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| Cleveland Harrington Reeves, civil servant and educator, was born on 16 April, 1889 at Arthur's Town, Cat Island to Commissioner Mr. Henry Lewis Reeves and Mrs. Kefie Reeves. He was educated at the Boys Central School in Nassau, and at the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. As a civil servant, Reeves was involved in a number of government areas. Among these were Local Government, as he was a Commissioner for an Out Island, Health, as he was the Social Investigator for the Bahamas General Hospital, and Education, as he was the Secretary and Business Manager for the Board of Education. During his ten years in the latter position, he introduced a number of changes in the school system. As a result of his contribution to education, a school was named after him. Mr. Reeves was a man who was also involved in a number of community organizations. He was a founding member of The Bahamas Brotherhood, serving for nineteen years as president of that organization. He was involved in the management of the Mothers Club and the Bahamas Council of the YWCA. However, perhaps his greatest civic effort was made at the Dundas Civic Centre, an organization established to train persons interested in hotel work. He died on 14 May 1985 at age 96. |