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Alumni Day 2010 |
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Are you an NCU alumnus who
graduated in the 80's or the 90's? We want to
honor you at Alumni Day, September 4, 2010. Please
contact our chapter president Vilma Weir Campbell for
more details.
407-889-3402, vdc@cfl.rr.com. |
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Passing of Pastor L. H.
Fletcher |
 Pastor
L. H. Fletcher, former President of WIC from 1973 -
1980, passed at 4:47pm on Wednesday, November 4, 2009 in
Miami, Florida. A memorial service was held on
Sunday, December 6 at 10:00am at Miami Temple SDA
Church.
Pastor Fletcher served the Seventh-day Adventist Church
as Youth Director of East Jamaica Conference and West
Indies Union, Treasurer of West Indies Union, President
of West Indies College and Educational Director of the
Inter-American Division.
The Central Florida Chapter
was
well represented, securing a bus so that those who
preferred not to drive could have transportation to and
from the event.
Thanks to
Dah Music Linx(DML), the memorial service was broadcast
live on
http://www.DahMusicLinx.com to viewers all around
the world.
At Pastor
Fletcher’s request you are invited
to contribute to the L. Herbert Fletcher Endowment Fund
benefiting Northern Caribbean University and worthy
students. Please make checks payable to the
Inter-American Division, indicating the endowment fund
as the beneficiary. Mail checks in care of Edward Reid
to the Inter-American Division, 8100 SW 117 Avenue,
Miami, Florida 33183. |
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Join NCU Alive |
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Check out the latest Social
Networking site for NCU Alumni,
NCU
Alive. Created by S. Peter Campbell, this
site helps you reconnect with old classmates and
friends.
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Willie
Oliver Speaks for Alumni Day 2008 |
 Dr.
Willie Oliver,
Director of
Family Ministries for the North American Division of
Seventh-day Adventists, was the speaker for the Central
Florida Chapter Alumni Day on August 30, 2008. Dr
Oliver graduated from then West Indies College during the
seventies. He and his wife, Elaine, present
Family Life Seminars around the United States. |
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Dr. Ben
Carson Receives
Presidential Medal of
Freedom |
 Seventh-day
Adventist
neurosurgeon, Benjamin S. Carson, said he was "humbled"
when President Bush draped the nation's highest civilian
award, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, around his
neck yesterday.
But such accolades are routine for the doctor who
persevered through a childhood of poverty and urban
violence to become the youngest department head at Johns
Hopkins Hospital and a benefactor distributing thousands
of scholarship dollars each year.
Four months ago, Carson was at the White House to
receive a Ford's Theatre Lincoln Medal, awarded to
individuals who exemplify the spirit of the 16th
president. Last month, Hopkins announced an endowed
professorship that will link Carson's name with the
university's. "I'm still coming down off of that," he
said.
"I was just very grateful that people are starting to
recognize some of the work I am trying to do," Carson,
56, said in an interview after the ceremony, referring
to his promotion of reading programs and college
education for at-risk high school students. He called
high school dropout rates an "epidemic" and said,
"Sometimes I feel people aren't paying attention."
Born in Detroit to a barely literate mother who married
at age 13 and soon left her husband to raise two sons
alone, Carson overcame what he has described as a temper
problem as a teen and went on to attend Yale University
and the University of Michigan medical school. He gained
fame as a pediatric neurosurgeon for, among other
things, leading the separations of five sets of twins
conjoined at the head between 1987 and 2004. He is also
skilled in hemispherectomies, a procedure to remove half
the brain to prevent seizures.
3,400 scholarships
The Carson Scholars Fund, founded with his wife, Candy,
has given more than 3,400 scholarships to high school
students over the past 14 years.
Carson's mother, Sonya, was in the audience at the White
House ceremony, and Bush singled her out as he summed up
the doctor's life to an invited audience of several
hundred.
The president praised her doggedness in ensuring that
her children took their education seriously.
'Forces of nature'
"Some moms are simply forces of nature who never take no
for an answer," Bush said. "I understand," he added,
drawing laughter for the allusion to his own mother.
"Every week the boys would have to check out library
books and write reports on them," Bush said. "She would
hand them back with check marks, as though she had
reviewed them - never letting on that she couldn't read
them."
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Dr.
Witford Reid Receives Excellence Award |
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 Medical
doctor and NCU alumnus, Dr. Witford Reid, received The
Inaugural Dr. C.J. Thomas Memorial Award for Excellence
on Tuesday, April 1, 2008 at the Northern Caribbean
University's 9th Annual Science Symposium, to be
Dr. Reid, a devoted alumnus who is a member of the
Central Florida Chapter of the NCU Alumni Association,
supports the sciences at Northern Caribbean
University (NCU).
His most recent endeavor yielded a grant of US $40,000
for the Department of Biology, Chemistry and Allied
Health Sciences. The grant, which was awarded by the
VersaCare Fund, California, will be used to purchase
equipment, enhance basic research and facilitate the
offering of quality laboratory sessions to undergraduate
students studying the sciences.
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NCU Imagine Cup Team at It Again
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Once again a four-member
software design team from Northern Caribbean University
is making strides in the Microsoft sponsored Imagine Cup
Competition. The 2008 team placed first in round one of
the competition, staving off competition from other
local universities to emerge on top at the national
level.
Imagine Cup team, from left, Mr. Halzen Smith,
Project Advisor, Carlos Grant, Romaine Carter, Krishna
Maragh and Orlando Knight.
Under the leadership of Project Advisor, Mr. Halzen
Smith, the team members submitted a proposal for
designing software geared towards promoting
environmental sustainability and engendering
responsibility for the environment among people in
Jamaica and the rest of the world. The program was
developed in accordance with the theme of this year's
competition, Imagine a World Where Technology Enables
a Sustainable Environment.
The team is dubbed eQuest, with reference to their
pursuit of environmental sustainability. According to
Mr. Smith, who is also Acting Coordinator of the
Department of Computer and Information Sciences at NCU,
the team is not only knowledgeable but is also very
enthusiastic. The team is benefitting from the
guidance of last year's team members, who placed a
historic third in the world.
Having won the Jamaica leg of the competition, the 2008
team will go on to represent Jamaica in the Semi-Final
round, where they will face-off against countries in the
Central America and Caribbean region. Success at
the Regional level will guarantee the team a place in
the grand finals which will take place in France later
this year.
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