Namilyango College

POSTED SATURDAY, MARCH 21, 2015 | BY- RAYMOND MPUBANI
Namilyango College marks 113th anniversary
Former students of Namilyango College under their alumni association, Namilyango College Old Boys



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Luweero.

Former students of Namilyango College under their alumni association, Namilyango College Old Boys Association (NACOBA), and stakeholders will today trek to the college to mark its 113th anniversary.

A new dormitory will be opened as part of the activities to mark the anniversary celebrations.
NACOBA was at the forefront of tiling the floors of 10 houses or dormitories, as they are commonly known, at the all-boys school.

“The old boys have raised about Shs35 million towards this project, which cost over Shs50 million and was partly financed by the Parents-Teachers Association,” Mr Fred Gyavira Kyaka, the NACOBA chairperson, said in a recent interview.

In 2014, the association handed over an extension to the sickbay whose construction they financed.


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The college, which was opened on March 23, 1902, by the Catholic Mill Hill Missionaries, is the oldest secondary school in Uganda.

The chief guest at today’s celebrations will be Bishop Christopher Kakooza of Lugazi Diocese who will lead the mass to open the function at 9am.

Activities
The college will also open a new modern 120-bed dormitory, Heweston House, named after “an instrumental headmaster in the history of the college”.

Other activities planned to mark the day include career guidance seminars by former students, as well as a free medical camp for the community around the college.

The camp will be facilitated by old boys in the medical profession and other partners.
The college also celebrates the recent appointment of Bart Magunda Katureebe as Chief Justice. Mr Katureebe, who also served as Attorney General between 1996 and 2001, was a student at Namilyango in 1969 and 1970.

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‘I was predictably unpredictable’ -Dr Peregrine Kibuuka In September 1966, Peregrine Kibuuka joined Namilyango College School as a student in Senior Five and returned seven years later as an English language and Literature teacher

School Anthem

Bless this school Oh Lord we pray

Make it Safe by night and day

Bless the walls so firm and stout

Keeping want and trouble out

Bless each master, bless each boy

Make thy peace be all our joy

Bless the door that it may prove

Ever open to joy and love



Bless the window shinning bright

Let in God’s heavenly light

Bless the school and make it thy own

With prayers ascending to thy throne

Bless the people dwell here in

Keep them pure and free from sin

Bless us all that we one day

May dwell with thee eternally

Amen

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