The Rochester Jamaican Organization, Creating Networks to Enlighten, Educate and Empower the Rochester and Jamaican Community.
empowering the Rochester Jamaican community through educational, social, economic and cultural engagement.
working in solidarity to foster and develop partnership and goodwill with constituents that share our mission and value of progressive Jamaican communities based on mutual respect, understanding and a shared vision of self-determination and commitment to perpetuating the Jamaican heritage globally.
striving to uphold professional and ethical principles in providing service to its members and the community at large, and
communicating in a common voice and expose its membership to core values and leadership ideals that must be perpetuated through the organization.
Rochester Jamaican Organization
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Officers
President– Joel Frater
Vice President– Diane Nuefville
Treasurer
Secretary– Michelle Thompson-Taylor
Rochester Jamaican Organization, Inc.
P.O. Box 24287
Rochester, NY 14624
Phone: 585-234-2119
Email: rochesterjamaicanorg@yahoo.com
Creating Networks to Enlighten, Educate and Empower the Rochester and Jamaican Community"
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Membership
Jamaica has a rich and vibrant history, which inspires us to move forward as a nation. Our history speaks to experiences of hardships and prosperity; and the growth and determination of a people. Jamaica’s history has been poetically composed by Howard Pyle, who states:
Jamaica, like many another of the West Indian Islands, is like a woman with a history. She has had her experiences and has lived her life rapidly. She has enjoyed a fever of prosperity founded upon those incalculable treasures poured into her lap by the old time buccaneer pirates. She has suffered earthquake, famine, pestilence, fire and death: and she has been the home of cruel merciless slavery, hardly second to that practiced by the Spaniards themselves. Other countries have taken centuries to grow from their primitive life through the flower and fruit of prosperity into the seed time of picturesque decrepitude. Jamaica
has lived through it all in a few years.
- Howard Pyle, “Jamaica New and Old” in Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, January 1890
Rochester Jamaican ORGANIZATION INC. , ADVISORY COUNCIL
GARTH FAGAN
Garth Fagan, Founder and Artistic Director of the internationally acclaimed Garth Fagan Dance
WINSOME P. CARTER
Financial Advisor, Smith Barney, a division of Citigroup Global Markets, Inc.
HOPE DRUMMOND
CONSTITUTION of RJO
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The Rochester Jamaican Organization, Inc., was formed to:
To provide an association that will provide to Jamaicans and friends of Jamaica a network that will provide access to resources that will positively impact social conditions of Jamaicans in Jamaica and in Rochester.
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4th Annual Independence Gala
Celebrating Jamaica’s 48th year of independence
Friday, July 30, 2010
The Hyatt Regency, Rochester, NY