Lynette Dolphin
0Lynette Dolphin MBE, LRAM, GRSM, ARCM, CCH (February 7, 1916–February 8, 2000) worked for 60 years in the fields of music education and Guyana culture. She was a musician, an educator at Queen's College, Guyana for 25 years, and a chair of the Guyana Department of Culture, later called the National History and Arts Council. She established prominent music festivals and was a co-founder of the Guyana Music Teachers' Association. Dolphin was director of the Caribbean Festival of Arts (Carifesta). She compiled six books of songs for schools.
Before Guyana's independence, she became a member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE). In 1986, she received the Order of Roraima of Guyana (OR), and Dolphin was also awarded the Golden Arrow of Achievement and the Cacique of Honor (CCH). The Lynette Dolphin Scholarship Awards were established in her honour at Queen's College. Also at Queen's College, the Lynette De Weever Dolphin Center for Excellence in the Creative Arts was named after her.
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