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May 26, 2011 News
The JC Chandisingh Secondary School, formerly Corentyne High School, last Saturday held its first reunion at the school. The event was organised by the Corentyne High School- JC Chandisingh Secondary School (CHS- JCCSS) Alumni Association, Guyana Chapter.
According to organiser of the event, Amelia Veeren, the overseas-based old students would normally host similar reunions. In that light, one was planned for Guyanese students at home.
In April, the overseas chapter of the alumni donated some $40,000 in books to schools in the Corentyne area. Veeren added that they were not able to locate all the graduates of the school for the reunion but they hope to find them so that they could be a part of future events of this kind.
During the reunion several speakers, including past head teachers and representatives from the Alumni, addressed the graduates of the school. Current head teacher of the school, Barbara Hamilton, noted that JCCSS is the top school on the Corentyne Coast and produced the top students in Region Six for the past two years.
She hopes that the school would soon eliminate the New Amsterdam Multilateral School (NAMS) from the winners’ list of school in the region and thus become the senior secondary school.
Delivering the keynote address to the gathering, past student and now Director of the UG Tain Campus, Professor Daizal R. Samad, mentioned the names of the two founding fathers of the school—Mr Joseph Chamberlin Chandisingh and Mr Haroon Samad.
He noted that JCCSS has been the greatest recipient of his campus’s generosity.
He recollected some memories about teachers he fondly remembered, “Kamal Adjodha, Parasram Singh, Dhanisar Sukhoo, Gobin Sarjoo were foremost among them”.
He shared more nostalgic memories with the gathering and pledged his commitment to his alma mater to provide assistance of whatever form, and not only to JCCSS but to all schools in Berbice.
Corentyne High School, now renamed JC Chandisingh Secondary School, was built in 1938 when the final drama was being played out in Europe to push the world into war.
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