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One of those persons is Pauline Channer, the recently installed president of the Rotary Club of Mandeville. Becoming the third woman to head the 50-year-old organisation, she was installed as its president on July 6 during an upscale banquet at the Mandeville Hotel.
The first of five children for Norman and Nora Blake, Channer is a graduate of Glenmuir High School and Shortwood Teachers' College. With high ideals and a desire to pass on the moral and ethical teachings instilled in her by her parents and teachers, Channer thought the classroom would be the place to make that happen. After nine years as a teacher of Spanish at the Spalding and Manchester high schools, she made her exit to the insurance world. With a half smile, she told Rural Express it was a difficult decision to leave the classroom as it is one of the best opportunities one has to make a difference in young lives and to chart a course for the nation's future. However, she said, there are times when the ladder is not tall enough to scale the wall of obstacles that confronts one, forcing economy car rental aruba one to take an alternative route to overcome them.
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Although losing her husband seven years ago, Channer said, "I have not lost faith in my country or people, for that would mean that I lost faith in myself, and I know the majority of Jamaicans are decent, hard-working people."
With the look of a concerned teacher, Channer added, "I must say, I am not comfortable with the level of crime, the decay in moral standards, and the seeming descending ethical standards in our day-to-day activities."
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While other women around the world are fighting for the right to merely be themselves, women in Jamaica like Pauline Channer continue the fight to have a fair and just society where kindness and care for others become the natural order of the time.