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WOMEN OF 1948By GERTRUDE SHERMANSelected for their person#! charm and public influence are four representative wimen in Jamaica who might adequately be called Women of 1948. Here are they;OLESSED With a beautiful name and an equable disposition. Lady F.drtsF.laine Allan, wife of Sir Harold Allan. O B F.., is a woman of whomevery Jamaican can be proud She shares the honour recently conferred upon her husband with becoming humility nud decorum. Lady Allan'smain interest is undoubtedly in her. home- v-ie krmus Hint the foundationunselfish wite Thisof a happy home is a devoted, unselfish wite This is what she has been to her husband in the seven-odd years of their marriage, and this is what one feels she will continue to beTo see her competently and smilingly entertaining guests at their Waterloo Road residence or at their Portland home la a pleasant experience. Obe can imagine the invaluable help she proved to Sir Harold during his travels on the Continent End on the'occasion of his visit to Britain this year to receive the accolade of knighthood from His Majesty the King at Buckingham Palace. At once the pivot qn which her husband's busy life revolves and the most critical of hi* admirers, .Lady Allan's role in the community is one which merits praise and emulation by her countrywomen For them she has an intense love, a feeling of loyalty, ^gnd the desire to do everything in her po*er for their material and cultural ad\ancernont in'the years aheadA\Nfc of the most gracious women lit Jamaica to-day is Mrs. I.ouise |Vlaclt;;ii-ilvray, quJet, dlrtilfied Cwruulian-born Iriah wife of our Colonial Secretary, the Honourable D C-. MweCHHIvray. I met her shortly after her arrival from Palestine on December 1, 1947, and I remember asking myself If the would prove even half m lovable or interesting a personality a« the woman whom sho succeeded at Vale RoyaL. Mrs. Sylvia Foot. INo sooner had Mrs. MaoGlIllvray and. her husband taken np their . now duties In the Mand. than, owing to the departure of His Excellence Sir John Huggins and Lady Huggins for the I'nited Kingdom. It became £ necessary for them to shoulder the hurdetis attaching to King’s Hou*r. Everyone knows how well the'Acting Governor performed his duties r What everyone may not know so well is how splendidly Mrs. MacGllllvrav j carried out the tasks accruing to Jamaica’s First Lady. Her quiet good j humour, stately hearing, and sympathetic manner served her Ini-good stead,1 winning for her mutny admiring friends among Jamaicans of all classeo..Mrs. MacGiUi\ ray has~ identified herself with many charrtaT)7^T'4 organisation*, during her short sojourn here, .and is an active1 committee I ; or working member of the Jamaica Federation of Women, the J.S.R.C.A.J-j the Kingston Charity Organisation Society, the Save the Children FuncL! * the Jamaica Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Children, and the YWCA. 1 J of which she is President. ’ ^A/fISS ENA CCLYMORE was called to. the Bar at Gray’s Inn. .London, in \ January. 1948. Thus began for a simple, but ambitious, Jamaican i I girl a career destined to be keenly followed by everyone genuinely interested in the progress of West Indians. JfcLeaving the island with the first batch—pf volunteers for the ATS in England at the beginning of World War Ily-Ena Collymore. Civil Servant. ] third child of an' orphan fpmily of.four, willingly gave her services to the Empire. She-was stationed at various A T S. camps throughout Great r s Britain during the war. saw service Tp Belgiym and other-parts of war-torn.; \ Europe, -paid a memorable visit to Hague, after its liberation from the ! Nazis, vacationed in Switzerland, and fTfialiy, settled in London at the end of the world conflict to read for the Bar w’ith the approval of the Colonial Office. 'On her-return to Jamaica, Miss Collymore received her demob” •from the A.T.S.,- and thereupon resumed her Government post in the Resident Magistrate’s Court at Suttqp Street. Awaiting promotion with unruffled patience. Miss Collymore was not astonished When she was posted to Port Maria to assume the acting appointment of Deputy Clerk of the Courts—effective from December I, 1948.Adapting herself to her new duties has been a matter of -comparative , ease. She knows that her path will not be one of roses, but she faces the i -future with confidence; earnestly hoping to~~att»tn'1WT Ultimate goaT-^TFie' top-rung of the ladder df success.ftHSTWp:biwvlt;thth• •- •* * *A,lt;fISS DAISY CHAMBERS is a legal*associate at Mr. N. N. Nethersole.solicitor. A Solicitor's Clerk, for many-years, she developed a love of legal mattefsf and felt a worrian could make -as good a professional lawyer as her male colleagues. Completing the five-year course in three years, because she had special advantages owing to her long years of service as a legal clerk, she was admitted for practice In loCaL coUrts on March 17. 1948. -■ A Jamaican*by birth. Daisy Chambers is a Wolmer’s Old Girl, and a member of a well-known St, Andrew family. By no means the only pro— feasional in her family (one brother is ^ doctor, another, a barrister and a younger sister is a qualified musician*; Miss_. .Chambers i* thoughtful, unostentatious, and incredibly efficient. She devotes moit of her time to law. but also finds occasions for indulging her- hobbies of reading, doing exquisite hand-embroidery and crochet work.csStStthstg(aeiblt;hitathaiI
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Kingston Gleaner
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Sun, Jan 02, 1949
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