Profiles: Heroes, Role Models and Pioneers of Trinidad and Tobago - by Nasser Khan

91 programme. He initiated and developed the Eastern Caribbean Medical Scheme and was the head administrator in Trinidad for 23 years and the Director of the School of Medicine at St. Augustine from 1983 to 1994. Two years after his retirement in 1995, he became the first Director of the Clinical Programme, a new UWI medical teaching programme in the Bahamas. • 1987 Chaconia Medal Gold JOSEPH O. CUTTERIDGE ( 1887-1952) H e arrived here from England in 1921. Starting as a principal of the Tranquillity Government Training School he went on to become the Director of Education and a Member of the Legislative Council from 1934-1942. He published many school books including the six in the series Nelson’s West Indian Readers , seven in the series West Indian Arithmetics and Geography of the West indies and Adjacent Lands . He was also involved with football especially as a referee and administrator. SHAMSHU DEEN (1947- ) S hamshu Deen holds a bachelor’s degree in history and economics, another in geography, a masters in special education and was a teacher for 37 years. For the past 30 years, Deen has spent time tracking down records of East Indian immigrants in the national archives of Trinidad & Tobago. In 1994, Shamshu Deen published his first book, “ Solving East Indian Roots in Trinidad,” which is an account of his and his wife’s family trees. In 1998 he published his second book, “Lineages and