OKESS launches 80th anniversary celebration
The Board of Governors, Headmistress, PTA, Old Students, Staff and Students of Osei Kyeretwie Senior High School has officially launched the school’s upcoming 80th anniversary celebrations at the school premises on the 6th of May, 2017.
The anniversary celebration is scheduled to be climaxed on 1st July, 2017.
The school, popularly known as OKESS, was founded some 80 years ago (1937) by Mr. J.T. Roberts, from Sierra Leone, as a private educational institution called Asante Collegiate, which was near present day Baso Club, Amakom, Kumasi.
After many years of private management, the school was taken over by the ministry of education in September, 1962; relocated it to Dichemso and renamed it as Osei Kyeretwie (after Nana Sir Osei Ageyman Prempeh II, Otomfuo, the Ashante hene) who was known in private life as Obarima Osei Kyeretwie.
Following persistent pressures to move, the government eventually agreed and moved the whole school to the new site at Tafo in 2004. The philosophy or motto of the school is ‘’service to God and humanity”. Products of the school are affectionately called ‘’AHENEMAA’’…princes and princesses.
The president of the Old Students Association Dr Oheneba Kwabena Adusei Opoku, President of Ghana Medical Association (GMA), mentioned some of the distinguished personalities who have benefitted from the school to include: Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, Members of Parliament (MPs), politicians, medical doctors, lawyers, engineers, journalists, pastors among others.
In his speech, he requested the Ghana Education Service (GES) and the Traditional Council to double their efforts towards the total protection of the school and school lands, improvement of the physical infrastructure of the school and the provision of a modern sports stadium befitting the school, judging from their contribution to the sports of the country.
In his concluding remarks, he said “I now declare the 80th anniversary celebration dully launched”
Present at the launching were the headmistress of the school, Mrs. Mary Owusu Cromwell, governing board members, PTA members, old students, teaching and non – teaching staff and students.
Source: otecfmghana.com/Nana Appiah
