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September-October 2010
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The First St Augustine Principal
He served as St. Augustine principal from 1960 to 1963, before taking over as Vice Chancellor (1963-1969) from Sir Arthur Lewis–the first West Indian to hold the position. The UCWI was now formally known as The University of the West Indies (UWI) and its expansion in the sixties was fairly rapid. By 1963, the Cave Hill Campus had joined Mona and St. Augustine, and faculties were being restructured or created, and Sir Philip was a fundamental figure in that expansion. He introduced Extra Mural Studies to the University and was its first Director. Born in Jamaica on February 25, 1902, into a Methodist household (his father was a minister), he went on to study in England, graduating from the University of London in 1927 with a first-class honours degree in English and literature. As an eminent Caribbean scholar, he was esteemed as an historian, with a great passion for folklore. He was either author or co-author of around 15 books primarily on West Indian folklore, such as “Ears and Tails and Common Sense: More Stories From the Caribbean” and “Anansi, The Spider Man.” Regarded as a Caribbean man, he received the region’s highest honours: the OCC, Jamaican Order of Merit, and a knighthood from the Queen of England. He died in December 2000, at the age of 98, and he was still writing at the time.
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Sir Philip Manderson Sherlock was the first principal of the new St Augustine campus of the University College of the West Indies (UCWI). He had been a member of the Irvine Commission that in the late 1940s had recommended the establishment of the UCWI, and is regarded as one of the founding fathers of the university. 