#achimotaat98🎹 #tb to our 50th Founders Day celebration at the Grey City. This Golden Jubilee Anniversary Durbar procession was led by Akora Sir Dauda Jawara, President of Gambia 🇬🇲 , King Charles of the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 and General I.K Acheampong, Chairman of the Supreme Military Council, Head of State, Ghana. 🇬🇭 Our headmaster, Nana Alan Rudwick, in his quiet but steady way, brought significant change to Achimota. His vision was to raise academic standards even higher than they were, and to modernise the facilities. Under him, roads were resurfaced, street lamps replaced, bathrooms upgraded, and electrical systems rewired. He guided the formation of Achimota’s Parent-Teacher Association and oversaw the expansion of the campus—already Ghana’s largest—to include the Western Compound. Dur¬ing General Acheampong’s Operation Feed Yourself program in the mid-70s, Achimota’s vastly expanded yam, corn and cassava plantations fed not only the school but many a calorie-challenged Anumle villager grateful for the easy opportunity to raid the farms at night and help themselves. Sprucing up school infrastructure is one thing; strengthening school spirit is another. This was the 1960s and ’70s, a time when the nation was gingerly working its way through the teething problems of self-government. Mr Rudwick, above all, wanted Achimota students to be confident and proud—proud of their school, their country, their culture, and themselves. Be¬yond the upgrading of buildings, he set himself the goal of restoring school spirit, concentrating on those intan¬gibles that constitute the character of any great academic institution and infuse its atmosphere.