QUEEN'S COLLEGE
ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF GUYANA
(TORONTO CHAPTER)
The Queen's Collège Alumni Association provides opportunities for members to participate in its activities and events, recapturing the camaraderie they enjoyed during their QC days.
QCAAT TORONTO
2022 BURSARY
The Queen’s College of Guyana Alumni Association (Toronto) Inc. is again offering two (2) $1,000 bursaries, to encourage QC alumni or the children or grand-children of members of the QCAA Toronto, to pursue post-secondary studies at university and college/CGEP with the ultimate objective of obtaining a first degree/diploma/certificate.
Please use the link below to download the application form.
Submission deadline is December 31, 2022.
Guyanese poet, John Agard;s informal review/chat of a book of Guyanese words and idioms by the late C.A. Yansen (Yango), a former Queen’s College teacher. He alluded to ‘Yango’s’ way with words which took listeners back to a Guyanese childhood with many colourful terms that that made his audience laugh and a few, blush.
DECEMBER 2021 SCRIBBLER
DR. ROY (TERRY) GOBIN
It is with great sadness that we announce the death of Dr. Roy (Terry) Gobin on September 11, 2022.
While a student at QC (1958 and 1966), Terry was in Raleigh house. He later attended the University of Manchester, England, (1967-1970) following which he worked as an economist in the Research Department of the Bank of Guyana.
After acquiring his PhD at the University of Illinois in 1978, Terry was employed as a professor at Loyola University in Chicago, where he taught economics and public finance for 42 years.
DR. WINSTON HO
It is with heartfelt loss and deepest sadness that we share with you the passing of Dr. Winston Ho in LA California, on August 14th, 2021.
Winston attended Smith Church Congregational School and Queen's College in Guyana and studied medicine in Israel.
He returned to Guyana for a short while to serve his country of birth at the Public Hospital Georgetown, then emigrated to California in the USA where he spent the rest of his life's career as an Oncology specialist.
He leaves behind his wife, three children and grandchildren.
(School Song of Queen's College, Guyana)
The Queen's College School Song was composed in 1919 by His Excellency Sir Wilfred Colet, KCMG. The lyrics were penned by His Excellency The Hon. C. Clementi, CMG. The first and last verses of the school song are sung at all official assemblies in Latin. It is usually sung with piano accompaniment at school assemblies. The Latin lyrics link all students - both past and present.
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