St Vincent Girls’ High School
1979 experience
The Girls’ High School Class of 1979 wrote both the GCE examination and the inaugural CXC examinations simultaneously. This was done at a time when the entire country was thrown in a state of uncertainty and near panic as the La Soufriere Volcano sprang into life. Mock exams were written with volcanic ash falling on the papers even as students attempted to satisfy the examiners. During this period, the Girl Guides were required to be on duty at various centers to assist evacuees from Sandy Bay (a community in the north of the island) and surrounding areas. With cauliflower clouds of ash overhead, and balls of fire traversing the skies, we still continued with our preparation for exams.
The fact that so many students of the class of 1979 were successful in both examinations despite trying conditions remains a testament to the sound basic education offered at the Girls’ High School 30 years ago.
Post 1979
Dr Nicholls wrote A’Levels at the St Vincent Boys’ Grammar School. After A Levels, she spent one year at the University of the West Indies - Cave Hill Campus in the Faculty of Natural Sciences. In 1984 she proceeded to St Georges University School of Medicine and graduated in 1989.
Upon Graduation, Dr. Nicholls returned to St Vincent and the Grenadines and served her five year bond. During that time she completed her internship programme and worked as a District Medical Officer in Chateaubelair and Bequia.
In 1996, she left for the United Kingdom to pursue post graduate studies in Obstetrics and Gynaecology. Dr. Nicholls was successful in her exams in 1998 and became a Member of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (MRCOG). She again returned home in 2000.
In 2007 she was inducted as a Fellow of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (FACOG).
Today, Dr. Nicholls serves as a Consultant Obstetrician/Gynecologist at the Milton Cato Memorial Hospital – a post she accepted in 2001 – and has a successful private practice at the Victoria Medical Centre.
