Moka college honours top studentsBy ANGELA PIDDUCK Tuesday, November 4 2008
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WAYNE Williams presents the Peter Helps Award for Best A Level Results Unit 1 to head prefect Zachary Georges. ...
UNTIL recently, not many people were aware of all that takes place in the scenic Moka hills at Trinity College.
However, the college became headline news this past year with the celebration of its golden anniversary; the turning of the sod for a Life Skills Centre and High Ropes Course and via the recent success of former head prefect, Dexnell Peters who won a Caribbean wide essay competition “School Bags”, coming out ahread of more than 1,000 Caribbean entrants.
At the college’s awards ceremony last Thursday at the Lions Cultural Centre in Port-of-Spain, their first female principal, Alison Baisden, updated the large audience on many academic and extra-curricular activities which take place very quietly at Moka.
Baisden spoke highly of the legacy from the fourth principal, Llewellyn Mac Intosh, who retired at the end of the last school year after ten years at the helm.
A strict disciplinarian, Mac Intosh or “Tosh” as he was fondly called, introduced early morning study and a very successful night study. He was also a driving force behind the annual vintage calypso show “Kaiso In Yuh Pweffen”, and continues to assist the school football.
Ironically, this Anglican College which was established to provide sound secondary education for boys, is now headed by two women, Baisden and acting vice principal Janice Richards. The school has been admitting girls into its Sixth Form since September 1987.
The feature address at the awards ceremony was given by a past student, Wayne Williams, an Environmental Engineer, and student from 1973-1979.
He gave a real life example from an Intercol football game he played for the college against the mighty John Donaldson Technical Institute, to illustrate the benefits of tenacity and team-work.
At the end of his simple and interesting address, Williams advised the students, “Keep God In your life. The quality of life is important. Remember the teachings from Trinity.”
Awards for every area of success included for commendable effort in individual subject areas, as well as for students who best exemplify the ideals of Trinity College from Forms 1 to Upper 6. Awards were also handed out for excellence in co-curricular activities — sport, music, golf, chess, scrabble, Trinity College Explorers, drama and agriculture clubs — and for outstanding contribution to the College, such as, in the Mathematics Olympiad, Parliamentary Debate, Model UN, Junior Panorama 2008, and the EMA Envirologue.
Coming in for special mention for giving of their time and service during the year were Samuel Alexander, Zachary Georges, Zane Coker and Jonathan Joseph.
The vote of thanks came from head prefect Zachary Georges, who received the Peter Helps Award for Best A Level Results Unit 1.
The same award went to Curthon Munroe for Unit II. Mark Anthony Williams received the Trinity College Alumni Award for Best CSEC results and the Principal’s Award to the Student in the Upper School who best demonstrated the ideals of the College in 2007-2008 went to Samuel Alexander.
A very proud Baisden promised there would continue to be “a good foundation at Trinity College.”
“Trinity College will be the best school,” she declared.
