Annual Banquet and Scholarship Awards

Our Annual Scholarship Awards Function was held on Saturday, October  28, 2014. One highlight of the night was the passionate main address delivered by Ms. Thando Hyman. Ms. Hyman gave a rallying call for us as a grassroots organization to rise to the challenges faced by the Black community. Among other challenges, she mentioned the achievement gap, with black students under-performing when compared to their peers. Our association can make a difference by contributing to the development of a cadre of effective and exceptional teachers through scholarships offered to persons studying in a faculty of education, as well as through its mentoring programme.

Scholarships were awarded to four recipients this year, all of whom are pursuing education degrees at either York University or University of Toronto (OISE).

Junior Whisper and Friends provided a musical feast, off-setting the over-bland foreign food which comes as part of the terms of renting the hall. If you know of a more suitable venue at a comparable cost and with better terms, we would love to hear from you. But back to Junior Whisper. His voice was so smooth, it was like having our own Luther Vandross and Lionel Richie rolled in one for the night. But he was not the only one to thrill the audience. Two little girls rendered solos show-casing fabulous talent that no doubt we’ll hear more about later.

Later on it was time to hit the floor. And that we did until the wee hours of the morning.