Adisadel College
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| Adisadel Village Cape Coast, GHA |
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| Affiliation(s) | Anglican Church, Ghana |
| Founder | Rev Nathaniel Templyn Hamlyn |
| Headmaster | H. K. K. Graham |
| Staff | 93 teachers |
| Gender | Boys |
| Age | 14 to 18 |
| Houses | 10 |
| Type | Public Secondary/High School |
| Language | English |
| Slogan | Play Up Santaclausians!! |
| Song | Adisadel On the Hill! |
| Rival | Mfantsipim School |
| Team name | Santaclaus |
| School Colour(s) | Black and White |
| Established | 1910 |
| Homepage | http://www.adisadelcollege.net |
Adisadel College is an Anglican school for boys in Cape Coast, Ghana, modelled on the English Public School.
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[edit] History
Adisadel was established in 1910 in a storey building at Topp Yard, near Christ Church and Cape Coast Castle. It began with 29 boys; in 1935 it had about 200 boys; at the time of the Golden Jubilee in 1960, enrolment had gone up to 545; and now in 2007 there are over one thousand five hundred (1500) boys (all boarder). There are 93 teachers of whom 15 are female.
The school’s Founder was the Right Reverend Dr Nathaniel Temple Hamlyn of the Anglican Church. His purpose was to provide a grammar school for sons of Anglican parents, in particular a training ground for Church personnel.
The School is the second-oldest secondary school in Ghana, and one of the most famous institutions of learning in sub-Saharan Africa. [1]. The first secondary school to be established in Ghana was Mfantsipim School, also in Cape Coast, which was founded by the Methodist Church in 1876. It currently boasts of 10 houses, the most recent being Thomas Jonah House, which was built in 1997.
Adisadel College was the first secondary school in the history of Ghana to have its prefects don special cloaks; red cloaks for the head prefects, blue for the other prefects and green for the assistants. [2].
Today, http://www.africaalmanac.com, ranks the school 10th in Africa (the only higher Ghanaian school is Accra Academy in 8th position).[3]
[edit] Uniform
The uniform of the school is black and white shirt on black shorts. It is commonly referred to as "zebra" due to the fact that the black and white are striped together like that of the zebra.
[edit] Residence
The school has ten houses namely;
- Hamlyn
- Quaque
- Elliot
- Canterbury
- Knight
- Aglionby
- Ebiradze
- Jubilee
- Thomas Jonah
- Le Maire
[edit] Headmasters of Adisadel College
| Name | From | To |
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| Revd. G. B. Brown, B.A | 1910 | 1910 |
| Revd. B. P. Haines, M.A. | 1910 | 1910 |
| Revd. G. B. Brown. B.A | 1910 | 1912 |
| Hugh Hare,Esq. M.A. (Oxon) | 1913 | 1914 |
| Revd. R. Fisher, M.A. (Cantab.) | 1914 | 1918 |
| Revd. W. Hutton Mensah | 1918 | 1924 |
| S. R. S. Nicholas, Esq. M.A., D.Th. (Durham) | 1924 | 1929 |
| Revd. A. J. Knight, M.A.. L.L.B. (Cantab) | 1929 | 1937 |
| Revd. R. D. Hudson, M.A. (Oxon) | 1938 | 1940 |
| Revd. Canon W. G. Harward. M.A. (Oxon) | 1947 | 1952 |
| A. R. H. Dee, Esq. M.A. (Sydney) | 1954 | 1955 |
| L. W. Fry, Esq. M.A., B.Sc. (Oxon) | 1956 | 1958 |
| T. J. Drury, Esq. M.A. (Cantab) | 1959 | 1963 |
| R. T. Orleans-Pobee, Esq. B.A. (Lond) M.Ed. (Springfield) | 1963 | 1974 |
| E. A. Jonah, Esq. B.A. (Legon) | 1974 | 1982 |
| R. K. Ayitey, B.A. (Ed.) | 1982 | 1991 |
| J. F. K. Appiah-Cobbold, B.A. P.G.C.E | 1991 | 1995 |
| J. E. C. Kitson, B.A. P.G.C.E. | 1995 | 2004 |
| H. K. K. Graham, B.Sc. (Hons) P.G.C.E. | 2005 | Present |
[edit] Sports
[4] Adisadel College has been sports power since colonial days to the present. Adisadel encourages all of its students to participate in some kind of sporting activity. Most students engage in recreational or competitive sports to eschew the label "Waste Pipe"- a campus vernacular that is used to refer to an able-body who does not participate in sports. Conforming to the Latin adage - "A healthy mind in a healthy body", the school organizes competitive intra-mural sports. Early morning jogging by the entire residents of a dormitory is a common activity on campus. Cricket, basketball, hockey, gymnastics, soccer, volleyball, track and field, tennis and table tennis are some of the sports on campus.
