St. Croix educator Vineta Emelda Hinds Gordon,who died in Rochester, NY, on July 26, was remembered by Gov. Charles Turnbull Monday.

Petra Phipps has been named director of the St. Thomas-St. John Hotel and Tourism Association's newly formed Membership Department.

Twelve Virgin Islands college students chosen as Anna Walsh Scholars have received a total of $7,100 in grants from the Community Foundation of the Virgin Islands.

Ann-Marie Benjamin, an elementary education major at the University of the Virgin Islands, has received the 1998-1999 Artrelle M. Wheatley Scholarship.

One St. Thomas resident has received a $48,000 one-year scholarship to one of America's top universities while another has been selected as a finalist in a regional essay contest, the Department of Tourism announced Monday.

Diocese of St. Thomas Bishop Elliot Thomas' retirement has been approved by Pope John Paul II and will take effect Wednesday, the diocese has announced.

Noted sailing circumnavigator Leo White died Monday at the Roy L. Schneider Hospital where he has been in a coma since a heart attack on June 12. The 76- year- old White had started around the world for the fourth time this spring, when he returned to St. Thomas from the vicinity of Trinidad.

William Worley Wahl, a resident of St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands and
Cherry Grove, Fire Island, New York, died suddenly in Cherry Grove on June 21, 1999 of heart and vascular illness. He was 73 years old.

It looks as if one of St. Thomas's own has a good shot at winning the Audrey Palmer Memorial Scholarship.

Remember Flavio Briatore? The Flavio Briatore who owned the St. Thomas Benetton stores and Club Z back in the mid-‘80s?
The Flavio Briatore who owned the St. Thomas Benetton stores and Club Z back in the mid-‘80s?
Well, there he is, big as life, in a photo in the May 26 issue of the Italian magazine Oggi with his significant other -- supermodel Naomi Campbell.