V Nelson King: His exploits speak for themselves
THE VINCENTIAN. FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 2013. 7.
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Public Administration from Baruch College, City University of New York; and a Master of Law (LL.M) in US Legal Studies from St. John’s University School of Law in Queens. King obtained his undergraduate law degree — LL.B (Upper Second Class Honors) — from Huddersfield University School of Law at Holborn College in the United Kingdom. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Political More than a journalist Science (honors) and Journalism from Brooklyn College; and an Associate Besides journalism, King has been Degree in Liberal Arts from St. Leo working in the health field in New University in Florida, while serving in York for almost 20 years, holding a the US Army at Hunter Army Airfield, number of supervisory, managerial and administrative positions with New Savannah, Georgia. York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and SUNY Downstate Military service Medical Center and University Hospital of Brooklyn. This April will King, a former active duty US Army mark five years that King has been a sergeant, was an aircraft technician, Senior Staff Associate at Downstate specializing in repairing and testing Hospital. avionic navigation and flight control Following up on his early equipment. elementary, secondary and postHe holds a number of military and secondary school teaching career in his civilian awards. His military awards native land — he taught at the Petit included the US Army Commendation Bordel Secondary School (over the hill Medal, the US Army Achievement from Chateaubelair) for almost five Medal, the US Army Overseas Ribbon, years, and subsequently with the the Non-Commissioned Officer Award; Ministry of Education’s Evening the US Army Good Conduct Medal; Programme at the Grammar School — and the “Iron Man” Award for being the indefatigable King, for the past the “strongest man” in his battalion five years, has been an Adjunct while attending aircraft technician Professor at Brooklyn’s Medgar Evers school at Fort Gordon, Augusta, College, specializing in American Georgia. History, World Civilization and Besides his most recent honor — Political Science. Leader in Excellence Journalism An avid sports fan and former cricketer and footballer, King was the co-founder and first ever president of the North Leeward Cricket Association and the Chateaubelair Football Association. In the mid to late 1970s and early 1980s, he was also very involved in community and church activities in North Leeward, heading, for example, Clubland, the drama group of the Chateaubelair Methodist Church, and serving as a local preacher in the Chateaubelair Methodist Church. He is still very active in the community in New York, serving as an associate member of the Central Brooklyn Lions Club, and was vice president for five years in the Brooklyn-based Vincentian Christian Charity Organization and ex-member of the Community Board of Directors of the Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation in Brooklyn. A devout Christian, King is a certified lay speaker at Fenimore Street United Methodist Church in Brooklyn. He currently holds six degrees, including three Masters’ — A Master of Arts in Political Science from Brooklyn College, City University of New York; an Executive Masters in He is also the US Correspondent for THE VINCENTIAN newspaper. In addition, he is a certified Brooklyn Community Access Television (BCAT) producer. In the past, he had written for other New York publications, such as the Daily News’ Caribbean magazine and the Queens Chronicle newspaper.
Editor’s Note: Following on numerous requests for ‘information’ on Nelson King, THE VINCENTIAN’S USA correspondent, we are pleased to provide the following. NELSON KING, WHO POSSESSES A VERY IMPRESSIVE RÉSUMÉ, is renowned for his journalistic exploits, in which he reports on myriad community activities – from politics, to cultural activities, to health and other affairs, to human interest stories, to sports. In his early journalism career — which was launched in the mid-1970s, when he was a teenage school teacher at the Chateaubelair Methodist School — King worked, sometimes pro bono, for a number of radio stations, newspapers and other media houses locally, regionally and internationally. These included the BBC (Black) London; the defunct Radio Antilles in Montserrat; CBC Radio Barbados; Radio St. Lucia; Radio Free Grenada (during the revolution); Caribbean Contact newspaper; WLIB Radio in New York; Vibes Caribbean on WNJR in New Jersey, with producer Ferrand “Randy D” Dopwell; Roots, a defunct North Leeward community newspaper, published by former opposition leader Calder Williams (sports); the former 705 NBC Radio (sports); and The Searchlight, The Star and THE VINCENTIAN newspapers. King has become a household fixture in Brooklyn for his objective and prolific reporting for Caribbean Life, the leading Caribbean newspaper in the United States. He has been one of Caribbean Life’s more senior writers for about 20 years — almost as long as the paper’s existence. For over a decade, King has also been the United States Correspondent for CMC, the only news agency in the Caribbean.
Award - King’s civilian awards, over the years, comprise: Proclamation of the Council of the City of New York; the St. Vincent and the Grenadines’ New York Consulate General Award, under former Consul General Cosmus Cozier; the Chateaubelair Development Organization Award; and the COSAGO Independence and Advisory Committee awards. Other awards are: The Dee Vee International, Inc. Award; the Grenada-New York Independence Award; the L & D Community Service Award; Carnival Players International Award; New York Red Stripe Cup 1994 Sports Writer Award; Central Brooklyn Lions Community Leadership Award; BB (Bridget Blucher) Ministries Award; and VincyCares Award. King is married to Dofflyn nee Cox, a registered nurse, of Troumaca, which incidentally is his mother’s birthplace. The editor and staff of THE VINCENTIAN newspaper including his former teacher and mentor, proof reader Mr. Leroy Mulraine, all join in congratulating Mr. King on his oustanding achievements, and wish him God’s blessings in the future.