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July 1974 $1.00 A BERMUDA MONTHLY PUBUCATION FAME MAGAZINE VOLUME I Number 1 JULY, 1974 STAFF Overseas Correspondents: Mrs. JUNE MASTERS Ella Ferguson, N.Y. Editor and Publisher George Fry, N.Y. ALFRED A. AUGUSTUS Staff Writers: Lois Smith Circulation Manager Jennifer M. Smith Phone 2-4366 Guest Writers: Alma (Champ) Hunt CONTENTS Cecile N. Smith Calvin Shabazz EDITORIAL P.3 Hastings Saltus BAHAMIAN INDEPENDENCE - A YEAR LATER P.S CALENDAR GIRLS 1974 P.7 EDITORIAL 1974 CUP MATCH CAPTAINS P.ll A Community Need Fulfilled JUDY'S YEAR IN THE WORLD OF GLAMOUR P.13 SPECIAL FEATURES: 1974 NEW PORT - BERMUDA YACHT RACE P.16 Miss Bermuda Past PERSONALITY: ROSLYN ROBERTS P.18 Miss Bermuda Present SHOP OF THE MONTH P.20 New Franchise Holder SPORTS IS HER WORLD P.23 The Man Behind the Voice PERSONABLE GENTLEMAN IS NEW FRENCHISE HOLDER P. 25 SPORTS THE MAN BEHIND THE VOICE P.27 16-year-old Debbie Jones MISS BERMUDA 1974 P.30 Cup Match 1974 WHAT MAKES OUR TOURISTS COME BACK P.32 PICTORIAL OVER $10,000 CONTRIBUTED TO CHARITY P.33 Fashions THE WRITER'S DILEMMA P.35 • PERSONALITY: A Natural Gift Letters to the Editor welcomed FAME is published in the middle of each month. Their office is located in The Recorder Building, Court Street, Hamilton. Telephone 2-4366. All correspondence and Advertising Copy should be forwarded to P.O. Box 643, Hamilton 5. Price - $1.00 per copy, with yearly subscriptions available. Subscription: Foreign sealed - 134.04 Foreign unsealed - $19.92 Local sealed - $13.80 Local unsealed - $12.96 Printed Photo-Offset by The Engravers Limited, Mills Creek Industrial Park, Pembroke. CREDIT Cover Photographs MISS BERMUDA JOYCE DEROSA |7/£ MOST SIGNIFICANT MOMENT OF HER LIFE SO FAR finds Joyce DeRosa on the night of May 31st when she was crowned Miss Bermuda 974 by His Excellency the Governor. Miss Bermuda is now on her way to Greece where she will participate in the Miss Universe Contest. She left ermuda for Boston and San Francisco, before joining other contestants in Greece. Photo By Tim Ewart Portrait of Miss Bermuda 1974 by Ed. KeUy Government House Bermuda 1st July 1974. I am very happy to welcome "Fame" back to the Bermuda scene, and to wish all my friends concerned with the venture great success. Since "Fame" suspended publication nearly 10 years ago Bermuda has made great strides along the road to democracy and self-government; the doors to the highest offices in the land have been opened wide, and many have passed through them; we have achieved the h^hest average living standards in the world - we may not all be millionaires, life is not quite like that, but job for job and person for person, everyone who has the good fortune to live in Bermuda enjoys more of this world's material wealth than if he Or she lived in any other country in the world. More important even than that, through much hard work, much heart searching, and some tragedy, we have achieved an understanding of each other, and a respect for each other, a better estimate of what matters in a human being, one of God's children, than most countries. Bermuda may be tiny in size and numbers, but there is no lesson the troubled world needs to hear more than how diverse peoples can live together and work together in harmony and welcome the world to come and see. That seems to me to be Bermuda's role - may you all help to fulfil it. JULY 1974/FAME 2 iiiimiiimiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiMmiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimimimiiiiiiiii CONGKA TULA TIONS and BEST WISHES ait to BERMUDA'S FAME MAGAZINE from the Business and Professional Women's Club Inc. A community need iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiMiiiniiiiiiiiiiMiiiiiiiiiiiitini^ fulfilled FOR A RELAXING EVENING In the Heart of Hamilton Several years ago it was recognized that there its was a glaring need for another type of periodical to supplement the regular weekly and week-end editions PLACE'S CAFE presently on the market. It was felt that such a magazine should be less with Discotheque Music, live bands hectically prepared. It was further appreciated that on the magazine, once produced, should contain more than just the normal newsy items to be found in the Dundonald Street, Hamilton existing dailies. Rather, it should present in-depth studies on various personalities, both local and inter­ national, social and political issues of particular interest to the community which it serves. A further policy would be to present items and infoimation in the periodical which would be of special interest to tourists who would thus become more fami­ FOLKS ALSO CATER 10 liar with Bermudians and Bermuda. In this magazine they would be exposed to those THE OLDER SET OFFERING: newsy items not available in other locally produced trade manuals. The original