Under the distinguished leadership  of Togbe Tepre Hodo IV,National President; 

BHOBU 94 in collaboration with BHOBU National & BIHECO

present

the Maiden BHOBU OLYMPICS

INTRODUCTION

Bishop Herman College located at Kpando in the Volta Region is among the top 10% schools in Ghana established in 1952. It is a single sex school (male) with a current student population in excess of One Thousand (1,000.00) students.The school is affectionately called Biheco and the students,  BIHECANs.

 In the desire to keep the camaraderie shared on campus going and also give back to the alma mater,old students constituted themselves into BHOBU,an acronym which stands for Bishop Herman  Old Boys Union.

Membership is open to all students who have spent a minimum of one academic year in Biheco in pursuit of academic laurels.  Associate and honorary membership is also guaranteed to all those ,other than old students,who share in the vision of BHOBU especially members of staff,academic and non academic,friends and well-wishers of Biheco and Bhobu,not forgeting spouses of members.

BHOBU '94  is the group of students who completed Sixth Form or SSS3 in 1994 (or Form Five in 1992 for those who did not return for the Sixth Form program).

This year group is currently celebrating its fifteenth (15) anniversary since its formation in 1994 and/or its twenty second (22^nd) anniversary since members first stepped foot on Biheco soil as  students in 1987/88 .

 And as part of activities marking the event we ,BHOBU 94 in collaboration with BHOBU National and the school ,are organizing an Inter Year Group(our plan A) and an Inter Decade Special year grouping(our plan B) Sports and Games competition involving all year groups from 1955/6 to 2008.Inter Houses is our plan C strategy for the competitions.

 This event to be known as BHOBU Olympics {our plan A} or BHOBU-(SPONSORNAME) Olympics {our plan B} will be an annual event starting this year,2009. It will also be marked on the National BHOBU annual events calendar permanently as a major meeting date for BHOBU National Roll Calls  and also to celebrate members who have performed outstandably well in the year ending.

In this maiden one, we are inviting POGA as our special guests who will act as cheer partners but participate fully in all the games in the consequent ones, which shall be called  BHOBU-POGA OLYMPICS{Plan A} or BHOBU-POGA-(SPONSOR NAME) OLYMPICS{Plan B} . Our idea is to assist POGA, to also strategically organize their year groups and union even though we know they exist.

POGA, also an acronym, stands for Past Ola Girls Association.  Ola Girls is also a single sex(female) school in Ghana situated at Ho,the Capital city of the Volta Region, and is a sister and cheer partner to Biheco.  As Ola is to Biheco ,so is POGA to BHOBU, hence the partnership/"marriage ": BHOBU-POGA       Two are better than one,the saying goes.

In the very  near future ,from BHOBU or BHOBU-POGA level, we intend   organizing the event amongst the  old students of Volta Schools paired with or without  their cheer counterparts. We will also attempt Inter Schools Nationwide past students, then Inter Countries starting with Africa first and finally Inter-Continents.In all these cases ,we will venture the Catholic schools first to start with .We intend changing the name of the event appropriately as we get along.

For this maiden Olympics event, we hope to attract over two thousand (2,000.00) participants; using a conservative estimate of 40 participants per year group, as well as teachers and students from the school,Bishop Herman Old Tutors Union(BHOTU) members and spectators who will patronize the event.

It is also hoped that most of the media houses to be invited will be there to give extensive coverage for the event.

Awards,Plaques and Citations will be given to winners and deserving members on Dec 4th 2009(Farmers' holiday) during the National BHOBU Congress/ meeting at the Holy Spirit Cathedral in Accra.

 

NATURE OF THE PROGRAM

The details of the event are as follows:

Name:                       BHOBU Olympics

Date:                           7th Nov .2009

Time:                         8:30 am - 6:00 Pm (whole day event)

Venue:                       El-Wak Sports Stadium ,Accra,Ghana

Attire:   Sports

Mood: Picnic,jubilant,carnival and relaxed

Music: Borborbor dominated

Food: buffet,group sharing,accredited food vendors and attached restaurant

Drinks: Guiness Ghana Ltd Products

Participation Fee: Noko Fiooo

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1.   Football                                        13  Tug of War/Peace                                              
2.   50M Dash                                    14  Basket Ball                                                        
3.   100 M                                         15  Volley Ball                                                        
4.                                                      16   Scrabble                                                            
5.   200 M                                         17   Draught                                                            
6.   100 M (Relay)                             18   Ludo                                                               
7.   400 M (Relay)                             19    Playing cards
8.   Snake and Ladder                        20    Table Tennis
9.   Chess                                           21  Arm wrestling                                                     
10.   Monopoly                                    22  Oware                                                         
11.    Jama Competition                        23  Borborbor Dancing competition                          
12.   Roll Call Competition(to reward the best attending year group with their Poga cheer partners)