Hall of Fame – Trinity College Alumni Association

Mr Keith Philip Maynard

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Mr Keith Maynard

Mr Keith Maynard entered Trinity College in 1964 and during his entire tenure was consistently placed at the top of his class. In 1969, he attempted an unprecedented nine(9) GCE ‘O’ Level subjects passing all of them, most with distinction. In 1971 he obtained ‘A’ Level passes in Math and Chemistry from Trinity College but elected to repeated ‘A’ Levels at St Mary’s College in 1972 where he won an Island scholarship. He then entered the University of Toronto where, in 1976, he obtained a Bachelor of Applied Science(Hons) with a major in Nuclear and Thermal Power Engineering.

He had a successful career in software development, working for such Fortune 500 companies as AT&T, Delta Airlines, and Ameritech. He was a lead engineer at Ameritech where he managed a project to develop and install call centre software which was deployed simultaneously in one greenfield installation in Chicago and one live centre in Detroit. While at Delta he was responsible for introducing CTI technology to the company thus allowing it to shave seconds off of calls. This resulted in great savings in telephone charges and improved responsiveness to customer inquiries. He also was the lead in developing their first speech recognition application which allowed customers to search for flight details using natural language.

Mr Maynard was always a music lover. He taught himself to read and arrange music and to play such instruments as the guitar, the piano and the tenor pan. He was the arranger for the first steel orchestra formed at Trinity College.

In 1981 he was hired at CARIRI to join a steelpan research project. Together with Richard Mc David, he identified a potential method for ‘sinking and grooving’ tenor pans using fluid-form pressing. He travelled to Sweden to set up a die to perform testing of this method using a variety of metals. However, it was his love of the pan that in 1986 lead him to develop the first prototype of an electronic pan.

This prototype formed the basis for further development work at the Engineering Institute of the UWI which led to the creation of the Percussive Harmonic Instrument (PHI), an electronic synthesizer for pan. The PHI merged the powerful facility of the Musical Instrument Device Interface (MIDI) with a physical form inspired by the traditional spider-web tenor pan.

A few of the many features of the PHI are:

● Itisanelectronicinstrumentcreatedforpannists.

● Ithasalltheadvantagesofanelectronicinstrumentsuchas ease of amplification, recording, editing etc

● Itgiveseasyaccesstoaninfiniterangeofinstrumentvoicesincluding all ranges of steelpans, wind and percussion instruments, etc. This means that as few as four players with PHI instruments can simulate an ensemble, an orchestra or an entire steelband.

● Itisportable,mucheasiertomovearoundthanasix-bass.

● It eliminates the challenges of having to find a tuner to keep a physical instrument in tune.

The PHI adds a new dimension to our traditional steelpan and for this invention, Mr Maynard and three other individuals now hold patents in several countries including Trinidad and Tobago, the US, Canada, Japan and the European Union. The PHI is now used by several local and international performers, including Len ‘Boogsie’ Sharpe, Ken ‘Professor’ Philmore and Rhapsody band. Mr Sharpe has also produced a CD which was entirely recorded using the PHI.

Mr Maynard has recently undertaken the challenge to completely revamp the TCAA website making it more interactive, providing for alumni to easily register to the alumni database. He is currently working on a donation page to allow members to easily make their financial contributions directly to the TCAA or to any Trinity College projects of their choice from the convenience of their web-enabled devices.

The Trinity College Alumni Association acknowledges Mr Keith Maynard for his work in software development, for his contribution to

the improvement of the steelpan and for his contribution to the technological development of the TCAA and proudly admits him to its Hall of Fame.

Mr Mark Ramkerrysingh

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Mr Mark Ramkerrysingh

Mr Mark Ramkerrysingh attended Trinity College from 1970 to 1978.
He entered the University of the West Indies in 1979 and obtained a Bachelor of Law degree (LL.B), Upper Second Class Honours in 1982 and a Legal Education Certificate (L.E.C) from the Hugh Wooding Law School 1985. In 1995 he received a Master of Law degree (LL.M) from Columbia University School of Law.

Mr Ramkerrysingh worked as a Legal Officer for TRINTOC, Trinidad and Tobago Defence Force and TRINTOMAR between 1985 and 1993. In 1993 he joined the National Gas Company of Trinidad and Tobago and was the Head of Legal Services there until 1995 when he joined the firm of Fitzwilliam, Stone, Furness-Smith and Morgan where he became a partner in 1998 and remains to the present.

