Before becoming a medical doctor specializing in cancer treatment, Anthony Lindsay Austin Fields, born, Barbados, 1943, had studied natural sciences at the University of Cambridge, U.K., 1962-65. Upon returning to Barbados,1966, he was a teacher at both Queen’s College and the University of the West Indies. Immigrating to Canada,1968, Anthony Fields gained employment as a chemistry technologist at Hamilton-based Stelco. Recognizing the need to continue his education, he enrolled at the University of Alberta, first, to study Zoology, 1969-70, then, Medicine. Graduating in Medicine, 1974, Dr. Fields, after completing one year’s internship at Edmonton’s Royal Alexandra Hospital, moved to Toronto, 1975, to specialize in internal medicine, spending, first, three years at St. Michael’s Hospital, then two more years specializing in Oncology at Princess Margaret Hospital, both hospitals being affiliated with the University of Toronto. When opportunity came, 1980, to return to Edmonton, Alberta, as a member of the medical staff at the Cross Cancer Institute, with a full-time appointment to the Faculty of Medicine, University of Alberta, it was a dream come true. Since 1988, Dr. Anthony Fields, a Harrison College Old-Boy from beautiful Barbados, has been Director, Cross Cancer Institute, and, since 1998, a full professor, Department of Oncology and Department of Medicine, University of Alberta. A Board Member, National Cancer Institute of Canada, Dr. Fields has made major contributions to Canadian research in cancer and sits, today, on no less than 25 major committees at both the national and provincial levels, acting in advisory capacities for steering and liaison committees investigating the latest in cancer research. [Photo, courtesy Dr. Anthony Fields]

A pioneer in the historical sociology of sport, Professor Keith A. P. Sandiford, born, 1936, Bridgetown, Barbados, West Indies, began teaching History, University of Manitoba, 1966, the year he completed his Ph.D., University of Toronto. Born in Barbados and a graduate of both Combermere School (Barbados) and University College of the West Indies before immigrating to Toronto to pursue graduate studies, Dr. Sandiford is a keen cricket statistician who, in collaboration with Dr. Brian Stoddart of Australia, edited The Imperial Game: Cricket, Culture and Society, a seminal work published by Manchester University Press, 1998. Keith Sandiford’s status as one of the world’s leading cricket sociologists has led to numerous invitations to attend conferences and symposia in Australia, Canada, the USA, and the West Indies. A wide-angle historian, Keith has written on a variety of topics from Victorian politics and British diplomacy to examining Victorian culture, in general, and Barbadian education, in particular. An entertaining teacher, Keith earned two years in a row (1991, ’92), the much coveted Merit Award from University of Manitoba. A community volunteer, Keith Sandiford has served as President, National Council of Black Education in Canada, the Canadian Ethnocultural Council, and the Canadian Labour Force Development Board. In this view, 1969, Dr. Sandiford was six short years away from becoming a Life Master with the American Contract Bridge League. [Photo, courtesy Dr. Keith Sandiford]