The second batch of ex students of St. Joseph's Catholic Comprehensive College (S.J.C.C.C) Mbengwi has ended its 2018 reunion in Yaoundé. This was from Friday the 24th to Monday the 27th of August 2018. Baptised Esprit de Corps, the members met to celebrate love and friendship.
S.J.C.C.C Mbengwi came into existence on the 6th of September 1999. Since then till date, thousands of students including this reporter have passed through the institution for knowledge acquisition. The reunion was thus a forum for members to assess the distance they've covered in life since after leaving school. From evaluation, a majority of the SAJESANS, despite the economic crises plaguing the country are fortunate to be living above the poverty line. Some have become managers, teachers, doctors, lawyers, businessmen. A good number too has travelled abroad for greener pastures.
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| During Lunch |
The fun filled reunion was characterised by a pool party, barbecue, clubbing, wining and dining, site seeing, picnicking and so much more. A formal meeting was also held to chat the wellbeing of the association during which a good number of resolutions were arrived at such as adopting annual dues, contributions for funerals, weddings and other events. The dues shall be used by the association to invest in an income generating project. They also resolved to be one another's keeper especially in assisting unemployed members gain employment and rescuing desperate members in case they find themselves in life threatening circumstances, provided the concerned notify the association of their predicament.
At the tail end of the event, goodbye became the saddest word members wanted to hear. After several years of not seeing one another, the bond became so strong, solidified by love and friendship. They remembered their dormitories (houses); Champagnat, Peter, Francois and Channel, their classrooms like Form 1R,1M and 1L. They recalled the refectory, the canteen, the school kitchen, the pantry, the infirmary and the Brother's House. To rekindle memories, the ex students sang the school anthem plus other songs like Nkum-Nkum Massa from the novel The Good Foot, Fifteen men on the dead man's chest, yo ho ho and a bottle of rum from the novel Round the World in 80 Days. They mesmerised the mass songs they used to sing in English, French and vernaculars. They remembered their teachers, their peculiarities and even mimicked some of them.
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| Meeting Proper After Pool Party |
The second batch reunion of this year has come and gone but the echoes are still reverberating at home and abroad. Every finishing line is the beginning of a new race and because one good turn deserves another, members of the first batch of the ex students association have programmed their own reunion for the first weekend of December 2018. The stakes are high as the pioneers get ready to establish a record.
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