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October 2006 Volume 3 No. 10 |
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Ambition is the key to success - Luciean’s motto
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Luciean Creary |
Choosing the KC headboy for the 2006/2007 academic year was not an easy task for the panel comprised of newly appointed Principal, Rupert Hemmings, his deputy, Keith Bryan and a selection of senior teachers. The top five sixth formers (13th graders) that came before them for interviews, were elected by their peers in the first round run-off, and were a formidable crop--some of the finest in many years.more >>
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By Brandon Allwood
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Brandon Allwood |
September 12th, 2006. Amidst a sunset in the backdrop, and a windy atmosphere, I boarded a British Airways flight destined for London's Gatwick International Airport. Proudly attired in my white shirt, its brilliance amplified by the stately Kingston College tie, I sat in my business class seat--The KC tie got my chaperone and me those upgrades--and waited for the fasten seatbelt signs to come on. more >> |
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By Dr Cedric Lazarus
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"Its Party time" at Florida's Big Purple Session. |
On October 7th this year the KCOBA Florida Chapter put on its annual fundraiser which many of us for obvious reasons now call, ‘The Big Miami Session’. This was the eighth anniversary of the fund raiser which seems to be getting bigger and bigger every year. It is not a session for KC Old Boys only; it is a session or dance for the entire Jamaican community in South Florida held on the first Saturday in October every year. If you have not yet been to one of these dances you should make the effort to go next year. It is an experience you will never forget. more >>
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By Selbourne Goode
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| Selbourne Goode |
Recently, when newly appointed Principal, Rupert Hemmings, visited Florida as special guest at the Big Purple Session, he remarked to me that the ‘white shirt’ had lost its respect at K.C., alluding to the fact that Sixth Formers were not as respected now as they used to be. He should know, as one who has been involved with the school from September, 1965 when we both started in Form 1D. Interestingly however, Headboys have always expressed concern, over the years, at the level of indiscipline encountered in the school and the difficulty Prefects face enforcing same. My predecessor in office, more >> |
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Glen Laman |
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I recall being in form 4AD1 at Kingston College. Our English teacher was an Englishman whose name, I think, was Mr. Boughton. He was not the first Englishman I had for a teacher, more >>
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Dr. Lawson Douglas |
One of KC’s most outstanding goal keepers of the 1940’s, Dr. the Hon Lawson Douglas, OJ, CD, is the recipient of the Jamaica Medical Foundation’s Special Recognition for his outstanding work in the treatment and prevention of renal failure. l. more >> |
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KCOBA Toronto 33rd Annual Reunion Dinner & Award Banquet
Kingston College Old Boys Association (Toronto) will be having their 33rd annual reunion dinner & awards banquet on Saturday November 4th, 2006.
Guest of Honor will be Dr. Mavis Burke, educator and founder of women for P.A.C.E Canada (Project Advancement for Childhood Education). There will also be a special award to recognize Brittnee Habbib, outstanding Canadian Gymnast.
The event will be held at Delta Hotel–Toronto Airport West, Hawthorn Hall A, B, C & D
5444 Dixie Rd. Mississauga. Reception 7:00 p.m. Dinner 8:00 p.m. $55.00 Contribution (Cash Bar)
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Leighton Hollar |
Leighton Hollar is a West Indian America poet who immigrated from Kingston, Jamaica to the Bronx, New York in the early seventies. He began writing poetry in the late sixties and continues to develop his craft at poetry readings and workshops throughout the United States. .more >>
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Ray Ford |
If winning the mantle-piece football game on a college campus makes for a good Homecoming Weekend, then the one at Michigan State University a few weeks ago certainly wasn't. Unfortunately, the MSU Spartans got roughed up by lowly University of Illinois – a football team .more >> |
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Marland Nattie |
KCOB Marland Nattie was re-elected President of the Jamaica Basketball Association at its annual general meeting at Alhambra Inn on Saturday, September 30, 2006. Nattie, who is also Vice-President of the Caribbean Basketball Confederation, defeated a shocked KCOB, Pete more >>
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Alain Bailey |
KC Old Boy Alain Bailey has settled in at the University of Arkansas where he is enrolled as a freshman in the Sam M. Walton College of Business and is majoring in marketing. He came to Arkansas because “they have the greatest history in track and field, especially in more >>
Franklyn McDonald – Musgrave Medalist
Franklyn McDonald on the way to receive his Silver Musgrave Medal at the Institute of Jamaica awards ceremony alongside is his third form English teacher at KC, Dr Velma Brodber-Pollard on October 4, 2006.
