Basseterre, St Kitts; 8 September 2012: MRS. VICTORIA GAVIN-RICHARDSON was born in Manchester, south central Jamaica. She attended the Carron Hall High School, a boarding institution for girls in the eastern parish of St. Mary.
Like her fellow Jamaican, the legendary Mary Seacole, she chose to pursue the nursing profession, and trained at the University Hospital of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. She worked as a nurse for a number of years until she made a decision to leave the profession, so that she could dedicate her life, from the mid-1960s into the 1980s, to being a wife, and mother to her three children, Grace, Howard and Michael. She caught the teaching-bug and did a short stint at the renowned Jamaica College (J.C.) where she taught Spanish.
St. Christopher & Nevis became her permanent home in 1980. As her children were then well able to fend for themselves, she focused on her own development and completed her degree in the Social Sciences, Language and Literature at the University of the West Indies, Mona Campus Jamaica in 1986. From that point on, she taught History at the Basseterre High School and the College of Further Education [now known as the Clarence Fitzroy Bryant College (CFBC)]. She also taught Sociology at the Evening Institute of the CFBC, and for well over two decades lectured in Sociology at the University of the West Indies Open Campus, The Gardens, Basseterre, all the time being a Caribbean Examination Council (CXC) examiner for History.
Presently, Mrs. Richardson teaches Spanish and History at the Immaculate Co-Conception where she’s in also charge of the school’s drama programme; a role with which she is quite familiar, as she carried out the same activities while teaching at the Basseterre High School.
A lover of the Arts, Mrs. Richardson has written, directed and produced a number of plays. She has also written a number of poems and is also an engaging spoken word presenter. She is a founding member of the Liamuiga Folk Singers, as well as a founding member and Past President of the very Organisation that is now recognising her, the Jamaican Kittitian Association.
The Jamaican Kittitian (JamKit) Association invites you to recognise Mrs. Victoria Richardson for the contribution she has made to educating our people, enlightening them through the arts and building a bond between Jamaicans and the citizens of this Federation. Mrs. Richardson JamKit salutes you.
NB: Mrs. Richardson was one (1) of the five (5) Awardees honoured by the JamKit Association at the Official Launch & Flag Raising Ceremony of its Jamaica 50 SKN Celebrations held on Sunday, 12 August 2012 at the Zion Moravian Church.
Jamaica Kittitian (JamKit) Association
P O Box 1770
Basseterre, St. Kitts
jjamkit@gmail.com
www.facebook.com/JamKitAssoc
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