Alumni

I served as the President for a term from 2017 to 2019. As a “lone ranger” at times, I had to attend homecomings at the SHS and even slept over at their dormitories, making time off my busy schedule to have an interaction section with the students, especially during orientations.

My concern really is making sure that past students of this college also become more

committed to our alma mater. I led the general SLOPSA to make a donation of furniture to a class in this college during my tenure as the president of the mother association. Even though my tenure has expired as the president, I actively take part in all the activities of the association and I know that sisters from far and near can do better in this direction.

In order to stay relevant to the course of the association, I joined the Accra chapter after duty relocated me to Accra. Even so, this has not stopped me from having an interaction session with the students at the college and also attend meetings and other activities of the Kumasi Chapter anytime I am in Kumasi. This has been my passion and my little sacrifice of giving back to my alma mater.

The Journey about the homecoming began when I got the affirmation by the General SLOPSA to be on the college board. I was privileged to be cleared by the Ministry of Education (MoE) and the Bureau of National Investigation (BNI); we were inducted into this high office by the

Minister of Education in 2022. Pleasingly, I was nominated to two college boards simultaneously, St. Louis College as a past student and St. Monicaʼs College, as the National Teaching Council (NTC) representative.

My first task as a board member was again to ensure that past students from the college become more committed to our alma mater. This massive task was assigned to me by our Bishop, Most Rev. Gabriel Justice Yaw Anokye, the Metropolitan Archbishop of Kumasi.

Even though we are one big St. Louis schoolsʼ family, sisters from the college had over the years been very few as compared to our sisters from the SSS or SHS. That notwithstanding, some year groups from the college are functioning very well.

I never rested! As a goal getter, I began to mobilize sisters in the general SLOPSA group who are also very committed to the mother association. Ladies and gentlemen, permit me to acknowledge sisters Patricia Appau (2000-year group), Christina Kudawe (1998) Patricia Frimpomaa, (2006), Pomaa Gyebi (2000) and others. These sisters took time to reach out to their various year groups and anywhere they could pass on the information to past students.

To make this huge dream a reality, a link was created for that purpose, surprisingly we had crossed over a thousand membership within a week and we had to migrate to telegram due to the numbers. This was shocking, and one of the questions that came up was, “where were all these beautiful sisters hiding all this while”?

We are very grateful to our past and present Principals, for their love for the association, the warm reception, and for opening the gates of the College to welcome us anytime. Whether for meetings, admissions etc.

We are grateful to God Almighty for bringing us together as one big family. Nothing good in life they say comes easy. Same quote by Theodore Roosevelt reads “Nothing worth having comes easy, everything worth having requires effort, dedication, and perseverance”.

Nothing in this world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain and difficulty. This encapsulates the idea that achieving something valuable or worthwhile in this life often requires hard work and sacrifice. Life isnʼt meant to be easy; it is meant to be lived. Sometimes happy, other times rough, but in all ups and downs, we learn lessons that make us strong.

I pray that going forward, proud SLOPSANS like you will be more committed to the wellbeing of this wonderful college to make it better than how we met it.

Long live St. Louis College of Education, long live SLOPSANS, long live Ghana. GOD BLESS US ALL