St John’s Grammar Old Students hold Home Coming

Saint John’s Grammar Old Students Association (JOSA) is putting up a clinic, a secretariat, a pharmacy shop and Nurses Quarters for their Alma Mater.

The projects, expected to be completed by the end of March next year, are being financed through voluntary contributions and fund-raising activities.

Mr Winfred Quarshie, President of the Association disclosed this at this year’s Home Coming in Accra.

He said the Association had so far spent more than GH?100,000.00 on the clinic project which had reached roofing stage.

Mr Quarshie said the Association had also fixed the broken doors and windows of the school building.

He said the provision of these infrastructures were the Association’s modest contribution to their alma mater.

‘It was the school that made us what we are today and that the provision of the edifice was a way of giving back what the school had given us,’ he said.

Mr Quarshie said the Home Coming was aimed at bringing together all former students, including those who completed school in the 1960’s and 1970’s, to socialize and to give to their alma mater.

He urged the students to desist from examination malpractices which he said may ruin their career in future.

As part of the Home Coming, the Association organized a free medical screening for the students.

Dr Albert Eshun, a Medical Officer at the Asamankese Government Hospital, and a member of the Association, encouraged the students to aspire to greater heights.

He advised them to take health issues seriously and desist from drug abuse and self-medication and other forms of negative tendencies.