Seeing 60/60

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The Barbados Seventh-day Adventist Secondary School ticked off another item in its year-long celebration of the 60th anniversary of its founding when last night, July 9, 2013, sixty (60) students were graduated from the institution in a ceremony which not even Tropical Storm Chantal could curtail.  Pastor Dr. Kern Tobias, President of the Caribbean Union Conference of SDA, delivered the feature address, and the school's first Head Girl, Dolores Rudder-Pierce, distributed the certificates and tokens.  Dolores is pictured above (5th from right) along with several of her fellow schoolmates from 1953 together with the two surviving first teachers of the school - Professor Rudolph Allen who also taught at USC in the 1950s (second from right), and Ishbel Bayne, a USC alumna who was later Principal of the school for many years (third from right).  The late Lucy May Kum and B.G.O. French, who also served at USC (the latter as President) were the other founding teachers of the school.  60th anniversary celebrations will continue next month with a homecoming week of activities and in September with a Back-To-School Day and a major concert in aid of the rebuilding of the school hall featuring the famous Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir from the USA.