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February 2018
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Dr. Campbell specialised in contemporary Caribbean civilization and culture and was the recipient of several awards including the Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in 2007 and the UWI/Guardian Life Premium Teaching Award 2006. In 2008, in commemoration of The UWI’s 60th anniversary, he was named one of its top academics. Dr. Campbell published widely in his areas of interest which included Gender Studies and Historiography. He wrote two books and co-authored another. He also wrote numerous journal articles, resource reviews and newsletters dealing with issues of Caribbean affairs and development. His contributions to The UWI Chaplaincy and the University School will also be remembered. Dr. Campbell is mourned by his mother; sister, Dr. Sabeerah Abdul-Majid, lecturer at the School of Education, UWI St. Augustine; other siblings; students and colleagues in the Faculty of Humanities and Education.
Mr McShine was conferred with the Doctor of Letters (DLitt) honoris causa by The UWI in 2008. An obituary on the website, Artnet.com had this to say. “After a stint in the department of circulating exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, McShine secured a gig as curator of painting and sculpture at the Jewish Museum from 1965 to 1967. He served as acting director from 1967 to 1968. There, in addition to “Primary Structures,” he organized solo exhibitions of work by Gene Davis, Robert Irwin, and Yves Klein. A statement released by the Jewish Museum described McShine as a “visionary curator.” “McShine returned to MoMA in 1968 as associate curator and later served as acting chief curator of the department of painting and sculpture. In the 1970s, he initiated MoMA’s Projects series, which offered younger artists—including, early on, Sam Gilliam and Nancy Graves—an opportunity to present experimental new work. He also organized solo exhibitions surveying the achievements of Andy Warhol (1989), Robert Rauschenberg(1977), and Marcel Duchamp (1973). He retired from MoMA in 2008 as chief curator at large.”
Dr. Osborne’s musical education spanned the gamut from the Royal Academy of Music, London (Licentiate of the Royal Academy of Music, Graduate of the Royal Schools of Music, Associate of the Royal College of Music, Associate of the Royal College of Organist , B. Mus.), University of Western Ontario M. Mus. In Piano Performance and Literature, Kodaly Pedagogical Institute of Music, Kecskemet, Hungary, Diploma, Kodaly Concept of Music Education, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA, Ph.D. major in Music Education, minors in music theory and piano. She came to The UWI in October 1992 as Lecturer and founding Coordinator, of Academic Music Programmes, in the then, Creative Arts Centre, Department of Literatures in English. She introduced music as a subject for academic credit at our campus and developed and taught music in both the BA in Musical Arts and the Certificate in Music programmes. She had a special interest in the teaching of music using Pan as the medium of instruction and in 1995 in collaboration with three colleagues, she was instrumental in the conceptualisation, development and implementation of Graded Examinations in Solo Steelpan Performance. The syllabus is now in its seventh edition. As the major consultant in the formulation and introduction of the CXC Music Syllabus and the Chief Examiner for the CXC Music Syllabus she has influenced the development of music education in the Caribbean in a profound way. She designed the Republic Bank sponsored Pan Minors Programme for school children, a much respected and influential programme for young pan players. In addition to her work in educating musicians, she has served as adjudicator at many Steelband Music Festivals at home and abroad. Dr. Osborne resigned from the University on August 1, 2015. |
Dr. John Campbell of the Faculty of Humanities and Education (FHE), Department of History passed away on January 11.
Kynaston McShine, described as one of the most influential curators of the 20th century, died on January 8, 2018, at the age of 82. Born in Port of Spain in 1935, he attended Dartmouth College, where he studied philosophy and worked at the school’s Hood Museum. He did graduate work at the University of Michigan (1958-59) and the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University (1960-62). He taught at Hunter College from 1965 to 1968.
Dr. Anne Marion Osborne former Department of Festival and Creative Arts (DCFA) Lecturer passed away on January 20, 2018.