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Welcome, Adisadel Alumni (Santaclausians) and friends, to the Adisadel Old Boys Association web site. More than 20,000 Santaclausians around the world take advantage of free lifetime membership in the Association. Membership entitles you to information about your benefits; invitations to select events such as reunions, grand openings, as well as invaluable networking opportunities with other Santaclausians.

Adisadel celebrates its 100 years of existence this year (1910-2010)...please join us in this once in a life time celebration.

On behalf of the entire Santaclausian community, best wishes to you for your continued success!

Update on Dining Hall Renovations by 1985 Year Group - Appeal for Funds
By Frank Asiedu, Santa '85    

Folks - We had a meeting recently and here is an update on the renovation of the Dinning Hall. The roof of the dining hall has been fixed. All the rotten sheets have been removed and new ones fixed. Work on the ceiling is on going and we hope to finish very soon including all the interior paintings. What is left to be done is the electrical fittings and the doors and replacing the louver blades and frames. The most challenging work is with the tables and benches. As at now, we have 33 new tables out of 70 and 61 benches out of 140. My previous figures were wrong, forgive me. We have about 2 weeks to get this project done. Unfortunately, we have ran out of funds and we need more funds to keep the project on track. Replacing the tables and benches takes time to build so please take that in consideration and act quickly. We are counting on all of you to deliver this project in the name of the 1985 Year Group. This is a centenary year and other groups have interest in what we are doing as host of the speech day. Please help us with your contributions.

A special appeal goes to Santaclausians in North America to contribute financially to make this project a success.

God bless you all.

Report on the Centenary Float in Accra on Sat Feb 27th.            with Video
By John Adjei (Pajero), Ebiradze - Santa '86    

The appointed time was 7am. As usual we were all running on “GMT”. People started appearing at Kaneshie complex after 730am. The floats were packed to the brim by 8am, and they set off from there thru the principal streets of Accra’s CBD –

There were two floats. The first with the latest Ghanaian / 9JA hiplife tracks blazing thru the speakers. The second had the brass band and jamma crew of recent Santaclausians – The 2000’s!! Santa 86 was represented. We had “Ma-waist”, “Kofi Biney” and off course “Reggie” starting at the beginning with the float. Reggie was a float Marshall, so helped extensively with crowd control. What was pleasing to the eye was the way fellow marshals stood in front of a potential road/gutter defect and warded off fellow Santas from dropping into these uncovered manholes...smile!!!....

They must be commended for these selfless actions. The route took us from Kaneshie Complex via Kwame Nkrumah Circle (where I joined the entourage) thru TUC, left unto Adabraka, past TOTAL HOUSE/Heritage towers/British council onto Liberation Circle, then down via State House/ Osu Cemetery/Stadium, then across the lights past kingdom books, veering left at the lights into Osu oxford street, where we went past modern fotos, Tigo/MTN, then Papaya; had a brief stopover, then continued across the roundabout to Cantonments/ Morning Star, Togo Embassy up onto Akuffo-Addo Circle, then via British Ambassador residence, left via GIS; a brief reorganization of the groupings took place with the brass band leading the entourage of tired Santaclausians, then straight past lands commission onto aviation social centre.

The whole walk/float took 4 and a half hours to complete. I am proud to report Kofi Biney, Reggie, mawaist, Ladipo, myself and ( Abrorkwa who joined at oxford street) made it thru safely..... (The impressive thing was these 40+  year old guys were on foot singing jamma and did not jump on board the float for the entire duration of the float procession.) of coz Saucy was with us in spirit and later joined us in person at the aviation club house for an elaborate question and answer session on our route...smile At aviation house, the likes of our group president, - Philip - some of the 85 year group joined us in the tent.

Fellow cape schools - Hollyco, Mfantsipim, Augustines, Massize and Aggrey had a few old students around to lend their support. The centenary committee president - Nico Annan gave a rousing speech as did Mr RT Orleans Pobee ( original piccolo) who chaired the day's event. Asui was served as well as other refreshments.

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Watch Road Show Video

Cheers

Pajero - Ebiradze, 1986

Centenary - Packaged Flights From North America       Mar. 1. 2010

We will be updating our flight fares for Santaclausians planning on making the trip to Ghana for the Centenary Celebrations. Unfortunately the response to our group packages did not materialize due to the poor response. We will however provide you with the latest fares as we receive them and interested Santaclausians can get in touch with the Travel Agent directly.  As of March 1, 2010 there is a non-stop return flight leaving Washington Dulles to Accra - July 8 - July 26 for $1535.
 

Centenary Travel: Chartered flight arrangements from the UK

Calling all Santaclausians in the UK.

We have made chartered flight arrangements with Ghana International for Santaclausians who would like to travel for the centenary from the UK.. It's £475.00 for the flight ticket. The flight dates are between 8th July and 28 July, any dates within these two dates. Please forward this on.

