Monsignor Gladstone Wilson Awardees
[Article originally posted on October 5, 2012]
Deacon Trevor Graham J.P; Neville Bell; Charles Williams; Peter Chavannes (accepting on behalf Paul Chavannes).
Congratulations to the Jamaica Old Boys on the excellent staging of their Monsignor Gladstone Wilson Awards Banquet at the Mona Visitors Lodge UWI on Sept 26, 09.
Our Ontario Liaison Director Carl Chang represented us and provided details of a most successful and entertaining event with Professor Barry Chevannes shepherding the proceedings as Master of Ceremonies.
Dynamic young Jason Deer VP of The Jamaica Old Boys welcomed all and Margaret Campbell, principal brought greetings and an update from the school.
Monsignor Mock Yen attended as a special guest, not to delight the group with his beautiful tenor voice but on this occasion to be feted on his 70th birthday.
Charles Williams, Jamaica Old Boys President and himself one of this year’s honorees assisted in the cake cutting along with Dr. Eve Palomino, wife of Basil Lue.
Georgian Senator Dwight Nelson made the introduction for all five awardees.
This year’s honourees were: Neville Bell, Paul Chavannes (dec’d) represented by his son Peter Chavannes from Georgia, Deacon Trevor Graham J.P, Cecil Knight (dec’d) represented by Patrick Knight and Charles Williams.
Delightful entertainment was provided by the Alpha Boys’ Band & Wayne Armond and Friends. The Awards are named after St. George’s most accomplished graduate the Rt. Reverend Monsignor Gladstone Orlando Stanislaus Wilson (1906-1974) Class of 1921. Ph.D., M.A., B.A Hons., B.D., D.C.L., B.C.L., F.R.C.S, Dip. Soc. Sc. Monsignor Wilson made contributions to several specialized Magazines and Journals; was considered one of the most highly qualified Ecclesiastics in the Roman Catholic organization and was at the time of his death on December 1,1974 deemed the seventh most learned person in the world. He travelled extensively in Europe, and the Americas, and spoke several languages fluently, including French, Spanish, Italian, German, Portuguese, Latin, Greek and Hebrew. Rt. Reverend Monsignor Gladstone Orlando Stanislaus Wilson was inducted in 2000 into the St. George’s College Hall of Fame and named St. George’s College Student of the 20th Century.
–Robbie Vernon
