Accra, March 13, GNA - The Achimota Senior High School, on Saturday marked its 83rd Founders Day celebrations with a parade and a call on past and present students to build on the ideals, principles and visions of the founders to maintain the school's enviable position. "There are still great opportunities to build on the vision, the foundation, the traditions and successes that have made Achimota one of the world's leading schools, if we set smart goals and act upon them," Group

Captain (Rtd.) Frank Okine, an Aviation consultant made the call after reviewing the parade by the school's cadet corp. Founders Day is observed annually to remind both past and present students, teachers and parents of the ideals of the founders and the need to work hard to develop the school.

Group Captain (Rtd.) Okine said since good leaders remember those who inspired, motivated and influenced them, it was important that graduates of the school continued to emulate the principles of the founding fathers in order to rise to prominence. He urged products of the school to live in unity and pool resources together to help build the country. He commended the Armed Forces Central Band for keeping the school's cadet corps in good shape. The 1960 year group of the Old Achimotans Association promised to rehabilitate the parade square and pavilion before the next founder's day parade.

Members of the cadet corps, who were punctual at training sessions, were honored for their dedicated service to duty whiles a minute silence was observed for old Achimotans who have passed on to glory. The Achimota School, which is the first Mixed school to be established in the Gold coast in 1927, was founded by Governor Gordon Guggisberg of the then Gold Coast, Reverend A.G. Fraser, the first headmaster of the school and Dr James Kwegyir Aggrey, an eminent Ghanaian educationist, who also became the first Black Headmaster of the School.