To start the year 2006 off on a proper footing, we are bringing you new year's messages from Atlanta chapter president, Everton Barrett and Toronto chapter president Lance Seymour as well as some thoughts by Consul-General award recipient and Atlanta Director, Winston Stewart.
In my early years at KC, I spent many a Saturday afternoon watching cricket matches from upstairs the pavilion at the North Street campus. Some days there were Sunlight Cup matches, on others it was our second XI team engaging the competition. It was always an impressive sight watching the players dressed in their sparkling white uniforms taking the field. It was fun too and the price was always right.
It's been a long time since I have seen any actual cricket. From time to time while visiting Jamaica I have glimpsed it on TV, but it all seems so different from the way I remember it.
To stir your memory about cricket, this month we begin a series entitled, "The History of Kingston College Cricket, 1925 to 1995." KC old boy Gary Neil , who wrote this paper on cricket as an undergraduate at UWI has graciously given us permission to reprint his work. Each month we will print a chapter.
If you haven't been to a prize giving ceremony recently, you should read the letter written by a parent about his impression of the program in our Letters to the Editor section. It is now known as the Awards for Excellence program. One thing different nowadays is the prizes. They actually award cash as well as trophies and books. Much of this is funded by KCOBA New York. A financial report on the 2004 program from treasurer Errol Lecky is reprinted in this month's issue.
For those of you who missed the Atlanta chapter's Christmas party, we have photos to share. Perhaps you can recognize a face or two. It was a good fete with good music and lots of good food.
This month we profile KC old boy and now poet, Raymond Mair , in our profile of the month section. You'll also want to read about the unveiling of the Merlene Ottey statue that was sculpted by another KC old boy, Basil Watson.
