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Outstanding Garveyite Frank Gordon passes
Wednesday, March 06, 2013
Frank Gordon, OD, outstanding Garveyite and social activist, died on Monday morning at his home. He would have been 91 this year. In tribute to Gordon, we reproduce excerpts of a piece titled "Frank Gordon: We're missing the bus!" based on an interview by Communications Consultant Jean Lowrie and published in the June 19, 2008 edition of the Jamaica Observer:
FRANK Gordon did not get his wish when our last G-G (governor general) was being sworn in. The 84-year-old local UNIA (Universal Negro Improvement Association) leader had wanted the installation of Professor Kenneth Hall to be held at the National Stadium.
"In 1962, I wrote a letter to Culture Minister Edward Seaga, that our first Black governor general should be installed in the National Stadium," recalls Frank. "Then I wrote to Sir Alexander, suggesting the same thing. Although they did not reply, the announcement was made that the Governor General, Sir Clifford Campbell, would be installed at the stadium in December 1962."
Frank rues the fact that our other native G-Gs have been installed "in colonial style at King's House".
Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/...#ixzz2MjkTdqkG
Wednesday, March 06, 2013
Frank Gordon, OD, outstanding Garveyite and social activist, died on Monday morning at his home. He would have been 91 this year. In tribute to Gordon, we reproduce excerpts of a piece titled "Frank Gordon: We're missing the bus!" based on an interview by Communications Consultant Jean Lowrie and published in the June 19, 2008 edition of the Jamaica Observer:
FRANK Gordon did not get his wish when our last G-G (governor general) was being sworn in. The 84-year-old local UNIA (Universal Negro Improvement Association) leader had wanted the installation of Professor Kenneth Hall to be held at the National Stadium.
"In 1962, I wrote a letter to Culture Minister Edward Seaga, that our first Black governor general should be installed in the National Stadium," recalls Frank. "Then I wrote to Sir Alexander, suggesting the same thing. Although they did not reply, the announcement was made that the Governor General, Sir Clifford Campbell, would be installed at the stadium in December 1962."
Frank rues the fact that our other native G-Gs have been installed "in colonial style at King's House".
Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/...#ixzz2MjkTdqkG
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