SHEPHERD
THE JAMAICA National Heritage Trust has a new chairperson. Professor Verene A. Shepherd, a Fellow of the Cambridge Commonwealth Society and a professor of social history at the University of the West Indies, Mona, was appointed by Cabinet as the new chair of the trust for the period October 2005 to March 2006.
Professor Shepherd replaces the Rev. Devon Dick who vacated the position in July of this year to pursue his Ph.D.
FIRST WOMAN CHAIR
She is the first woman to chair the Heritage Trust since its inception in 1958 when it was then known as the Jamaica National Trust Commission. She follows in the footsteps of such distinguished persons as J.E. Clare McFarlane, Frank Hill, Vic Reid, Carl Stone, Hector Wynter, Rev. Dr. Horace Russell, Herbert Repole and Ainsley Henriques.
A past student of St. Mary High School, Professor Shepherd is a prolific author, with over 50 journal articles and book chapters, and several edited and co-edited books.
Her most recently written works, Cattle, Cane and Chattel and I want to Disturb My Neighbour, will be published by Ian Randle Publishers in late 2006.
