Errol Doris, Sr

I was born at 75 Sandy Babb Street, Kitty on March 30 1954. I attended Central High School on a Police Scholarship, left there in 1968 to attend Guyana Technical Institute for a year. I worked briefly as an architecture apprentice and at 16 years old worked at Guyana Lithographic and the new Daily Chronicle as an artist. I started my first successful business in Guyana, Cariana Publishers Ltd., in 1972 that published an anthology of graphic poetry in collaboration with AJ Seymour, Wordsworth MacAndrew, Henry Josiah, Mitzi Townsend and Martin Carter, that sold 10,000 copies during CARIFESTA 72. Just two months prior to CARIFESTA 72, I held a one-man Art Exhibition at the Guyana Society, "Exhibition of 60 pieces" and sold them all. I emigrated to the USA in 1972 and settled in Chicago where I attended the Printing Industries Institute and University of Illinois School of Business from where my son Errol Jr and I eventually graduated together in 2000. We operated a family business for 30 years in the Chicago area.