When the biennial dinner of the St Mary’s College Past Students’ Union comes off on Saturday, May 5, it will be a most historic occasion in that for the first time, spouses/girlfriends have been invited to the function.
This time around, the spouses and girlfriends of the CIC past students will be able to participate in the nostalgia and reminiscing that will be present when the guys meet their contemporaries of college days.
As usual, the dinner will be held at the Centenary Hall of the College (Pembroke Street entrance) and will be preceded by cocktails in the legendary Big Yard.
A feature of the function will be the announcement of the names of the 2007 inductees to the St Mary’s College Hall of Fame which was established by the Past Students’ Union in 1997.
The college’s Hall of Fame is designed to recognise outstanding past students who by their deeds of excellence serve as exemplars to past and present students of St Mary’s College, which was founded in 1863 and is the oldest existing boys secondary school in the country.
To date, 50 individuals have been inducted into the Hall of Fame. Included among them are former president Sir Ellis Clarke, deceased Archbishop Anthony Pantin and his brother Fr Gerry Pantin of Servol, Captain Arthur Cipriani, legal luminaries Sir Henry Alcazar and Sir Gaston Johnston, former West Indies cricketers Clifford Roach, Ellis “Puss” Achong, Willie Rodriguez and Charlie Davis, distinguished medical personnel doctors Pawan and Poon King and renowned calypsonians Atilla the Hun and Dr Hollis “Chalkdust” Liverpool.
As is customary, the function will be attended by the presidents of past student organisations of other colleges, including Queen’s Royal College, Fatima, Presentation and Naparima.
No doubt, their presence will encourage much discussion about the fierce but healthy competition that existed among these institutions in the spheres of scholarships and “intercol” in front of the Grand Stand in the Queen’s Park Savannah.
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