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FEEDBACK
FROM OUR PEERS
“Feedback is a gift. Ideas are the currency of our next success. Let people see you value both feedback and ideas..”
Jim Trinka and Les Wallace
"Vision without action is a dream. Action without vision just passes the time.
Vision with action can change the world" - Joel Barker
Our College, St. Mary's, stands today as the vision and action of our founder, Fr. Edmund Cheney S.J. He mobilized the community of Above Rocks and its environs to work together to build what we now enjoy notwithstanding the many steps which link the buildings. Not only did he realise his vision, but he gave the members of the community a sense of pride in their achievement, the knowledge that together they could bring about positive change in their environment, and the identification of skills which they had not recognised and which could be enhanced and certainly the values and attitudes which are essential for living good lives. Vision with action changed Above Rocks.
The Board of Management is very pleased to salute the directors of the Edmund Cheney S.J. Foundation on its inauguration. The directors, all Alumni, in conceiving and bringing to fruition the Foundation, have shown that they internalized the legacy of Fr. Cheney to which they were exposed when they were students. The message and the goals which the Foundation will share are very important and will affect the thinking and responses of all alumni and current students. Loyalty, giving back, generosity and service are values which need to be part of our lives. Vision with action continues to bring about much-needed change.
Congratulations to the directors of the Foundation, and best wishes for the success of all your endeavours. Continue to be of service to our College so that together we will be true to our motto: 'Always to excel'.
Hazel E. Keating (Miss)
Chairman of the Board of Management | 2017
St. Mary’s College
If you feel inspired by what you do, then you are doing the right thing. When we can all unite for one common cause, that causes bigger than us all. The cause of this scenario is the growth and development of St. Mary’s College. As cited by the task on education reform in Jamaica
2004, ‘the value of education as an agent of national development can it be over emphasised as such, young people should be provided with access to quality education to ensure their holistic development.
It is good when you can look back at your beginnings and make an effort to affect change that will make the path easier for those coming up. This inspiration being done by ‘Father Edmund Cheney SJ Foundation’ is not just for the development of education at St. Mary’s College, but it will benefit the nation at large. Thanks to the conveyor of this group who has made all this possible in an endeavour to give back.
Ryan Williams
Principal
St. Mary’s College
The St. Mary's College Alumni Association on behalf of its executive and general membership takes great pleasure in heartily congratulating those members who came together to specially recognize and to honour our founder, Fr. Edmund J. Cheney, a true visionary, by launching the Edmund J. Cheney Foundation.
The tenets of the Foundation is in keeping with the vision of this great man in continuing to serve the needs of the Above Rocks and wider community by assisting and enabling the continuing development of the school, and the advancement of the students who have the honour and privilege of attending and benefitting from this great institution.
Without his vision, many persons might not have enjoyed secondary education and soared to pinnacles of success and prominence as many of graduates have done. We have produced a wide range of successes across the professional spectrum, businessmen and women, entrepreneurs, lawyers, dentists, doctors, politicians, you name it...and we are represented. Thanks to a vision. We are all eternally grateful to this great man, without whose vision we might not have enjoyed our various successes and opportunities.
We all salute and honour this great visionary, our school's founder. We congratulate the committee for this laudable venture. We are indeed proud and honoured to share this special and momentous occasion and consider it another demonstration and embodiment of our school's motto "Always to Excel"..
Patricia Walters-Harris
Alumni President | 2017
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