His practice is primarily focused in the corporate commercial area where he specializes in securities regulation, initial public offerings, mutual funds, mergers and acquisitions, financing, insurance and information technology. He is regularly required to provide advice on a wide range of corporate, securities, banking, insurance and general commercial issues.

His clients range from small to multinational commercial undertakings whose businesses include banking and finance, oil and petrochemical services and computer software engineering.

Mr Ramkerrysingh is regularly called upon by both Government and private sector stakeholders to advise and comment on regulatory legislation that impacts upon various sectors. He was a member of the Cabinet appointed committee which reviewed and oversaw the overhaul and replacement of the Companies Ordinance with the current Companies Act. He also acted on behalf of industry groups in reviewing the Financial Institutions Act

which regulates banks and in recent times, he has provided critical commentary on the proposed Insurance Bill. He has acted as legal counsel on a review of legislation to provide a regulatory framework for public-private partnerships and has advised on and drafted relevant documentation on such structures. Mr Ramkerrysingh has been credited with drafting the rules for the Trinidad and Tobago Central Depository which regulates the settlement of all securities traded on the Trinidad and Tobago Stock Exchange.

Apart from his stellar career in corporate law, Mr Ramkerrysingh has contributed to a number of associations and committees.
He was a director of the Pan American Life Insurance Company of Trinidad and Tobago from 2012 to 2016. He is currently the Corporate Secretary of United Way of Trinidad and Tobago, The Registrar of the Anglican Church in the Diocese of Trinidad and Tobago and the Chairman of the Elections and Boundaries Commission of Trinidad and Tobago.

The Trinity College Alumni Association acknowledges Mr Mark Ramkerrysingh for his outstanding work in corporate law and proudly admits him into its Hall of Fame.

Dr Kim Johnson

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Dr Kim Johnson

Dr Kim Johnson attended Trinity College from 1968 to 1974. In 2002 he obtained his PhD for the University of the West Indies. He is currently the Director of the Carnival Institute of Trinidad and Tobago and is considered to be the foremost historian of pan.

Dr Kim Johnson has had a distinguished career in research and scholarship in the fields of history, sociology and culture. He began his career as a tutor in sociology at the University of the West Indies and continued as an academic editor for the Institute of Social and Economic Research in Trinidad. He was also a consultant sociologist for the Caribbean Conference of Churches(CCC) for which he produced studies of Haitian refugees in Guadeloupe and illegal Guyanese migrants in Suriname. Between the early 1990s and 2003, he worked as a journalist at the Trinidad Express and the Trinidad Guardian.

It was as a journalist that Dr Johnson began his major research project: a decade-long study of the steelpan movement- its history,

formation, imaginative character, and ultimately its future. He took this project with him to the University of the West Indies, where

his doctoral thesis(2002) was an oral history of the steelband movement in Trinidad.

His major research achievements include, most recently, an exhibition entitled ”The Audacity of the Creole Imagination”, staged at the National Museum of Trin idad & Tobago (2010) which displayed archival material in photographs and other ephemera which he collected over years from private collections and other difficult-to-reach sources. The exhibit included a 13-minute film that he scripted and produced. He is also working towards creating, along with other fellows of the UTT, a virtual online museum of Trinidad & Tobago.

Dr Johnson has also published extensively about the history and culture of Trinidad & Tobago and the steelband movement. His books include The Fragrance of Gold: Trinidad in the age of discovery; Renegades: the history of the Renegades Steel Orchestra of Trinidad and Tobago; Descendants of the Dragon, about the Chinese presence in T&T; Tin Pan to TASPO: Steelband in Trinidad, 1939-1951, If Yuh Iron Good You Is King and The Illustrated

Story of Pan. The archive of historical photos he collected for the last book has been listed on UNESCO’s Memory of the World Register.

He has produced and directed the film “Learning To Look” about the experience of deafness and “The Radical Innocence of Jackie Hinkson”, about the artist. These were screened at the T&T Film Festival. He wrote and co-produced a docu-drama entitled “ PAN! Our Music Odyssey” which won several prizes at film festivals. It was aired in the USA on PBS and has been translated into Spanish, French and Japanese. “Re-Percussions: Our African Odyssey”, which he shot and directed in Nigeria, won the best feature documentary prize at the 2015 TT Film Festival. His film on traditional mas, “Our Soul Turned Inside Out” has been screened in several countries and translated into Spanish.

