industry is written Dr. Marshall Hall will emerge as the man who stood between its Full Article
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KCOBA USA Inc. 23rd Reunion Dinner Dance May 13th, 2006
by Donald Clive Davidson
Fellow Forticians,
Please support this event. If you are unable to attend please support the cause by sending whatever you can afford to the Address in the attachment.
KCOBA USA Inc.
PO BOX 3917
New York, NY 10185.
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History of KC Cricket - Chapter 3 Part II
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| Gary Neil |
In 1982, for the first time in Kingston College’s history, an incident of serious indiscipline was said to have occurred, involving members of the School’s cricket team, during the tenure of then recently appointed Principal Woodburn Miller. Ironically, the alleged incident occurred during the football season, on an evening subsequent to a practice session by the Manning Cup football team. A number of students were expelled due to the occurrence of the incident of alleged violence on the senior Full Article
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