Browsing by Author "Blondel, Eaulin"

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    OP22 - Holder, Thelma; McDavid, Hannali; Eastman, Elrick
    (2010-06-09T15:31:56Z) Blondel, Eaulin; Holder, Thelma; McDavid, Hannali; Eastman, Elrick
    Thelma Holder, who was eighty-one at the time of the interview, was born in Panama of Guyanese parents and grew up in New York. Hannali McDavid was born in Guyana and came to New York at the age of twenty-seven. She worked with the New York Transit Authority for nineteen years before entering the catering field. Judge Elrick Eastman was born in the U.S. of Guyanese parents and grew up in Guyana between the ages of five and thirteen. He returned to live in New York from 1936, later studied law and ended up as a family court judge.
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    OP64 -Taitt, Donald; Gray, Sonia Elaine; Davis, Elizabeth; Hamilton, Charles
    (2010-07-08T16:54:41Z) Blondel, Eaulin; Taitt, Donald; Gray, Sonia Elaine; Davis, Elizabeth; Hamilton, Charles
    Robert Taitt (66) was born in Barbados in 1924 but grew up in Guyana. He first came to the United States in 1943 (aged 19) as a recruit with the West Indian contingent in the British Royal Air Force and later returned in 1951. Sonia Elaine Gray, Jamaican, a licensed practicing dentist, has lived in New York since 1978. Elizabeth Davis, a sixty-three year old Jamaican, has been living in the United States for twenty three years, Charles Hamilton, aged 67, formerly of Guyana, has been living in New York since 1947. He has worked in the taxi cab business and as an assistant manager with a shipping/marketing firm.