He is currently working on several projects, including a study of the popular music produced in the Americas and Caribbean, a film about youth in prison, and a documentary about the historic 1950 West Indian test cricket victory at Lord’s in London, and the calypsos that celebrate it.

In 2011 he was awarded the Anthony Sabga prize for excellence in Arts & Letters.

The Trinity College Alumni Association acknowledges Dr Kim Johnson’s contribution to Trinidad and Tobago’s culture and proudly admits him to its Hall of Fame.

Dr Godfrey St. Bernard

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Dr Godfrey St Bernard

Dr Godfrey St. Bernard attended Trinity College from 1970 to 1977. After leaving the college, he enrolled at the University of the West Indies, where he studied Mathematics and Economics, graduating in 1980. He obtained his Master of Arts degree in Sociology from the University of Western Ontario in 1989 and his Doctor of Philosophy degree in Social Demography from the same institution in 1993.

In 1983, Dr St. Bernard was awarded a “Pass with Distinction” and placed first in the Intensive Demography Workshop for Regional Statisticians across the Anglophone Caribbean. This Intensive Demography Workshop was organized by Centro Latino-Americana de Demografia (CELADE) to strengthen the capability .of professional statisticians from Anglophone Caribbean countries in the conceptualization, collection, preparation, analysis and dissemination of demographic and other allied population-related statistics at sub-national, national and regional levels. This served as the catalyst that launched what has become an illustrious career as a demographer and statistician.

Since the mid-1990s, Dr St. Bernard has been one of the Caribbean’s leading demographers whose expertise is sought regionally and internationally on matters pertaining to Caribbean demographic reality. He is also highly respected internationally as a professional statistician on matters pertaining to statistics that foster national and human development.

Dr St. Bernard has been the recipient of several awards. He was awarded a CIDA/CELADE award 1987-1989 to pursue his Master of Arts studies at the University of Western Ontario, one of two Caribbean recipients. He also received the Department of Sociology’s award, 1989 at the University of Western Ontario. He was then awarded another CIDA/CELADE award, 1989-1991, based on his outstanding performance in his Master’s studies. This

fellowship permitted him to pursue his PhD studies at the University of Western Ontario. He next received a Population Council Fellowship in 1991-1992 to complete his PhD studies. This is an outstanding, prestigious fellowship award targeting young professionals working in the area of biomedical research and sexual and reproductive health. Dr St Bernard is the third Trinidadian to receive this award and was one of nineteen (19) recipients out of a field of two hundred and forty-five (245) applicants. His selection was largely based upon the quality of his submitted research proposal.

Dr St. Bernard is the author of two books, two monographs, an edited special issue of a journal, more than 25 articles in refereed publications and more than 20 refereed chapters in edited books. He has authored more than a dozen technical reports and edited reports prepared by high-level consultants. He has authored and presented over 100 invited and contributed conference papers and keynote lectures in more than 30 countries.These papers and lectures have addressed such issues as:

● historical and contemporary patterns of structure and change impacting human populations in Latin America and the Caribbean,
● sustainabledevelopment,
● publicorderandsafety,.
● childrenandyouthdevelopment,
● themeasurementofsocialphenomenainappliedresearch,
● nationalstatisticalsystems
● andthephilosophyofscienceandimplicationsforresearchingCaribbean societies.
Dr St. Bernard is currently:

● leadresearcherattheSirArthurLewisInstituteofSocialandEconomic Studies’ research cluster on Population and
Sustainable Development in Caribbean societies.
● Heisco-researcherintheresearchclusteronYouthDevelopment, Social Policy and Sustainable Rural and
Agricultural Development.
● Heisalsoco-researcheronCaribbeanChildRightsObservatory Network.

Dr St. Bernard is the team leader and co-applicant on the “Rights of Children and Youth Partnership” which is being undertaken in collaboration with a large number of universities in Canada and Latin America. He was instrumental in securing the $ 4.3M (Can) grant for this project.

