Trini-Vincy retired nurse
receives health care award
By Nelson A. King
A retired Trinidad and Tobago
born registered nurse, who
has become a naturalized Vincentian,
through marriage,
was honored with a health care
award on Nov. 21 by the Brooklyn
based Trinidad and Tobago
Alliance, North America, Inc.
Joan Mayers — who has been
married to Vincentian Cleophus
Mayers of almost 48 years,
and lives in St. Vincent and
the Grenadines with her husband
— received the Alliance’s
Health Care Award during the
group’s annual Gala Luncheon
and Scholarship Awards Ceremony
at El Caribe Country
Club on Strickland Avenue in
Brooklyn.
“I am overwhelmed with
gratitude to have been selected
to receive this Health Care
Award,” Mayers, who retired
from SUNY Downstate Medical
Center and University Hospital
of Brooklyn after 30 years,
told patrons. “Thank you all so
much for being here to share in
this occasion. I am so honored
to have my work recognized in
this way.
“Many years of labor were put
into my nursing profession, and
it means so much to me that the
work I am so passionate about,
also resonates with others,” she
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added. “This accomplishment is
not something that I did alone,
and there are many others who
deserve to share in this award.”
Mayers thanked the Alliance
for the honor, as well as her family;
the Brooklyn-based Trinidad
and Tobago Nurses Association
of America, Inc.; the Retired
St. Vincent and the Grenadines
Nurses Association; and friends
and supporters; among others.
“Thanks to the Trinidad and
Tobago Alliance Honoree Committee
for offering recognition
to health care workers like me,”
she said. “I hope that this recognition
of my work may serve
as an inspiration to others in
the field.
“Remember, if my commitment
can make a difference,
so can yours,” Mayers urged.
“I will continue my efforts to
render excellent quality of nursing
care and look forward to
bringing about positive change
in the profession of nursing. I
am humbled and appreciative.”
Mayers, who was born in
Tobago, Trinidad’s sister island,
From left: Trinidad and Tobago Nurses’ Association of
America, Inc.’s President Thecla Williams, RN, Honoree Joan
Mayers and Immediate Past President and current Business
Manager, Mrs. Sherice Warner Rollock, RN. Joan Mayers
said she migrated to the US as a
young adult and continued her
education to the post-master’s
level.
From left: Trinidad and Tobago
Nurses’ Association of
American Inc.’s President,
Ms. Thecla Williams, Trinidad’s
Consul General J. Andre
Laveau and Joan Mayers.
Joan Mayers
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