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STRAIGHT FROM SAKER BAPTIST COLLEGE'S REGISTRATION LEDGER, COURTESY OF MRS. K. LYONGA,
FORMER PRINCIPAL OF SAKER BAPTIST COLLEGE.
FROM THE PIONEER CLASS OF 1966,
TO ... CLASS OF 2007
TO BE CONTINUED ...
PLEASE CLICK ON LIST BELOW TO SEE DOCUMENTS!!
FULL SCREEN (F11) VIEW PREFERABLE!!
FROM STUDENT #1761 (ASAAH FLORENCE), to
STUDENT #2189 (NGAYAP IRENE)
CLASS OF '87 - CLASS OF '90 (Part 1)
PLEASE CLICK ON LIST BELOW TO SEE DOCUMENTS!!
FULL SCREEN (F11) VIEW PREFERABLE!!
FROM STUDENT #2190 (NGOLE LYNN)
to
STUDENT #4092 (MOLINDO DALE)
CLASS OF 1990 (Part 2) - CLASS OF 2001
(INCLUDES HIGH SCHOOL LISTS)
PLEASE CLICK ON LIST BELOW TO SEE DOCUMENTS!!
FULL SCREEN (F11) VIEW PREFERABLE!!
FROM STUDENT # 4093 (NDOPING CATHERINE), TO
STUDENT # 5194 (MBOE ASUKIA)
CLASS OF 2002 - CLASS OF 2007
PLEASE CLICK ON LIST BELOW TO SEE DOCUMENTS!!
FULL SCREEN (F11) VIEW PREFERABLE!!
LIST OF STAFF MEMBERS FROM 1962 TO 1972 & THEIR DATES OF ARRIVAL AT SBC
From:
Jackie Howell (xxxxxx@sfseminary.edu)
Jackie Howell (xxxxxx@sfseminary.edu)Sent:Tue 9/03/13 4:13 PM
Tue 9/03/13 4:13 PMTo: emonjimbo
emonjimboDear Egbe,
We reviewed your requests for documents at the Executive Committee of the North American Baptist Heritage Commission on August 23. It was agreed that I would scan and save two documents as tests to see if the quality is adequate for your purposes. We do not have the ability with our current equipment to make these documents searchable.
I am sending:
1) “Saker Baptist College {Dining Hall-Auditorium] Dedication” program as a pdf file. This program was a mimeographed program on a dusty pink 8” x 13” paper. The print was faded. Our scanning and printing equipment does not know what to do with this size paper, so I scanned each 8” x 6.5” page of the program on a separate 8.5” x 11” sheet. You can see the lines of the edges of the paper. It does make the center schematic drawing a little less easy to visualize, but words were cut off with other approaches. We have this document placed in acid-free protective sleeve so that the paper won’t deteriorate further. ...
We are going to move slowly on scanning until we are able to make the documents searchable, and determine how best to attach documentation so that we do not violate copyright laws.
John Siewert told me that his sister, Alma Henderson, was at a Saker graduation a year or two after this dedication when the actual Prime Minister (not the acting Prime Minister as in this Dedication event) was there and she took some good pictures in color we now have here. Is this something you would be interested in?
Best wishes,
Jackie Howell
Dr. Jackie Howell, Director
North American Baptist Heritage Commission
Sioux Falls, SD 57105-2729
IN THE VERY BEGINNING ...
THE SAKER BAPTIST COLLEGE DINING HALL DEDICATION,
29 JUNE 1963, VICTORIA
Hard to put into words how I felt when I received the email below and its attachments!!! It doesn't get more AUTHENTIC than this ...
From PIONEER Class of 1966's
STUDENT #1 (AGBOR FRIDA EGBE AYUK), to
Class of '86's Student #1726, (NGOASONG JOSEPHA)
THE 13 MARCH 1962 VISIT TO
THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA BY
H.E. PRESIDENT AHMADOU AHIDJO
Today, March 13 2014 marks exactly 52 years since H.E. Ahmadou Ahidjo - then President of the Federal Republic of Cameroon, visited the United States. The video above is already posted on the YESTERYEAR page of this website and I don't think I would have made any "fuss" about this whole "ANNIVERSARY", had I not stumbled upon the PRICELESS documents related to and surrounding the momentous event which are now part of the JFK LIBRARY ARCHIVES!!!! It is obvious from the sheer VOLUME of the documents and the meticulous DETAILS - from who got to sit in which car, how to pronounce their names, and what formalities and DIET RESTRICTIONS were to be observed, to the BIOGRAPHIES of ALL the members of the Cameroonian Delegation! In fact, even a detail like "THE PRESIDENT SMOKES CIGARETTES" is included!!! From these documents, (which I am not even halfway done perusing, I have sure learned A LOT about the Political and Economic "landscape" of CAMEROON at the time, and about the "MAJOR PLAYERS" on the political scene back then. Chances are, you will to!
