• Source: 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.
      The girls' and boys' high schools were merged in 1959 to create the Gambia High School and the location moved to Box Bar Road. Philip Beale was the principal from 1961 to 1966. While there, he jointly organised an archaeological expedition with pupils from the school to examine the Senegambian stone circles. In 1994, the name changed again to the Gambia Senior Secondary School.


      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.
      Fatou Lamin Faye, Minister of Education from 2004
      Yahya Jammeh, leader of the Gambia from 1994 to 2017.
      Dawda Jawara, prime minister of Gambia from 1962 to 1970.
      Bai Modi Joof, lawyer
      Fatou Sanyang Kinteh, Minister for Women's Affairs, Children and Social Welfare
      Louis Mahoney, actor


      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 Jow
      1994–2005: Rev. W. E. E. Carr
      2005–present: Lamin M. B. Jaiteh


      References




      External links


      "Gambia High 2011". YouTube. Retrieved 19 September 2017.

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