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Save the Date - Wednesday January 26, 2011 | AFUWI Legacy Awards Gala
@ the Pierre Hotel, NYC @ 6:00pm
Janet Rollé, Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer of BET Networks, was named Chair of
the Gala Committee of the American Foundation for the University of the West Indies (AFUWI) Annual Gala.
The Gala, held in New York in January, is the AFUWI's premier fundraising event in the U.S. where the
prestigious Legacy Awards are conferred on notable individuals who represent high levels of achievement
within their respective fields of industry and enterprise. Rollé succeeds Karl Rodney, CEO of Carib News,
the largest circulated publication serving the Caribbean-American community.
AFUWI and the UWIAA- Washington DC Chapter proudly presents, famous Jamaican Classical pianist
Orrett Rhoden in concert, under the distinguished patronage of the Chancellor of the University
of the West Indies -Sir George Alleyne at the Terrace Theatre, John F. Kennedy Centre for the
Performing Arts, 2700 F Street, NW Washington DC 20566 on Friday, October 08, @7:30 pm.
Tickets cost $60 and available now from; UWIAA-WDC-202-257-9475(Sha-shana Chricton) Kennedy Centre Box Office - 202-416-8528 /on line
The entire University of the West Indies community is devastated by the loss of the colossal Caribbean
cultural icon, Professor the Honourable Rex Nettleford. Save for the three years he spent as a Rhodes
Scholar at Oriel College, Oxford, Rex Nettleford has lived his entire adult life at and for The University
of the West Indies. This life-long association with UWI began in 1953 when he entered the then University
College of the West Indies to read for a degree in History. He returned immediately after completing the
MPhil in Political Science at Oxford and, at the prompting of UWI Founding Father, Sir Philip Sherlock,
took up the challenge of widening the reach of the still fledgling institution...
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