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April 2009 Volume 6 No. 4
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Outstanding teachers Honored
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Two history teachers, Maureen Edwards Lewis at North Street and Stephanie Tulloch at Melbourne, were elected by their peers on their respective campuses as the two most outstanding members of KC’s teaching staff.

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Clive Pullen is Champs Outstanding Athlete

Clive Pullen (r) with LIME's VP Errol Miller

KC's Clive Pullen was named Champs outstanding male athlete at the LIME high performance award luncheon at the Terra Nova Hotel on April 8th.

LIME handed out cash prizes and awards valued at more than $1.65 million.

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Bishop Taylor to retire

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Bishop E. Don Taylor

The Rt. Rev. E. Don Taylor Vicar Bishop for New York City will retire on Sept. 1, 2009, as required by Canon Law that sets the retirement age for bishops at 72.

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Letter to the Editor

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Dear Glen,

Thanks so much for sending me the printouts of the articles about my dad.

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KC Cult-URE
Reginald Reid

 

Let me readily confess that before the start of Champs 2009, I did not expect us to be a contender.

While I would never admit this to anyone outside of the fraternity, media reports and the pundits had me convinced that Calabar was about to 3-peat.

Therefore, it was very satisfying to the win the Quiz because at least we would have had something to counter the Calabar euphoria after Champs, even though in a very real sense, Quiz and Champs are more like apples and oranges but KC people have always had an uncanny ability to justify anything and everything.

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Not yet a member of the Old Boys' Association?

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Michael Chambers

Michael Chambers has joined. He attended KC from 1968 to 1975 and went on to become an Electrical Engineer.

Read Michael's profile here.

You too can join the Atlanta chapter by clicking on our link below:

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On a sad note
Stephen Manning

Sephen Manning, age 19, died on Thursday, March 12th 2009  as a result of a bizarre / freak accident while at football practice at the Marverly playfield, Kingston 20.

Reports are that about 6 p.m., Manning, who was playing football, went off the field. He leaned against a perimeter fence and was electrocuted. He was taken to the Andrews Memorial Hospital where he was pronounced dead.

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Delano Franklyn Launches book on Beijing olympics

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KC Celebrates 31st Champs victory

 

KCclaimed the Champs crown for the 31st time -- it all came down to the last race, the boys 4X400 relay. A recount confirmed that KC won by 0.5 ( half) point.

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Champs Video - the boys 4x400 relay final

 

Click to watch the finals of the Boys 4x400 Relay

 

KC Wins School's Challenge Quiz 2009

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KC won the TVJ 40th Anniversary of the TVJ School's Challenge Quiz Competition on March 31, 2009.  KC beat Ardenne 42 to 14.  The score at the start of the buzzer section was 28 to 20 in favour of the College.  KC then moved up a bit, while Ardenne became entirely flustered. 

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The Teacher Appreciation Luncheon

Still jubilant over KC's convincing win over Ardenne in the School's Challenge Quiz competition, the teachers convened at the popular Waterfalls Banquet Hall on April 2nd for a Teacher Appreciation Luncheon hosted by the PTA in collaboration with the various chapters of the KC Old Boys' Association.

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Jamaica 2 Rahtid coming to Atlanta

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The KC Old Boys of Atlanta, in Association with Jamaica Awareness, will be bringing the multi-award winning play, Jamaica 2 Rahtid Pupalick, to Atlanta for Mother's Day, May 10th 2009.

According to the Jamaica Observer, Aston Cooke's play " is a hilarious musical revue which takes a funny look at Jamaica's state of affairs."

The Gleaner describes the play as "outrageoulsy hilarious."

Jamaica 2 Rahtid has played to sold out audiences in Miami and standing room only crowds in New York.

Atlantans can see Jamaica 2 Rahtid Pupalick at the Shiloh High School Performing Arts Center in Snellville. Tickets are $35 regular and $40 for reserved seating. The laughter starts at 4:00 pm with a second show at 7:30 pm on Mother's Day, May 10th.