PLEASE CLICK ON IMAGE ABOVE TO VIEW A COLLECTION OF SIMILAR DOCUMENTS PERTAINING TO THE VISIT.
(VIEW IN "FULL SCREEN" MODE FOR BETTER VISIBILITY)
SOURCE: JFK LIBRARY ARCHIVES
WHO'S WHERE IN THE SAKER WORLD???
- Wondering where in the world your "DULONG", "PETITE", long lost CLASS MATE or DORM HEAD could be?
- Traveling to some far-flung place and wondering if there could possibly be a familiar face
(or voice) out there?
WELL, THE ANSWER TO YOUR QUESTION MIGHT JUST BE A CLICK AWAY!
(CLICK ON ICON BELOW TO VIEW EXCEL SPREADSHEET)
NOTE: THE INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THE LISTS IS NOWHERE NEAR EXHAUSTIVE AND DOES NOT INCLUDE PERSONAL DETAILS SUCH AS PHONE NUMBERS, HOME ADDRESSES OR EMAIL ADDRESSES!!!!
IF YOU WISH TO POINT OUT ANY ERRORS AND/OR OMISSIONS, OR SUBMIT RELEVANT MISSING INFORMATION PLEASE REACH US VIA THE CONTACT FORM BELOW!!!!
PHOTO GEMS FROM LATE MISS KERN'S ARCHIVES ...
GRADUATING CLASS OF 1966 - PIONEERS!
PLEASE CLICK ON PHOTO TO VIEW ALBUM, AND ON BUTTON BELOW TO SUBMIT INFORMATION. THANKS!
GRADUATING CLASS OF 1967 - COMRADES!
COMING UP NEXT ...
PLEASE CLICK ON PHOTO TO VIEW ALBUM, AND ON "CONTACT US" BUTTON ABOVE TO SUBMIT INFORMATION. THANKS!
GRADUATING CLASS OF 1968
GRADUATING CLASS OF 1969 (MAJORS)
GRADUATING CLASS OF 1970
PLEASE CLICK ON PHOTO TO VIEW ALBUM, AND ON "CONTACT US" BUTTON ABOVE TO SUBMIT INFORMATION. THANKS!
PLEASE CLICK ON PHOTO TO VIEW ALBUM, AND ON "CONTACT US" BUTTON ABOVE TO SUBMIT INFORMATION. THANKS!
PLEASE CLICK ON PHOTO TO VIEW ALBUM, AND ON "CONTACT US" BUTTON ABOVE TO SUBMIT INFORMATION. THANKS!
GRADUATING CLASS OF 1971
ORIGINAL COPY OF THE S.B.C. SONG
Submitted to SakerPride by Dr. Stella Nwigwe Anyangwe ('69)
At the request of Dr. STELLA NWIGWE ANYANGWE on behalf of ExSSA-SOUTH AFRICA for which she is the very much cherished ADVISER, Pioneer Sakerette and first President of EXSSA CAMEROON, Sis PLAYNE FUONDJING sent her THE ORIGINAL VERSION OF THE SAKER SCHOOL SONG posted below, which she obtained from the author of the song herself Sis GRACE SAMA NGALIM of ExSSA-BAMENDA.
Says Dr. STELLA ANYANGWE in a note to her Chapter:
"I have been a member of several Chapters of our Association, and it has pained me, to no end, to hear our school song sung wrongly, and with utter glee! I hope our President-General will distribute this original version, with its correct solfa notation, to all chapters worldwide, so that we all can henceforth sing the correct version of our anthem!
EXSSA-SA secretary, kindly forward the song to all our members, and we will start re-learning/un-learning the anthem during our meeting on Sunday. We will have to sing the correct version at our official launch in November.
Warmly
Sis/Aunty Stella
... CAN I GET AN AMEN???!!!
Late CLASS OF '66 PIONEER CATHERINE YOTI NGOMBE (RIP) (Composer)
Sunset: July 14 1966
CLASS OF 1966 PIONEER, GRACE SAMA NGALIM
(Author)
YESTERDAY, JANUARY 29 2019 WAS SAKER BAPTIST COLLEGE'S 57th BIRTHDAY - FOUNDERS DAY!!!
