Profile of Senior Danso JFK, Asthma Foundation Pioneer
Saturday, November 17, 2007
"Many people are afraid to admit they have human frailties in public, but that is for those who do not
know their real worth. It has been haunting me for years how I used to have to take half a day off to go to Okomfo Anokye Hospital for a simple 3 day supply of Asthma medicine. This was in the 1960s and Okomfo Anokye Hospital was as clean and lovely looking as any Kaiser Hospital here in California. If anybody knows of Asthma, it is not a condition that should demand
waiting half a day, walking two miles total back and forth, to get a simple lousy medicine.
Why should anybody die of preventable ailment that affects over 20 million Americans and they live?!!"
- Senior Danso JFK, in his June 2004 Asthma Foundation Proposal
Is the headmaster denying ever meeting this man and taking money from him?
Kwaku A. Danso (alias Danso JFK of Ramseyer House, Prempeh College, 1960-67) currently lives in Fremont, California (part of Silicon Valley), USA. He has been an Engineer and Manager for about eight major American and International corporations, including Texas Instruments, Honeywell, Intel, Siemens, and Osram Optoelectronic Semiconductor, spreading over 20 years. He has also been an entrepreneur, utilizing his versatile business acumen to set up both a mortgage finance company and an Engineering Consulting company.
Before winning an International Scholarship to the University of California at Berkeley in 1968, he taught Physics and Science at Kumasi Academy for one year after 6th Form. At the University of California, he and his best friend, the late Dr. Kwame Ankra (Pearson House) jointly won the 1971 Bechtel Engineering Award. He graduated in 1971 with a BS (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science), and continued to post graduate studies, obtaining his MS, and then M. ENG. (1975) in Materials Science and Engineering, with a Minor in Business.
Kwaku is married with a son and daughter, both in College. He loves to write, just as he did at Prempeh in the 1960s. He is a social and community leader, political and social commentator, and has contributed several articles to magazines such as West Africa, Ghana Drum, African Monthly, and many Ghanaian papers. He has been a Business Columnist in the Ghanaian News of Toronto Canada, and Ghanaweb on the Internet.
Dr. Kwaku Danso writes the column JFK's Opinion
on this website. One of his popular articles is "Is it Fair for President Kufuor to Lash out at his Critics?"
