December 2010


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Past Graduations

1. The University College of the West Indies became The University of the West Indies in 1962. This was recorded as a March 1964 graduation ceremony. Principal Dudley Huggins who took over from Sir Philip Sherlock in 1963, with the Chancellor, HRH Princess Alice and Trinidad and Tobago’s Prime Minister Dr Eric Williams after the ceremony at St. Augustine.

HRH Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone and granddaughter of Queen Victoria (1883-1981), was the first Chancellor of The UWI, and attended all convocations until she retired in 1971. She was succeeded by Sir Hugh Wooding.

2. Philip Sherlock, Dr Eric Williams and Sir Arthur Lewis (undated)

3. Dignitaries walk across the red carpet towards the rostrum as graduating students create an aisle for the first UWI Chancellor,
HRH Princess Alice and the first Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, Dr Eric Williams, to go by. The mace bearer leads the way.

4. At the convocation ceremony for the 1965/66 graduates, the new blue gowns of the University were worn by postgraduates for the first time.

Photos courtesy the West Indiana Collection, Main Library, UWI St. Augustine