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Pat Ramsay

Published:Sunday | June 13, 2010 | 12:00 AM
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Ramsay and actress Lynn Whitfield.
Actor Ossie Davis and Ramsay.
Pat Ramsay, India Arie and Ramsay's long-time friend Susan Taylor.
Ramsay and Andrew Young.
Ramsay gets cosy with actor Danny Glover.
Ramsay and Stevie Wonder.
Pat Ramsay and the late Coretta Scott King.
Dr Mae Jemison was the first African-American female astronaut in space and has science camps around the world.
Pat Ramsay and Oprah Winfrey. - Contributed photos
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Nashauna Drummond, Lifestyle Coordinator

Known as the director of the Centre for the Arts of the University of Technology (UTECH), Pat Ramsay is a woman who wears many hats. She is also chair of the International Women's Forum and Collaborative Possibilities 4 Jamaica, a commitee of Government and International Affairs of United Way. Ramsay has spent most of her adult life abroad and have met some wonderful people along the way. Her advice: "Don't pretend to be anything other than who you are, just be yourself and show your true essence and people will want to share it." Here are some of the persons she has met.

As we continue our series on well known Jamaicans and some of the international stars and personalities they have met, we take a look through Ramsay's album.

Oprah Winfrey: She is a very real and easy person. She calls me Miss Jamaica every time she sees me.

Stevie Wonder: He's just very, very easy.

Coretta Scott King (deceased): What a gracious woman. Gracious with a lot of depth. When you were around her you were in a space of greatness.

Maya Angelou: I just love her. She is just a wonderful, talented and brilliant woman. One of the most generous persons I know, generous to a fault. She has amazing Thanksgiving parties.

Dr Mae Jemison (First African-American Astronaut in space): I like her. Not only is she a renowned amazing scientist, but very into the arts.

Danny Glover: Very nice. I actually like him.

Andrew Young: Like him very much; had a very nice connection with him. He loves Jamaica.

India Arie: Very 'artsy'. She was with her mother when I met her and she was almost shy.

Lynn Whitfield: I like her very much; very elegant, very gracious.

Ossie Davis: I love him. He was the true story of what it is to be a man who loves and respects his wife.

Henry Louis Gates Jr: Very intellectual, very pleasant

Al Sharpton and Charlie Rangel: Found them absolutely wonderful men, very interesting, easy, sharp. Especially Sharpton, most accommodating.

Cicely Tyson: Very reserved, gracious, very talented, very refined.

Natalie Cole: Wonderful person from the exchange we had. Found her very simpatico.