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Caribbean Journal of Education

QRC 2004, edited by Garth O’G Alleyne

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175-179
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March 2005
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This is a stout book about Queens Royal College (QRC), arguably the best-known secondary boys’ school in Trinidad and Tobago. This book, a tremendous labour of love for the Commemorative Committee and editor Alleyne, is obviously a collector’s item for all loyal QRC old boys, and there are thousands of them living in Trinidad and Tobago. The year 2004 placed immediately after QRC in the title calls the attention of the reader to the centenary of the Main Building of the college, which was finished in 1904, some 34 years after the college started. QRC 2004 follows QRC 75 (published in 1945), QRC 100 (published in 1970), and there was to have been a “QRC 125” in 1995, but plans failed. Perhaps the thought of waiting until 2020 to celebrate “QRC 150” was too much to bear for the loyal old boys of this great college. Hence the clever idea of celebrating in 2004 the centenary of the Main Building. The construction of this building was truly a turning point in the history of the college. The opponents of QRC knew that after the government had expended public funds on such a splendid structure (one of the “Magnificent” Seven most beautiful buildings along the Savannah, Port of Spain) there could be no hope that the college would be discontinued. But how ironic that the celebration is taking place at the very time when the Hall in this Main Building is in a state of unusable disrepair!

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