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    40  Years of Sterling & Unbroken  Service

                To Our  Alma  Mater

                                       

Tuesday, June 30, 2009     

Once again, the spark has been lit and the fire of the XLCR alumni spirit is set to burn brightly in Canada. This was the sense that emerged after the first meeting in over a decade ........

Wednesday, June 24, 2009     

Some called it one night of magic at Chef Orchid, with echoes of mid-summer  parties back in the day, as the Alumni Association held its annual jam last Saturday.....

Thursday, June 18, 2009

Dear Excelsorians, Friends and Family:

I extend warm greetings from the board of the Florida chapter. The clock is ticking fast on 2009 as the days slip away…...

Monday, June 1, 2009

After many false starts, yet another move is afoot to revive the long dormant Excelsior School Alumni Association of Ontario. Owen Blakka Ellis (l.)   is helping to spearhead the effort.......

Friday May 22, 2009

A month after the launch of the Lemuel  Henry Scholarship  contributions have been coming in to help provide seed money for the fund established by the class of 1980 to honor the memory of their late class mate....

Thursday May 21, 2009

As the 30th anniversary of the class of 1980 approaches in 2010, the group is sending out early feelers to try to locate long missing classmates to join in the commemoration........

Sunday, May 17, 2009

Disillusionment, controversy, anger, concern, restiveness, shot through with a claim of the Excelsior High School Board’s “indifference” and “high handedness” has resulted in a vote  to  suspend all disbursement of funds to the school, including prior pledges, with immediate effect.........

Friday May 8, 2009

News of the appointment of a new principal for Excelsior has ignited a fire storm of controversy amid questions about the transparency of the process ......

Thursday, April 30, 2009

Greetings!

This is to inform you that the Ministry of Education has accepted the recommendation made by the Committee of Management in July 2008, with the approval of the Jamaica Methodist District for the appointment of Mr.Deanroy Bromfield as Principal of Excelsior....

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

By Gaynor Downer

After leaving XLCR in the late seventies, I have thought of myself as a true Excelsorian blood and all. I feel that my association with the school since then has been even more outstanding than my years spent there.....

Thursday, April 23, 2009

With the promise that Usain Bolt and other top performers from the Beijing Olympics are down to compete at the Penn Relays this weekend, the event has elicited a buzz of anticipation unlike any other in recent years........

Friday April 3, 2009

Kris-Ann Walters, Class 2  Track & Field athlete, yesterday won  Gold in the long jump  at Boy & Girls  Championship at the National Stadium to end Excelsior's decade-long futility at Champs.......

Wednesday April 1, 2009

Dr. Rosemarie Wright-Pascoe (’75) was among an eclectic band of women achievers saluted at the 14th annual Emerald Awards ceremony held Saturday March 28 at Palm House on the grounds of the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens........