Today we would like to pay tribute to Sir Howard Fergus...
Thank you for your ongoing support to our charity, and the brilliant poem you wrote - ‘Of Glendon’
You are no longer with us, but your greatness will always live on:
OF GLENDON
We revere Glendon and its over four score years within whose enduring walls our population
have found succour in our fears
As we walk our weary pilgrimage on feet of clay, becoming sore and broken, dependent on your sinews to brace us on the way
To health and wellbeing when we fall ill from the promiscuous darts life throws at us, while still with destinies to fulfill.
Today we depend on new technology as we aspire to the best in medical practice, but loving care is still an ingredient in the remedy.
Glendon has seen much from its 1934 foundations not only sickness, suffering and death, but hurricanes volcanic eruptions and other natural tribulations,
Not, forgetting the present coronavirus plague, but it was always Glendon to the rescue.
To serve this institution will always be a privilege.
It is now an iconic and uplifting agency, its healing garments woven in the fabric of the land,
and must continue to be the best that it can be.
So we hail Glendon and those who lift its standard, as they continue their humanitarian ministry
to hurting people. We will it ever onward.
We raise a toast of celebration
to this iconic Montserratian landmark this conduit of wellness, cornerstone of the nation;
and to those who’ve kept the Glendon flame aglow,
beneficiaries past and present say thanks and dream for it a future, greater than they know.
Howard A. Fergus
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