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Nov 25, 2016 News
Government has expressed condolences to the family, relatives and friends of Whitney Smith who passed away last week Thursday in Massachusetts, United States.
Smith, a US citizen, designed this country’s national flag, the Golden Arrowhead in 1960, six years prior to Guyana’s independence.
Born in 1940 on February 26, Smith was a professional vexillologist and scholar of flags. He originated the term vexillology, which refers to the scholarly analysis of all aspects of flags and was a founder of several vexillology organizations, the Department of Public Information said in a release.
While a political science undergraduate at Harvard University, Smith designed the Golden Arrowhead for the then newly independent Guyana.
Smith, in 1960, as a 20-year-old had written to then former Chief Minister, Dr. Cheddi Jagan, to ask what the new country’s flag was going to be.
“Dr. Jagan invited Mr. Smith to submit his ideas which he promptly did, and which was subsequently adopted with some modifications.”
Smith was 76 years old at the time of his passing.
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