Dr St. Bernard pioneered the establishment of the Master of Science in Development Statistics at the UWI in 2008. In 2017, the program produced more than 50 graduates from the Anglophone Caribbean, Latin America and Africa of which 90 percent were supervised by Dr St. Bernard.

In addition to all of this, Dr St. Bernard is currently writing a book to commemorate the sixtieth anniversary of the founding of Trinity College. Its title is “Resistance, Perseverance and Resilience: Trinity College 1958-2018”

The Trinity College Alumni Association acknowledges the achievements and contributions of Dr Godfrey St. Bernard to tertiary education in the area of demography and statistics and proudly admits him to its Hall of Fame.

Dr David Fajgenbaum

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Dr. David Fajgenbaum

Dr David Fajgenbaum attended Trinity College between 1961 and 1967 and is now a retired board-certified orthopaedic surgeon specialising in Joint Replacement and Sports Medicine.

Dr Fajgenbaum attended Tulane University, New Orleans in 1967 where he graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry and Pre-med in 1971. After a brief stint teaching mathematics and science at Trinity College, he returned to Tulane to study medicine in 1971. After graduating in 1975, he began a surgical residency at North Carolina Memorial Hospital, Chapel Hill. In 1976, he began his Orthopaedic Residency at the same institution. The latter residency lasted until 1980 and in 1981 he received the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgery Board Certification.

Dr Fajgenbaum was appointed the Attending Physician at the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill from 1980 to 1989. He was also a partner surgeon at the Bone and Joint Clinic in Raleigh from 1980 to 2013. He was affiliated with several hospitals in the Raleigh area, including Duke Raleigh Hospital, Wake Medical Center and Rex Healthcare

Dr Fajgenbaum has been on the Consumer Research Council’s list of top surgeons on numerous occasions. He was also ranked top surgeon by Medicare, for Total Hip Replacement operations at Rex Healthcare, Duke Raleigh Hospital and Wake Medical Center. He was named Doctor of the Year, Raleigh, in 1984. He held the post of Chief of Surgery at Raleigh Community Hospital in 2000 and has held a number of top advisory posts in area hospitals.

For 20 years, Dr Fajgenbaum held the post of team orthopaedist for the North Carolina State Football team and he lists many NFL and other professional athletes as his patients.

Dr Fajgenbaum began practising orthopaedic surgery in 1980 before it was available in Trinidad and Tobago. As a result, many Trinidadians and Tobagonians travelled to his clinic in Raleigh, North Carolina to be treated by him.

Dr Fajgenbaum’s charitable work includes Actively Moving Forward (AMF), which has chapters on many US university campuses. This organization supports grieving students whose parents have died.

Dr Fajgenbaum has devoted his life to his profession. On a recent visit to Trinidad, he spent most of his vacation giving free advice to many residents who had learned of his reputation.

The Trinity College Alumni Association is proud to admit Dr David Fajgenbaum MD to its Hall of Fame for outstanding service and achievement in the field of Orthopaedic Surgery and Sports Medicine.

Mr Donald V. Gibbon

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Mr Donald V. Gibbon

Mr Donald V. Gibbon attended Trinity College from 1963 to 1971 and represented the College in Lawn Tennis and Cricket. While at Trinity, he achieved the Gold standard in the Duke of Edinburgh Scheme and was one of four nationals to represent that Organization in an international exchange programme. In 1971, he entered the University of Manchester and graduated in 1974 with a Bachelors of Science, second class honours in Civil Engineering. He later attended the Loughborough University of Technology from which he earned a Master of Science degree in Construction Management.

Mr Gibbon worked at CEP Limited from 1974 to 1997 where he rose through the ranks from graduate engineer to Partner and ultimately Director. At CEP, Mr Gibbon worked on numerous major projects. These include the Financial Complex Twin Towers, Algico Plaza, Police headquarters, Roytec Building, Briar Place and the 25,000 ton Silos at the National Flour Mills in Port of Spain. He also worked on the maximum-security Prison at Golden Grove, the Terminal Building at the Piarco International Airport, and the Coast Guard facility in Cedros.

