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Mary Potts Passed Away After Losing Her Battle Against Parkinson’s Disease

She Was a Respected Figure in Bapco & AwaliTHE former Headmistress of Awali School Mary Potts passed away recently in the Marathon Court Nursing Home in England after a battle against P a r k i n s o n ’s Disease.Ms. Potts retired in 1993 after 10 years of service.She spent half a century in Bahrain and gained respect from the community due to her contributions and hard work.Ms. Potts was also a member

of the Awali Arts Drama Club and later joined the Bahrain Theatre Club in Manama and acted as prompter, made costumes and was the club’s ticket agent in Awali.Ms. Potts friend Claire Cunningham, a volunteer with the Bahrain Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals said, “Mary arrived in Bahrain in 1964 to work for Bapco after working in Kuwait as an infant teacher for two years for the oil company in Ahmadi.“Mary’s expertise with children was shown in the annual Nativity play that she wrote annually, which was produced in Awali hall throughout the years she lived in Bahrain,” she said.Ms. Cunningham added that Ms. Potts was later promoted to school principal and was very well supported by her staff and pupils.Ms. Potts retired in 1993 and returned to

England where she was active with the local walking groups, an embroidery society and church organisations.One of her former students, Ian Best, stated “Pupils will recall Ms. Potts as a towering figure, although that was mainly because we were two foot six inches high at the time.“She was always immaculately turned out and often seen cycling to school on a bicycle borrowed from the set of the Wizard of Oz, complete with wicker basket which consistently hung from her elbow, goods covered with what appeared to be a picnic blanket during regimented tours of the corridor,” he said.“A stalwart of the school, Ms. Potts served Bapco and Awali for many years and will be fondly remembered by pupils of a very happy era in Bahrain’s history.”Ms. Potts was laid to rest at the Douglas Borough Crematorium.

EID is a time of joy and celebration. On this occasion people from different origins get together with their families and loved ones and enjoy a day of fun, happiness, and wear colourful clothes and a variety of mouth-watering dishes.Some of Bapco employees liked to share with the readers what they did during Eid for fun.

Procurement Research and Support Department’s Procurement Administrator, Amal Hassan enjoyed a fun day with her two boys Yousif and Salman at Seef Mall

TSD Planning Section’s Process Engineer Ashwath Mohandas is seen in the picture with his wife Santhia and little baby girl Nainika at Al

Fateh Grand Mosque Eid’s Open Day

Procurement Department and Procurement Research and Support Department’s Secretary Alya Murad took pictures of her cousins –

Yasmeen, Yousif, Mohammed, Yaqoob and Shuaib - while celebrating Eid in her uncle’s house

Bapco Employees Celebrating Eid

BAPCO takes great pride in its employees who present their work passion and loyalty to the company through designating their time to serve the company best. Therefore, the Weekly Star team highlights the contributions of these employees through interviews conducted and published later in the Weekly Star. This interview is conducted with Aqeel Shareef, Specialist User Support – IT Department.

My Hobbies

I have many hobbies but the closest one to my heart is Football. I’m a member in IT football team in the company.

Years of Service

I started working with contractors of the company to do some projects back in 2001. The beginning of my career was successful and presented me with an opportunity to join Bapco

as an employee in January 2007.

My Duties

My duties are to assist and treat the user as a customer, solve the computer problems that the user may face and determine reasons of problem to achieve best solutions for the user. I do my best to resolve the user problem as soon as possible and while maintaining good service. My goal is to leave the user satisfied with my service.

Job Features

The best feature in my work is communication knowledge that I use with different users, some are easy going others are tough to deal with. With the experience I have, I managed to overcome these difficulties with the users. This feature provides me with ability to handle more than one type of user. The challenges are psychological due to the work pressure and one has to be patient in this job.

Bapco Contribution

Bapco presents many scholarships and training courses, I have registered in more than one training course including English Language Development and many other courses related to my career. This has motivated me and provided me with more information that helped me in developing myself and be keener to gain more knowledge in IT. Bapco is an integral part of my life, I love working in Bapco even with its work pressure.

My Ambitions

I always seek to improve my skills and knowledge in order to be able to enhance my duties and elevate my work to better and serve my country. I work constantly on developing myself for my country first and for Bapco second. One of the rewards I received and motivated me more was the five years service recognition which is a promotion and I was very pleased with it.

My Goal is to Please Computer Users With Best Service

By:Malak Yousif

Aqeel Shareef:

I Gained Experience& Language working

in Bapco