SVG Ex-Teachers contribute to memorial fund
Sherrill-Ann Mason-Haywood holds check fl anked by other members of the St. Vincent
and the Grenadines Diaspora Committee of New York, Inc -- Owusu Slater (to Mason-
Haywood’s immediate left) and Philmore Sprott (right). Jackson Farrell president of the St.
Vincent and the Grenadines Ex-Teachers Association of New York, is pictured left.
St. Vincent and the Grenadines Diaspora Committee of New York, Inc..
Caribbean L 6 ife, March 8–14, 2019 BQ
PATIENTS’
CHOICE
RATED & AWARDED BY PATIENTS
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By Nelson A. King
The Brooklyn-based St. Vincent
and the Grenadines Ex-
Teachers Association of New
York on Feb. 22 became the
latest contributor to the Maxwell
Haywood Memorial Scholarship
and Development Fund
(MHMSDF), named after the
late, prominent Vincentian
community and social activist
who died in November 2017.
The St. Vincent and the
Grenadines Ex-Teachers Association
of New York made the
monetary donation to Haywood’s
widow, Sherrill-Ann
Mason-Haywood, and members
of the Brooklyn-St. Vincent
and the Grenadines Diaspora
Committee of New York, Inc.
during the ex-teachers’ annual
Black History Month panel discussion
at Trinity Methodist
Church, on Eastern Parkway,
near Utica Avenue, in Brooklyn.
“Maxwell Haywood had a
special relationship with the
organization,” Jackson Farrell,
president of the St. Vincent and
the Grenadines Ex-Teachers
Association of New York, told
Caribbean Life Monday night.
“Every year, he wrote at least
one article for our journal.
“He was a special individual,
who not only looked out for St.
Vincent and the Grenadines but
also for the Caribbean,” added
Farrell, who taught Haywood
at the St. Martin’s Secondary
School in St. Vincent and the
Grenadines.
“He tried to push us in that
direction, because there were
lots of funding out there,” continued
the retired public school
teacher in Brooklyn.
Mason-Haywood said her late
husband, who had preceded her
as chair of the St. Vincent and
the Grenadines Diaspora Committee
of New York, Inc., also
participated in the St. Vincent
and the Grenadines Ex-Teachers
Association of New York’s
Black History Month panelist
discussion as late as 2016.
She said Haywood was
“always happy to be associated”
with the Vincentian exteachers’
group, “because he
believed strongly in the transformative
power of education
and the value of teachers as
nurturers of the society.”
Mason-Haywood said the
donation would be “put to good
use to continue” her husband’s
work.
She said the MHMSDF was
established to carry on the legacy
and memory of Haywood,
who was the founding chairman
of the St. Vincent and the
Grenadines Diaspora Committee
of New York, Inc.
Following Haywood’s death
from cancer, his family asked
that, in lieu of flowers, that
donations be made to the St.
Vincent and the Grenadines
Diaspora Committee of New
York.
Mason-Haywood said the
committee then moved to
establish the fund, with the
main aim of “being able to
give academic scholarships to
students, and to facilitate educational
workshops and forums
that would address topical
issues” that align with Haywood’s
passion for St. Vincent
and the Grenadines, the Vincentian
Diaspora community,
and issues related to migration
and development.