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UWI TODAY
– SUNDAY 13 NOVEMBER, 2016
ENERGY
UWI GRADUATION CEREMONIES 2016
HONORARY GRADUATE
KE Bingsheng
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DLitt
Professor KE Bingsheng is one of the foremost intellectuals working in the field of agriculture today. He has focused
his attention on policy development for economic growth, sustainability and development.
He earned a BSc degree in 1982 from Peking University, an MSc in Economics in 1984 from Beijing Agricultural
University and his PhD in Agronomy in 1989 from the University of Hohenheim in Germany.
Professor KE is based at the Chinese Agricultural University (CAU) which consists of 13 colleges with academic
offerings including: agriculture and agricultural engineering; life sciences; food science and technology; automation
science; computer science; economic management and social sciences. Enrolment includes almost 16,000 undergraduates
and more than 5,400 postgraduate students. The faculty roster numbers almost 1,400.
In his early career at CAU, one can trace Professor KE’s steady academic footsteps from his professional positions as
Lecturer in 1989, to Associate Professor in 1990 and Professor in 1993. He was appointed Deputy Dean and then Dean
of the College of Economics and Management in 1991 and 1994, respectively, while also serving as Deputy Dean of the
Graduate School in 1992. During this period he also served as a visiting scholar at Stanford University in the USA.
HONORARY GRADUATE
Rev. Daniel Teelucksingh
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LLD
From an early age, Rev. Daniel Teelucksingh began an enduring journey, which has covered almost a half-century as a
minister in the Presbyterian Church across the length and breadth of Trinidad.
Raised in a church-going family, serving others manifested like the natural order of things, so that by the time he
was a teenager, he was already teaching Sunday School and was a member of the Church’s Youth Group. He built a sound
foundation from the Riversdale Primary School and subsequently enlisted in an In-service Teachers’ Training Programme
that enabled him to simultaneously study on his own and acquire both Ordinary and Advanced Level certification through
the University of London External Examinations.
He taught at his alma matre for six years before leaving to join the church and left Trinidad to attend the fledgling
United Theological College of the West Indies, situated in Jamaica. The college was built on the shared faith of several
denominations including the Jamaican diocese of the Anglican Church, the Grenadian, Guyanese and Trinidad
Presbyterian Churches, the Jamaica Baptist Union, the Methodist Church in the Caribbean and the Americas and the
Moravian Churches of the West Indies and Jamaica Provinces.
HONORARY GRADUATE
Anthony Williams
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DLitt
It is difficult to grasp the full range of AnthonyWilliams’ contribution to the creation of the steelpan, Trinidad and Tobago’s
national instrument. The three men who rank in statue with him – Ellie Mannette, Neville Jules and Bertie Marshall – all
were great panmakers, arrangers and captains of their bands,
Invaders, Trinidad All Stars
and
Hilanders
respectively. But even
amongst those titans, Williams stands out because in all three areas, panmaking, music and leadership, he stood at the pinnacle.
Born in 1931, Williams joined the steelband movement at the time of its first flowering, VE Day in 1945. He soon joined
Sun Valley Steel Orchestra
, led by another great innovator, Sonny Roach, who made the steelband movement’s first step into
orchestration when in 1946 he introduced two pans, a ping pong and an alto pong, to play harmonies. Until then panmen
played anything in any key, with no knowledge of harmony.
Williams chafed under the older man’s leadership and leftwith others to form
North Stars
around 1949, quickly establishing
himself as a top player and tuner. So when the country’s top 11 panmen were chosen for the
Trinidad All Steel Percussion
Orchestra
(TASPO) to represent the colony at the 1951 Festival of Britain, Williams was one. –
By Kim Johnson
The Editor thanks Dr Kim Johnson, Director of the Carnival Institute of Trinidad and Tobago for this contributed feature
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