ONLY IF YOU WERE ON LIFE SUPPORT COULD YOU POSSIBLY HAVE MISSED ALL THE "CARRYING ON" & "SHOW-SHOW" THAT SAKERETTES ON EVERY CONTINENT PUT OUT THERE! THEY SURE LET THEIR SCHOOL PRIDE SHOW!
BUT GUESS WHAT? ONE OF THE MAJOR REASONS WE COULD DO "ALL THAT" IS THANKS TO THE LADY WHO STARTED IT ALL:
MISS BERNEICE WESTERMAN, ...
- THE VERY ONE WHO PAINSTAKINGLY SELECTED THOSE FIRST 36 GIRLS WE NOW REFER TO AS "THE PIONEERS", BACK IN 1962; SAKER BAPTIST COLLEGE'S VERY FIRST PRINCIPAL; THE ONE AFTER WHOM S.B.C.'s WESTERMAN DORMITORY IS SO WELL-DESERVEDLY NAMED!!!
WELL, ON THE OCCASION OF SAKER BAPTIST COLLEGE'S 57th BIRTHDAY, THE 94 YEAR AND 9 MONTH OLD LADY TOOK A MINUTE - ACTUALLY 15 MINUTES, TO SEND "FOUNDERS DAY GREETINGS" TO HER SAKERETTES IN AN "INFORMAL CHAT" WITH MA SAKERPRIDE THAT WAS RECORDED IN THE LATE AFTERNOON OF TUESDAY, JANUARY 29th 2019 - FOUNDERS DAY!!!
PLEASE, CLICK ON THE PLAY BUTTON BELOW TO LISTEN TO THE PHONE CONVERSATION ACCOMPANIED BY A SLIDESHOW
"GIRLS NUMBER ONE, TWO & THREE!!!"
Miss Kern, Miss Berneice Westerman, (3rd from right), and Miss Tina Schmidt putting finishing touches to SBC's first ever Graduation Robes, many of which were still in use 4 decades after!!!
CHAT WITH MA BEE WESTERMAN from Egbe Monjimbo on Vimeo.
CLICK ON PLAY BUTTON ABOVE TO LISTEN TO JUST THE AUDIO! (No Slideshow)
SAKER BAPTIST COLLEGE GRADUATION CLASSES, BY NAME,
COMPILED by SakerPride
(Updated 02/13/19)
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When I graduated from Saker Baptist College in 1981, the college had 3 HOUSES: KING, ARMSTRONG and WITT; not the 4 it has today, which are: KING, DAIGA, WITT and BURNLEY.
At the time, certain "MAJOR PLAYERS" without whom Saker Baptist College's history would definitely be incomplete, had not yet been honored with having a DORMITORY or HOUSE named after them.
NOW, (THANKFULLY), we do have dormitories named after Miss WILMA BINDER, Miss EUNICE KERN and Dr. HAUPT.
While there's no SAKERETTE worth her salt (and kontri onions) who would not know who Miss BINDER is, fewer know who Miss KERN was, and even fewer, who Dr. W. NORMAN HAUPT is!!!
Well, he did serve as PRINCIPAL OF SAKER BAPTIST COLLEGE from 1969 to 1972 - which makes him Mr. W.N. TAYUI's immediate predecessor,(Hopefully you did not miss the fact that they have the same "W.N." initials!!!), and Mr. Donald WITT's "chop chair".
Back in 2012 when SakerPride was birthed, Ma SakerPride did start to hunt him down via GOOGLE (the best thing to have ever been invented, ah shuweh!!), and eventually found him - and his wife, Mrs. JUNE HAUPT who taught BIBLE CLASS in Saker, in SIOUX FALLS, SOUTH DAKOTA.
This little note from Tue, 8 Oct 2013 at 19:33:56 -0500 that still sits on SakerPride's HISTORY page is what came out of that "SEARCH & FIND" mission:
Dear Mrs. Monjimbo:
Thank you for all the work you have done to record the history of Saker Baptist College in Limbe, Cameroon. You have done much. I have looked through the links you sent me and am overwhelmed by all the good information and pictures.
Unfortunately, after 41 years it is difficult to remember any details of interest anymore. My wife and I were at Saker during a time of even development. There were not the large number of students that there are now. Nor were the buildings as extensive as there are today.
A few things that I remember is that the principal’s office had an air conditioner, which was unusual in those days. Also, the College had a good Bursar, Mr. Richard Tonga Ekema, who served the College well during the days I was there = 1969-1972. He was a big help to me in administration. The students were well-behaved. My wife, June Haupt, taught them Bible. We had some teachers helping us from the U.S. Peace Corps as well as some missionaries and Cameroonian tutors. Beyond that, our experience at Saker was well worthwhile and we enjoyed being there a great deal. We do not feel we made any sacrifices but, instead, learned much and were thankful for the opportunity to serve the Lord there.
