Dear Editor,

The Jamaica Institute of Management (JIM) joins the many other groups who have paid tribute to the sad passing of Dr the Hon Joyce Robinson, OJ, FJIM.

As a Fellow of JIM, Dr Robinson played an important role as a member of the Interim Management Committee appointed by then president of JIM the Most Hon Sir Howard Cooke, to oversee the activities and programmes of JIM, which at the time was going through difficulties. She served on that committee with distinction and saw some important developments taking place.

Among these was the establishment of the UTech/JIM School of Advanced Management at 47 Hope Road, which took over the academic programmes of JIM. It also resulted in the establishment of the professional company, Jamaica Institute of Management (2009) Limited, which deals with professional programmes, Fellows and membership activities and the Manager of the Year programme.

Dr Joyce always brought to JIM’s activities her own professional bearing and her outgoing, warm and generous spirit even in the last days of her hospitalisation. Her friends and family could see the strength of her character, which had been demonstrated in the many pivotal activities she embraced in her rich and generous life of ‘service above self’.

JIM joins with the Jamaica Library Service, HEART Trust/NTA, St Elizabeth Foundation, JAMAL Movement, Soroptimist clubs of Jamaica and many others in her rich programme of national service.

She also gave strong support to her late husband, Leslie, who served as principal of the Mona, UWI campus and as chairman of the College of Arts, Science and Technology’s (CAST) Council.

Her Order of Jamaica was richly deserved and Fellows and members of JIM and the JIM Council express our condolences to her family.

Sandra Shirley,

Chairman

Jamaica Institute of Management (2009) Limited