guiding lights envisioned a Fortune, SHORTS - Short Sets • Jewellry - Soul Train McCall type periodical which would graphically depict and Pop Socks - Straw Hats - Cycle Hats - the more notable and noble aspects of the community. Peak Caps and Denim Hats - Jeans - Handbags Hence they evolved the name FAME MAGAZINE. - Tops - Skirts • Cool Outs. This quickly became a popular and much sought after periodical with only a limited amount of copies produced for each issue. Those original issues have almost become collectors' items. FOR INTERESTING AND EXCITING The founder soon discovered that pressures of other commitments made continued production difficult if CUP MATCH BUYS not impossible. The many subscribers received this unhapy news and have ever since kept on asking about MAKE IT A MUST TO SHOP AT the possibility of re-issuing Fame Magazine. In answer to these requests the editor, fortunately for those who faithfully kept insisting, has yielded to these demands. THE YOUNG FOLKS Fame Magazine will henceforth, once more become a BURNABY STREET, HAMILTON regular household name among those lovers of good periodicals. JULY 1974/FAME 3 1 Sift • r * Lk> i li 1 is not the btggeist^ But we're growing But, perhaps we should accentuate the positive. We're associated with one of the largest banking organizatizationo s t W in the world. The Bank of Nova Scotia. They have over one thousand offices around the world at your service. But, it's here we're interested in. We love Bermuda)uda. We're not the biggest, but we're growing. ^ Come grow with us. I / 'S6.mmy^'&ia/i:(my'-^^^^ LIMITED Mam Office: Church Street, Hamilton 2 4403 M.A, Candy. Southampton Princess 8 1414 R.N, Burkitt. St. Geor()ei 7 1628 L.S. Somersall. Affiliated with The Bank of Nova Scotia. JULY 1974/FAME 4 Bermudian recalls Bahamian Independence - a year after By Ira P. Philip THE QUIET REVOLUTION - The Bahamian Prime Minister is seen at the moment of triumph a year ago when his Bahamaland became a free and sovereign state. In the background Britian's Prince of Wales who represented the Queen at the Independence Ceremony. f (The Editor of FAME especially requested Mr. Ira PhUip. News Director of ZFB Radio and TV to do this flash-back on the Independence a year ago of the Commonwealth of the Bahamas.) So many people have asked me how it was at the As accredited news representatives we attended Bahamas Independence Celebrations. My answer al­ nearly every event on the week-long Independence ways has been and always will be "Most exhilarating!" Calendar — sports events; receptions; an Ecumenical But really it is impossible in two words to sum up so Service on the National Day of Prayer the day before mementous an event as "The Birth of a Nation" and Independence; the laying of the cornerstone of the neither do words come easy enough to describe the Bahamas Central Bank; parades of civil, cultural, many powerful emotions which engulfed me that one- labour and fraternal organizations; and an Independ­ minute-to-midnight and into the first seconds of Tues­ ence Junkanoo Parade which started at four in the day, July 10, 1973, when full national freedom became moming. a reality for the Bahamian people. Of course, we weren't the only Bermudians there. Aware of the close historical ties between the Official Bermuda seemed to take a low profile on the Bermudas and Bahamas, I could not help reflecting Independence of the Bahamas. Our Premier, the Hon. on the centuries of hope and frustration and the trials Sir Edward Richard was our sole official representative. and tribulations culminating in the lowering for the Others attending at the personal invitation of the Baha­ last time of the Union Jack and the hoisting of the new mian Premier were Opposition Leader, Mr. Walter Bahamian flag to the tune of the new National Anthem Robinson; his predecessor Mrs. Lois Browne-Evans "March on Bahamaland". I can still hear the music and her family; the Vice-President of the Legislative ringing in my ears; and I'm certain I'll still hear the Council, the Hon. Hugh Richardson; and Chief Educa­ fifty thousand voices that rose in ecstacy as their Prime tion Officer, Dr. Kenneth Robinson. Minister Mr. Lynden Pindling proudly strode from the We couldn't help marvelling at the tremendous flagpole in centre field to his seat amongst fifty or more cultural and spiritual resources of the Bahamian people. world leaders in the pavilion — his mission accom­ They had everything so well planned and executed. The plished. cultural displays portrayed in music and dance the There was so much drama and glitter. It was a Bahamian heritage showing the discovery of the islands great thrill for me, particularly as I had my wife beside by the Spaniards; how the latter depopulated the islands me to share in this great moment in history.
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