Jamaica Gleaner
Published: Saturday | October 31, 2009
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REUNION TIME: From left: Merle Brown, Prime Minister Bruce Golding, Veronica Wright, Alex Drysdale, Winston Taylor, Marva Green, Howard Taylor, Everton McDonald, Barbara Gunter, Fernando DePeralto, Selvyn Goldson, Delano Hayre, Jacqueline Berry, Warren McDonald, Audrey Hanson, Maureen Stephenson, Verley Harrison and Eileen Rainford. The surnames are the ones the women held as students on campus. Veronica Wright is now Veronica Goldson, Marva Green is now Marva Bernard (Jamaica Netball Association president), Audrey Hanson is now Audrey Anderson, the Bank of Jamaica's senior deputy governor); Maureen Stephenson is now Maureen Vernon. Jacqueline Berry is now Jacqueline Fairclough and Eileen Rainford is now Eileen Felix. The picture was taken at the 40-year reunion of the graduating class of 1969 from the University of the West Indies. The event took place at Vale Royal in St Andrew on October 25.


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Prime Minister Bruce Golding (left) accepts a copy of 'Notes, Quotes and Anecdotes' (of the late National Hero, the Rt Excellent Sir Alexander Bustamante) from the author, Ken Jones, at the launch at King's House on Thursday night.


From left: Anne Ramsay, president of the Jamaica Association of Flower Arrangers; Ruth Crocker, president of the World Association of Flower Arrangers, and Gladys Hakansson pose for the camera at their association's recent event in Washington, DC.


Winston Sill/Freelance Photographer
Jeffrey Spooner (left), Antoinette McCaw-Smith (centre) and Debbie Plummer are having an interesting discussion at the Palisadoes Co-operative Credit Union Limited's annual awards banquet at the Terra Nova All-Suite Hotel, Waterloo Road, on Wednesday, October 14.


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Noted floral designer Marigold Harding explains her exhibit titled the 'Grand Canyon' to Jamaica's ambassador to the United States, His Excellency Anthony Johnson, at the Washington chapter of the World Association of Flower Arrangers show at the L'Enfant Plaza Hotel in Washington, DC, on October 17.

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