The New Jersey-based Sunshine Awards Group on Friday introduced that the co-founder of the Sunshine Awards Corridor of Fame, Trinidadian calypsonian Dr. Hollis “Chalkdust” Liverpool was honored on Jan. 29, with the celebrated title, Prof. Emeritus by the Board of Governors of the College of Trinidad and Tobago for his “lifelong contribution to schooling, analysis and the performing arts.”
“The Sunshine Awards Group needs to congratulate Dr. Liverpool on this well-deserved honor,” Gil Figaro, Sr., the Trinidadian-born chairman and founding father of the Sunshine Awards, instructed Caribbean Life. “Dr. Liverpool has made outstanding contributions to the tutorial neighborhood, not solely as a professor but additionally by way of his in depth work as a mentor and coach.
“His affect has spanned throughout quite a few industries, guiding and galvanizing numerous college students and professionals to realize their highest potential,” he added. “His teachings, now immortalized in lots of printed books, have change into very important assets, and may be discovered in lots of libraries world wide.”
Past academia, Figaro stated Dr. Liverpool, an achieved calypsonian, historian and researcher, has additionally been a trailblazer within the performing arts.
“His analysis, compositions and performances on this area have enriched the cultural panorama, and have left a legacy for Trinidad and Tobago and, by extension, the world,” he stated. His contributions proceed to encourage and resonate with many throughout completely different generations.
“I’m very happy with Dr. Liverpool,” Figaro added. “His life’s mission has been to go away the world higher than he met it. His drive to enhance the lives of others, coupled together with his ardour for lifelong studying, have positioned him as a frontrunner and function mannequin throughout many disciplines.
“We’re thrilled to have a good time this unimaginable recognition,” Figaro continued. “Dr. Liverpool’s profound impression on schooling and the humanities will proceed to encourage for generations to come back.”
Professor Hollis City Lester Liverpool, ORTT, professor of calypso arts (UTT) taught main and secondary faculties in his beloved Trinidad and Tobago over a interval of 35 years, then served within the Ministry of Tradition as cultural officer and director of tradition between 1993 to 1999, when he retired from the general public service.
Based on his biography, Dr. Liverpool based and served as the primary director of the Carnival Institute and has carried out in depth analysis in all areas of tradition pertaining to the Caribbean basically and Trinidad and Tobago particularly.
He was educated at Endurance Hill R. C. and Nelson Avenue Boys’ R.C. main faculties; St. Mary’s Faculty; the Authorities Coaching Faculty for lecturers (GTC); the College of the West Indies at St. Augustine, Trinidad; and the College of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Michigan.
In addition to secondary Odd and Superior Ranges topics from Oxford and Cambridge universities in the UK, he holds a educated instructor’s certificates from the Authorities Coaching Faculty for Academics in Trinidad; a post-graduate diploma in schooling; a B.A. in historical past and sociology, and an M.A. in World Historical past from the College of the West Indies; and an M.A. in African historical past, a certificates in philosophy and a Ph.D. in historical past and ethnomusicology from the College of Michigan.
Through the years, Dr. Liverpool has written a multiplicity of papers and several other books, together with his masterpiece, Rituals of Energy and Riot (Chicago: Frontline, 2001), and has addressed a number of world-wide conferences on carnival and tradition usually.
As Calypsonian Chalkdust, he has recorded over 300 calypsoes (tutorial papers he calls them).
When it comes to calypso efficiency, he has gained the Purchase Native Competitors in Trinidad 5 occasions, the King of the World Calypso Contest in St. Thomas on eight events, the World Calypso Monarch on the 2 events it was held in New York, and the Calypso Monarch of Trinidad and Tobago 9 occasions.
For his contribution to calypso and the humanities, he has obtained quite a few citations, certificates, trophies, medals and awards from people and establishments in america, the Caribbean, Europe and Africa, together with the highly-acclaimed Prince Claus Award from the Authorities of the Netherlands.
Dr. Liverpool served as affiliate professor of historical past on the College of the Virgin Islands in 2000, was named an honorary distinguished fellow of the College of Trinidad and Tobago in 2006, in addition to one of many 50 distinguished fellows of the College of the West Indies in yr 2012.
Dr. Liverpool (Chalkdust) has been named by the calypsonians physique, TUCO, as one of many prime 50-best calypsonians of all occasions and by the federal government of Trinidad and Tobago as one of many nation’s prime 50 lecturers of all occasions.
In September 2019, he was awarded the nation’s highest medal, the Order of The Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, (ORTT), by the federal government and folks of Trinidad and Tobago.
He’s the present head of The Academy for Arts, Letters, Tradition and Public Affairs of the Nationwide College of Trinidad and Tobago.
