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United States, such as New Mexico State University , and later Harvard University , where she spent 22 years. She also worked at the Ford Foundation’s Regional Office in Egypt, where her responsibilities included managing programmes in language research and teaching in Egypt, Tunisia, Sudan, Lebanon, and Jordan. She also taught for several years in Germany. N ow retired, Dr. Haynes had this advice for young people who are considering non- traditional careers. “If you do the work, and continue doing the work, the rest will follow. If you take the work and start to make all kinds of dances around it and play with other things, you will weaken the importance of the work.” She is proud of Cave Hill’s growth from a fledgling college at the Old Trade Fair Site to a thriving campus that is shaping thousands of future Caribbean leaders. She attributes her successful career to her early education in Guyana and her training at Cave Hill: “Cave Hill was not easy. I failed Latin here, but then I got the support I needed and I learned how to deal with the things I was not good at,” she said. “It’s Anthony Appiah who said an intellectual is interested in everything. And that’s what Cave Hill, building upon the Bishop’s High School at home, did. Because we had to do three subjects in our first year, and two theses, and you learned to look around you and to do it properly.” Even though Haynes maintains regular contact with her former students and colleagues, she made it clear that she has no intentions of joining them on social media, branding it “a waste of time”. “This nonsense about putting yourself
Lilith Haynes receives a token of recognition from Cave Hill's Campus Registrar Rommel Carter .
Unlike many of the current generation, Haynes has no fear of missing out on current events: “I get up in the morning and … I have about 20 newspapers around the world [that] I read every morning. I know what’s happening around the world; I don’t miss anything.” u
out there and everybody making comments and you spend half your life on Facebook, I don’t do that!” she declared. “I have a landline; if I miss somebody calling me, I get it as an email and I get back to them. I have a cell phone for emergencies, and I don’t give out my number. I want to be able to control my life.”
Lilith Haynes (right) in conversation with students at the quadrangle
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