Michelle Loubon

The Old Hi­lar­i­ans' As­so­ci­a­tion (OHA) of Bish­op Anstey High School (BAHS)) host­ed its an­nu­al lun­cheon-Cel­e­brat­ing 90 Years of Ex­cel­lence-at the school's Ju­bilee Hall, Keate Street, Port-of-Spain, on Ju­ly 2. Among those present were prin­ci­pal Pat­sy Ann Rud­der; past prin­ci­pal Stephanie Shur­land; OHA pres­i­dent Wan­da Bernard; Jus­tice Mon­i­ca Barnes; Dr Dorel Charles; Sharon Row­ley; Car­olyn John and sev­er­al grad­u­ates. Spe­cial hon­oree was Ivy Walk­er. An ice carv­ing, a pop­u­lar fea­ture on ships, pro­claimed 90. Be­fore the for­mal­i­ties, every­one feast­ed on a de­li­cious meal, pre­pared by John­ny Kanor-Dou­blierand and his com­pe­tent staff, con­sist­ing of smoked chick­en drum­sticks in chunky cher­ry pre­serve and roast­ed sir­loin beef with mush­rooms. Dessert con­sist­ed of choco­late mousse and creme caramel. Gig­gling like school­girls, they shared in the spir­it of ca­ma­raderie and joie-de-vivre.

Of course, as it was in their scholas­tic time at school, the "rebel" sec­tion, each mem­ber a suc­cess sto­ry pro­fes­sion­al­ly, was in at­ten­dance, in a priv­i­leged po­si­tion on the stage of the au­di­to­ri­um. Around this ta­ble sat In­grid Lash­ley, Dr Ju­dith Gob­in, Dr Vanes­sa Stew­art, Lystra and Louise Fletch­er, Bar­bara Lodge-John­son, Nichola Arm­strong, Cheryl Julien, Celisse John­son, Mar­sha King, Youland Hold­er-Robin­son, Mar­garet Philbert, and Jen­nifer Hold­er-Manuel. Each woman present ex­pressed her pride at fly­ing the Anstey flag. They cel­e­brat­ed their suc­cess­es at eco­nom­ic, so­cial, po­lit­i­cal and re­li­gious in­sti­tu­tions. Not to men­tion, they looked for­ward to the school's 100th an­niver­sary, a pres­ti­gious mile­stone which past prin­ci­pal Shur­land ad­vised to be­gin plan­ning im­me­di­ate­ly. To round of a de­light­ful day of bond­ing and fun, the women en­gaged in a bois­ter­ous ses­sion of karaoke singing or­gan­ised by Dean Calder.