Anniversary Activities Ushers in Modernisation

Students have been called upon to be disciplined and hardworking on Friday, March 28.

"60 years is the year of change of activity." To Lycée Joss it is also a moment of innovating towards greater academic performance. The assessment was made at the closing of the 60th anniversary celebrations of the high school presided over by the SG at the Littoral Governor's Office, Ludovic Ngwba, in Bonanjo, on Friday, March 28. Activities organised by the institution's former students and incumbent administration spanned through February 14 to March 28. It was in 1954 that the high school saw the light of day.

The school's Principal, Louison Njoh Mbongue, said it has put in a particular touch to continue to play its leading role in training young people, improve learning, ease teaching, and climb the ladder of academic performance. According to the balance sheet of the activities, the school has registered modernisation of administration and pedagogy with the delegation of more powers to discipline masters. Henceforth, courses will be offered online to students when necessary. A multimedia centre connected to optical fibres has been set up in partnership with Camtel, and a monument baptised "60th Anniversary Monument" symbolising the "baobab" have been constructed in front of the institution's Administrative Block. The ex-students also created an association called General Association of Lycée Joss Students, March 15, and a website is in the making.

In corroboration, first batch student Chi Asafor Cornelius, Provisional President of the association, revealed that ex-students of the school occupy all sectors of activities in the country. He encouraged present and future students to take their example of overcoming obstacles, accepting constraints, adhere to cult of effort, hard work, believe their teachers and pursue academic, cultural and sports excellence. Without this, he revealed, their life would not know success as it is today. Menanga Henriette, first woman and the woman so far to have been at the helm of the high school, says a proper teaching-learning process can only take place in a disciplined environment.