The Ministry of Education and Human Resource Development has honoured retired educator Athelstane Seraphin for over 40 years of service as a teacher and principal.
Seraphin who retired in 2011 has been ill for some time and was unable to receive his award at the recent Ministry’s Retirees Awards Ceremony.
Chief Education Officer Stephenson Hyacinth visited Seraphin on Friday at his home in San Sauveur where they reminisced about his years as a teacher and principal at several schools in the east.
Seraphin was made principal of the Boetica Primary School in 1982. He would later serve as principal of the Laplaine Primary School and the Salybia Primary School. He ended his career as Principal of the San Sauveur Primary School.
During the visit, Seraphin recounted his days as principal in Boetica, awaking at 3 a.m. to make the daily trek by foot from Good Hope to Boetica through the Petite Soufriere-Rosalie route.
Hyacinth, who also served as Education Officer-Eastern District while Seraphin was stationed at Salybia, remembers him as a committed educator “who would go the extra mile for the benefit of his students.”
“He always worked hard towards the development of his staff and the schools where he served,” Hyacinth said.
Seraphin expressed gratitude to the Ministry of Education, noting he was honoured to have contributed to the education of young people in Dominica.