 Lamp of Learning
... academic excellence from the early days
| | Jacob Laltoo: Naps graduate, who won the British Colonial Island Scholarship at QRC in 1913. |  |
1913~Scott Fraser: Jerningham Silver Medallist in 1913.
1920s~Errol Alva Ramdin: Double Jerningham Gold Medallist, Junior and Senior Cambridge, in 1920's. Errol taught at Naparima and NTC after graduating, and subsequently in Mission schools, becoming a headmaster, and later on, a lawyer.
1940~Dr Winston Mahabir: (b.1921-d.2003), Naps graduate, physician, former Minister of Health, who won the Island Scholarship at QRC in 1940
1945~Dr Premchand Ratan: Naps Jerningham Silver medallist, 1945, before moving on to St. Mary's
Prem graduated from UCWI in Medicine in 1955. He worked in T&T Government Medical Services from 1957 to 1988. |  |
He was awarded the national Chaconia Medal (Gold) in 1990 for long and meritorious service in Medicine. He was also a part-time lecturer in medicine in the Faculty of Medical Sciences at Port of Spain General Hospital.
...another photo of Prem receiving his medal from TT governor.
| 1946~Kathleen Smith: First Girls Island Scholarship Winner (1946) receives her award from Principal Rev. Walls, likely at Speech Day, 1950. | |  |
| 1969~Dr Noel Kalicharan: was a scholarship winner at 'O' level and in 'A' level math, while representing the school in chess, table tennis and cricket. He continued to blaze a similar trail at UWI (Mona). |  |
Noel taught mathematics at Naparima in the early 70's, and then did his Masters in Computer Science at UBC.
As a lecturer at UWI, he pioneered the computer science curriculum for TT at all academic levels, whilst writing fifteen text-books on the subject, as well as the television series, "Bit by Bit". Noel has also served as chief examiner for NIHERST and for CXC, and has written popular game programs.
Noel hails from Lengua village, where he attended the Presbyterian elementary school, winning a scholarship to Naparima and the entry to an illustrious academic career.
NIHERST: profile
| 2014~Mandela Patrick: earned 10 distinctions in CXC. After advanced level math, he went to Harvard to pursue his degree in computer science. At Harvard in 2016, Mandela has been awarded the 2018 Commonwealth Caribbean Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford University, the first such for any Naparima or TT student. |  |
Mandela, originally from Philippine, is also an enthusiastic and capable squash player, representing TT at the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Australia.
1943~Sylvia Ramcharan: Naparima's First Island Scholarship Runner-up (1943)
1946~Kathleen Smith: First Girls Island Scholarship Winner (1946)
| 1953~Alma Lum Ser: Girls Island Scholarship Winner (1953) |  |
1957~Larry Lutchmansingh, PhD: Island Scholarship Winner (1957), Associate Professor of Art History (Bowdoin), twice Fulbright Scholar. Larry returned to TT in 1965 and taught at Presentation for a while, returning to his studies in the U.S. in 1969.
1987~Asad Mohammed: President's Gold Medal Winner 1987 2003~Kevin Singh: President's Gold Medal Winner 2003 2004~Dennis Ramdass: President's Gold Medal Winner 2004 2006~Jansen Scheult: President's Gold Medal Winner 2006
2012~Marcus Belasco: President's Gold Medal Winner 2012
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