Guyanese girl tops CSEC – QC wins Caribbean school of the year award

Guyanese girl tops CSEC – QC wins school of the year award

OCTOBER 17, 2014 · BY STABROEK NEWS ·  COMMENTS

The following CXC press release was issued today

Elisa Hamilton

Queen’s College Guyana Tops CSEC Again –   

A student from Queen’s College in Guyana is once again the Most Outstanding Candidate in the region in the May/June Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examinations.

Elisa Hamilton leads a trio of Queen’s College top performers as the 2014 Most Outstanding Candidate Overall in the region. Elisa wins the award with acceptable grades in 20 subjects; She achieved Grade I in 19 subjects: Agricultural Science (DA), Biology, Chemistry, English A, English B, Food and Nutrition, French, Geography, Home Economics Management, Information Technology, Integrated Science, Mathematics, Physics, Principles of Business, Social Studies, Spanish, Electronic Document Preparation and Management, Physical Education and Sport, Human and Social Biology, and Electrical and Electronic Technology, and Grade II in Religious Education.  

Queen’s College and Guyanese Musical Life 1844 – 2014

By Dr. Vibert Cambridge

February 11, 2014
Dear Colleague:

Greetings and best wishes for the new day. How did Queen’s College influence your musical life/tastes?  This e-mail requests your participation in an initiative to commemorate Queen’s College’s 170th anniversary.

Since August 6, 1844, Queen’s College has been an important institution in Guyanese society.  Norman Cameron’s A History of the Queen’s College of British Guiana [Guyana] and Laurence Clarke’s Queen’s College of Guyana:  Records of a Tradition of Excellence (1844–1994) provide valuable information on the history of the school and a record of achievements.  There is need to complement those core works with deeper explorations of the school’s contribution to Guyanese social, scientific, political and cultural life.

The initiative referred to above will focus on Q. C’s contribution to Guyanese musical life since 1844.  Over the past week, a conversation with this focus was launched on the Facebook site—“Queen’s College and Guyanese musical life since 1844.”  

On your mark! Set! GONE! – By Earl John

The story below by Earl John shows the energy, drive, direction and collaboration of our fore-parents.  They nurtured the youth and cared for the aged (Archer Home for senior citizens).   We must celebrate the work of the African Development Association, ADA.  I read it at The Commemoration Committee meeting and others recently and they all said to me that it should be publicized …. it had ‘value’.

Tom Dalgety

Primary

In the 1930s Queenstown Roman Catholic School (‘Queenstown R.C’) was situated exactly where it is today – at the southeastern corner of Albert and Crown Streets, where the latter continues from Third Street, Alberttown, going in an easterly direction.

Eulogy for Maurice Moore – by Vibert Lampkin

Former three-time national table tennis champion and `ball player extraordinaire’ Maurice Montague Moore, who died on January 8, had his cremated body laid to rest on Sunday January 22, 2012 in Toronto Canada, following a moving ceremony attended by family members, close friends, and sportsmen and women of yesteryear.  He was 79.

According to Vibert Lampkin, who delivered the eulogy, “Moore was one of the great all-round Guyanese sportsmen of his generation.
“He excelled in football, cricket, hockey and table tennis. I once heard it said that ‘Maurice Moore had the best ‘ball sense’ of anyone of his era’” said Lampkin.  (Stabroek News)

Here is the Eulogy by Vibert Lampkin:

Guyana cops Best Performer, three other awards at CSEC

By Kwesi Isles – Demerara Waves – October 21, 2011

Guyana’s Anuradha Dev has been declared this year’s Best Overall Performer at the region-wide Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examinations.The 15-year-old Queen’s College (QC) girl also secured the Best Performing Student in Science award, Education Minister Shaik Baksh revealed at a news conference on October 21.

Letter on Denis Solomon – by Joey Jagan

Dear Editor,

I would like to share, from personal experience, the achievements which Guyanese are capable of by relating the educational voyage which an old friend of mine completed with great distinction. Denis Solomon , a school-mate of mine from Queens College(1961-1967), was always an achiever and always brought home to his Syrian – Guyanese parents living on Smyth Street , grades which were always at the top of his form(class) at QC. Denis, I remember, always won prizes for bringing first or second each and every term at QC and was a good friend and one to look up to with admiration because of his disciplined approach to his studies, his humour and unique Syrian-Guyanese “look”, respectful and correct in every way and always, neat and well dressed. My father , President Cheddi, always liked Denis’ disposition and encouraged me to be more like him, especially in my studies; these were the times when Denis often visited at Red House to play cricket and just “hang out”.          

U.G. Inaugural Meeting – October 1, 1963

This is the program and the Dissertation by Prof.  Lancelot Hogben at the Inaugural Meeting of the University of Guyana held at Queen’s College on October 1, 1963.

PDF of Program : U.G. Inaugural Meeting – Oct 1, 1963

Queen’s College Alumni Association – Toronto Events

UPCOMING EVENTS

ANNUAL APPRECIATION AWARDS EVENT
The Annual Appreciation Awards Event will be held on Sun May 16, 2:00 p.m.
at Scarborough Village Recreation Centre. < see map here

Guest Speaker will be Dr. Frank Birbalsingh,

Senior Scholar and Professor Emeritus, Department of English, York University. The Topic: “Guyanese Literature”,    Queen’s College Appreciation Awards – 2010 < click here

ANNUAL FATHER’S DAY BRUNCH
Sunday June 13 at Cedarbrook Community Centre from 12:00 P.M. to 5:00 P.M.
Click here for all the details.

GRAND REUNION OF THE QUEEN’S COLLEGE FAMILY IN NEW YORK. USA.
July 4, 2010.      Click here or all the details.

The Alumni Association has prepared the following release:

IN MEMORY OF CLARENCE FREDERICK ELLIS
Obituary – Clarence F. Ellis Clarence F. Ellis, 80, a former Deputy Governor of
the Bank of Guyana and Vice Chairman of the State Planning Commission,…

Contact Information: info@qcalumnitoronto.com   Phone: (416) 267-7227. P.O. Box 312.  West Hill. Ontario. M1E 4R8.  Canada