What would you do if you had just organized one of the most glamorous evenings of the year in Toronto to honor a well known and much beloved celebrity/humanitarian and Mother Nature decided to play a cruel joke on you by snowing in the guest of honor?

Well, if you are Elizabeth Buchanan-Hind, Executive Director, Institutional Advancement Division of the UWI and Lucy La Grassa of Formidable Technologies is in the room, you ask Lucy.

The stage was set, ballgowns and tuxes were donned and New York City got hit with a blizzard that grounded all outgoing flights.

Saturday, Feb. 27, 2010 greetings from Harry Belafonte were brought to the inaugural University of the West Indies Gala in Toronto, Canada using FORscene. Belafonte was snowed-in in New York City and was unable to attend to receive a Luminary Award from UWI. Arrangements were made to have a New York camera crew interview Dr. the Honorable Harry Belafonte at his home in New York City to tape his greeting. The greeting was then produced by William Rego of ABC who was given access to FORscene to upload Belafonte’s greetings into a secure account and have it downloaded at broadcast quality by Justin Ledger – Swank Audio Visual service at the Four Seasons Hotel  in Yorkville in time for the presentation.

Our hero of the piece, Lucy (that would be my boss) and her trusty sidekick (that would be me) have been receiving high praise ever since. “It was a team effort,” La Grassa modestly states, “and FORscene is the Captain of the team.”

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