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For Mrs Allyson Logie-Eustace
, Hall
Supervisor of Trinity Hall and winner of the
Overall Employee Excellence 2014 award and the
Employee Excellence award for Administrative,
Technical and Service Staff, the moment of
transformation came in 2006.
“I spoke to a young woman at the hall who
was packing up to leave at the end of the year,”
she recounts. “I asked her how her year had
been and she said it was the worst year of her
life. She told me she had been mistreated while
on hall and the physical and mental bullying had
taken a toll on her. I said to myself, never again
on this hall.”
Already Hall Supervisor since 2000, Allyson
was determined to dramatically expand her
knowledge not only of hall management but
of the developmental challenges that young
students face while attending university.
“I needed to figure out what I could do to
create change on Trinity Hall,” she says.
This drive led her to first complete a
master’s programme in Student Personnel
Administration at UWI Mona and then even
further at the Hazing Prevention Institute in
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Indianapolis, USA; Florida State University (for
an internship); and the University of Delaware,
where she held the post of Residence Director.
It was while completing her master’s that
she discovered her passion and the way to
improve the university experience for students
on hall:
“It’s really about student development.
People think a hall is like a hotel but it should be
much more than that. What we do here at Trinity
Hall is to help students make the connection
between what you learn and how you live. We
teach them life skills.”
Hailing originally from South Trinidad,
Allyson currently resides in St Joseph. A widow,
she has two adult daughters, both doing very
well, a testimony to her ability to teach life
skills to the young people closest to her. Her
warm smile, sociability and fruitful career at
UWI St Augustine point to her own prowess
in navigating the path between academic
knowledge and practical living.
Besides her major objective of contributing
to the development of students, the position of
Hall Supervisor is filled with responsibilities.
Allyson Logie-Eustace
helping students become life smart
It’s really about student
development. People
think a hall is like a hotel
but it should be much
more than that. What we
do here at Trinity Hall is
to help students make
the connection between
what you learn and how
you live.
“I oversee staff, interact with students and
their parents, and interact with personnel from
the different departments that we rely upon
for things such as maintenance and Internet
access. I deal with health and safety agencies
and professionals like OSHA (Occupational
Safety and Health Authority), the Fire Service,
psychologists and medical doctors,” she says.
Allyson is pleased that her work and
the ethic she brings to her position have
been acknowledged through her outstanding
performance at the 2014 employee awards:
“I feel very honoured and pleased to be
recognised by the awards committee on the
work that I have done,” she says. “I appreciate
the gesture and wish to thank my staff, and all
those that supported me through the years,
especially my family and Dr Jacqueline Bridge
(the Trinity Hall Resident Manager).
Pull quote: ‘It’s really about student
development. People think a hall is like a hotel
but it should be much more than that. What we
do here at Trinity Hall is to help students make
the connection between what you learn and how
you live.’
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