Gambian school
The Gambia Senior Secondary School (formerly the Gambia High School ) is a school in Box Bar Road, Banjul, Gambia, founded by Wesleyan missionaries. It has educated two leaders of Gambia.
History
The school was founded in 1876 in Dobson Street,
Banjul , by Wesleyan missionaries. In 1898 it re-opened as the Methodist Boys' High School and in 1915 the associated Girls High School was opened.
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https://www.accessgambia.com/information/gambia-high-school.html
The girls' and boys' high schools were merged in 1959 to create the Gambia High School and the location moved to Box Bar Road.
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Philip Beale was the principal from 1961 to 1966.
[2] While there, he jointly organised an archaeological expedition with pupils from the school to examine the
Senegambian stone circles .
[3] In 1994, the name changed again to the Gambia Senior Secondary School.
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Notable alumni
Fatim Badjie , Minister of Communications, Information and Information Technology and Minister of Health and Social Welfare, youngest person ever appointed to the Gambian Cabinet.
[4]
Fatou Lamin Faye , Minister of Education from 2004
Yahya Jammeh , leader of the Gambia from 1994 to 2017.
[5]
Dawda Jawara , prime minister of Gambia from 1962 to 1970.
[6]
Bai Modi Joof , lawyer
Fatou Sanyang Kinteh , Minister for Women's Affairs, Children and Social Welfare
Louis Mahoney , actor
Principals
1876 to 1958
1876–1878: Rev. J. Fieldhouse
1878–1879: Rev. J. Heslam
1879–1884: C. R. Cross
1885–1889: J. Gilbert
1889–2900: G. P. Wilhelm
1901–1904: Circuits Ministers
1904–1907: W. T. Cole
1907–1909: Rev. C. Leopold
1909–1911: A. N. Walker
1912–1913: F. Dean
1913–1920: Rev. L. L. Leopold
1921–1922: W. E. Hoare
1922–1928: Rev. F. F. Morton
1929–1931: H. E .E. Burne
1932–1952: J. J. Baker
1953–1958: R. P. Pye
Girls High School
1915–1917: Mrs. P. S. Toye
1922–1927: Miss L. E. Morton
1928–1929: Miss C. E. Mason
1929–1936: Miss. R. M. Little
1937–1938: Miss. A. I. Spencer
1939–1956: Miss. N. Spencer
1957–1958: Miss. V. Vodlcy
Gambia High School
1959–1961; J. S. Sergeants
1961–1966:
P. E. Beale
1966–1974: E. F. Foss
1974–1976: J. J. Ndow
1976–1978: H. I. Jagne
1978–1980: R. D. Somers
1980–1986: H. I. Jagne
1986–1989: Mrs. D. E. S. Carrol
1989–1994: Mrs. Satang Jaw
1994–2005: Rev. W. E. E. Carr
2005–present: Lamin M. B. Jaiteh
References
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Gambia Senior Secondary School, Banjul. accessgambia.com Retrieved 18 September 2017.
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History. Gambia Senior Secondary School, 2007. Archived at archive.is Retrieved 18 September 2017.
^ Beale, Philip,
"Stone circles in The Gambia, West Africa"
Archived 2017-09-17 at the
Wayback Machine , Magdalene Matters , No. 38 (November 2013), pp. 10–11.
^ Hughes, Arnold; David Perfect (11 September 2008).
Historical Dictionary of The Gambia . Scarecrow Press.
ISBN
978-0-8108-6260-9 .
^ Luttich, Holger. (2010).
The Gambia and its president on the road to a prospering future . Bangalore: Winterbloom Publications. p. 42.
ISBN
978-81-910977-9-5 .
^ Saine, Abdoulaye. (2012).
Culture and customs of Gambia . Santa Barbara: Greenwood. p. 18.
ISBN
978-0-313-35910-1 .
External links
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