Members of Methodist High School, Owo, Old Students Association, METHSOOSA, on Saturday, June 22, held a N250 Million Fund Raising Ceremony for their alma mater.
The N250 Million Fund Raising Ceremony is a prelude for the 60th Anniversary of the school which comes up in the first qu6of 2025, to be precise, March 2025, baring all odds.
The event, although the turnout was low, was encouraging as it opened the floodgate for alumni dishing their hands in their pickets to contribute meaningfully to the development of our great MHSO.
Members of the association, of various sets, from far and near were on hand to add colour to the occasion and also made it a huge success.
Speaking at the occasion, the National President of METHSOOSA, Mr Akinola Osuporu, who welcomed all invited guests and members to the August occasion disclosed that METHSOOSA, "is a rallying point for all old students of Methodist High School, Owo, with the purpose of building and developing a virile Alma Mater".
Osuporu stated that the setting up of METHSOOSA is the key to education's goal as a way of assisting the training of youths for the betterment of the society.
He disclosed that in the past ten years the association has, despite its lean purse, taken giant steps in achieving its aims.
He gave many of the achievements of the association to include renovation works in the school, recruitment and payment of the salaries of some part-time teachers.
Osuporu who said the fund raising event is another stage of intervention said monies accruing from the event will be used to embark on some infrastructural projects which will give the school a facelift as the school celebrates its 60th anniversary.
Some of the projects to be carried out , according to the National President, are a modern science laboratory, E-Library , Perimeter Fencing, the purchase of an 18 seater bus for the school among others.
In the same vein, the Chairman of the 60th Anniversary Celebration Committee, Surveyor Ajayi Thomas, stated that the purpose of the fund raising ceremony was to address and aspect of educational decadence in the school.
According to Surv. Thomas, the educational infrastructure decay in the school is colossal and has negatively impacted on the learning process, which the end result is the shunning out of half baked graduates.
He said by the appeal fund and other interventions of the Alumni, the association is helping the poor children and the society.
Other notable speakers at the event included, Bishop of the Owo Methodist Church, Bishop Egbetakin who is also an Alumnus of the school, a pioneer graduand of the school, Prince Lanre Ogunoye, popularly known as Chanka, who all spoke on the need of Alumni to come to rescue the school from its present infrastructural decadence.
In the meantime, the National President, has thanked all those who made the event a success, especially those who donated generously at the ocassion and those who promised to contribute to the fund.
Similarly, he has charged all members who are yet to contribute to the fund to endeavour to do so as there is still ample opportunity to do so.
He therefore pray that God in His infinite mercy replenish their purse with a great deal of His abundance.
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