I nominate the above person for the above nominated category as he was One of the Original Chartered Members of the CISA. He was also the 1st President - 1994-2001 (7years). He started Seafarers meeting in Presbyterian Chapel Church and then moved to the Town Hall in George Town. Next they moved to the bldg behind the Library as membership grew. Thanks to his persistence the Association was kept alive to grow to what it is today. Mr. Walsham Connolly, a former Chairman of the Cayman Islands Seafarers Association, first went to sea around the age of 19 years old. Being raised by a single mother, and thus considered the man of the household, Mr. Connolly desired 'set sail' in order to provide whatever support he could to his mother. Between the years of 1956 and 1960 (or thereabouts), Mr. Connolly worked as an apprentice engineer as well as mess man aboard various ships. Many years after his quest at sea, Mr. Connolly was a part of forming the Cayman Islands Seafarer's Association and was in attendance at the very first informal meeting in 1989 and subsequently sat as Chairman to a number of meetings that followed. Noting that Mr. Connolly, (my grandfather), has since been diagnosed with dementia, it was difficult to pull together more information, but I do feel that with the evidence that we do have of his valid contributions to the community and to our family in this venture (and others), he deserves to be recognized.

I nominate the above person for the above nominated category as he was One of the Original Chartered Members of the CISA. He was also the 1st President - 1994-2001 (7years). He started Seafarers meeting in Presbyterian Chapel Church and then moved to the Town Hall in George Town. Next they moved to the bldg behind the Library as membership grew. Thanks to his persistence the Association was kept alive to grow to what it is today. Mr. Walsham Connolly, a former Chairman of the Cayman Islands Seafarers Association, first went to sea around the age of 19 years old. Being raised by a single mother, and thus considered the man of the household, Mr. Connolly desired 'set sail' in order to provide whatever support he could to his mother. Between the years of 1956 and 1960 (or thereabouts), Mr. Connolly worked as an apprentice engineer as well as mess man aboard various ships. Many years after his quest at sea, Mr. Connolly was a part of forming the Cayman Islands Seafarer's Association and was in attendance at the very first informal meeting in 1989 and subsequently sat as Chairman to a number of meetings that followed. Noting that Mr. Connolly, (my grandfather), has since been diagnosed with dementia, it was difficult to pull together more information, but I do feel that with the evidence that we do have of his valid contributions to the community and to our family in this venture (and others), he deserves to be recognized.