[edit] Basketball
With victories over teams from Ghana Navy, University of Cape Coast, St. Johns School, the school dominated the sports in the seventies with players like Daniel Prempeh (Knight House), Angus Ola (Canterbury), Isaac Neizer (Canterbury), Laryea (Quaque) and Afful (Knight). The sport suffered when the Drury Gymnasium was temporarily converted into a dinning hall during the rebuilding of the current dinning hall. Currently the school is rebuilding a team which was quite successful in many friendlies they played.
[edit] Soccer
The only school in Ghana with three soccer fields, Adisadel has developed soccer to a highly competitive level. Most students participate in this sport than any other sport. In the early seventies, Adisadel students like Dr. Sam Amporful (1973) played for Cape Coast Vipers. En-route to becoming the Zonal Champions, Adisadel beat Ghana National College on penalty kicks.
[edit] Track and Field
Adisadel College's continued dominance in track and field can be traced to the late forties. The school continues to produce sprinters of national and internal caliber. Since H.O Nyarku of Adisadel represented Ghana (then Gold Coast) in 1952 Olympics Games in Helsinki, the school has produced several national sprinters like George Enchill (Sakinah), Yaw Atuahene (USA), and Kofi Osei (Sasta).
[edit] Rivalry
There is an ongoing rivalry between the school and Mfantsipim School. This has brought about Mfantsipim-Adisadel Fun Day Games.
[edit] Alliance
An ongoing alliance with Mfanstiman girls Secondary School, and St Monica's Girls Secondary School.
[edit] Publications
- The Owl is a monthly newsletter for students and alumni of Adisadel College that is brilliantly put together by Mr. Wilson Tagoe (Knight House - 1957) and Mr. Joe Opare (Jubilee - 1981).
- Reminiscences of Adisadel A short historical sketch of ADISADEL COLLEGE,By G. McLean Amissah.
By G. McLean Amissah.[5]
[edit] Notable Alumni
- Sam E Jonah (KBE),Executive Chairman of Jonah Capital; previously President of AngloGold Ashanti
- Alan Kyeremanteng, NPP Presidential Candidate, Ghana.
- Dr. Ave K. Kludze, Jr., Senior NASA Engineer, NASA/Langley Research Center Systems Engineering Office.
- Kojo Frans,Chief Executive Officer and President of Next Generation Broadcasting (NGB), Sweden
- Dr. Nii Narku Quaynor, Network Computer Systems
- Justice George Kingsley Acquah, was the twenty-third (23rd ) Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Ghana.[6]
- Lieutenant General Akwasi Amankwaa Afrifa, head of state of Ghana and leader of the military government in 1969
[edit] External links
[edit] References
- ^ Adisadel Historical Sketch. adisadelonline. Retrieved on 2008-02-19.
- ^ Adisadel Historical Sketch. adisadelonline. Retrieved on 2008-02-19.
- ^ Africa's Top 100 High Schools. Africa Almanac. Retrieved on 2007-12-29.
- ^ adisadel sports. adisadelonline. Retrieved on 2008-02-30.
- ^ Owl on the web. adisadelonline. Retrieved on 2008-02-30.
- ^ List of Chief Justices. Official Website. Judicial Service of Ghana. Retrieved on 2007-03-26.