I’m sorry that I’m not able to write more about our time at Saker. Also, I’ll not be able to send you pictures because I do not know how to do that on the computer. We older folk are not so adept on these machines. LOL
Thank you for contacting me. May the Lord bless you, your husband and family.
Sincerely,
Dr. W.N. Haupt
He went pretty SILENT after that.
Well, this past weekend when Ma SakerPride was MIGHTILY BLESSED and HONORED to be part of the 3 WOMAN DELEGATION sent out by the SAKERETTES TRANSGLOBAL ALLIANCE sorority, to attend MA BEE WESTERMAN'S FUNERAL in ... SIOUX FALLS!!!
You can be sure she asked after him and was told by the other CAMEROON MISSIONARIES at Ma Bee's VISITATION (VIEWING), that he hadn't been around much since his wife, Mrs. JUNE HAUPT passed away last year!!!!! MAY HER SOUL REST IN PEACE!
One of them attempted to call him, but got no answer, and with Road Trips and Flights to catch we resigned ourselves to not being able to SEE 2 PRINCIPALS in that 1 trip as we would have liked.
You can therefore imagine what a PLEASANT SURPRISE it was for all 3 of us SAKERETTES to be greeted, upon our entrance into the REPAST Hall on Saturday with the GLAD TIDINGS: "Dr. HAUPT IS HERE!!!!" He had, indeed, made the effort to come out and HONOR his FELLOW-MISSIONARY and PREDECESSOR!!! GLORY HALLELUJAH!
We were seated next to him so we could CHAT, and CHAT WE SURE DID!!!!
It truly was a WONDERFULLY BLESSED HOUR from ...
- That gut-wrenching TEAR that rolled down his cheek when I presented my condolences on the passing of his wife, to ...
- The SMILE that lit up his entire face when I pulled up SakerPride Pictures of him with the graduating classes of 1970 and 1971, to ...
- His gallant comment on my "pretty nails" (Praise The Lord for my VIETNAMESE peeps at NAIL TEK!!!) to ... you GUESSED IT ...
- THE BRIEF BUT VERY TELLING RECORDED INTERVIEW in which he recounts the time he spent in CAMEROON - at CAMEROON PROTESTANT COLLEGE (C.P.C.) BALI, at JOSEPH MERRICK BAPTIST COLLEGE (J.M.B.C.) NDU, and at SAKER BAPTIST COLLEGE (S.B.C.) VICTORIA (now LIMBE)
SAKERPRIDE CHATS WITH Dr. W. NORMAN HAUPT, ERSTWHILE
- PRINCIPAL OF B.T.T.C. SOPPO - BUEA
- PRINCIPAL OF C.P.C. BALI,
- PRINCIPAL OF J.M.B.C. NDU and
- PRINCIPAL OF S.B.C. VICTORIA (LIMBE)
Saturday, June 8th 2019 in SIOUX FALLS, SOUTH DAKOTA.
Shhhh!! Interview in progress!!! LOL!
Thanks to Late MA BEE WESTERMAN'S NEPHEW for being Ma SakerPride's very gracious Co-Interviewer!
Dr. W. NORMAN HAUPT, ERSTWHILE
- PRINCIPAL B.T.T.C. SOPPO-BUEA
- PRINCIPAL OF C.P.C. BALI,
- PRINCIPAL OF J.M.B.C. NDU and
- PRINCIPAL OF S.B.C. VICTORIA (LIMBE)
With the Class of 1971 on the Office Steps
WITH THE CLASS OF 1970
Front row - Catherine Molulu (now Fominyen) 3rd from left; Dr Haupt, Principal; Liengu Litumbe (now Martin) 3rd from right, Justine Chinda (now Chungong-Ayafor), 1st from right)
2nd row- Comfort Njicho, left of Principal. 3rd row- Late Juliana Ndoko (Mrs Gobina) 5th from right.
Back row- Bernice Ekiko.
Class of '70
FRONT ROW: Miss Kern, Sis Catherine Molulu (now Fominyen), ??, Dr. Norman W. Haupt, Sis Justine Chinda (now Chungong-Ayafor), Sis Lilian Tendo (Now Dr. Wambua), Miss ??
Class of 1971 with Dr. Haupt and Miss Kern.
