Heather Mclaughlin

From Island Girl To National Hero (eBook, ePUB)

The Life Story Of Sybil Ione Mclaughlin

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Mrs. Sybil Ione McLaughlin, MBE, JP, nee Bush was declared a National Hero by the Government of the Cayman Islands in 1996. She was the second individual, the first living person and the first woman to be so honoured. Raised largely by her maiden aunts in South Sound, this unassuming, hard-working woman who began her career with the Government in 1945 as a clerk-typist - and whose duties sometimes included counting dead rabbit and parrot heads (on which a bounty was paid at that time) - had been awarded the highest honour that the Cayman Islands Government could bestow. This is her story.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Whitaker House
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. August 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780996550192
• Artikelnr.: 56796791

Autorenporträt

Another "Island girl", Heather R. McLaughlin was born in Prince Edward Island, Canada but went to Jamaica to teach in a mission school in 1963. She moved to Cayman with her husband, the late Ray McLaughlin and son Michael in 1977 and Cayman has been home ever since. After teaching at the Cayman Islands High School for 13 years, she accepted the post of Memory Bank Coordinator at the CI National Archive in 1990. Heather has recorded the memories of hundreds of Caymanians for the Archive's Oral History section and has had several articles and papers published as well as two books, Cayman Yesterdays and The '32 Storm. She lives in George Town and is an active member of First Baptist Church. "I am a huge Ms. Sybil fan", declares Heather, "and it has been a great pleasure and privilege to write about this amazing lady and her very eventful life".