MISSING A LEGEND

Thursday, January 5, 2006

"Unbidden guests are often welcomest when they are gone."

-William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part I

Owuo with his Senior Prefects when he was at Sofoline

If there was any man whose absence really cost the college, then it will be no one than the most dreaded man ever to step at Prempeh College. This man was someone that every student feared on campus.

He was not liked by students let alone being loved by them. Anytime he stepped at the corridors of the main classroom block during prep hours, the whole school seemed to be like a morgue.

This was a man that no one liked during school days but after completing school, one realised that he was the best person ever to live with. His absence from Prempeh saw the college wallowing in confusion.

He is Mr. Albert Obeng Odoom affectionately called O-square. O-square left the college nearly two years ago to teach at Tema Secondary school.

Since he got to the school, it has undergone so many changes and thus this man is about to be made the senior house master again at the school.

He first went there as a physics tutor. He was later promoted to the rank of the head of department where he has been able to convince the administration to bring to bear some Prempeh traditions.

Tema secondary school form threes who used to wear shorts for classes now put on trousers just as it is done at Prempeh College. They now also put on badges that is done by the prefects at Prempeh College. These were traditions that were not seen in the school before the arrival of this industrious man.

One wonders why each person who leaves the college tries his possible best to install the Prempeh traditions in his new found environment. Mr Anokye, the headmaster of Opoku Ware school did the same when he took the position as the headmaster at the Santasi school. He took virtually all the traditions of the college to the school but there is one thing that they cannot take to other schools. Certainly not the "suban and nimdee."