[5] Saunders was also one of the four women to first represent the Bahamas in an international sports competition as a member of the sprint relay team at the 1962 Central American and Caribbean Games.
[3] North represented the country on the sprint relay team at the 1962 Central American and Caribbean Games, in Kingston, Jamaica.
[3] At the event, along with Althea Rolle-Clarke, Elaine Thompson, and Christina Jones-Darville, she was one of the four women to first represent the Bahamas in an international sports competition.
[1] When the couple moved back to the Bahamas in 1969, Winston took a position as deputy headmaster at Highbury High School,[1] while Gail took a position at the library in the Ministry of Education, where she organised the records of the old Board of Education to make the first deposit in the National Archives.
[5] After retirement from the National Archives, Saunders remained active in academic pursuits as a scholar-in-residence at the College of the Bahamas.
The Tribune, one of two Nassau daily newspapers, noted on passing:[10] History was important to Dr Gail Saunders.