Gambia Senior Secondary 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.[1]

The girls' and boys' high schools were merged in 1959 to create the Gambia High School and the location moved to Box Bar Road.[1] 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.[1]

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

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 - date Lamin M.B. Jaiteh

References
  1. Gambia Senior Secondary School, Banjul. accessgambia.com Retrieved 18 September 2017.
  2. History. Gambia Senior Secondary School, 2007. Archived at archive.is Retrieved 18 September 2017.
  3. "Stone circles in The Gambia, West Africa". by Philip Beale, Magdalene Matters, No. 38 (Nov. 2013), pp. 10-11.
  4. Arnold Hughes; David Perfect (11 September 2008). Historical Dictionary of The Gambia. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-6260-9.
  5. 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.
  6. Saine, Abdoulaye. (2012). Culture and customs of Gambia. Santa Barbara: Greenwood. p. 18. ISBN 978-0-313-35910-1.

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