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The
trail of scholarship, Dr. Alfred C. Bannerman
E. Ablorh-Odjidja
March 3, 2021
I don't know about what is happening
in our secondary schools of today in Ghana. But time was
when scholarship meant a lot. When the best and brightest
among the youth struggled for recognition and scholarships in all kinds of
positive ways.
Those were the days when students from
foreign countries competed to be part of student exchange
programs worldwide, and the best got chosen for foreign exchange
student’s sojourns.
Such was the case for Dr. Alfred
Clayton Bannerman when he was barely 18 years old at Prempeh
College, Kumasi, Ghana. He was awarded a scholarship to
participate in a foreign student exchange program and came to
the US in the year 1956.,
Dr. Alfred Bannerman, now 85
years old, formerly a Professor of Neurology at Columbia
University, NY, and Director, Neurology, Jamaica Hospital
Center, Queens, NY. He is married to Mrs. M. Bannerman for over 50 years.
Dr. Bannerman spent most of his adult life in the US.
He is now retired, living the life of a country gentleman in the rural
hills of Aburi, Ghana.
At his lovely open palatial home at Aburi, you can hear often Dr. Bannerman calling his wife in a
sonorous voice reminiscent of the “Big Ben” - Ma-rrriaaah, on a
sentimental whim!
It happens habitually when he wants to locate something
in a hurry.
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Even
at this late age, the good old doctor has a healthy lust for life and
knowledge that extends to many subjects, avid appreciator of
jazz music, loves traveling and already much-traveled to all
corners of the globe, affable entertainer and raconteur, and of
course, never lost a step in his interest in science and
medicine.
It is a sight to see him these days starring at
the night skies overlooking the Accra plains from his porch at
Aburi and calling out the stars by names.
More... Dr. Alfred C. Bannerman at
70.
E .
Ablorh-Odjidja, Publisher www.ghanadot.com , Washington, DC,
March 3, 2021
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Restructuring
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The
trail of scholarship, Dr. Alfred C. Bannerman
Personality, March 05, Ghanadot - I don't know about what is happening
in our secondary schools of today in Ghana. But time was
when scholarship meant a lot. When the best and brightest
among the youth struggled for recognition and scholarships in all kinds of
positive ways.
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