Title:
SYMBOLISM OF KOMENDA COLLEGE OF EDUCATION CEREMONIAL MACE – POWER, AUTHORITY AND ASPIRATION OF THE COLLEGE

Authors:
Isaac Joe Swenzy Dadzie ,Ghana

Abstract:
The Komenda College of Education, Komenda was established on the premises of the barracks left by the Fleet Airforce of the British Navy after the Second World War.The barracks was set on the Assai Hill, on the outskirts of Komenda town. Through the efforts of Mr. A. B. Sam, the then regent of Komenda, the legacy was leased to the Methodist Church Ghana in 1947 to be used as a Methodist Teacher Training College. The Government of Ghana later renovated the buildings to make the old barracks suitable for academic work.On 11th March, 1948, the first batch of students of forty men was enrolled to start an initial 2-Year Teachers’ Certificate “B” Programme. In 1952, the College became a Co-Educational Institution. It was established as Komenda Training College but has presently become Komenda College of Education per the Government’s Policy, (THE EIGHT HUNDRED AND FORTY SEVEN ACT), to upgrade Teacher Training Colleges into Colleges of Education. The first Principal of the College was Mr. Lawrence Alfred Creedy, a British national. The motto of the College is “Bepowso Kurow Hyeren”, meaning a city set on a hill, shines forth. M.H.B. 577 is the College hymn.