In 1997, Gibbon Consulting Engineering Limited (GCEL) was formed with Mr Gibbon as the senior consultant. GCEL has grown consistently over the past 21 years and has developed an impressive clientele in both Design Engineering and Construction Management. These include, among others, Trinidad Distillers Ltd (Angostura), Nestle Trinidad Ltd, BHP Billiton, Worley Parsons International, Massy Stores Ltd and The Maritime Financial Group.

Over the years, Mr Gibbon has offered consultancy services, pro bono, to a number of charitable organisations such as the St Ann’s Church of Scotland, the WAND facility in Palo Seco, the CREDO facility on Nelson Street and many others.

Mr Gibbon is a member of the Trinidad and Tobago Cycling Federation and has served in the past on its General Council and as its Vice President. He has served as Manager for the national cycling team at the 1987 Pan American Games in Indianapolis, USA and at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul Korea. He has also been a member of the management team for various Junior Cycling Championships: the Caribbean Championships held in Barbados, Curacao and Bermuda and the Pan American Championship held in Cuenta, Ecuador.

The Trinity College Alumni Association acknowledges Mr Donald V. Gibbon and proudly admits him into its Hall of Fame for his contribution in the field of Civil and Structural Engineering and Sports.

Mr Courtney Nicholls

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In 1969, Major Peter Helps, the first principal of Trinity College, having presided over the early years of the school’s settling into Moka, decided to return to England. He was in his 49th year and wanted to be back home before he was fifty and still, as he said “employable”. Courtney DeMonteith Nicholls applied to be his successor at Trinity College, was interviewed and subsequently appointed.

He brought with him stellar educational credentials: he was a 1951 Barbados Island Scholar to the University College of the West Indies and was awarded a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts from the prestigious University of Cambridge, England. At a fairly young age, he had already been Vice-Principal of QRC and Principal of several other secondary schools.

Mr Nicholls, who quickly gained a well-known ‘military’ nickname, Colonel Klink, would serve as Trinity’s second principal from 1969 to his retirement in 1985, creating an indelible impression on hundreds of students over those years. Many regarded him as a second father, and the welfare of the students was his life’s passion. He would mix an insistence on the pursuit of high academic achievement on the part of his pupils with an ability to see and appreciate the comical aspect of any situation. Indeed as columnist Mark Lyndersay (himself a Trinity alumnus) put it, he was “a man who matched rigorous discipline with a subtle but devastating sense of humour. Mr Nicholls never treated students like children or fools. He never hesitated to discipline and was known to deliver the occasional devastating clout, but he respected the capacity of his charges to self-govern and make sensible decisions after being offered a few words of wisdom”.

Academics, for himself and his students, was not his sole interest. He was an adept cricketer who represented his university and was a robust supporter of the Trinity College football team.

Mr Nicholls’ entire life was devoted to education. Even after leaving Trinity, he continued to contribute to the school, serving on the Board of Management for many years. He was also a member of various other School Boards such as Bishop Anstey High School. He was involved in the planning and establishing of Trinity College East and Bishop Anstey East, and for many years served as Secretary of the Caribbean Association of Principals of Secondary Schools.

The Trinity College Alumni Association acknowledges the contribution of Mr Courtney Nichols in the area of Education, particularly to its Alma Mater, Trinity College and proudly admits him to its Hall of Fame.

Brian Charles Moore

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Mr Brian C. Moore

Mr Brian Moore attended Trinity College from 1964 to 1971. After graduating, Mr Moore emigrated to Canada and studied at Concordia University from which he obtained a Bachelor of Commerce degree in 1978 and a Diploma in Business Administration in 1979. In 2007 he obtained his MSc. in public sector policy development and management from the University of the West Indies.

In 1980, on his return to Trinidad after working and studying abroad, Mr Moore was hired to assist in the establishment of a National Bureau of Standards. He worked at the Bureau from December 1980 to his retirement in 2013. Along with its first Director, Dr Michael Lines, Mr Moore was instrumental in taking the organisation from a one-room, five-person operation to an internationally-recognised institution of 250 persons, preparing the country for the demands of international trade. As The Corporate Secretary and Head of Administration, Mr Moore was responsible for setting up the Corporate Services departments and most of the technical divisions. He was able to do this most successfully because of the advanced training he received in the management of technical institutions at internationally acclaimed schools such as the Administrative Services College of India and the Singapore Institute of Standards and Industrial Research.

