…50 years after admission to form 1
50 years ago I was in class one with about 120 other young boys at the great Government College Ughelli.
All we had was academic brilliance, we were some of the brightest from our primary schools but, we were naive and from different backgrounds.
50 years later, We have several Engineers, medical doctors, lawyers, retired very senior civil servants, a retired rear admiral, clergymen and successful business owners.
GCU is a big ship with a lot in her bowels and it keeps sailing from generation to generation.
We have not all succeeded at the same level, but we what many people don’t have.
We have an unexplainable brotherhood that is cult like. We have a penchant for orderliness, discipline and integrity.
We have lost about 12 of us who started with us 50 years ago, including a professor.
Many of us have passed through very near death and traumatic situations but by his mercies we were not consumed.
Listening to some of the things some of us did while in school, we came to a conclusion that His grace and mercy kept us.
50 years is half a century, many of us are now grandfathers, with bald heads but one thing remarkable is that at our age of more than 60 we all looked trim, that’s something common with Mariners. Sports was part of our training.
To God be all the glory.
I am your friend, Dr. Charles Aoki.
