The Stool at the 1966 Speech day

"Once the school had been opened, the King said that the Ashanti Confederacy wanted the school to be a part of it, would I mind? I was absolutely delighted and the Asantehene undertook to provide the stool which would symbolise the school’s membership of that august body."

- Rev. Sidney N. Pearson (1916-2003)

On the innaugural day of the School, The King told Mr. Pearson that he had a special "sunsum" (soul) for the School and it is a STOOL - a replica of the Asante Golden Stool. True to his promise, His Majesty The King delivered a Silver Stool to the Golden School the following morning, 8AM sharp! Just like the ancient Babylonians who sort to build the Tower of Babel for the good of posterity, His Majesty the King got up and delivered a patrimony to his children, and his children's children.

The Stool at the 1999 Golden Jubilee

The soul of the whole College rests with the Silver Stool awarded the School by the Father - Asantehene Otumfuo Nana Prempeh II. It is believed that some royal ancestral spirits watch over the School and her alumni via some unexplainable guarding mechanism through Nana Prempeh's Stool. Consider the case of the 1974 Asante Regional Inter-School's Hockey Championship match. It was played twice; both ended in a draw (amid a brawl) between OWASS and Prempeh College. The Ashanti Regional Sports Federation

The Stool at the autumn 1993 Speech Day

ordered a replay at a neutral ground - University of Science & Technology's Hockey pitch. There Prempeh hammered OWASS mercilessly and won the trophy. It is believed they paid homage to the Stool before the match. That the same rival school failed to turn up for the Hockey Final a decade earlier can also be attributed to the beneficience of the Stool.

King Prempeh's Stool has embodied the spirit and soul of Prempeh College since that day. It sits on a specially designed seat at special location on the College campus and it is brought out ONLY during important school functions, such as Jubilee Celebrations and Speech & Prize Giving Days. Even when it comes out, no human being touches it. It rests on a very soft pillow in the holder's hands. We mortals can only look. Nobody has touched King Prempeh's bequest up to now. It is unlike any stool or chair. It is never placed on a bare floor. Like The Golden Stool, the Prempeh Stool has its own Asipim or royal chair.

It has its own attendants and carriers! The Prempeh College Assistant Senior Prefect is the person charged with the responsibility of carrying the Stool on school occasions. He is given special training on how to handle this all-important Soul of the School.

1974 Silver Jubilee

Has anyone ever wondered about a possible Delphian potency that shapes up Prempeh College's performances in the annual Brilliant Science & Maths Quiz Competitions? It is even believed that our only known competitors and rivals in Ghana - the semi-famous Opoku Ware School - regards the Prempeh Stool with much grudging and fear. They never face us in hockey without much trepidation. The Prempeh Stool is the symbol that gashes a billion enemies in one battle. In Stool we Trust!

Shown below is a picture of The Golden Stool of the Asante Kingdom, dropped from heaven in about 1700 A.D. unto the lap of the founder King Osei Tutu. This stool is holy, and used as an altar but must never be sat on, not even by the king.