THREE former students of Cornwall College in Montego Bay will be honoured on May 25 with commendations of excellence by the Cornwall College Old Boys Association of North America, for what the association is describing as “decades of exemplary dedication” to their alma mater.

They are Montego Bay physiotherapist, Lloyd Young; retired Montego Bay businessman, Cecil Agate; and Jamaican entrepreneur in Toronto, Canada, Denham Jolly.

The trio will be feted at the association’s third annual reunion function at the Montego Bay Yacht Club.

Dr Albert McGann, the association’s public relations director, is spearheading the event on behalf of the association and has described the three men as “pillars of their former school”.

According to him, they have always displayed “unswerving, unflinching commitment and benevolence” to Cornwall College. These are traits, Dr McGann said, that he wished many other Cornwall College old boys would emulate.

Lloyd Young was the very first “Mr Jamaica”, back in 1949, and over the years his health and fitness gym has produced many young men who have also earned that title.

As one of Jamaica’s most celebrated body building experts, Young has counted among his wide local and international clientele such celebrities as American evangelist, Dr Billy Graham and former British silver screen and television actor, Roger Moore.

Cecil Agate is perhaps best remembered for devoting much of his time down through the years to pruning successive Cornwall College DaCosta Cup and Olivier Shield football teams.

But Dr McGann recalls that Agate did much more.

“He was always helping in so many areas, whether he was called upon or not,” the PR representative said.

For his part, Denny Jolly has built up a formidable reputation as a successful businessman in Toronto, Canada’s industrial heartland. And Dr McGann recalls that Jolly has always provided some level of financial support to “the school on the hill that gave him a solid high school education.”