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GERALD ALLEYNE
-- Re-elected President

There was a large turnout at our Annual General Meeting to elect the team to lead the Association into the 21st century. In addition, those who attended were treated to vintage Bobby Moore, who showed that he lost none of his oratorial lustre when he gave an inspiring address laced with wit and humour.

In his address, Gerald outlined the activities of the past year. The major portion of his address centred around the rehabilitation of our alma mater and the efforts we are making to fund certain programs for the school.

The usual business of the AGM being concluded, Dr. Moore, in his own inimitable style gave us his recollections of life during the Sanger-Davies era, as this was the period in which he taught at Q.C. Dr. Moore, after admitting to his own biases, went on to admit that after coming in 1955 to teach at Q.C. "I came, I saw, I concurred." He went on "I concurred because I was very taken with the Principal and with the unmistakable life force of the school that hit me as soon as I entered its portals."

In his recognition of Mr. Sanger-Davies' contribution, he stated "Graduates of his decade went forth from Queen's with stout Guyanese hearts and a burgeoning cosmopolitan sophistication, convinced that they could extend the limits of the possible." This attitude was bolstered by a comment made by someone at the end of the 1950's, when describing U.W.I. at Mona as "Jamaican by location, Trinidadian by culture, Barbadian by urbanity and Guyanese by brilliance." Adding that " of course well over half of that brilliance hails from Queen's."

Bobby paid homage to Sanger's concept that an education required every student to get a first-hand sense of the amazing capabilities of the human body and as he said, "What is important about these competitions is not winning or losing, but pacing one another amicably on the road to excellence." This philosophy was of course duplicated in the halls of academe resulting in the large number of Queen's graduates who can be found all over the world performing at the highest levels of science, commerce, international and political scene.

In wrapping up his 30 minute address, Dr. Moore concluded "Yes, I came with skepticism; I saw with admiration; I concurred with whole-hearted participation and in doing so gave myself one of the two happiest decades of my professional life."

The standing ovation at the conclusion of his address was a small indication of our deep appreciation for Dr. Moore's scholarly address, This gave us a deeper insight into V.J. Sanger-Davies whose two great maxims were: "What you do well, do with panache, what you badly, do with unabashed aplomb."

BOBBY MOORE TO ADDRESS ANNUAL ICQC MEETING

The Annual Meeting of the International Committee of the Queen's College of Guyana Alumni Associations will be hosted by the Toronto Chapter this year. The meeting will be held at the Scott-Westney House, 180 McLevin Avenue, Scarborough (north of Sheppard, east of Markham) commencing at 2.00 p.m. on Sunday August 1st.

Representatives from Guyana, England, New York, Washington and Jamaica will attend and present reports from their various chapters.

Dr. Bobby Moore will address the meeting. His topic will be "Celebrating our Heritage, Devising our Future." This topic will serve as an excellent lead-in to the report from Guyana which will focus on the Guyana Government's position vis a vis funds for rebuilding the burnt-out portion of the school.

The ICQC was informed that funds were not allocated in the last budget for rebuilding the portion which was destroyed, even though schools in different parts of the country were allocated funds. Our colleagues in the London Chapter were told by the Minister of Finance last March that the government was prepared to rebuild, but not to the extent of rebuilding Q.C "fit for the 21st century".

As this meeting is being held in Toronto, members of our chapter are invited to attend, not only to hear Bobby Moore, but also to aquaint themselves with updates on their alma mater and the various efforts being made by chapters to assist in the continuing education at this noble institution.