The following is a collection of some of the letters (both old and new) that we receive. For each mail, our response to the memorable writer is given (in bold) below it.
From: Dr. Barfuor Adjei-Barwuah
Date: Sun, May 29, 2005 9:14 pm
Subject: Congratulations
I just wanted to mention that whenever I need some extra supply of genuine energy I
come to the Amanfuo website. The global link-up you provide is just the tonic for
most of us.
And reading all the inspirational stories about the achievements of Amanfuo in the
diaspora can only make one feel exceptionally proud.
I was in Freeman House from 1956 to 1962 and was the House Prefect in my final year.
I am currently serving as Ghana's Ambassador to Japan and cuoncurrently as High
Commissioner to Australia, New Zealand, Singapore and Papua New Guinea.
Please keep the site alive and my regards to all the members of the Amanfuo family.
Date: Thu, June 16, 2005 8:43 pm
Subject: Re: Congratulations
Dear Senior Barwuah:
Thanks for following the Global Amanfoo website regularly. We the younger
Amanfoo have proudly followed your achievements from your days as the NPP
Chairman in the UK all the way to your appointment to Ambassadorship.
From: Kwasi Gyamfi
Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 23:06:16 +0100 (BST)
Subject: good job done
hi mr webmaster,
u and ur team r doin' a fantastic job with dis site. by
the way, i'm Kwasi Adu-Gyamfi. very well known in prempeh college and yagss
as xplociv. i'm currently in sixth form in Silverdale School, UK, takin'
science. i still consider myself as an amanfoo cos i nearly finished
prempeh college. if it can be i will definitely come back to start form one
in prempeh college. well, i just wanted to say a good job done. Long reign
Prempeh College! Long reign Amanfoo!!
NB: hey ma friends here just love the website and are thinking of visiting
the school next summer. can u guys, give me a space in prempeh.org to
promote ma website. is www.xplociv.au.ma.
just wanted to express how impressed I am with the prempeh.org website and how it is helping
the students and alumni of Prempeh College.
This is a personal testimony about the website.
I graduated from Prempeh in 2003 and got a scholarship to study in United World College-U.S.A.
When I was doing my applications for Universities and colleges in the U.S, I referred the
admission officers to check on Prempeh College website and see the institution that brought
me this far. I received feedback from an admissions officer in PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, where I
will be enrolling in september 2005 for my undergraduate degree.
She was so happy about how the website makes someone feel like they know the school and
especially the student body inside out.
Congratulations! You are doing a great job for Prempeh College. I remember how I
felt like I was starvng when the site went down. In fact, this website is the food that we eat.
From: Tobias R. Klein
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 20:54:55
Subject: What a wonderful page!
Right at the end of this academic year I want to take
the opportunity to thank everybody involved in the
construction, regular updating and maintenance of this
most beautiful and amazing page for their laudable
efforts and tireless devotion. The pages make most
interesting reading and I believe that few schools on
this planet (if any at all) can boast to possess
something comparable to this inexhaustible treasure
trove. The commitment to the cause of the school can
be felt behind almost every individual contribution or
comment.
I'm an obroni but nevertheless had the chance to
attend the Great Prempeh College as a guest student
for an all to limited period of a couple of weeks
earlier in 2003. Even this rather limited period has
however proved to be the most formidable experience of
my life. My short stay has ever since instired my love
for all Amanfo and only few friends know how
much I bemoan my fate not have been able to spend
three years at Sofoline.
The regular visit of www.prempeh.org now enables me
even over here in my "native aburokyire" to keep my
memories alive, compare my own written records of that
time with more thorough experiences and follow the
current events at the great school, to which I shall
always remain committed in my life.
May the Almighty God continue to bless all Amanfo -
Nyame nhyira mo mu nninya
Tobias R. Klein,
Berlin - (Germany ahenkurow wo Central Aburokyire)
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004
Subject: Re: What a wonderful page!
Hello Tobias:
Thanks for your encouraging message. Thanks also for visiting us regularly from your Germany ahenkurow. You are a great Amanfoo and we are happy to see you looking in on us. Share with us, if you do not mind, some of your "own written records of your time at Prempeh."
It has been good serving you and all our thousands of visitors from around the world.
From: Isaac Manu (Pancho)
Date: Wednesday, May 26, 2004 3:36 PM
Subject: Good Job
I cannot stress enough the great job you're doing. The time and energy you are
putting into making the the Amanfoo site the most interesting in this whole wide
world is incredible. I always find something new and interesting to read about
anytime I visit the site. Great job!!!! I am also humbled and proud to know
that this is the novel creation and work of a Pearsonian. I am more than willing
at this point to make any contribution to support the site. May God continue to
give you strength and wisdom in what you do.
Wow, Senior Pancho. These are very encouraging words coming from a legend like yourself.
