RE: Legacy Planning

2012-Nov-19-2331Hrs

My Fellow Mausicans,

I was thrilled to read the contributions about our legacy  in last week's blog.

Thank you Ainsworth, Maureen, Scratchie,  Slim  and Graham.

Let's all  put our heads together and Live and Leave that Mausica Legacy.

Mr. Mangatal, a lecturer in my time, 66-68, used to say, "If only these walls could talk, what great tales they would tell."

My friends let us become talking walls and record for posterity "The Legacy of Mausica Teachers College." We are blessed to have historians like Mr Williams, Ms Hordatt, Mrs. Cuffie, Mrs. Helen Timothy, Dr. Bertrand, pioneers and other alumni who can help us accomplish our goal

One evening when I was writing my first book, "Remember Wen?",  I heard a hymn on the radio asking the question, "How will they know unless we tell them?"

Yes, Mausicans, it is our responsibility to record  and tell the world about Mausica.

Today, one of my dear friends and former lecturers, Linda Edwards Romain, reminded me that the North American Thanksgiving celebration had its roots in the kindness of the native American Indians who shared their grain with the early English settlers who had planted their seeds at the wrong time   Years later they were repaid with brutality and forced unto reservations. Today the highly commercialized holiday hardly acknowledges the existence of the Native Americans.  On Nov 6th. 2012, thank God the majority of voters remembered the good deeds of President Obama and his team.

In recording our story let us remember the roles played by the PNM and its visionary leader, Dr. Eric Williams, and his entire government, The Opposition Party, DLP,  the pioneers, the auxiliary staff: Ms.  Martin , the matron, Lohan, Count Julian, Mr St Rose, Manswell, Scanty, Super, Ms Massiah, the local and froreign staff from Canada and many others.

Yes , we have our work cut out for us but we can do it.

As usual,

Rodney Foster