Sept. 24, 2002 – Saturday night may warm the heart of former University of the Virgin Islands president Orville Kean. UVI, still celebrating the 40th anniversary of the school, will pay tribute to Kean at a Roast and Toast Gala.
The night will include tributes, special presentations and a videography of UVI's history and Kean's career, said a release. Kean has been a member of the UVI family for more than 35 years, and served 12 years as president.
The event, at Wyndham Sugar Bay Resort, will start with cocktails at 7 p.m. and dinner at 7:30 p.m. The color scheme for the gala is ruby and gold. Proceeds from the event will establish an endowed scholarship at UVI in Kean's honor.
Born in St. Thomas, he graduated from Charlotte Amalie High School in 1955. He has degrees from Lincoln University in Pennsylvania, University of Michigan, and University of Pennsylvania.
Higher education in the Virgin Islands had been on his mind even before the college started: young Dr. Kean, now-Gov. Charles Turnbull and now-retired Prof. Marilyn Krigger were among those present at a historic Governor's Conference on Higher Education in 1961, called by Gov. Ralph Paiewonsky to formally propose the idea of a college in the Virgin Island.
Starting at the then-College of the Virgin Islands as assistant professor of mathematics in 1965, Kean worked his way up in the Science and Mathematics Division and, concurrently and subsequently, in the college administration. He was inaugurated as the third president of the institution March 16, 1991, and retired this month of September, 2002.
Tickets for the gala are $100 per person and are available at Modern Music (Havensight), Krystal and Gifts Galore (Tutu Park Mall), St. John Drug Center and UVI’s Reichhold Center Box Office. For ticket information call the Reichhold Center Box Office at 693-1559.
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The Pistackle Theater presents the play "The Importance of Being Earnest" at the Tillett Gardens. General admissions begins at 7:30 p.m. Subscribers, donors, flex pass holders are asked to reserve dates so seats can be held until 10 minutes before showtime.

The Pistarckle Theater presents "The Importance of Being Earnest" at Tillett Gardens. General admission opens at 7:30 p.m. Subcribers, donors and flex pass holders are asked to reserve dates so seats can be held until 10 minutes before showtime.

The Pistarckle Theater pesents "The Importance of Being Earnest" at Tillett Gardens. General admission opens at 7:30 p.m. Subscribers, donors and flex pass holders are asked to reserve dates so seats can be held until 10 minutes before showtime.

The regular board meeting of the Board of Commissioners of the V.I. Housing Authority is scheduled to b at the Central Offices of the Authority in Aureo Diaz Heights, St. Croix.

Sept. 24, 2002 – The regular board meeting of the Board of Commissioners of the V.I. Housing Authority is scheduled for 9:30 a.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 25, at the Central Offices of the Authority in Aureo Diaz Heights, St. Croix.

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Parents and guardians of students who attend Educational Complex High School are advised of an information meeting regarding accreditation. It will be held in the school's auditorium.

Sept. 24, 2002 – The St. Croix Hiking Association will hold its monthly meeting at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 2, in room 133 of the UVI Extension Services. Plans for the Sunday, Oct. 15 hike in the Manning's Bay area will be discussed.
For more details call 778-7910, 778-2078 or 779-3551.

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The St. Croix Hiking Association will hold its monthly meeting at the UVI Extension Services, room 133. Plans for the Sunday, Oct. 15th hike in the Manning's Bay area will be discussed.
For more information call 778-7910, 778-2076 or 770-3551.

Sept. 24, 2002 – A 69-year-old St. Croix man was charged on Monday with violating the federal Endangered Species Act by stealing 13 eggs from a hawksbill turtle nest.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Carl Morey said that Severo Rodriguez had the eggs in his possession when he was apprehended Sunday on Sunset Beach by a special agent of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Authorities seized the eggs as evidence.
Following his appearance at an advice-of-rights hearing in District Court on Monday, Rodriguez was freed on $5,000 bail. As a condition of his release, he is to stay away from all turtle nesting areas on St. Croix — which is to say, all 52 beaches on the island.
The hawksbill is one of the three endangered or threatened sea turtle species that live in territorial waters and lay their eggs along the shore. The leatherback turtle also is on the federal endangered list, and the green turtle is on the threatened list.
Fish and Wildlife agent Michael Evans said there is a thriving illegal market on St. Croix for turtle meat and turtle eggs. "They are considered an aphrodisiac," he said. "As they say locally, they make your back strong."
According to Evans, authorities did not return the retrieved eggs to the sand where they came from because the embryo formation that takes place inside is a quick and delicate process that is easily destroyed by handling them. "If you roll around the eggs, that little group of cells will not survive, and so the embryo perishes," he said.

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