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SPEECH DELIVERED BY SEYI OGUNDEJI ON 26TH DECEMBER, 2012 AT 2007 ANCO OLD STUDENTS MEETING
@ ANGLICAN COMMERCIAL GRAMMAR SCHOOL HALL OSOGBO
It’s a great privilege to be here
once again among the living soul. It is no more a news
or a story that we are the product of our
self or we are whom we are. An adage that says “20 children can never play for 20 years”
became a reality when we are no more in the same unit neither department again.
The journey is so far that no one can tell what the future holds for us if we
keep our plan in a Godly and not in a worldly way.
To
the glory of God, the second RE-UNION
of the Ex- ANCOS which kicked off
last year was once here again, I am dumb founded when I began to hear
information about our last meeting and how people are more interesting to be
here once again after leaving their lovely Alma Mata for good. Once again I am
glad seeing everyone here in this gathering because it’s like a Christmas that
comes once in a blue moon and this marked the opportunity to bring ideas and
find help to those who are in need of help. The success of this meeting lies in
our hands and I will love all us to be a partaker so as to achieve our aims.
As
we have all know that we are all born to be great. And one thing about life is not
being great but we are born to serve. We have to leave the past and
look forward to what the future holds for us. When we leave here we are not
like these, there is increase among us both in shape and in size, we have daddy
and mummy among us, we have those aiming for success and those at the brick of
gaining their desire in life. Though life is not a palatable one but as for us
we must be willing to strive to make life comfortable even if conditions around
us give birth to trauma.
As you have all known that the
future of this great "ASSOCIATION” lies upon our hands and what so ever we sow
we must reap, so they said, I will urge us to let us plant something
extraordinary out of ordinary things. We need to look into the needs of the
school and see how we can come in to help the teeming one coming up ahead of
us. Let’s rob minds together and bring talents out of the dust so that they could
know that we still exist.
My
fellow colleagues, I am glad hearing about the news of our retirees in this
noble institution but my glad will be at the utmost if we are all there to
congratulate those that have impact knowledge to us either positively or
negatively. It is sadden that none or few of us were at the retirees ceremony and
this should not be, our impact need to be feel even if we are not at Aso Rock
we can still change the word with the word of our mouth. We can all see that
there is few or no changes in the development of the school, I can sense that
how we live the school is still how it is but what can we do to make an impact
to show that the future ahead is bright and colourful.
One
thing we are all born to do is to make an impact either positively and
negatively, my lovely and highly esteem colleagues it will be my utmost joy if
our gathering here is not to meet friends or cajole about the past but if it is
that of brighter tomorrow of this our Alma Mata I will be glad in all.
In
conclusion, we are no more in computer age any more but we are now in
information age and I want you to know that: “If you are not informed you will
be deformed”. Information is power, get it.
Long life my Great
people of 2007 Anco Old Students,
Long Life Anglican
Commercial Grammar School,
Long Life Osun State,
Long Life Nigeria.
Thanks.
Seyi
Ogundeji
