We can best describe as 'heartwarming', the response to the impressive ceremony rededicating and renaming of the theatre in Hamilton City Hall as 'The Earl Cameron Theatre.'Mayor of Hamilton Graeme Outerbridge, Governor George Fergusson and Bermuda's Premier Paula Cox were the first to shake the hand of the one I call 'The Great' Earl Cameron, CBE, after he unveiled his brilliantly adorned name above the entrance to the theatre, and the bronze plaque on the wall nearby stamping him and the event for posterity's sake.Personally, I am indebted to Mr Cameron and the Corporation for enabling me to share in his spotlight on that occasion. I was called upon to give an overview of the life and career of the Angle Street, Hamilton-born, 95-year-old man I described as "a son of the soil”, who over a period of 70 years had criss-crossed and transcended social and cultural boundaries, serving as a harbinger of peace and goodwill, to become an actor of extraordinary international renown."Mr Cameron was characteristically eloquent in his response. Among other things, he said: "This fleeting moment has indeed thrust upon me this opportunity to stand before you today to receive this great honour.“I am confident and resolute in the belief that a life that is lived in the pursuit of service of others is often rewarded with treasures far greater than rubies and gold. The enduring spirit of love shall conquer every wrong; it shall overcome every unyielding and stubborn emotion in which wisdom shall conquer and prevail. I am indeed humbled by this experience."As I have walked down the corridor of life over these 95 years, I have experienced few greater moments that, by virtue and fate, have taken me from the seashores of my Island home to embrace the challenges of life.Continuing, he said: "Having left this beloved country seven decades ago, I stand before you and cast my mind back to the days of my youth in which profound memories continue to prevail, in which both family and friends were responsible in nurturing me into the man I have become today. In everything there is a season and time for every purpose."As we cross this new threshold in the entrancement of time and change, many mountains have been removed and cast into the midst of the sea; many storms have been weathered to perfect a better social union. The dawning of a new day is upon us. I thank all of you for bestowing such an honour upon me. To God be the glory for great things He has done."In my introduction, I stated how I regarded the ceremony as yet another manifestation of the new spirit prevailing at Hamilton City Hall since the election six months ago of Mayor Outerbridge and his revolutionary new-breed Corporation of Hamilton. Their election marked, as I stated, "the rebirth of the capital city and collapse of that archaic political system whose mantra was rooted in what I termed the incipient features of gerrymandering, race, class and privilege, a system now buried in the lawns of history."Mayor Outerbridge had stated earlier in his welcoming speech, that the very first resolution adopted by the new Corporation was the renaming of the City Hall Theatre. I therefore felt obliged in introducing Mr Cameron to state that those of us engaged in the renaming ceremony could be regarded as "trumpeters, sounding at one and the same time a 'Last Post and Reverie', joining the New City Fathers in bestowing such a great honour and mightily deserved privilege on a true Bermuda hero."