Aburi Girls’ launches 70th Anniversary
The Aburi Girls Senior High School has instituted the Joyce Asibey Memorial Lectures in memory of its first Ghanaian headmistress, Dr Mrs Joyce Lucy Asibey for her sterling contributions to the growth of the school.
The headmistress of the school, Ms Rosemond Bampo, announced this at the launch of the 70th anniversary celebration and Annual Remembrance Thanksgiving Service, at Aburi.
Dr Asibey, who was the headmistress from 1971 to 1988, died at 84, in July last year.
The five-month-long celebration is on the theme: “Aburi Girls at 70: Forging Ahead for Greater Heights in Educational Excellence’’.
A fundraising lunch, Mini Home Coming, Inter- House Quizzes, Breakfast Show, Torchlight Procession, Speech and Prize-Giving Day and Thanksgiving Service, are some of the planned activities.
Ms Bampo said the school was established in 1946 to enhance the education of girls in the country, therefore, it had transformed the lives of many girls, with some were occupying key positions.
Additionally, she said, it had won many academic laurels, including three topmost awards in Senior High School Division for the Eastern Region, in the First National Best School Awards, held last year.
The headmistress enumerated some of the challenges facing the school as lack of staff accommodation, workshop for practical work for the Visual Arts Department, and the refurbishment of the Biology and Chemistry Laboratories.
Other needs of the school, Miss Bampo said, were 100 desk-top computers, modern books for the library, a generator, sports equipment, water closet facilities for three houses and the classroom area, a perimeter fence wall for the main compound and 2000 durable chairs for the assembly Hall.
Ms Bampo, therefore, appealed to the school’s stakeholders to help address the infrastructural deficit of the school to enhance effective teaching and learning.
The Reverend G.O. Kwapong, the Chairperson of the Akuapem Presbytery of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana, commended the School for what he described as their ‘envious achievements.’
He urged the students to continue to strive hard and maintain the dignity of the school.
Source: GNA