St. Aroment
Dominica
74
March 10, 2023
Wife: Anita Bully
Children: Brent Bully and fiancée Nicole Allum Sade Bully-Bell and husband Mark Bell
Grandchildren: River and Zen Bell
Siblings: Collin Bully and wife Antonia Bully and Barbara Bully-Thomas
Numerous god-children, nieces and nephews, dear friends and respected colleagues in the field of arts and culture in Dominica, Jamaica and the wider Caribbean.
Caregivers: Frances Wilkinson, Mary Apple, Marina Jackson, Margaret Metor and Vania Deluge
THE BODY OF THE LATE ALWIN ANTHONY BULLY WILL BE TRANSPORTED TO THE ST. GERALD CATHEDRAL CHAPEL ON WEDNESDAY, 5TH APRIL, 2023.
THE OFFICIAL FUNERAL SERVICE BEGINS AT 10:00 A.M. FOLLOWED BY INTERMENT AT THE ROSEAU ROMAN CATHOLIC CEMETERY.
Mourners are kindly requested to be attired in colours of the flag or madras prints.
Live streaming of the official funeral service will be aired via GIS, DBS Radio Facebook Page and EMO News.
A cultural Tribute to celebrate the life of Dr. Alwin Bully, entitled; “Shapes in the Clouds” will be held at 07:00 p.m. on Wednesday, April 05, 2023 at The Old Mill Cultural Centre.
All are welcome as we celebrate the life of our beloved cultural icon and national treasure.
Comment (2)
Now that Alwyn has been laid to rest, I think that it is fitting that all DGS alumni, who have benefitted from his teachings get together and donate funds to help Anita set up a foundation in his name.
I suggest that we get together in The United Kingdom, USA and Canada, and form an old secondary school, association.
We can ensure that the name Alwyn Bully never dies by ensuring that the foundation has finance to:
(1) Keep The Old Mill Theatre going Putting Plays for tourists, so that The Peoples Action Theatre continues in its existence.
2) Establishing a museum at Mr Bully home on King George 5th street, so that Tourists and Dominicans can see what he did in Arts, Painting , Sculpture and Music and Dance.
(3)Creating scholarships for young members of PAT.
These are just some ideas which spring to my mind. I am sure that Anita and Colin Bully are better placed to decide, than I am. In the next few weeks I will try to get this going in the UK.
ADMIN: There are already plans to setup a foundation. We will carry the story when the individuals involved are ready to go public with the details.
Alwyn Bully was house master of Benedict Joseph House at DGS. We never won anything significant in terms of house points at B.J, always being beaten by Skinner, Dawbiney and Dupigney but we gave good competition. I won Boys -over 16 -100 and 200 meters sprints in 1974.
We have much to learn from the Old School song:
“The greatest of all builders wrought with his mighty hand, all that we see around us in sky and sea and land.
The mansion he made was perfect, nor could it be otherwise, he from its deep foundations, made visible with patience , a school for human eyes.
When boyhood days are over, fare forth to wider lore, building on with the old school spirit, craftsmen for ever more.
The mansion he made was perfect, nor could it be otherwise, he from its deep foundations, made visible with patience , a school for human eyes.
Let us be craftsmen like Alwyn- for ever more.
Roland Alan Mitchell-FCCA
School song from memory after 51 years. (Sorry if there are some…