Are you going to help the current crop of Prempeh students
relive the greatest boxing encounter in Prempeh's history? I have to start telling the boys about your
incredible record at Pearson House.
THE LEGEND OF PANCHO
During one Entertainment time in the 70s, there was a boxing match (the first of its kind)
between a guy named Opwae Gege and Pancho. Opwae was in Guggisberg and Pancho from Pearson.
There was no good entertainment program that weekend and these two gentlemen decided to
entertain the school with a "friendly" fight in the ring at the famous Osae Assembly Hall.
They agreed to a friendly show with no animosity but when the fight began it all changed.
With the Pearson boys cheering him on, Pancho wanted to get more fancy. He started sticking up to Opwae, and within seconds it turned into a serious boxing encounter. You see, Opwae grew up in Accra so he had a lot of boxing skills, while Pancho was from Kumasi. Guess what happened: Pancho was demolished.
He could not come out during the day. He was the laughing stock on campus. Amazing!
Thank you Senior Pancho for your support. But we are still waiting for your account of the remarkable story.
I would like permission to borrow a few ideas from the
article "THE IDI AMIN DEBATE" published
here for use in a
stage play I am constructing on the late Gen. Idi Amin Dada.
I will cite the debate as one of the inspirational sponsors of the play.
Please feel free to use the debate. And please let us know how your play turns out. We will be interested in hearing about it. It sounds exciting. Good luck.
Hi, I was trawling around the net for Atukwei Okai, when I landed here. I am writing purely under the influence of the superb journalism and rhetorical genius of the writer of the recollection about Henry Hagan. I did not know anything the guy, but such breathtaking memoirs must be lauded! I attended Christian Methodist (1972-79), where we mustered quite an intellectual myth, despite our obscurity, but I can't help wishing I had tasted some Prempeh, too. Bravo!
I am a journalist and poet living and working in London. Please keep me on your friends list forever; God knows, I may even do a recital at Peason's in the future to honour the great athlete. Or maybe workshop the current students in journalism and publishing skills.
Much respect,
Fiifi, London
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004
Subject: Re: Henry Hagan
Sir:
Thanks to you for nice words. I have received hundreds of comments about the remarkable story of Henry Hagan.
I'm sure Prempeh's Writers & Debaters Club would
love to have you lecture them someday.
Or we can bring you online for you to workshop the current students in journalism and publishing skills (interactively).
I'm Yaw Kwarteng (B.PHAM. HONS), an Expert in Mission, OIL FOR FOOD PROGRAMME, IRAQ.
I'm impressed with your site, which is the best website on Ghana. Keep it up.
It's a lesson for great and young schools like Toss
(Toase Sec. Sch.) to copy.
- Yaw
Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2003
Subject: Re: Congratulations
Dear Yaw,
Thanks for your mail. We are ready to help Toase folks if they are willing to follow our footsteps.
Be cool in Saddam's country.
From: Kwabena Addo
Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 17:22:22
Subject: Good work
Hi folks,
Fortunately or unfortunately I'm not an Amanfoo, I am an Okatakyie currently in Legon.
Your website is truly of your kind, exquisite Graphics, extensive coverage and the like. I know Opoku Ware was among the first three High Schools in Ghana to go on the web but Prempeh's internet success is enormous. Good work to all the guys behind it.
This is to thank you for being a regular follower of our website
and for sending us your thoughts. Any work would be un-Prempeh if it
fails to draw notice or evaluation from a keen Owarean eye, and vice versa, though
our analysis of each other's work are usually conveyed in the form of censure or disparagement,
which explains why "fortunately you are not an Amanfoo." But this compliment of yours is great and we cherish it because it inspires us. It is one of the
many we have received from Owareans who, by the way, are doing an equally great job with their website/network. Keep visiting us and good luck in Legon!
Thanks for your mail. The year you graduated from Prempeh (1963/64) was the year we changed the motto from "Omanpa Fapem ne Obrapa" to "Suban ne Nimdee" because the former was considered too mouthful. It has remained that way since.
just wanted to express how impressed I am with the prempeh.org website and how it is helping
the students and alumni of Prempeh College. 
During one Entertainment time in the 70s, there was a boxing match (the first of its kind)
between a guy named Opwae Gege and Pancho. Opwae was in Guggisberg and Pancho from Pearson.
There was no good entertainment program that weekend and these two gentlemen decided to
entertain the school with a "friendly" fight in the ring at the famous Osae Assembly Hall.
They agreed to a friendly show with no animosity but when the fight began it all changed.
With the Pearson boys cheering him on, Pancho wanted to get more fancy. He started sticking up to Opwae, and within seconds it turned into a serious boxing encounter. You see, Opwae grew up in Accra so he had a lot of boxing skills, while Pancho was from Kumasi. Guess what happened: Pancho was demolished.
He could not come out during the day. He was the laughing stock on campus. Amazing! 