Thank you
Nana Bamfo, 1984
 

Centenary Music CD Project - Appeal for Funds

Fellow Santaclausians - I want to share with you the details on the Centenary CD which we are producing. Naturally, the CD will feature "traditional standards" like the School Ode and Adisadel on the Hill, done in both choral and contemporary styles. In addition there will be compositions commemorating the centenary to be performed by Adisadel musicians including several contemporary "Hiplife" artists (better known to the younger generation), Koo Nimo, Ricky Telfer and Glenn Warren. For those of you who are highlife purists, the great highlife singer Pat Thomas will be performing a Centenary Highlife which he has written and donated to Adisadel. The new Adisadel Jazz Band and the school Choir will also be featured on the CD. In all, we expect to record about 14 tracks.

Attached is an article (Centenary CD Album) that appeared in the Daily Graphic on Sunday 6th February 2010 on the Centenary Album. Like all the other centenary activities, this activity also requires financing (or rather pre-financing). Our estimated production budget is about GHc5,000 or $3,600. However this will all be recovered through CD sales. In fact we expect this CD to recover its cost and generate significant cash flow for Adisadel College during the centenary and beyond.

We are appealing to Santaclausians to contribute generously towards the CD project. In fact, 20 Santaclausians contributing $200 each will finance the full project. Interested contributors are invited to make a pledge. I will collect the pledges and do the needed follow up. To facilitate the accounting, all contributions will be made directly to the Board of Governor's account details of which are provided below:

BANK:  Ghana Commercial Bank
SWIFT: GHCBGHAC
ACCOUNT NAME: ADISADEL COLLEGE GOVERNORS
ACCOUNT NO. 3021130002675
BRANCH NAME: University of Cape Coast
BRANCH NO. 040302

Looking forward to your pledges.

Sam Mensah ("Guitar Boy")

Link: Centenary CD Album

Year Group Websites

We have introduced links to the websites and FaceBook pages of year groups. See the "Year Groups..." menu to the left of the page. We would like to encourage year groups with any online presence to forward such links to us (webmaster@adisadelOnline.com). The links can be URLs to a website home page, FaceBook for Year Group, Google Groups, Yahoo Groups, Twitter, Blogs etc. 

AOBA-UK: Founders Day Church Service - Sun. 14th. March 2010

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MOGA USA - Golden Jubilee Dinner Dance -  Sat. 24th. April 2010

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Flights From North America to Ghana    

AOBA-NA is in the process of arranging packaged (group) flights from selected North American cities (Los Angeles, Atlanta, New York, Washington DC, Toronto) to Ghana for the centenary celebrations in July 2010. The final packages are still in the works but will include: 3 or 2 week roundtrip flights to Accra with 3 day hotel accommodation at a hotel/resort in Cape Coast or Elmina (if required). The hotel accommodation will coincide with the weekend of the centenary celebration.

The latest information we have from our Travel Agent for the group package is as follows:

• We need at least 10 plus passengers from each departing city (i.e. LA, DC, JFK, Dalls, Atlanta etc.) 

• Each passenger is to pay $200.00 US to lock in the group rate.

• Passengers will pay the regular fare if there are less than 10 passengers from each departing city

• The package will enable groups of Santaclausians to travel together - which will be nice

• The deposit is needed asap because there are limited amount of low fares on all airlines

• The airlines being proposed are:

  • Delta - NorthWest - KLM  (these are all one corporation)

  • British Airways (a bit expensive)

  • Lufthansa
     

• Those who have a particular airline in mind, would need to find 10 people to utilize the deposit and hold package, or they can purchase their individual package without making the deposit.

• The prices given below are prices for a particular day only, to give Santas  an idea of what we will be working with.

• Airline prices change frequently, and is only available when we put the group deposit down or actually purchase the ticket.

• Please do note that airlines are not  that flexible, so please don't wait till the last minute!  

• We will advice interested Santaclausians as to where they can make payment for the deposits

• After the deposit is made, full and final payments will be due 60 days to departure. From day 59 forward, deposits are not refundable.

• Confirmation of headcount needed by 15th. December 2009.

Proposed Packages

 As of  Wednesday 4 Nov. 2009 the flight fares for a few of the major cities to Accra July 6-27, 2010 are as shown below. Anyone interested is expected to sign up to lock in the price asap. Remember, these prices are not final until a deposit of $200.00 is made. There is an additional charge of $350 for the lodging on July 16-19, 2010 at either Cape Coast or Elimina. These are round-trip fares from the cities mentioned below:

If you are interested in this group package and/or you have comments please send an email with the names of passengers, addresses, phone and originating city to: webmaster@adisadelonline.com

Please pass this message along to fellow Santaclausians.

Comments can also be posted at the Adisco Forum:   Adisadel Portal - Centenary Forum