MANDEVILLE, Manchester — The Manchester Parish Library last month honoured businessman Ivan Green for 45 years of service to the organisation.

Green began serving on the committee of the library in 1971.

Under the leadership of then committee chairman and late mayor of Mandeville, Cecil Charlton, he was elected as treasurer.

Green still holds that position today and organisers of the event say he is the longest-serving treasurer to date.

“The Manchester Parish Library Committee and the Jamaica Library Board salutes him for over 40 years of unbroken service to the library.

The healthy state of the accounting process of the Manchester Parish Library could not have been sustained without his watchfulness, his business acumen, and his unspoken firmness,” said a citation.

Prior to his contribution to the Manchester Parish Library, Green was a member of the Christiana Branch Library subcommittee.

Director of the Jamaica Library Service Region 5 (Manchester and St Elizabeth), Lorraine McLean, told the Jamaica Observer Central that Green was instrumental in its relocation to the current space on Main Street in Christiana.

“He was passionate about finding a suitable location to house the Christiana Branch Library and kept his eye on (an area called) “animal farm” where animals were tied on market days. (He) kept an eye on the development through the construction stages and engaged in fund-raising efforts to assist.

He presided at the groundbreaking and in 1976 the building was completed,” said McLean.