Persistent and determined, Lenore Gibb has helped improve the quality of life for countless members of her adopted community. Since 1959, when she and a colleague opened a school in a poor sugar cane district of the Dominican Republic, she has been a catalyst for the construction of numerous modern facilities. These include several schools, a home for the elderly, a cultural centre and a housing project for teachers and their families. Having served as a teacher and school principal, she is the only non- Dominican to be appointed supervisor of a school district, where she helped to make education accessible to all and to establish the highest educational standards in the country.