In 1983, Mr Moore joined the Co-operative Credit Union sector. By 1988, he became President of the Public Services Credit Union (PSCU), a position he held for an aggregate of approximately ten years. During that period he improved that Credit Union from a $50 million operation to a $100 million operation. As a result of his reputation, The Diego Martin Credit Union invited him to become a member. He soon became the President of that Credit Union and positively steered its fortunes. Mr Moore was the only person to hold the presidency of two Credit Unions simultaneously. However, his greatest achievement in this sector was his ascension to the

presidency of the Credit Union League of Trinidad and Tobago in 2006, when that body was in disarray and no one wanted the responsibility of leading it. Mr Moore accepted the task and in three years, returned respectability to the League. During his tenure, he was successful in retrieving for Credit Unions $750 million that they had invested in CLICO. This was accomplished through tough negotiations with the Government of the day. Additionally, he was successful in stopping attempts by successive governments to introduce legislation that would have led to the demise of Credit Unions as we know them.

Mr Moore, fondly known as “Mr Credit Union”, was the longest serving President of the Credit Union League; he also served as Vice President of Eastern Credit Union.

In 2013, Mr Moore was elected Vice President of the Trinity College Alumni Association(TCAA). He set about working with the Executive to breathe new life and meaning into the TCAA. His first major project was the establishment of the Trinity College “Hall of Fame”, now in its third iteration. At the TCAA Annual General Meeting of 2014, Mr Moore was elected President and set about to enhance and expand the profile and relevance of the Association. His achievements so far are evident in the growth of the Association and in the leadership he has provided. Mr Moore was able to gain representation for the TCAA on Trinity College Board of Governors and in so doing has been able to make positive interventions regarding the governance of the Alma Mater

The Trinity College Alumni Association acknowledges Mr Moore for his contributions in the establishment of the Trinidad and Tobago Bureau of Standards, in the development and management of credit unions and to the growth of the TCAA and proudly admits him to its Hall of Fame.

Pastor Clive P Dottin

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Pastor Clive Dottin

Pastor Clive P Dottin attended Trinity from 1962 to 1968. He also served as a laboratory technician for one year at Trinity after O levels. Pastor Dottin holds a Diploma in Elementary Teacher Training (E.T.T.), a Bachelor’s degree in theology (B.Th.) from Caribbean Union College, and a Master’s degree in Public Health (M.P.H.) from Loma Linda University.

Mr Dottin is a highly-respected academic who is well published. His publications include “ Horizon”, which contains programmes for youth societies; “Bell”, which focuses on religious freedom, and “Angels on Fire”, which contains sermons for Pathfinder Evangelists. Since 2002, he has been writing for the Trinidad Guardian, recommending possible solutions to current social problems.

He is now an S.D.A Minister who has served in this church as an Associate Youth Director, Youth Director, Communication Director, Religious Liberty Director and Church Ministries Director.

Pastor Dottin has founded many initiatives geared toward alleviating various scourges in society. These include: “Friends Forever”, a ministry for drug addicts and depressed youth; “Heart to Heart”, a ministry for AIDS patients and abused children; “EFFORT”, a ministry for the unemployed and self-employed, which has organised small business expositions; “Teene-Freene”, a ministry for teenagers; “Courage Unlimited Please”(CUP), a ministry for victims of crime and violence; and “Dream Team”, a ministry for students.

In recognition of his enormous contributions to society, Pastor Dottin has received awards from several organisations, including the International Religious Liberty Associations, the Hindu Nidhi Foundation and Alcoholics Anonymous. He has touched the lives of over 65,000 students in 144 schools and he has led over 5,000 persons to Christ. He continues to provide selfless service to church and community. In 2006, he was appointed Coordinator of the Heart

Touch Ministries in the Loveuntil Foundation, a program designed to minister to youth in crisis in the Laventille area. In 2007, he was appointed by the President of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago to be a member of the Police Service Commission.

Pastor Dottin was awarded the honorary degree, Doctor of Letters (D.Litt.) honoris causa at the 2009 graduation of the University of the Southern Caribbean for his outstanding work in the areas of community service and the rescue of youth in crisis.

