Rosamond Arorunkah Fowlis

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(3 October 1910 – 20 August 1994) was a Gambian schoolteacher,

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organizer,

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commissioner and chair of the Gambia Women's Federation.

Life

Rosamond Fowlis was born in Bathurst (now Banjul) on 3 October 1910. She was the daughter of Henry G. Fowlis, a prominent member of the Aku

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community. She was educated at the Methodist Girls' High School in Bathurst, and from 1943 to 1947 at St Joseph's Convent,

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. Fowlis taught

in Bathurst from 1931 until her retirement in 1965. A cofounder of the Gambia Teachers' Union in 1937, she served as union president from 1941 to 1945. A 1943 report on Infant and Girls Education in the Gambia recommended that Fowlis be provided an assistant, and given the opportunity to visit the

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for additional training. From 1945 to 1965 she was Domestic Science Organizer in the Colony. Fowlis was appointed to the Gambia Education Board in 1945, and in 1953 was one of the five women on the 34-member Consultative Committee to the Governor on Constitutional Reform. That year she received a

for her services as Domestic Science Organizer. In 1955 she became the first Gambian chief guide commissioner, spreading the

movement in the Gambian Colony. She served as chair of the Gambia Women's Federation in the 1960s. In honour of the 75th Anniversary of Girl Guides, Rosamond Fowlis was commemorated on a 1985 stamp as 'Miss Rosamond Fowlis of Buckingham Palace.'Bélyegkatalógus : Bélyeg › Rosamond Fowlis,Leader
/ref> She died 20 August 1994.

References

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