THE Excelsior Alumni Association (USA) Inc has donated $750,000 to the high school to help build a science lab, which has been identified as the school’s major 75th anniversary project.

The donation was made last month at the 75th anniversary homecoming banquet at the Jamaica Pegasus in Kingston

last month.

“Fellow alumni, it is time to reflect on the pivotal role Excelsior has played in all of our lives. I suppose we could have been schooled elsewhere, but nowhere but at Excelsior could we have received an education!” said association president Paulette Mullings Bradnock at the banquet, noting the value of continued contribution to the school.

She said that it was the “sacred mission” of her organisation to help to provide the platform at the school to have other first-rate graduates such as Louise Bennett, Willard White, Cliff Hughes and Courtney Walsh emerge to bring distinction to Excelsior, and to Jamaica.

Mullings Bradnock also used the opportunity to chronicle her group’s almost four-decade-long record of unbroken support to the alma mater.

The association has donated in excess of J$1 million to the school for the calendar year 2005/2006. Other contributions have included funding to help with the refurbishing of the physical plant, the underwriting of 30 scholarships for students at the school, and helping with the provision of gear for the school’s athletic teams.