In 2007, Pastor Dottin was requested by CNC3 to design a television programme to address social issues in the society. This served as the soil for the germination of “People Can Change” which he produced and hosted. Also in 2008, he was appointed Chairperson of the Readi Centre in Matura, a sanctuary and rehabilitation centre for drug addicts, which was opened in 2009, the same year he was selected to be the chairperson of the newly formed Life Choices Media Ministries, which was created to help youth make positive choices and to promote the concept of sexual purity.

In 2014, Pastor Clive Dottin was awarded the Chaconia Medal – Silver in the spheres of Religion, Education and Community Service

The Trinity College Alumni Association acknowledges Pastor Clive P. Dottin, Hon DLitt for his contributions in Religion, Education and Community Service and proudly admits him to its Hall of Fame.

Nigel Grosvenor

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Mr Nigel Grosvenor

Mr Nigel Grosvenor attended Trinity College from 1969 to 1974 and represented the College in football at all levels. Mr Grosvenor was one of the most skilful footballers to attend Trinity and together with the likes of Richard Chinapoo changed the public image of the College as a football force and laid the foundation for the College’s ascension to the secondary school football championship division.

In 1978, Mr Grosvenor entered the University of West Virginia on a full football scholarship and graduated with a degree in physical education in 1982. He was a stalwart for the University of West Virginia Mountaineers during the four years he played for them and he received numerous accolades as a player. He was voted to the All-Regional and All-Conference first teams on many occasions and he received the highest accolade in college soccer by being voted all-American once. At the end of his college career, Mr Grosvenor was offered the opportunity to play professionally, but declined because of family obligations occasioned by the death of his father.

In 1982, Mr Grosvenor returned to Trinidad and sought employment as a physical education teacher. His first call was at Trinity College, his Alma Mater but there was no vacancy. He found work in a private school at Mt. St. Benedict Abbey and later got the opportunity to join St Anthony’s College where he worked from 1983 to his retirement in 2018. During his tenure at St. Anthony’s, his role expanded from physical education teacher to include that of the football coach and Dean. However, it is as the football coach of the St. Anthony’s Tigers that Mr Grosvenor is best known. In this role as coach, he won nine national secondary school football titles, six at Inter-Col and three at the league level. In 2011 the St. Anthony’s Tigers played unbeaten, a record in the modern era of the secondary school football league(SSFL). In the 2007-2008 football season, Mr Grosvenor had the honour of coaching the national U17 team and took them to the CONCACAF finals. In 2009, Mr Grosvenor was credited with

coaching Diego Martin Secondary and bringing them up to the championship division of the SSFL for the first time. Unfortunately for them, that was as far as he could have assisted.
Mr Grosvenor’s success as a coach is made even more remarkable when one learns that he had never taken a coaching course or attended a coaching clinic. What then was the secret of his success? Mr Grosvenor insists that laying a proper foundation and creating a system were key elements. He groomed his players from form one and kept them playing together through all levels until championship division. In that way, the players grew together. They bonded, they understood each other and they developed a pride for the St. Anthony’s brand. As a coach, he was very close to his players. He became their psychologist, their mentor and their father. He was not afraid to ‘buff’ a player on the field and give him a hug after the game. His office was always open to his players. They could come during a break, during lunch, any time, to talk about football, personal problems, school work or anything and he would be there for them. His units were very close-knit, disciplined and fit. It took Mr Grosvenor 14 years before winning his first Inter-Col title but when that win came, the feeder system that he had created kicked in. Success brought sponsorship and led to more success and the rest is history.

During his tenure at St. Anthony’s, Mr Grosvenor produced a plethora of national players such as Kenwyne Jones, Carlos Edwards, Brent Rahim, Julius James, Yohance Marshall, Lester Peltier just to name a few. He impacted the lives of hundreds of young boys and gave them dreams and aspirations to become better persons.

Mr Grosvenor was acknowledged as one of the major football coaches in the SSFL when it hosted its 2015 Awards Ceremony. His major contribution to the SSFL was influencing the change of the league format from that of the Championship division to that of the Premier division.

Mr Grosvenor is now on contract to Queen’s Royal College (QRC) and most likely will end his college football coaching career there.

Undoubtedly Mr Grosvenor is an iconic coach unmatched by any in the history of secondary school football in Trinidad and Tobago.
The Trinity College Alumni Association acknowledges the achievements of Nigel Grosvenor as a mentor and football coach and proudly admits him into its Hall of Fame.