TRIBUTES
Passing of Foundation Student Who Built Out His University
A campus “icon” and “a true giant in the Cave Hill pantheon.” — These were among the many accolades which flowed from across The University of the West Indies community following the passing of former Cave Hill Campus Registrar Andrew Gordon Lewis in March 2023.
L ewis was a member of the campus's first student cohort in 1963 and later joined the Cave Hill staff in 1980, after spending some time in the public service. After his formal retirement from Cave Hill in 2003, he remained to serve as Director of Planning and Special Projects enabling the campus's expansion to benefit from the richness of his knowledge and his devotion to the institution. He was largely responsible for charting much of the strategies for development and for guiding the projects for Cave Hill's physical expansion, felt by many to be his enduring contribution to the campus. H e truly mastered the "operations and complexities" of The UWI. From funding proposals and negotiations to design and coordination, he was instrumental in the transformative development of 33 acres of land at Black Rock that now boast the Usain Bolt Sports Complex, the School for Graduate Studies and Research, and the Keith Hunte Hall.
Responsibility for the expansion of Cave Hill's built environment extended beyond the Black Rock or Lazaretto Lands and included the Faculty of Medical Sciences, the Clico Centre for Teaching Excellence and the Sagicor Centre for Lifelong Learning, among numerous other notable initiatives. In 2006, Mr. Lewis was awarded the Vice-Chancellor's Special Award for Outstanding and Distinguished Service to the University , at that time the second recipient of such an honour in the history of The UWI. Colleagues who served with him, including academics and administrators, remember his warm and keen mentorship, his guidance towards appreciating the values and phenomenal contribution of The UWI, and his example, which helped to shape a culture of adherence to standards of the highest quality. u
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