West Indian cricketer bats for the new South Africa

by Kim Shippey

In cricket-playing countries it is common knowledge that Conrad Hunte's greatest talent is not his prowess with the bat, which gained him international fame in the 1960s. It is his ability to combine the lessons of fair play, tolerance, patience, respect, and forgiveness, learned during that career, with his love for his fellowman, to inspire unity and brotherly love in others the world over.

Since he left the international cricket scene in 1967, Mr. Hunte has worked conscientiously to promote racial harmony in the United Kingdom and the United States. He has also traveled on similar assignments through India, Papua New Guinea, New Zealand, Australia, and Canada, and back home in the West Indies.

More recently, he served for five years as honorary consul for Barbados in Atlanta, Georgia, where his wife Patricia was well known as a television news anchor/reporter.

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