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First Showing Tickets (4:00 pm) includes $3 handling:

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Second Showing Tickets (7:30 pm) includes $3 handling:

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NY's 26th Reunion & Awards Dinner

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he Kingston College Old Boys' Association USA Inc. will celebrate its 26th Annual Reunion and Awards Banquet on May 2nd, 209 at ANTUN'S in Queens Village, New York.

Patrons for the event are the Honorable Anthony Johnson, Jamaica's Ambassador to the US and The Right Rev. E. Don Taylor, Vicar Bishop for New York City.

Guests of honor are:

Errol Lecky
Winston Harvey
Keith "Smiley" Daley
Maurice Lewis

For tickets contact: 

Robert Kelly 413-374-4861
Clive Davidson 917-971-3945 / 718-464-0020,
Robert Rodney 516-784-8166,
Clinton (Fatman) Clarke 718-940-0126

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Champs Results and photos

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iew Alton Brown's photos from the grandstand on the last day of Champs.

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View full results of all events at Champs

Champs results

Human excrement the least of our problems

Reprinted from Jamaica Observer

BY WARREN BLAKE

Sunday, April 12, 2009

In the 1980s the USA had a major waste disposal problem. This was evidenced by the difficulties the USA had in trying to export its hazardous waste.

It was negatively in the news for trying to pay Third World countries to take its waste.

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A few words from the editor

It was a wonderful week for KC.

Mine was not too bad either. I was in Kingston a part of that week and attended the Teacher's Appreciation Luncheon just days after KC's victory in the TVJ Schools' Challenge Quiz Competition.

The Quiz team attended the luncheon and were given presents along with the teachers. After lunch, Audley Hewett and I hitched a ride to Champs with Clive Golding, who represented the Toronto chapter at the luncheon.

I had no idea Champs tickets were so hard to get. But with a little help from Audley I was soon sitting in the stands. At times it appeared there were more old boys than students in attendance.

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Jahmall Bernard to attend Emerging Global leadership

KCOBA (Toronto) will be sponsoring Jahmall for the upcoming session of the Emerging Global Leadership Program in Toronto May 6 – 10, 2009 at York University.

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Rachel Manley Launches Latest Book in Barbados

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Rachel and Laza

The day before leaving Barbados for Champs I went to a bookshop in Bridgetown to attend the launch of Rachel Manley’s new book ‘Horses in her hair.’

When I arrived there were about sixty persons in attendance listening to eloquent speeches by friends of the author who herself gave a humor-filled response in which she highlighted the years when she lived and worked in Barbados.

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The Kingstonian and the Papaw tree

Iam a Kingstonian and KC Old Boy, born and grown under the clock. 

As a child, I would visit the market frequently with my mother and looked forward to the purchase of one of my favorite fruits, the papaw (Papaya for you foreigners).

Yet, while I had seen the tree loaded with fruits, I was not familiar with the methods of picking the fruit and thought it no different from any other fruit tree.

Years later, on one of my work assignment measuring river flows in St. Thomas, I became the mascot of the little district of LLandwewy.  On this particular day, while walking through Miss G's yard on my way to the Yallahs River, I observed a lovely papaw tree that was well laden with the fruits.  My greetings to Miss G that morning and my expression of love for papaws was most emphatic and of course the response I was soliciting came; "Gwaan go pick papaw mi son”.

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This Joyful easter tide

The Kingston College Chapel Choir

Presents

This Joyful Easter Tide

An evening of Songs

St. Augustine's Chapel

2 North Street, Kingston

Sunday, April 19, 2009

5:00 pm

Admission $500.00

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The national obsession that is Champs

 
Champs Opening Ceremony

 

Champs was established in 1910 and Norman Manley won the 100 in 10 seconds the next year. Talent unearthed at The National Championships has cemented Jamaica's status as a top athletics nation.

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Toronto Spring Dance - June 6th

 

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Profile of maureen Lewis

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Maureen Lewis

It was a vivacious and effervescent 24 year old Meadowbrook High alumnus that joined the staff of KC as a history teacher some 30 years ago. She recalled having graduated from UWI Mona Faculty of Arts and General Studies with a Bachelor of Arts degree majoring in history and English in 1977.
                          

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