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. The Crossroads and Alma College connection is detailed in Dr. Solarin's own history, "Mayflower, The Story of a School", (Lagos, Nigeria, John West Publications, 1970).