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Our first Advisory
Committee Meeting of the year was held this month. More than
half of our Committee members were in attendance. We discussed many
important project issues and received many useful suggestions for steering
the project for the rest of this year.
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The Project Assistant prepared a detailed
report for our advisory committee members. This report, requested
at the meeting,
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We have began the project Media Campaign
which will be an attempt to publicize the project through and organized
and systematic procedure. So far we have received positive reactions
from the media outlets contacted.
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We continue to survey the documents of Saint
Peter Claver Roman Catholic Church and the Union
of Jamaican Alumni Associations.
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While surveying the papers of the Saint Peter
Claver Roman Catholic Church we found the minutes to the 1916-1926 meetings
of the Colored Catholics Club. This is the organization that helped
to start St. Peter Claver in response to White Catholic racial intolerance.
We have contacted the archivist for the Diocese of Brooklyn for proper
preservation of the document.
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Project Staff is doing the research necessary
to prepare our workshops that will be presented next month as a part of
METRO training calendar.
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The project continues to contact and follow-up
with the historically significant Jamaican Progressive League and Tobago
Alumni Association.
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Academic research about the Jamaican, Trinidadian
& Tobagonian, and Pan-Caribbean community continues so that the
survey will accurately reflect the dynamics of the community.
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