Mfantsipim prepares for 137th Speech, Prize-giving Day
Mfantsipim School in Cape Coast, the Central regional captial, Ghana’s oldest senior high school, has launched a week-long programme of activities planned to mark the school’s 137th Speech and Prize-giving Day this year.
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The programme would begin from November 2 to 10, 2013 on the theme: “Secondary Education: Need for a new Mindset and Paradigm”.
The programme line-up for the celebration include a career guidance and counselling programme for the students, homecoming, donation to the Lighthouse Children’s Home, fundraising dinner, float through the principal streets of Cape Coast, clean-up exercise at the Technical Block of the school and thanksgiving service on Sunday, November 10.
The event, which will be climaxed on Saturday, November 9, 2013 is jointly being organised and sponsored by the school and five year groups of the Mfantsipim Old Boys Association (MOBA), namely the 1963, 1973, 1983, 1993 and 2003 year groups, who would make donations towards the school’s integrated biogas project, among others.
Launching the event, the Paramount Chief of Essikado Traditional Area, Nana Kobina Nketsia V, stressed the need for old boys to always endeavour to be thankful to their alma mater and contribute their quota towards the development and expansion of the school.
Nana Nketsia said it was time for alumni to shift from “the government will do it” to “we will do it” attitude and added that the current situation in the education sector would not permit the government alone to provide quality education in the country, hence the need for all to support.
The Omanhen appealed to the Old Boys to take the school as their immediate family and ensure that family values and traditions were maintained as part of the broader Mfantsipim brand.
“The school has played important role towards national development and we will be thankful to the founding fathers for establishing Mfantsipim School with a nationalist mission,” he said.
The acting President of the 2013 Sponsoring Year Groups, Mr Ekow Budu Manuel, charged all year groups to take part and continue to contribute significantly towards the celebration of the event to make it a success.
The headmaster of the school, Mr Koame Miezah, thanked the various sponsoring year groups for their zeal, active participation and support for all activities of the school.
According to the official programme for the event, the Special Guest for the Speech Day is Prof. Kwesi Dei-Anang (MOBA 1963), Associate Professor, University of Mainz, Germany; consultant neurosurgeon; and specialist in painsurgery. He headed the Department of Neurosurgery of the Red Cross Pain Centre in Mainz from April, 1990, till his retirement in April, 2010. He is also credited with numerous publications in neurosurgery and pain management.
Mr Moses Baiden Jnr (MOBA 1983) is the Guest Speaker for the 137th Speech Day. Mr Baiden is an entrepreneur, and a Barrister at Law; and currently the Promoter, Chairman and Consultant of the Margins Group of Companies.
Also to participate in the programme is Dr Emmanuel Dornu Kitcher (MOBA 1973), a consultant ear nose and throat (ENT) Surgeon at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital and a senior lecturer at the University of Ghana Medical School.
The Guest Preacher for the thanksgiving service, which will bring the curtains down on the event on Sunday, November 10, is Rev. Daniel Ogbarmey Tetteh (MOBA 1983), currently the Executive Director and Chief Investment Officer of Databank Asset Management Services Limited.
