2007 Winner

A hardworking and successful teacher for over 37 years, Miss Bond has made many sacrifices and dedicated her life to the education of children in the community and its environs. One of her ideas for the future is to organize a well-needed Children’s Club in the community, focusing on a homework program and after school activities.

Please join us in congratulating Ms. Bond on receiving the
2007 Tower Award.

Ms. Mary I. Bond

Mary Isadora Bond, fondly known as Ms Bond, was born in Hope Bay, Portland, Jamaica on February 21, 1931 to parents Emily Campbell and Joseph Bond. She attended Hope Bay Elementary School and her dream was to become a Teacher or a Geriatric Nurse. A Teacher by profession, she enjoys reading and gardening. Ms. Bond is a member of the St. Mark’s Methodist Church in Harbour View and the mother of two daughters Jennifer Bromfield – Reid and Diane Bromfield.

A resident of Harbour View since 1965, she attended the Harbour View Evening Institute and was successful in seven JSC Examination subjects. She furthered her studies doing an Early Childhood Education course with the Bernard Van Leer Institute from Holland and then a Certificate Course in Primary Education at Mico Teachers College.

Miss Bond started her formal teaching career in 1970 at Rennock Lodge Basic School in Rockfort, Kingston Jamaica. In 1974, she was appointed the first principal at the St. Mark’s Basic School, pioneered by Rev. Sydney Sadio, Minister of St. Mark’s Methodist Church. As a result of Ms. Bond’s ability to educate the children who attended, the parents and guardians were very satisfied and proud of their achievements. After four years of dedicated service, in 1978, she founded the Mary Bond Basic School, located at 18 Riverside Drive in Harbour View. The school focused on educating children from ages 2+ to 5 years old. Regardless of her current health constraints, she continues to share her expertise and supervises some activities at the School, now known as the Mary Bond Early Childhood Development Centre.

In 2002, she was recognized by the Ministry of Education and given an award for 32 years of dedicated and faithful service to Early Childhood Education. Three years later in 2005, she won the main Cluster 2 Harbour View Basic Schools award. The Mary Bond Basic School PTA rewarded her in 2006, and a couple of citations from St. Boniface Anglican Church and The Harbour View Seventh Day Adventist Church, are a part of her many achievements.

A hardworking and successful teacher for over 37 years, Ms Bond has made many sacrifices and dedicated her life to the education of children in the community and its environs. One of her ideas for the future is to organize a well-needed Children’s Club in the community, focusing on a homework program and after school activities.

She has had many accomplishments and is honoured to be a part of the Early Childhood Education and Development Program in Jamaica.

It is without hesitation that I recommend Ms. Mary Isadora Bond, to be the recipient of this prestigious Harbour View Tower Award 2007.

Congratulations on the resounding success of the H/View Reunion 2007 in Atlanta and wish to thank you very much for the Harbour View Tower Award. So sorry I was not able to attend, but I received the plaque and wish to express my sincere appreciation to the Advisory Committee, who honoured me to be the proud recipient.

I shared this overwhelming occasion with the St. Mark's Church family, who added to my happiness and made me feel overjoyed. I am in the process of arranging to have a photograph taken for posting on the website.

Thanking you again and may God continue to bless you and the Harbour View Community in all its endeavours.

Regards,
Ms. Bond
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Mr. Roxy Williams popularly called ‘Father Rox’ was a resident of the Harbour View Community for over 30 years. He was one of nine siblings born in humble surroundings in the parish of St. Andrew to Mr. & Mrs. Simeon Williams. During his lifetime he was a part of the Harbour View Football Club and was also involved in many community projects.

My Father was always a person who inspired my brothers and me in a tremendous yet quiet way, even in death – his inspiration lives on in our memories of him.

As Harbour View Football Club inches closer and closer to the National Premier League Title my thoughts constantly pursues my father. “Father Rox” as he was called by many, was an integral part of the club and the Harbour View community. In fact, Father Rox was the unofficial MP. I always joked with him about running for the post. I figured if he was going to play the role anyway, might as well get paid for it! His heart of compassion propelled him to help people. He was a real “community man”. Sometimes very early in the morning, there would be a knock on the gate… someone was in need….a child needed lunch money…a young man needed a job….an elderly woman needed repairs to her roof. Selfishly, I used to ask myself why I had to share my father with the world. Yet, I loved him for it. His actions were fuelled by a deep inner conviction that a wrong needed to be made right.

Father Rox was a people person. His rambunctious laugh was both irresistible and contagious. Apart from people, my father had another great passion. His love for HVFC (evidenced by his attendance of those marathon Tuesday night meetings at the club!). A stand now bears his name, a constant reminder of his contributions to the club. He is not here, yet he is, for a true measure of a man lies not in the possessions he leaves behind but in the lives he continues to influence even after he has gone.

To honour him is to walk in humility, abide in love and always cheer on the blue and gold… the Stars of the East! He was a man I loved dearly and miss even more… a man who could as easily walk with kings as well as peasants. He was a man for all seasons. This is why I unhesitatingly and humbly nominate my father for the Posthumous award.

Nominated by
Mr. Sean Williams

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I would like to take this opportunity to nominate Mr. Derrick Leighton Golding affectionately known as "Coach", for the prestigious Harbour View Football Club Award 2007. Derrick was always very quiet but loved playing football. While attending Kingston College the coaching bug took hold under legendary national football coach George Thompson. The streets of Harbour View and the notorious Aqua Park (stadium) “what memories’’, allowed Derrick to hound his craft.

He is regarded as the first official coach of the Harbour View Under 16 "Minor League" Team since about 1967 to 1973 who finished second to Pembroke Hall in 1968 and won for the first time, undefeated in 1972 defeating Elleston Flats by 4-1 at the National Stadium. He then shaped the first ever 1974 Team in the newly restructured league of community based units away from the established private, social and youth Clubs in the Kingston and St. Andrew Football Association (KSAFA) Major League until 1976. We finished third in an impressive inaugural year losing to eventual Champions Cavaliers FC at the semifinals.

His quiet demeanor introduces his subtle persuasive tact and extremely accurate technical mind that instills the right tactical decisions are carried out by his well prepared charges on the field at critical moments that produces good results. A gentle smile usually voices his approval but a deadly stare speaks loudly of his displeasure in a lack of application to task.

Derrick is not only the coach, but he is a friend and mentor to his players, even today several of his former players still call on him for fatherly advice. Coach and his beautiful wife Denise now lives in New York and you can be assured that he is still a student of the game as he exudes the knowledge of a master well schooled in his lifelong craft of the beautiful game of football.