FSVGS, Inc. honors Dr. Baldwin King
The Friends of St. Vincent and the Grenadines for the Promotion of Secondary Education (FSVGS, Inc.) organization honored Dr. Badlwin at its 10th Anniversary Celebration on April 20, 2001. The following is an excerpt of Baldwin's background:
Dr. Baldwin King was born to the late Arthur and Amabel King at Biabou, St. Vincent and the Grenadines on March 13, 1941. He entered the St. Vincent Grammar School in 1953 on a scholarship and after a successful stint there, entered the University of the West Indies in Jamaica in 1960 on a Government Scholarship to study Chemistry. He graduated from U.W.I with a First Class Honors degree in Chemistry in 1965 and returned to St. Vincent to take up a position as senior Chemistry teacher at the Grammar School. In 1965, he left for the United States to pursue a doctorate in Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley and graduated in 1968 with a Ph.D in Physical/Inorganic Chemistry. He then went to work for the chemical company, Dupont, as a Junior Research Fellow in Parlin, New Jersey, and left three years later to return to his Alma mater in Jamaica as a Lecturer in Chemistry. In 1979 he returned to the United States as Associate Professor of Chemistry at Drew University in Madison, New Jersey and became a Full Professor in 1984. He chaired the Department of Chemistry at Drew University from 1983 -88. He is presently at Drew.
Dr. King is the author and co-author of about twelve papers published in scholarly chemical journals and is presently working on a text in introductory environmental chemistry. His research interests are mainly in the area of pharmaceutical chemistry and he is presently at work on an anticholesterol drug with a different mode of action to the statins.
