ALMA MATER'S HISTORY TO BE
FEATURED ON GTV
November 18 1998
By Joseph Nsiah, Freeman '79
Ghana Television (G-TV) has agreed
to a 7-minute documentary on the school in the course of the year.
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DR. OSAE TO "PRESENT" PREMPEH COLLEGE ON NATIONAL TV BREAKFAST SHOW
November 18 1998
By Joseph Nsiah, Freeman '79
In addition to the 7 minute documentary to be shown by GTV, Former Headmaster,
Dr. T. A. Osae will appear on National Television Breakfast show and talk
about the history of the school. He's about half way through with the
writing of the history of Prempeh College.
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PEARSON-OSAE LECTURE UPDATE
November 18 1998
By Joseph Nsiah, Freeman '79
We finished putting finishing touches to the Pearson-Osae Appreciation
lectures. I'll make sure you get a cassette recording of proceedings
and also pictures. Our meeting ended around 9.30 pm. We hope to present awards
to Dr T A Osae and Rev S N Pearson. The British High Commissioner would
receive the Pearson award. The lecture would be treated
as a news item on national television.
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AMANFOO DONATIONS UPDATE
November 18 1998
By Joseph Nsiah, Freeman '79
Amanfoo have also been contributing towards the building of the new
House. Presently we have received about 50 million cedis ($1.00 = 2350
cedis). We want to start the project in January and complete within 3
years. The goodwill is there and we can do it.
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THE BOOK IS BEING WRITTEN
November 10 1998
By Joseph Nsiah, Freeman '79
Former Headmaster, Mr. T. A. Osae has agreed to write the History of Prempeh College - the
first 50 years. He has already started. We hope the book would be
available by November 1999.
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AMANFOO ARE PAYING UP
November 10 1998
By Joseph Nsiah, Freeman '79
The Golden Jubilee Planning Committee would be meeting today, November 10 at 6 pm. I
hope to give you an update on our deliberations later. Right now
everything is on course. Amanfuo are paying the 200,000 cedis. Some
have even pledged to pay more. I hope to let you have details of
contributions made so far in future. I think this is encourage those of
you on the other side of Atlantic to contribute. We need more action
and less talk.
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FORMER "POST-BOY" ARRESTED
November 4, 1998
By Abraham Y. Mensah, Serwah '86
A 24-year-old former student of Prempeh College in Kumasi, Korankye Mensah, has
been
arrested and placed in police custody for allegedly stealing letters belonging
to the college from its letter box at the main
post office in Kumasi.
Police Inspector Augustine K. Arthur of the Ashanti Regional Police Public
Relations Directorate, said on Monday that Mensah
was spotted by Emmanuel Yaw Asante, a mechanic opening the letter box
and stuffing a black bag he was holding with the letters.
When Asante was challenged Mensah, he said the letter box belonged to him but
still not convinced, Asante with the help of a
policeman escorted Mensah with the bag to the police striking force unit.
Later at the police station Mensah confessed and explained that he was the
post-boy of the college from 1989-96, when he was a
student. During that period he took advantage and made a duplicate key of the
college's letter box.
Inspector Arthur said when the bag was searched, 111 inland and six foreign
letters belonging to students and tutors of the
college were found and when he was escorted to his room at Old Tafo Adopom, 404
inland and 28 foreign letters, two registered
slips and a rubber stamp belonging to the Assistant Headmaster of the college
were found.
--Culled from GhanaReview International
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PEARSON-OSAE APPRECIATION LECTURES
October 7 1998
By Joseph Nsiah, Freeman'79; Accra
To show our gratitude for the work that was done by Mr. Osae and Rev. Pearson, we have introduced the PEARSON-OSAE APPRECIATION LECTURES. The first Lecture will be held on November 25th 1998
in Accra. The idea is to
express our appreciation to two of the past headmasters of the school
namely Rev Pearson and Mr T A Osae.
The speakers are Mr T A Osae and the Canadian High Commissioner.
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DURBAR OF AMANFOO CHIEFS
October 1998
By Joseph Nsiah, Freeman '79
We also plan organising a durbar of Amanfuo chiefs on the first Saturday of February. We
plan involving the Ghana Tourist Board.
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THE HEADMASTER SEARCH.......UPDATE
April 1998
By Harold Ofori
Amanfoo, latest information reaching me still point to Ready Cash as the leading Candidate for the Headmastership position.
Ready Cash, currently KUHIS headmaster, is an Amanfoo whose daily Prempeh College Lectures at his former Technology Secondary School
had the Tech Sec students asking for his head. Ready Cash will summon all the Students at Tech just to share with them some of his Prempeh College Experiences.
He was noted for the saying "There are four Universities in Ghana: Legon, UST, University of Cape Coast, and Prempeh College."
Not only did he dedicate most of the morning Tech Sec assemblies to bragging about Prempeh, he used every opportunity on the campus to lecture staff and students
alike about Ghana's fouth University. His hourly Prempeh College lectures became so annoying to the students that they couldn't handle him any longer. He took the same
philosophy to his current Kumasi High School.
Ready Cash, whose real name is Mr. Owusu Sekyere, was the Managing Director of the Ready Cash Coorporation in the 1980s. This writter recalls how Ready Cash spent most of his time
sleeping in our dorms in Pearson those days. While his son was busily preparing for his O-Levels in Pearson Dorm Five, Ready Cash made our house very lively. He never turns down an opportunity to
get some "fans." He will find himself a bed while Pearsonians are at prep. When juniors prep is over, this charismatic man will find himself another bed. He will keep tossing himself from bed to bed
until about 4 or 5am, when all the Sylla Mantses have returned from Katanga. Only then will Ready Cash leave the house. His next stop: The School Field....to do some exercise.
A very entertaining man was he. A strong devotee of Prempehism. Best of luck to him.
