Surviving The Ordeal-A Collection of Creative Essays by AlphaMax Students:Gabriƫlle Goedhart, Vijoya Taylor, Shoghi Mantri, Sun Woo Kim,Marciano Proeve, Seon Gomes and Zikomo Mhango will be launched after Graduation on Tuesday 23rd March at 8.00p.m.At the same time the school will be launching the DVD " A portrait of Hope and Peace".
The essays were edited by Academy Director Sean F. Taylor. There is an an Introduction by Milton Drepaul, Senior Humanities History and Literature teacher.
The collection of essays is produced by LilyStrand Publishers for AlphaMax Foundation. There are illustrations by Ruben Karsters ( the cover) and Almond A. Carr ( the back cover).
Two excerpts of poems from the book "Msiba, My Love" by Ivan Khayiat are featured. Photos for the book were done by Paul San A Jang and Rudi Moeridjan (Intersnap).Chad Abdoellah did the graphic design. Quick O print did the printing
AlphaMax Academy - Suriname's Premier English Language School. Since 1998 AlphaMax Academy has delivered a Classics values based educational program in English designed for Surinamese students. Its graduates have gone on to universities in several international countries including the UK, the Caribbean,Holland,the US and China. Alphamax is the Suriname center for ACT, GAC and IELTS. AlphaMx students have been doing ACT (since 2004), PSAT ( since 2005), GAC ( since 2007)and IELTS (since 2011).