One of the more enlightening sights that attended the programme of events held to mark the thirtieth year since the establishment of The Gift Centre, was that of the company’s 71-year-old founder, Doris Lewis, who she assured us, had briefly ‘slipped out of retirement’ to place her own personal imprimatur on the commemorative programme.
In terms of stature, Doris Lewis is a far from imposing woman. There is, however, a certain dominance in her presence that derives, it seems, from her more than four decades involved in one business or another, beginning with her father’s grocery shop.
