SENORITA G. STRACHAN MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP

A One Year $2,000.00 Award

Granted on the basis of academic achievement and financial need. The recipient must be enrolled at The College of The Bahamas and must have at least 60 credits toward a degree. Full and Part-Time students are eligible.

The children, friends and relatives of Senorita Gloriana Strachan (nee Moss), educator, counsellor church woman and activist have come together to honour her memory by creating a scholarship opportunity for students enrolled at The College of The Bahamas. Senorita was born to Mae Moss (nee Hanna) and Herman Moss on October 1, 1937 in Delectable Bay Acklins. Raised in True Blue, Crooked Island, she attended the All Age School. She gained admittance to the Government High School but never attended, so Senorita studied on her own and passed 5 GCE ‘O’ Levels. She got married and her teaching career began in Orange Creek in 1958. In 1966 she left Calabash Bay, Andros to attend the Teachers College in Nassau. She later attained two GCE ‘A’ levels, sitting one when nine months pregnant with her last child. After stints at Colonel Hill Secondary School, Crooked Island and William Phipps Primary, Nassau, she was made Acting Principal of Carmichael Primary in September 1970.

Though in the midst of an eventual divorce, she took her six children with her to the University of the West Indies, Mona Campus, Jamaica, in 1972 where she majored in General Studies and graduated in 1975 with a BA with Honors. Upon returning to the Bahamas she was made the first-ever Principal of North Andros High School. While there she was also appointed District Education Officer for North and Central Andros. In 1977 she returned to Nassau and continued working with the Ministry of Education.

She received a Masters in Public Administration from Nova Southeastern University in 1982 before leaving the public service to work in the hotel industry where she worked in Training and Personnel Management. She returned to the public service in 1991 as Chief Training Officer at the Ministry of Education and held this position until her retirement in 1997. Upon retirement she opened the Firm Foundation Centre. There she worked with her brother and fellow educator Huel Moss, teaching Public Speaking, English, Literacy and Mathematics. She also did marketing, administrative work, training seminars and motivational talks in the public and private sectors.

She established the Kissemee Travel Club that took groups of Bahamians to such countries as Venezuela, Mexico, Puerto Rico and Canada. She was a choir director, youth advisor and People’s Warden at All Saints Church and was instrumental in the construction of the church’s Community Centre. In 1993, along with Fr. Harry Ward, Ivern Davis, Inez Peet, and Sylvia Cole she founded The Golden Days Association, an advocacy group for retired persons and served as the first President. Senorita was an extremely generous person, a nationalist and a person of deep faith in God. She tutored numerous men, women and children, many times free of charge. She was devoted to serving her country and her people. She often said that if she had not faced the challenges she’d faced in life, she might not have become the person she did. She lived a full and extraordinarily eventful life. Most of all, she invariably offered compassion, kindness and optimism to all those she met.

Send applications via email to: strachantalk@gmail.com

Or mail printed applications to

Senorita G. Strachan Memorial Scholarship

P. O. Box SB 52746

Nassau, New Providence

BAHAMAS

For more information call (242) 302-4381.

Application deadline is January 31, 2010.

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