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History of PSS Mankon  30/04/2008 18:08  Juliet Ndofor & Pa Memoh  80 |
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P.S.S Mankon was founded on the 23rd of October 1978. As everything goes through stages of development so did Presbyteian Secondary School Mankon. In 1961, the school had been opened as Women's Teachers Training College Mankon (WTTC Mankon) with 38 women, the principal being Na Webah.
The school was later hired by the government for about a year and in 1978, P.S.S mankon was opened for both boys and girls. P.S.S came in to existence as C.P.C Bali annex. In 1997 P.S.S Mankon became a high school with 88 students in the second cycle and has been growing. Presbyterian Secondary School was opened by the Presbyterian Church in Cameroon, on the 23rd of October 1978, with the first principal being Mr. Memoh Zachariah from 1978-1987. Then Mr. Francis Ndzuenyuiy became principal till 1994. Rev.S.A.K Ndingwan took over from 1994 till present. Today P.S.S Mankon is known for high academic performance, discipline, and sports. P.S.S Mankon today has a population of 780 students with about 57 staff members.
The school so far has sent out nineteen batches of graduates who together are recognized as PEMEXANS. Below is an extract from a speech Mr. Memoh Zachariah gave in June of 2002, to PEMEXANS in Washington D.C about those early days of PSS Mankon.
October 7th 1978! The beginning of the beginning! But why? -The Principal-to-be and his family arrive the former WTTC Mankon campus. -Admission interviews were conducted of 85 candidates.
- Interview results proclaimed.
- Provisional admission notices were offered to 53 (12 to 14 year-old children).
Mother nature cooperated with a sustained brilliant sunshine. Thanks to the then Proprietor, the Rt. Chief Jeremiah Chi Kangsen and his Education Secretary (ES) Mr. Eugene A. Ekiti, both of blessed memory, for wisely advising the Presbyterian Education Authority (PEA) to create PSS Bamenda in Late August of 1978.
Thanks to the PEA for assigning me to what it’s ES called this little school in the dynamic provincial headquarters of the Northwest. Thanks to Pa E.A. Ekiti for his unprecedented authorization to let me take from PSS Batibo whoever and whatever I would need to start PSS Bamenda smoothly. In this way I was immediately sure of a flying start. I took four teachers, two cooks, two typewriters, one duplicator, and some stationary. Mrs. Helen Anyangwe was added to our number just before we started. An educational establishment with the awesome mission to form anxious youths and give their lives purpose and direction was about to be born! It was an exciting assignment, freighting and humbling too. In my anxious moments I assured myself that the work we were about to start was God’s. Because it was God’s it would not fail. God was already in the future, I believed!
FOUNDING DAY
- 4:30 pm, The drum. Fifty-three kids, cleanly shaven lined up in front of the mail classroom block.
- The entire staff! Six strong! PSS Bamenda had started for true! The journey had begun. God is in the FUTURE!
God did not however quite like the name PSS Bamenda, it seems. So He spoke to the mind of the Synod meeting in the Church center, Mankon. The Synod then renamed the school you’re so proud of PSS MANKON in April 1980. Even as a school doing seventh-form work, it continues to be called PSS MANKON. No other PSS changing status has that privilege. No other one might ever have.
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