I remember the late Mr Vicent Higino Braganza, of Mapusa, telling me that he was selected to photograph the first Clare Award function by the Times of India when he was a young photographer in Bombay. He also used to say that Clare was the beautiful sister of late Fr Philip Mendonca, Goa's pioneering educationist and the former principal of St Joseph's High School in Arpora, and late Fr William Mendonca, whom former students of Don Bosco High School, Panjim, will remember well as their English teacher. I wish I knew more about the family; the Mendoncas hail from Assonora in Bardez.
