The Lyford Cay Foundation has announced the appointment
of four prominent citizens of The Bahamas and the U.S. to its Board of Directors.
Among them is former Governor-General of The Bahamas Sir Orville Turnquest,
GCMG, QC, JP, LLB. Others named to the Board are Mrs. Norma Taliaferra Dana,
Mr. Stuart Ray and Mr. John Bottomley.
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Sir Orville, who served as Governor-General
from January 1995 until November 2001, earned his Honours LL.B. degree
at the University of London. His political career began in 1960 when
he served as Secretary-General of the Progressive Liberal Party. He
was one of the founding members of the opposition party, the presently-governing
Free National Movement. Following the FNM’s election in 1992,
Sir Orville served as Deputy Prime Minister, Attorney General and
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| Mrs. Dana is the widow of former Lyford
Cay Foundation President and Chairman Charles A. Dana, Jr. Since his
death in May 2001, she has served as President of Cadan Corp., a private
holding company based in New Canaan, Ct. |
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| Mr. Ray is a two-time Harvard graduate,
earning his MBA in 1970. His extensive business, civic, educational
and charitable affiliations include the Association of the Metropolitan
Opera, the Byrd-Hoffman Foundation, and the Professional Children’s
School. Mr. Ray now serves on the board of directors of Millicom International
Cellular based in Luxembourg. |
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Mr. Bottomley is the Executive Director
of the $17 million Fuller Foundation. He is a member of the board
of directors of Hesser College in New Hampshire, past president of
the Richard D. McDonough Scholarship Foundation, past vice chairman
of Bank Meridian and was appointed by the first President Bush to
the President’s Advisory Committee on the Arts, Kennedy Center.
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The Board of Directors also named three lifetime honorary members. They
are Mrs. Sheila Hailey, Mrs. Dorothy Booth, and Mrs. Gunda Dorrance.
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