A job well done, Calabar
published: Wednesday | May 12, 2004

THE EDITOR, Sir:

LET ME offer my congratulations to TVJ, the sponsors and the schools that participated in this year's (35th) Schools' Challenge Quiz competition. I would also like to highlight the excellent performance of Calabar's team, which attained the coveted first place spot in the competition. Calabar's quiz teams have always done consistently well in this prestigious competition. Victory and excellence, of course, is nothing new to Calabar. This very rounded and noble institution has been and will continue to be victorious in areas encompassing academics and sport.

The Schools' Challenge Quiz team knows the importance of our school motto 'The utmost for the highest'. It is the perpetual memory and strong conviction in that motto that helped to propel them to victory on May 6, 2004, in addition to the integral roles of the executive coaches and the assistant coaches (who were generally members of the 2002 and 2003 quiz teams).

One must also highlight the widespread support given to the team by the Calabar community (staff, students and old boys) and the thousands of fans. Calabar's continued excellence in sports and academic areas is a formidable signal to the many detractors and indisciplined students who perpetually seek to denigrate the name Calabar. Calabar will continue to be one of the best institutions for learning in the Caribbean. The school will also continue to produce distinguished individuals like P.J Patterson, Derrick Smith, Charles Ross, Peter Moses, Donovan Perkins, John Maxwell, Wilmot Perkins, Frank Phipps, Michael Sharpe, Basil Buck, John Junor, Dr. Lloyd Barnett, Herb McKenley, Francis Forbes, Dr. Donald Phillibert, Vin Lawrence, Devon Dick, Professor John Paul (based at the prestigious Massachussetts Institute of Technology) Marcus Garvey Jnr, Baby Cham, the lyrical prodigy Vybz Kartel, and the list goes on and on. Calabar shall continue on its path of excellence.

I am, etc.,

DELANO SEIVERIGHT

Delano.seiveright

@uwimona.edu.jm