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Denham McIntyre… preserving the Cornwall College (CC) brand
Denham McIntyre… preserving the Cornwall College (CC) brand
By PAT ROXBOROUGH-WRIGHT
Editor-at-Large/ Western Bureau
Although the reference is derived from the name of a county that represents five of Jamaica’s western parishes, for most people here, it’s a given that a Cornwallian is someone who used to or still attends the school which was founded in 1896 for poor boys who had the ability to read for careers in medicine and law.
The few that don’t, soon will, as the ‘old boys’ are in the process of securing legal rights to the exclusive manipulation of what the school’s principal Denham McIntyre calls the ‘CC brand’.
Although not an ‘old boy’ in the traditional alma mater sense, McIntrye, who took over the institution’s reins last year at the invitation of the ‘old boys’, is as ‘Cornwallised’ as they come.
For one, he’s firmly committed to the school’s motto — disce aut discede — which translates into ‘learn or leave’.
“I believe education is business… one of the best investments one could make for oneself or children, and they need to understand that when they come here it is not a game, it is a path that will prepare them for life. Cornwall has never been a place for idlers… it started out as a place for poor boys with ability, and so those that came here were selfmotivated. The few that had to be reminded why they were here were told to learn or leave or in more inglorious terms, cram or scram,” he explained.
That’s one of the premises on which he guides the 1,442 students who currently attend the institution and indeed on which he has guided the hundreds of students who passed through his tutelage during his close to thirty-year-old career. And maybe that's why the old boys last year recruited him from the Muschette High School in Trelawny — much to the dismay of over 200 students who took to the streets in protest — where he had been serving as principal for some fifteen years.
He’s also a firm advocate of
the philosophy that the Cornwall College brand represents the best of fraternal bonding and fellowship.
“There's a deep sense of brotherhood here that is inculcated in the boys from the first day of school. It’s not a clique, it’s deeper than that… cliques are susceptible to be dismantled for the slightest of reasons… we stick together through the good times and bad… it’s inexplicable,” he told the OBSERVER WEST.
Born in Bickersteth in St James on July 12, 1953 to parents Elizabeth Anderson and Hubert McIntyre, he attended the Bickersteth Primary School before migrating to Kingston where he attended the St Andrew Technical High School.
There, the love for teaching that he began to develop under the pupilage of Teacher E Morris, the then principal of Bickersteth, found further expression under the nurturing of his history teacher, a Grenadian whom he remembers as Miss Robinson.
From STATHS he moved on to the Caenwood Teachers College where he underwent a three-month emergency teacher training course before taking up duties as a pretrained teacher at Bickersteth Primary for six months.
Next, he enrolled at the Mico Teacher's College where he specialised in Mathematics and the Industrial Arts and interned at the Kingston Secondary School. On graduating he worked as a senior teacher with special responsibilities and chairman of the disciplinary committee at the Anchovy Secondary School. While there, he participated in an exchange programme which took him to the Gadsden State Junior College to teach while embarking on a course of study for an associate degree in Sociology and Mathematics.
The next stop was Jacksonville State University where he completed his Bachelor of Science degree in 1981.
On returning to Jamaica he returned to Anchovy for eight months before going on to Maldon Secondary as viceprincipal for four years. His next stop was at the Muschette High School in Trelawny. While there he pursued a Masters degree in Business Administration, majoring in Public Sector Management. Spurred by the curiosity and love for learning that defines his approach to his current job, he added another Masters degree, this time in Environmental Science to his resume while studying at the York University in Toronto. He’s now reading for a doctoral degree in Business Management. As part of that he’s writing a thesis on the management of high schools in Jamaica. It’s a wide topic which he hopes will inform public policy.
The father of three children by his first marriage to Minerva McIntyre-Reid, he is now married to Monica McIntyre, principal of the Ocho Rios High School.
Denham McIntyre, principal of Cornwall College
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By PAT ROXBOROUGH-WRIGHT
Editor-at-Large/ Western Bureau
Although the reference is derived from the name of a county that represents five of Jamaica’s western parishes, for most people here, it’s a given that a Cornwallian is someone who used to or still attends the school which was founded in 1896 for poor boys who had the ability to read for careers in medicine and law.
The few that don’t, soon will, as the ‘old boys’ are in the process of securing legal rights to the exclusive manipulation of what the school’s principal Denham McIntyre calls the ‘CC brand’.
Although not an ‘old boy’ in the traditional alma mater sense, McIntrye, who took over the institution’s reins last year at the invitation of the ‘old boys’, is as ‘Cornwallised’ as they come.
For one, he’s firmly committed to the school’s motto — disce aut discede — which translates into ‘learn or leave’.
“I believe education is business… one of the best investments one could make for oneself or children, and they need to understand that when they come here it is not a game, it is a path that will prepare them for life. Cornwall has never been a place for idlers… it started out as a place for poor boys with ability, and so those that came here were selfmotivated. The few that had to be reminded why they were here were told to learn or leave or in more inglorious terms, cram or scram,” he explained.
That’s one of the premises on which he guides the 1,442 students who currently attend the institution and indeed on which he has guided the hundreds of students who passed through his tutelage during his close to thirty-year-old career. And maybe that's why the old boys last year recruited him from the Muschette High School in Trelawny — much to the dismay of over 200 students who took to the streets in protest — where he had been serving as principal for some fifteen years.
He’s also a firm advocate of
the philosophy that the Cornwall College brand represents the best of fraternal bonding and fellowship.
“There's a deep sense of brotherhood here that is inculcated in the boys from the first day of school. It’s not a clique, it’s deeper than that… cliques are susceptible to be dismantled for the slightest of reasons… we stick together through the good times and bad… it’s inexplicable,” he told the OBSERVER WEST.
Born in Bickersteth in St James on July 12, 1953 to parents Elizabeth Anderson and Hubert McIntyre, he attended the Bickersteth Primary School before migrating to Kingston where he attended the St Andrew Technical High School.
There, the love for teaching that he began to develop under the pupilage of Teacher E Morris, the then principal of Bickersteth, found further expression under the nurturing of his history teacher, a Grenadian whom he remembers as Miss Robinson.
From STATHS he moved on to the Caenwood Teachers College where he underwent a three-month emergency teacher training course before taking up duties as a pretrained teacher at Bickersteth Primary for six months.
Next, he enrolled at the Mico Teacher's College where he specialised in Mathematics and the Industrial Arts and interned at the Kingston Secondary School. On graduating he worked as a senior teacher with special responsibilities and chairman of the disciplinary committee at the Anchovy Secondary School. While there, he participated in an exchange programme which took him to the Gadsden State Junior College to teach while embarking on a course of study for an associate degree in Sociology and Mathematics.
The next stop was Jacksonville State University where he completed his Bachelor of Science degree in 1981.
On returning to Jamaica he returned to Anchovy for eight months before going on to Maldon Secondary as viceprincipal for four years. His next stop was at the Muschette High School in Trelawny. While there he pursued a Masters degree in Business Administration, majoring in Public Sector Management. Spurred by the curiosity and love for learning that defines his approach to his current job, he added another Masters degree, this time in Environmental Science to his resume while studying at the York University in Toronto. He’s now reading for a doctoral degree in Business Management. As part of that he’s writing a thesis on the management of high schools in Jamaica. It’s a wide topic which he hopes will inform public policy.
The father of three children by his first marriage to Minerva McIntyre-Reid, he is now married to Monica McIntyre, principal of the Ocho Rios High School.
Denham McIntyre, principal of Cornwall College
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