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Enid Gonsalves: A lifecommitted to teachingWii- rrcipicni o( iho Governor General’s A^sard lir the Parish ot Hanoser is Mrs Lnid Gon-salvt^s, principal o\ the Lucea Pnmarv School is also ani( comphshed musicianBorn in Lucea on the tenth of \pnl 12. 19.U t(i the late Cynl and Ludatn atson, carpenter and teacher, Mrs Gonsalves says she had a rouj;h life Her father ssas rarelv we! , and her motherliad to v^alk as much as 25 miles to lt;uui trorii kendal and such JUMs 111 t!u pjTish to teach in • nder to smppou her familvI dr ssas hossever. filled svnh p!oniisf'' o! l)i-uiT K) come for ciHjiiir .ic at dgc 11 chei!ilt;‘ (. ommuii hiurance lo: Rnsea ^ High -chool at a ;ipif vcheii Diih lour scholarships ‘'eir being altered for that insti-'unoii Slit did the Junior and''fiiior C ainbndgc Lxammationsand passed both, and started aleaching caicfi at the tender igf ol i 8Sbf sooii louiid out that •hings rrniaiiu-d almost un-1 hanged, loi she had to ualk to and Irnin school, at Askenish and Clianibets Pen. )ust as herMRS ENID GONSALVESmother had done before herThis she kepi up for 13 months and then went to the Lucea Infant School. In time, with much sacrifice, she was able to save enough to pay for her tuition at Shorlwood TeachersCollege in 1953.Mrs. Gonsalves said that tn those times she was young and was not sure what she wanted to do, but was encouraged by her mother and friends to go into teaching. She graduated from the college in ' with distinctions in Musk. Mathematics for every year ol her slay there.She returned to Hanover as a teacher at the Lucea Primary and then took on the mantle of Principal at the Infant school in that town from 1964 to 1975. She then moved on to the Lucea Primary School as principal from 1975 and has been there ever since.Mrs. Gonsalves is currently elder of the Lucea United Church, choir director of the St. Phillips and James Catholic Churches, assistant organist and also choir director at the United Church and plays at churches in the parish that request.She is a director of the Hanover Benefit Buildipg Society, founder and a Director of the Hanover Credit Union since 1975, and also Commandant of the Hanover Girls Briaadewhich received the Girl’s Brigade medal in 1981. She is also secretary of the Lay Magistrates Association, the Hanover Principals Association and the Hanover Chamber of Commerce.The energetic principal also Sits on the Parish’s Poor Relief Committee and the 4-H advisory council. She is the co-ordinatorof music in the parish for theJamaica Cultural Development Commission and the Ministry of Education and was given the Institute of Jamaica Centenary medal in 1980 for community work.“I am looking forward to retirement although 1 suspect it won’t be quiet,” she has said, one of the reasons being “because I cannot imagine myself not teaching.”Married to Aubrey Gonsalves, she says she has the opportunity to be so involved in community work because her two children are grown and frankly “If I do not get involved I will gel into trouble”. Her motto is - “whatever you do. do well and whatever vou can do to helo. so do.”
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Kingston Gleaner
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Tue, Mar 30, 1993
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