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How many of you knew that Cornwall College had the first physics lab of any school in the caribbean?
How many of you knew that because of this lab Cornwall has more doctors than any other school in the entire island and was a veritable cradle of medicine for many years up to the mid-70s?
Ofcourse we all know that there were several schools founded long before we were but none can match that.
We are celebrating our 110th anniversary this week and many of the illustrious (and not so illustrious old boys) have converged on the school for several functions we are having.
Yesterday I attended the unveiling and dedication of a bust to the first native headmaster, Everold Barrett at the school "on the hill beside the sea" and was in awe as I sat listening to not one but two Rhodes scholars who have in their own way made serious contributions to the instiutution over the eyars.
One was Prof Rex Nettleford and the other Vernon Wong and renown nuclear physicist at the University of Texas.
Listening to other old boys talk you cant stop but think about the great contributions that Cornwallians have made not just to Jamaica but to the world.
People like Kingsley Thomas who will be the key note speaker at Saturday's awards dinner at Rose Hall Great House who I am hearing is a dedicated old boy who cant say no whenever the school or the Old Boys Association calls on him.
How many of you knew that because of this lab Cornwall has more doctors than any other school in the entire island and was a veritable cradle of medicine for many years up to the mid-70s?
Ofcourse we all know that there were several schools founded long before we were but none can match that.
We are celebrating our 110th anniversary this week and many of the illustrious (and not so illustrious old boys) have converged on the school for several functions we are having.
Yesterday I attended the unveiling and dedication of a bust to the first native headmaster, Everold Barrett at the school "on the hill beside the sea" and was in awe as I sat listening to not one but two Rhodes scholars who have in their own way made serious contributions to the instiutution over the eyars.
One was Prof Rex Nettleford and the other Vernon Wong and renown nuclear physicist at the University of Texas.
Listening to other old boys talk you cant stop but think about the great contributions that Cornwallians have made not just to Jamaica but to the world.
People like Kingsley Thomas who will be the key note speaker at Saturday's awards dinner at Rose Hall Great House who I am hearing is a dedicated old boy who cant say no whenever the school or the Old Boys Association calls on him.
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