PROFESSOR Kenneth Hall, principal of the University of the West Indies (Mona), will be the keynote speaker at the Buxton High School Past Students’ Foundation’s seventh annual banquet at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel in Kingston tonight.

The banquet is the highlight of Buxton Week, being celebrated from July 24 to 30.

Other activities of the foundation include the annual service of the Holy Eucharist at the St Michael’s Church, Windward Road tomorrow, commencing at 7:30 am. The service will be followed by the unveiling of a plaque in memory of the late F A Buxton Thompson, founder of Buxton High School on the site of the grounds at St Michael’s where the school once stood. The plaque will be unveiled by the Custos of Kingston Canon Weevil Gordon who will give the main address.

The foundation and the Rockfort East Kingston Community Trust will in September establish the Buxton Thompson Evening Institute at 141 Windward Road which will open in September this year with the Rev Raymond Coke as principal.

Buxton Thompson established the Buxton High School in 1937 for children who would not otherwise have had a secondary education. The school closed in 1971 after his death.