Something extra - 'Miss Half Moon' sent off in style
Published:Monday | April 25, 2011 | 12:00 AM
Outgoing director of marketing and sales, Half Moon, a Rock Resort, Myrtle Dwyer (right) gets a big hug from the resort's public relations manager, Marcia McLaughlin-Campbell at a surprise send-off party.
WESTERN BUREAU:For the first time, Maya Angelou's 'Phenomenal Woman' and Half Moon's queen of marketing, Myrtle Dwyer was outdone by her peers.
Myrtle Veronica Myrtle (MVD), was tricked by management and staff at the Rock Resort Montego Bay property recently, and neither her daughter, Rachel Anderson, business partner, Roy Anderson or best buddy, Wordsworth Watson had an inkling of the planned fanfare.
"We just couldn't chance it," beamed Marcia McLaughlin, the resort's public relations manager, after she and her team succeeded in carrying out the feat.
Thirty-four years at Half Moon and Dwyer, who had earned the name 'Miss Half Moon', insisted that she was not to be thrown a send-off party.
Obviously that insistence was all in her mind, as neither staff nor management would have any of it. So, they paid tribute to her in poetry, songs, skits and speeches, "An exemplary leader," is how some described her.
While Tarrus Riley's She's Royal, became the fit national anthem for Dwyer, the other songs that aptly spoke of this woman of substance was Lulu's To Sir With Love and Lionel Richie's Three Times a Lady, which were sung by the newly formed 'Half Moon Choir'.
"It has been a journey and I am leaving at a game high," admitted Dwyer, after accepting her crown from the staff.
With another milestone in Myrtle Dwyer's life, she looks forward she says to a very bright future.