Mayflower School

When Mayflower School opened on 27 January 1956, it had 70 students, and in 1992, it had 1,900, including more than 800 girls. Tai Solarin was its principal from 1956 to 1976. In 1962, 13 American college and university students spent June and July at Mayflower under the sponsorship of Operation Crossroads Africa. Led by the then College Chaplain of Alma College, the students worked with counterpart students from Wesley College, Ibadan, to construct a building that would serve as a library for the school. As a consequence of the Crossroads experience, a relationship was formed between Alma and Mayflower School. Between 1963 and 1988, annually, an Alma College student spent the year as a teacher at Mayflower. In the course of the relationship several Mayflower students studied at, and graduated from, Alma College; and Tai Solarin was awarded the college's honorary degree. Plans are in motion to mark the school’s 70th anniversary by the Mayflower Old Students’ Association (MOWA). ==Notable alumni==