Harry Rolle

In January 1972 after working at the General Post Office for about 6 months, I went off to Art College in Hastings, Sussex England, for a few years before returning back to Nassau, during the time away at college, I travelled to France, Belgium, Luxembourg and Amsterdam, Holland one summer, for the most part, I gained alot of exposure, stayed away from drugs, but got into heavy metal rock and roll, Jimi Hendrix especially, which was very different from what I had been exposed to before, I remember in Amsterdam I walked into a bathroom that was unisex and that felt strange to me. in England I was engaged to a pretty Guyanese girl and worked at an ECKO appliance manufacturing company, so I missed a lot of classes especially when it snowed, I was an outstanding illustrator and photographer at college, and my works were displayed prominently throughout college, as samples for other students to see. Returning to Nassau was a drag at first, then I became an Art Teacher and from then for a long period of time it felt as if life was living me instead of the other way around, but now after another uninteresting period of drifting, but staying out of trouble I hung in, but now after 56 years of exsistence and trying to play by the rules its only now though that I feel as if I have things under control the way how I want things to be, I am sure that having so many children and being married to the same woman for so long have something to do with that following where life leads feeling, but I'm hoping that its only part one of life, now I am praying for overtime to live part 2 and wishing that time does'nt run out because I still feel young.

SAC provided good fundamentals for character building, with lots of good role models and strong personalities to observe, emulate, or try to be nothing like. Being of Baptist denomination at that time the Catholic influence was mystical to me, the exposure to our white brothers and sisters was interesting in a positive way, the swimming pool with diving boards and modern facilities at SAC was enlightening and created a college like atmosphere at high school. It was a great learning experience at Saint Augustine's College.