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by Basil Waite |
Four Kingston College sixth formers were included in the record number of Jamaican students who have received scholarships to Cuba this year. They are Warren McCalla, Jevayne Mills, Kemar Samuels and Paul Soman..This year’s all expense paid scholarships include 70 in medicine, expanded from five last year; 40 in nursing; 11 in sports and physical education; 9 in engineering more >> |
KC’s “Winningest” High Jumper
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by Basil Waite |
It is a little more than two years since the passing of Pat Maglashan Sr. He was 84. Described by Senator Anthony Johnson as one of Jamaica's great athletic pioneers, Maglashan will go down in the annals as one of KC’s great High Jumpers. He ranks with the likes of such outstanding KC High Jumpers as Clive Bariffe, Zele Morris and Alain Bailey. He had the distinction of been the “winningest” KC . more >>
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By Basil Waite
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KCPTA Nominees |
A packed KCPTA general meeting was held on October 12, 2006 at St. Augustine’s Chapel, Kingston College. Eleven candidates were nominated to fill five posts at its rescheduled Annual General meeting on November 10, 2006.patience of the drivers behind the more >> |
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Lawrence “Tiger” Prendergast Elected VP of Toronto Chapter
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| Lawrence “Tiger” Prendergast |
KCOBA (Toronto) has elected Lawrence "Tiger" Prendergast as the new Vice President to fill the vacancy created by the departure of Dr. Cedric Lazarus to take up his UN assignment in Barbados. The election took place at an Extraordinary General Meeting held on September 29, 2006 at the Delta Hotel in Mississauga. The Board will appoint a director at the next Board Meeting as Lawrence Prendergast is a sitting director. The formal proceedings were followed by the third Fortis Friday of 2006. |
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KCOB Neville 'Teddy' McCook receives Order of Jamaica
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P.M. Portia Simpson Miller congratulates Neville 'Teddy' McCooK |
Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller congratulates Neville 'Teddy' McCook, former Jamaica Amateur Athletics Association (JAAA) president, and International Association of Athletics Federation (IAAF) area representative after he was bestowed with the national honour of Order of Jamaica for service to sports in general and athletics in particular at the annual Heroes' Day function at Kings House October 16. |
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| by Basil Waite |
Friday, October 6, 2006 marked some thirty years since the bombing of a Cubana Airlines flight 455 over the Caribbean. History will recall that at 12.23 pm on October 6, 1976 an explosion shook the Cubana de Aviacion DC-8 within 8 minutes after it took off from Seawell International Airport in Barbados. The aircraft, engulfed in flames, fell into the sea within five minutes. All 73 persons on board perished..
This was a clear act of terrorism. Several members of the US Congress, many years after, wrote a letter to the US President George W Bush identifying CIA–trained Cuban exile Luis Posada Carriles, a terrorist living in the USA and someone implicated in the bombing of the Cuban plane which started from a plot in Caracas, Venezuela where the airplane first lifted off. Posada who was also implicated in the assassination in Washington of Chilean more >>
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Re-elected
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David Hunt |
Stewart Stephenson |
Ambassador A B Stewart Stephenson was re-elected president of the Kingston & St. Andrew Football association (KSAFA ).
David ‘Wagga”Hunt was unopposed as General Secretary. |
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Guess Who - Results
Kingston College’s 1962 Manning Cup Football Team
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Back Row: Vernon Bell, Dennis Johnson, Adrian Strawn, Micky Dodd, Lenny Smith Coach... McLean
Front Row, Monty Neysmith, Lloyd Mclean, Karl Oxford, Tony Keys, Peron Harris Goalie .....Basil Bucchanan |
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On a Sad Note: Alfred A. Pitter
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Alfred Adolphus Pitter, affectionately known as “Dada” was laid to rest on Monday September 25, 2006 in Lithonia, Georgia. He was the father of Earl Pitter, a director and former president of the KCOBA Atlanta chapter. He was 91.
Born on September 16, 1915 in Epping Forest, Manchester, Jamaica, Alfred moved to Kingston where he became a Master Cabinet Maker. In 1937, he fell in love at first sight and married Winifred Graham. They had six children.
In the mid 1960’s, most of the family migrated to the United States where he lived in New York City practicing his trade until he moved to Atlanta in 1991. Alfred lived a long and wonderful life surrounded by a loving and devoted family.
He is survived by his children, Keith “Barry” Pitter, Norma Barnes, Carmen Pitter, Claudette Pitter, Joseph Pitter and Earl Pitter as well as 13 grandchildren and 17 great grandchildren.
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