Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Just days after receiving an appeal from the school for funds to help with re-establishing the Sixth Form, the Alumni Association has pledged J$200, 000.00 to the cause.

The decision came Sunday, April 15 at the group’s Annual Corporate Worship-cum- monthly meeting at the Hanson Place Central Methodist Church in Brooklyn, NY.

President Paulette Mullings Bradnock(left),speaking on behalf of the New York-based Excelsior Alumni Association (USA) Inc., welcomed the reintroduction of the Sixth Form and pledged the group’s continued support for student welfare at Excelsior. 

“We will try to respond to our alma mater as part of our continuing efforts to provide material and financial support in an effort to build future leaders." She noted.

In the most recent act of faith and show of support for the alma mater’s growing resurgence, the latest endowment brings the total to in excess of J$1.5 million that the group has expended in just the last year in backing a variety of enterprises at the school.

 These ventures include funding a scholarship program which has benefited more than 34 students in just the last school yea,r as well as allocating three quarter million to help fund the refurbishing and expansion of the Science Lab, among a number of other undertakings. Individual members, as well as sub-groups affiliated with the New York Alumni, have also donated funds to a number of projects at Excelsior.

With the imminent reintroduction of the Sixth Form, the school has sent out an appeal to help defray the start-up cost, which has been set at some $1,150,000.00