Two new members have been inducted into the Company of Fellows of the Bermuda College.

They are the Vice-President of the Bermuda Senate, Dr. Idwal (Walwyn) Hughes, CBE, JP, whose 40 years of public service to the Bermuda Government included being Director of the Department of Agriculture, Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of the Environment and Financial Secretary; and Dr. Janet Kemp, who was director of the Reading Clinic.

Sen. Hughes holds a PhD from the University of North Carolina and is a long-time trustee of the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences. He was also a long time chairman of Warwick Academy. All four of his children attended the Bermuda College.

Dr. Kemp is the daughter of a US diplomat who came to Bermuda in 1975 to teach at Sandys Secondary School.

She later worked at the Ministry of Education as the Senior School Psychologist responsible for pupil services. She is a past president of the Bermuda Psychological Association and a past board member of the Centre of Philanthropy.

In 1989, she became director of the Reading Clinic, and served in that capacity until 2009, duirng which time the clinic grew from counselling 25 children a year to more than 80.

She also served as a member of the Bermuda College Board of Governors from 1988-1998 and since 2002 as Ombudsman for the Bank of Bermuda.

She is the wife of Scott Hunter and mother of daughters Christie and Risa Hunter.

The prestigious induction ceremony and dinner took place at the Coco Reef. Participating in the speechmaking, toasting and robing of the new fellows were the chairman of the Company of Fellows, Col. Michael Darling; college President Dr. Duranda Greene; Board chairman, Sen. Walton Brown and Minister of Education the Hon. Elvin James.

The Mistress of Ceremonies was Mrs. Wendy Augustus.

The Company of Fellows was established by the College in 1980.

More than 70 persons have been added to its ranks since.