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C. Alfie Gill
Professor C. Alfie Gill was born in Bridgetown, Barbados and educated at Calvary Moravian Boys’ School and Combermere Boys’ School. He taught at Combermere and founded the Regent H...view moreProfessor C. Alfie Gill was born in Bridgetown, Barbados and educated at Calvary Moravian Boys’ School and Combermere Boys’ School. He taught at Combermere and founded the Regent High School in 1952.
Professor Gill later went to England and graduated with an LLB Degree from London University. He worked for both the British and Canadian governments in administration. He later settled in the United States, where he earned an M.B.A. from the New York Institute of Technology.
He became Director of Finance for a huge anti-poverty programme in the late 70’s in Yonkers, New York. With the changing politics of the 1980’s and the defunding of the C.E.T.A. programme by President Reagan, he returned to the field of education.
First as a licensed Business teacher and later as a Specialist in Special Education. He joined the faculty of the City University of New York, (B.M.C.C) in 1988 as an Adjunct Professor. Professor Gill retired from C.U.N.Y. in 2003.
Professor Gill founded his own business “Quality Systems”, (Started in 1975) which specialized in Accounting and Tax Services for small businesses. He was the President and C.E.O.
He was active in many community and Afrocentric organizations. In 2003 he was elected as co-chair of the New York Coalition of Faith-Based Organizations, active in the fight against A.I.D.S. He gave the 2004 Black Civilization Day lecture at the Jerusalem Cathedral of the Sons of God Spiritual Baptist Church. He also gave the Barrow Memorial Lecture in New York in January 2004.
C. Alfie Gill continues to spend his retirement years in the United States of America.view less