GraceKennedy Foundation at a Glance

1982

  • The Foundation is established to mark the 60th anniversary of GraceKennedy & Company Limited. It is a corporate endowed Foundation. Sir Herbert Duffus is named Chairman of the Board of Directors. The first Board comprised Peter Moss-Solomon, James Moss-Solomon, Christopher Bovell, Mable Tenn, Faustine Sharp, Professor Gladstone Mills, and Rev. C.S. Reid.

1983

  • The Foundation assumed responsibility fore the Jamaica/GraceKennedy Scholarship which was established in 1980.

1987

  • The CAST (now University of Technology, Jamaica) (UTech) Scholarship is established.

1989

  • G. Arthur Brown delivers the first GraceKennedy Foundation lecture “Patterns of Development and Attendant Choices and Consequences for Jamaica and the Caribbean”. The Lecture becomes an annual event.
  • Sir Herbert Duffus retires and Professor Gladstone Mills is named Chairman.
  • The Foundation is entrusted with the S. Carlton Alexander Memorial Fund. This provides:
  • The Carlton Alexander Chair in Management Studies to the University of the West Indies;
  • An annual scholarship to graduates of Jamaica College tenable at the UWI and UTech in alternate years; and
  • Six bursaries annually to dependents of GraceKennedy Ltd staff. This increases the Foundation’s work in the field of education.

1990

  • The first awards of the Carlton Alexander scholarships and bursaries are made.

1991

  • Gordon Shirley becomes the first holder of the Carlton Alexander Chair
  • Patricia Robinson succeeds Marjorie Humphreys as Executive Director.

1992

  • The James Moss-Solomon Snr. Chair in Environmental Management is established and entrusted to the Foundation in celebration of GraceKennedy’s 70th anniversary.

1993

  • Elizabeth Thomas-Hope is named Professor of the James Seivright Moss-Solomon Snr Chair.

1997

  • Adrian Wallace is appointed to the Board

1998

  • Mable Tenn and VC Alister McIntyre resign from the Board and Marlene Campbell appointed.

1999

  • Fay Saunders and Faustine Sharp resign from the Board

2002

  • Bruce Rickards, former director dies. An annual scholarship is established in his memory for graduates of Kingston College tenable at the UWI and UTech in alternate years
  • Professor Gladstone Mills retires as Chairman of the Board.
  • Peter Moss-Solomon is appointed Chairman.
  • Michele Orane and Sandra Glasgow are appointed to the Board.
  • The Foundation celebrated its 20th anniversary with a youth symposium– “Investing in Our Future…The Social Rewards”.

2004

  • The Foundation establishes a scholarship to the Edna Manley College of Visual and Performing Arts to be rotated among the four schools.

2005

  • Rev. Sam Reid retires from the Board Director Adrian Wallace dies.

2006

  • David Myrie and Radley Reid are appointed to the Board
  • The Adrian Wallace Memorial Bursary is established for a Calabar 6th Form student.

2007

  • Marlene Campbell resigns from the Board.

2008

  • Peter Moss-Solomon retires as Chairman of the Board.
  • Professor Elsa Leo-Rhynie is appointed Chairman
  • Caroline Mahfood succeeds Patricia Robinson as Executive Director.
  • The Faustine Sharp Bursary is established for a St. Andrew High School for Girls 6th Form student.

2009

  • Youth Symposium reinstated and held under the theme “Youth Finding Themselves in Modern Jamaica”

2010

  • Peter Moss-Solomon retires from the Board
  • Philip Alexander and Ryan Mack are appointed to the Board
  • Prof. Elizabeth Thomas-Hope retires as the James Moss-Solomon Sr. Chair in Environmental Management. Prof. Dale Webber is appointed as the new Chair
  • Prof. Ian Boxill is appointed as the Carlton Alexander Chair in Management Studies
  • The Foundation participates in the Government of Jamaica Debt Exchange Programme.

2011

  • Luis Fred Kennedy Environmental Foundation is wound up and the GraceKennedy Foundation assumes the assets. The Luis Fred Kennedy Fund is established.
  • David Myrie and Ryan Mack resign from the Board
  • Noel Greenland and Hilary Wehby are appointed to the Board

2012

  • 30th Anniversary of the Foundation

 

Areas in Which We Have Made A Difference

  • Accounting
  • Business Admin, Finance and Banking
  • Computer Studies
  • Economics
  • Education
  • Engineering
  • Hospitality and Institutional Management
  • Law
  • Liberal Arts
  • Medicine
  • Pharmacology
  • The Sciences

Notable Scholarship Awardees

  • Ingrid Mangatal - Law
  • Roderick Gordon - Law
  • Jennifer Knight-Madden - Medicine
  • Marvin Reid - Medicine
  • Maynard McIntosh - Opthalmology