Old Vandals to Remember Departed Colleagues

This year's Homes Coming of the Old Vandals of Commonwealth Hall of the University of Ghana, Legon, scheduled for the last week-end of July, will be preceded by a memorial service for all Old Vandals who have passed away since the establishment of the Hall some 50 years ago.

The memorial service, which will become a permanent feature of the Home Coming, will then be held before each Home Coming for Old Vandals who might have died in the preceding two years.

The National Executive of the Old Vandals took this decision during a joint meeting with the Home Coming 2003 Planning Committee to draw up a programme of activities for the occasion.

The HomeComing of the Old Vandals, which started in 1997, has been held uninterruptedly every other year since then.

The Home Coming is used by the Old Vandals to raise money through levies and other contributions by all those who have passed through Commonwealth Hall in order to help improve facilities at their alma mater.

The Old Vandals are hoping to raise about ?500 million this year from their members at home and abroad for its activities.

Part of the amount, according to the National Executive of the Old Vandals, will be used as seed money for the annex project that is being embarked upon by the Old Vandals.

Other activities of the Home Coming 2003 will be visits, during the period but before the end of the year, to Akropong School for the Blind and the Mother Teresa School for Girls at Senya Bereku, institutions that have been adopted by the Old Vandals.

In another development the Old Vandals are calling for nominations from members of outstanding Old Vandals who would be honoured for meritorious services to Mother Ghana during this year's Republic Day Jamboree.