At midnight last night UK time, QRC’s beloved Geraldine Connor, former Music Mistress passed away.
May she rest in peace and compose for the orchestra of angels and saints who will play on that great and glorious day of our Lord’s appearing.
Geraldine Connor was a freelance Theatre Director. An ethnomusicologist by profession, she was a senior teaching fellow at the University of Leeds (1992 – 2004) and holds a MMus (London)., LRSM, Dip. Ed. She held a two year appointment as Associate Director (Music) at the West Yorkshire Playhouse (2001 – 2003). A composer, performer, musical director and vocal animator specialising in mainstream rock and pop, Caribbean carnival, Caribbean folk and African American Gospel, Jazz and Blues styles, she conceived, composed and directed Carnival Messiah , a radical theatrical reinvention inspired by George Fredrick Handel’s Messiah (1999 and 2002, West Yorkshire Playhouse: Port of Spain, Trinidad 2003 and Carnival 2004), and also directed the acclaimed premiere co-production between the West Yorkshire Playhouse and Adzido Pan African Dance, Yaa Asantewaa, Warrior Queen, which successfully toured Britain and Ghana, Africa, in 2001/2002. She has directed Carnival Messiah (Queen’s Hall, Trinidad and Tobago), Blues in the Night (West Yorkshire Playhouse), Vodou Nation (UK Arts and West Yorkshire Playhouse) and Performance Poet Ras Anansi-I for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
The following clip was captured and shared by creative media company The Royalty Club, an establishment founded by QRC Old Boys.
Featuring some light picong between alumni of Queen’s Royal College and That Other Place, the two comments highlight the contributions of former principal William J. Carter and of former teacher and current Minister of Education the Honorable Esther Le Gendre to the restoration project. Further, it acknowledges the latter’s commitment to the ongoing development of the College.
Principal Lennard Hinkson also drives the point soundly home that Queen’s Royal College today remains an institution that lives up to its legacy of producing the nation’s finest men.
FORMER permanent secretary in the Ministry of Finance Frank Barsotti died on Tuesday morning at his Gallus Street, Woodbrook, Port of Spain, home.
He was 78 and had been ailing for some time.
Barsotti, who served much of his career as a public servant under the Eric Williams administration, was educated at Queen’s Royal College, Port of Spain, and Cambridge, England, where he gained a Master’s degree in economics.
He had a long and distinguished career in the Public Service, having joined in 1961. Two years after joining the Public Service, Barsotti was nominated for a UN fellowship at the Economic Commission for Europe in Geneva, Switzerland, and worked in the Research and Planning Division of the Commission until November 1964.
He returned to Trinidad in 1965 and was promoted to senior economist in the Ministry of Agriculture, Lands and Fisheries.
During the next eight years, he was promoted first to permanent secretary, Ministry of Planning and Development in 1973, then to the Ministry of Finance until May 1985.
He also had directorships in several state companies, including Caroni (1975) Ltd, BWIA, Trintoc and Unit Trust.
After retirement, he was appointed chairman of Republic Bank, in May 1987.
His wife, Barbara (nee McVorran), died five years ago and he is survived by his daughter, Natasha, who resides in Canada.
Funeral arrangements will be announced on her return to T&T.
SOURCE: Trinidad Express, July 2nd, 2009
QRC.edu extends condolences to Mr. Barsotti’s family on behalf of the Royalian community.
Graphics for dado panels in Classrooms after paint was stripped from the walls | Photographs: Courtesy Rudylynn De Four Roberts
On the site Trinidad & Tobago Strabon Caraibes, part of a programme of Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme de Paris, there is a brief article on the restoration work taking place on the College’s Main Block.
Apart from two photos of the scaffolded building, there is the panel of photographs and text describing them as follows:
Queen’s Royal College is at present being restored. During the restoration process, paint was carefully stripped to uncover the original colours, revealing in the classrooms, hand-painted dado panels in different designs, framed by stencilled and hand-painted border friezes. These original panels will be restored to their original splendour in selected areas. External colours will also be restored to the original colours.
There is also an interesting series of articles on the Main Block’s sisters, the rest of the Magnificent Seven.
Strabon-Caribbean – multilingual and multimedia information system for Caribbean cultural heritage and tourism – is a project for international scientific and technical cooperation coordinated by the DEVAR department (the centre for “Diffusion, Expérimentation, Valorisation et Recherche”) of FMSH, in partnership with the Université des Antilles et de la Guyane (UAG).
Former QRC Principal Bill Carter tapped institurional memory to inform that there is more than national pride to be had in Men’s 100m semi-finalists Marc Burns (IAAF Profile, Wikipedia Entry) and Richard Thompson (IAAF Profile, Wikipedia Entry). Both are also QRC Old Boys.
NCAA Champion Thompson is son of Old Boy Ruthven Thomspon, a gentleman known for his goalkeeping exploits on behalf of the College and in more recent years for his quiet omnipresence at events in support of the College. On Richard’s mother’s side, his uncles Gerard and Ronald Clarke were also Royalians who represented College and country in their own disciplines. There is thus rich vintage in this promising young sprinter.
Medalist in the World Junior Championships, World Championships, Commonwealth Games and World Athletics Finals, Burns spent most of his secondary school days at Belmont Intermediate, but trained under the late Lawrence McDowall with the QRC team. He repeated his fifth form year at QRC, before heading off to El Dorado Senior Comprehensive to join fellow Trinidad and Tobago sprinter Darrel Brown.
We Boys next appear in the 100m semi-final heats carded for tomorrow morning, Saturday, just after 8:00am Trinidad and Tobago time. Marc runs in lane 4 at 8:05 against and Richard in lane 7 at 8:13.
They’ll be wearing red, white and black, but we all know that their blood runs blue. QRC.edu on behalf of all Royalians extends undying support.
The contractor responsible for the restoration work on the Main Block has published an ad in the daily papers requesting expressions of interest for ongoing maintenance of the clock works.
Interested parties are asked to reply to the advert by May 28th, 2008.
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