With the SAKERETTES TRANSGLOBAL ALLIANCE (STA) DELEGATION TO Miss BERNEICE WESTERMAN'S FUNERAL IN SIOUX FALLS, SOUTH DAKOTA, Saturday, June 8th 2019
SakerPride Archives
Dr. Haupt in 1970
Dr. Haupt Now (2019)
THE SAKER ANTHEM, sung by ExSSA-USA's MUSIC DIRECTOR, Mrs. SUE OBEN TABOT, on the occasion of ExSSA-USA's 2020 VIRTUAL CONVENTION
Up by the brook of Likomba,
Is found the New Town hill.
Where the green trees all have opened
A habitation for young Cameroonian nation builders.
Chorus
Saker Baptist College 2x
Is the College of our pride
We praise God for our school.
Founded by Baptist Mission
To raise a Christian womanhood
As a dynamic force for the cross
Of God and righteousness in the home
The church and everywhere.
Chorus...
Kept by the power of God Almighty
The school is striving on
Giving hope to all the world arround
In music, morals, that all may see and give God the glory.
Chorus...
THE SAKER ANTHEM from Egbe Monjimbo on Vimeo.
THE SAKER SONG which was written by CLASS OF 1984's Ms PATIENCE FOMUNYAM and set to music by CLASS OF 1969's Mrs. CLAUDIA FOKAM BUMAKOR (who was serving at SBC as Tutor, House Mother and Music Director at the time.)
THE SAKER SONG is sung here by CLASS OF 1985's Mrs. ETHEL FRIDA TAMFU nee AGBOR-NYAMBOLI, at ExSSA-UK's 2020 VIRTUAL CONVENTION.
THE SAKER SONG from Egbe Monjimbo on Vimeo.
Ms Patience Fomunyam
(Above: 1984
Below: 2018)
Patience Fomunyam
& Mrs. Claudia Fokam Bumakor back in 1984
THE REST OF THIS WEB PAGE IS CURRENTLY "UNDER RECONSTRUCTION".
THANKS FOR YOUR PATIENCE!
1
From Greenland’s icy mountains,
From India’s coral strand,
Where Afric’s sunny fountains
Roll down their golden sand;
From many an ancient river,
From many a palmy plain,
They call us to deliver
Their land from error’s chain.
2
What though the spicy breezes
Blow soft on Ceylon’s isle;
Though every prospect pleases,
And only man is vile;
In vain with lavish kindness
The gifts of God are strown;
The heathen, in his blindness,
Bows down to wood and stone.
3
Can we, whose souls are lighted
With wisdom from on high;
Can we to men benighted
The lamp of life deny?
Salvation! O salvation!
The joyful sound proclaim,
Till each remotest nation
Has learned Messiah’s name.
4
Waft, waft, ye winds, His story;
And you, ye waters, roll,
Till, like a sea of glory,
It spreads from pole to pole;
Till o’er our ransomed nature,
The Lamb for sinners slain,
Redeemer, King, Creator,
In bliss returns to reign.
1
Beyond the Buea Mountain,
From West Coast earthquake strand,
Where Cam'roon's sunny fountains
Lay down their golden sand;
Along Victoria's Ambas Beach
Is found the Saker College
Where girls who seek for knowledge
Are all striving to reach.
2
On the twenty-ninth of January
In nineteen sixty-two
Thirty six Cam'roon youngsters
Were laid to Saker Hill
Their nervous trepidation
Became a joyful thrill
In the hearts of these first comers
A joy that warms them still.
3
The Baptist Girls' Secondary School
Was the first name for our school
The West Cam'roon Christian College
Was the name that followed next.
Today Saker Baptist College
Is the name our college bears
For God's word to our Cameroon
Alfred Saker strove to bear.
4
Geography and math'matics
Are subjects we employ
Domestic Science and physics
Are others we enjoy
English language and history
Music to praise the Lord,
Literature, Bible Chemistry
French Language for abroad.
5
With the power of God's Almighty Hand
We try to face the world
For Unity and Sisterhood
We Saker students strive,
Be we coastal, midland, upland
We Saker girls are one
With the help of tutors true we'll thrive,
And the battle will be won.
Salvation O salvation, S.B.C. girls proclaim,
For in our jubilation, no tribal rights disclaim.
FROM GREENLAND'S ICY MOUNTAINS
Song written in 1819 by Reginald Heber,
which served as a model for the Saker Anthem.
Please Click Below To Listen To Tune.
SAKER ANTHEM
Authored & Composed in 1966? by
Grace Ngalim & Catherine Ngombe (R.I.P.)
