The Tarkwa Senior Secondary School (TARSCO) is set to launch its diamond jubilee anniversary celebration to reflect on the impressive achievements they have made over the last 60 years of existence.
As part of activities to mark this diamond jubilee, the Tarkwa Past Students Association (TARPSA), in conjunction with the Board of Directors of the school, will launch activities earmarked for the anniversary this week.
The launch, which will come off on August 31, 2022 at 6:00 p.m. at the Marriot Hotel, Accra, will bring together all-year groups of TARPSA in Ghana and abroad.
The theme for the 60th anniversary celebration is: “Achieving Academic Excellence through Discipline for National Development”.
Dignitaries who are past students of TARSCO including the Minister for Roads and Highways – Kwesi Amoako-Atta, Deputy Minister of Education – Gifty Twum Ampofo, among others, are expected to grace the occasion.
The 60th anniversary launch of TARSCO will be chaired by the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Tobinco Group of Companies – Nana Samuel Amo Tobin, with the Omanhene of Wassa Akropong – Nana Tetrete Okuamoah Sekyi, as the Special Guest of Honour.
In an interview with Hannah Owusu-Koranteng, who is the Chairperson of the TARSCO Past Students Association, she emphasised that the launch is aimed at mobilising resources for the main celebration of the diamond jubilee which is to take place in November 2022.
She indicated that past students of TARSCO have dedicated themselves to undertaking a ‘magnificent project’ for their alma mater to mark the school’s anniversary.
“…And this is part of the effort of the past students to show appreciation for the opportunity that TARSCO granted them to have holistic education which had propelled the students who had passed through the school to achieve excellence in their various careers,” she noted.
In this regard, Mrs. Owusu-Koranteng made a passionate appeal to all past students of TARSCO to participate actively in all the programmes lined up for the celebration of the 60th anniversary of TARSCO.
Some ministers of state and dignitaries who have been invited to the launch of the programme, she revealed, were the Deputy Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, Mireku Duker; regional ministers of Western North and Western Regions; all parliamentarians in the Western and Western North Regions; and political party chairpersons for NPP and NDC in the Western Region.
Tarkwa Senior High School is a co-educational Senior High School in the mining town of Tarkwa in the Western Region of Ghana. The school was founded in 1961 by the first president of Ghana, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah under the accelerated Development Plan for Education when Ghana attained independence.
