CaribWorldNews, BROOKLYN, NY, Mon. July 21, 2008: Former Grenada ambassador to the U.N., Dr. Lamuel Stanislaus, was among the 2008 honorees of the Sixteenth Annual Awards Dinner of the Trey Whitfield Foundation, Inc. held recently in Brooklyn.
Stanislaus was honored along with Richard Caster, NY Jets; Ed “Too Tall” Jones, Dallas Cowboys; and Willis Reed, Jr., NY Knicks at the event, held at the El Caribe Country Club. Stanislaus, a retired dentist by profession and a retired U.N. diplomat by appointment, served twice as Grenada's ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary representative at the United Nations, (1985-1990) and (1998-2004).
Between the two appointments, he served as an at large and deputy permanent representative for two years. Born in Petite Martinique, Grenada, he was educated at Grenada Boys Secondary School, (1933-1938), and Howard University, where he received the BS (summa cum laude) in 1948., and Doctor of Dental Surgery DDS in 1953.
Other honorees included Jamaican-born community activist Leonie Logan; Michael Druckman, chair, Trey Whitfield School Board of Directors; Peg Radley, admissions coordinator, Brewster Academy, and Lionel Shropshire, president and CEO, LK Shropshire & Associates, Ltd.
The awards was co-hosted by sportscaster Pam Oliver of NFL on Fox, and Clifton Davis, Grammy award winning entertainer.
Established in 1989, the Trey Whitfield Foundation, Inc. (TWF) is named for scholar/athlete Trey Whitfield, who lost his life in a boating accident at the age of 18.
The Trey Whitfield School (TWS), based in East New York, founded in 1983 as Bethlehem Baptist Academy, was later renamed for the gifted student, and has standards for both academics and character building.
TWS is chartered by the New York State Board of Regents and is believed by some to be the first all minority preparatory school in the history of New York City and State.
The Foundation’s mission is to pursue young Trey’s dream, that “everyone, regardless of ethnic background, have equal access to educational opportunities that they need to reach their potential in life,” said A. B. Whitfield.
Whitfield, a former member of the Dallas Cowboys, now turned professional educator, founded the TWF. He is also the father of young Trey.
Janie C. Whitney, president and co-founder of the TWF, is Trey's mother. The couple also administraters the TWS.
Each summer, for the past 15 years, the TWF, through its board of directors, has honored a multi-ethnic mix of gifted students who follow in Trey’s scholarly steps. In the past 15 years, over two hundred deserving student recipients have had their academic dreams enhanced.
