The Nevis Historical and Conservation Society (NHCS) is pleased to announce the appointment of Mrs. Evelyn Henville as Executive Director.

Mrs. Henville was born in Phillips Village, St. Kitts and grew up in the Combermere, Mt. Lilly/Fountain area where she attended Kindergarten and Grade One at the Combermere Primary School, now known as the VOJN Primary. She completed her primary school education in the Molineux Primary School on St. Kitts and completed her high school education at Sts. Peter and Paul
Catholic High School on St. Thomas, USVI. She holds a BA in Elementary Education, and an MA in Educational Administration and Supervision, and has completed the first year of her PhD Program in Organizational Management.

Mrs. Henville has worked for the Government of St. Kitts as a teacher and Education Officer, and she has worked for the Nevis Island Government as Senior Education Officer and Postmistress. She has worked as Executive Director for Habitat for Humanity and as a Director of Teacher Recruitment & Retention for the State of Florida. She manages a home-based consulting group, We Dare To Teach, a company that places highly qualified teachers across the United States. She manages her family’s 501
© 3, Caribbean Foundation for Children, Inc. whose mission is to care for the education and health needs of all children in need.

This Foundation was born out of her family’s experiences in dealing with leukemia in their three-year old son, Jonathan. In order to deal with this diagnosis, just three months after experiencing the devastating blow of Hurricane Hugo, Mrs. Henville and her husband, Mel, had to relocate their family to the United States for Jonathan’s chemotherapy treatment. Her husband, Mel also served as the Federation’s First Foreign Affairs Employee in the capacity of Director of Tourism for North America and Charge d’affaires to the United Nations.

With a well prepared educational background and over 30 years experience in top level civil service management, non-profit management and home-based career management positions she has developed the necessary skills to take on this difficult assignment to move the NHCS to another level.

The Board of the NHCS offers Mrs. Henville our full support, and wishes her success in this new position. We are all committed to enhancing the role and image of the Society, and equipping it as an institution that would not only appeal to all sections of Nevisian Society, but would be a pillar in the cultural and historical fabric of the island.

Hanzel F. Manners
President