The Tribune

By RASHAD ROLLE

Tribune Staff Reporter

rrolle@tribunemedia.net

TO mark the College of the Bahamas’ 40th anniversary, some of COB’s most outstanding alumni along with past and present faculty and staff members will be presented awards, COB vice president for advancement Dr Ian Strachan, announced.

He said the public is invited to assist in the process and can nominate alumni via a link on COB’s official website.

Forty alumni are expected to be honoured. The deadline for submitting nominations is February 7.

Speaking to the press, Dr Strachan said: “COB alumni have taken a major role in almost every field of endeavour in our national life, whether we’re talking about parliamentarians or physicians, educators, journalists, you name it.”

He said a special committee will be created to oversee the process of honouring alumni who have “made the institution proud in their efforts and built a reputation of respect within a number of different professional fields.”

Dr Strachan added that the college is also seeking to honour past and present administrators, staff and faculty members.

The college, he said, “has gone through various stages of development. A lot of people have been instrumental in making that happen.”

He said two past or present members of COB’s faculty, staff and administration will receive a Flamingo Heritage award on June 14 during a Flamingo Ball Gala, which is expected to become an annual tradition of bringing “alumni, donors to the college and current COB members” together.

The alumni honoured could come from a variety of fields, Dr Strachan said, including arts and culture, entrepreneurship, legal practice and the judiciary, business, environmental advocacy and stewardship, medicine and health, science, engineering, technology and architecture, civil and social engagement, journalism, politics and sports.

Dr Strachan said commemorative activities for COB’s 40th anniversary will take place in New Providence and at the Northern Bahamas campus in Grand Bahamas.

He said a process will also soon begin to honour “great Bahamians and members of the college community” by naming buildings on COB campuses after them.