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A loss to Mahaicony

Apr 12, 2013 Letters

Dear Editor,
The community of Mahaicony recently suffered a great loss. One of its distinguished daughters, Ethleen Downer nee Wilson, died after a period of illness.
She was a profoundly indigenous Mahaiconian. Other than her birth-place, Mahaicony was the place of her pre-tertiary academic grooming, life-time residence and employment as a teacher. Indeed, her entire life was spent at Mahaicony.
Her accomplishments are impressive. Doctors, lawyers, social scientists, educators and other senior public servants and business people had been “produced” by her. A disciplinarian who embraced the controversial corporal punishment, Mrs. Downer is posthumously praised by many of her former pupils/students for the diet of discipline on which she fed them.
Having being “made”, “kept” and fully “used” in Mahaicony, Mrs. Downer was a pure Mahaiconian, a woman of substance, a highly respected woman, a woman who spent her entire working life to construct the academic and social infra-structures of her community. Her life in the field of education ended a few years ago when she retired as the head of Mahaicony Secondary School.
The community of Mahaicony is indebted to the late Ethleen Downer nee Wilson. I therefore, feel constrained to call on the residents of Mahaicony, the teachers, students and parent/teacher association of Mahaicony Secondary school, former students of the school, the Mahaicony business community, the Mahaicony Village Day Committee and even the Regional Education Department to conceptualise some fitting initiative (s) in her honour. An annual Ethleen Downer Memorial Awards for top performers at the CXC or SSEE could be options to explore.
Her memory should live on; she should be posthumously recognised. May her soul rest peacefully.
Rennie Inniss

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