Presentation College, Chaguanas
- Presentation College, Chaguanas
Presentation College, Chaguanas is a Roman Catholic secondary school on the corner of Yves and Rene Streets, Chaguanas, Trinidad and Tobago. The land on which the school was built was donated by Endeavour estates. The school was founded by Canon Max Murphy, with the permission of then Archbishop of Port of Spain Count Finbar Ryan. It was first known as "the parish school" and was later renamed Pamphilian High School and then The College of St. Peter and St. James. In 1959 the school was established at its current location and management was take over by the Presentation Brothers who continued to run the school until 1997. On March 19, 1959 the school was formally commissioned by the then Education and Culture Minister, Dr. Patrick Solomon.
The school is currently producing students of the highest calibre consistently placing in the top few at Cambridge Advanced Levels.Fact|date=February 2007 Presentation College has also produced some outstanding athletes in both the cricketing and football fields Dinesh Ramdin, Adrian Barath, Suruj Ragoonath, Roger Sant of the media and Dinanath Ramnarine. The school has four houses Aquinas (after St. Thomas Aquinas patron saint of schools), Chaconia (the national flower), Finbar (after former Roman Catholic Archbishop of Port of Spain, Count Finbar Ryan, who donated the Virgin Mary statue which stands at the center of the school) and Ibis (after Trinidad and Tobago's national bird the Scarlet Ibis).
See also
* List of schools in Trinidad and TobagoIn 1956, this school was called "College of St. Philip and St. James", not St. Peter
External links
* [http://www.preschag.8k.com/home/index.htm School website]
* [http://www.preschag.com Presentation College Chaguanas Global Community] - the largest community of PCC people.
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