Cheryl Phills-King originates from St. Vincent where her main focus was education. She later migrated and worked in the Drew University Library. Mrs. Phills-King has an active lifestyle through formal employment and volunteerism. Her husband Baldwin King was a professsor at University of the West Indies and Drew University, New Jersey and is currently the Professior Emeritus of Chemistry Department - Drew University. The couple has entered the documentation and publishing of the Caribbean experience (2 volumes of Caribbean trailblazers among others) in their latter years - see several publications by Ms. Phills-King and her spouse Baldwin King. "People need to be honored when they are alive" and"Reward sweetens labor."
Mrs. Phills-King and her husband are driven by the business of giving back, being community conscious. "I am only one but still I am one. I cannot do everything but still I can do something. And becuase I cannot do everyhting, I will not refuse to do something I can do" - Edward Everett Hale
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