Inspite of the negativity surrounding Jamaica...there is one more reason to be proud. Dr. Winsome Thompson Clarke was by the American Biographical Institute in the United States as their Woman of the Year in Education.

Dr. Clarke who taught at St Marys High School in Highgate was a past student of St Hugh's High School and received her Bachelors and Masters degrees in music and education at Andrews University in Berrien Springs, Michigan and went to complete her doctorate in educational administration at Ohio University, Athens.

The title of her dissertation was entitled "Legal implications on the high school principalship". At Ohio University, she was an honour student in the College of Education.