History of PSS Mankon

P.S.S Mankon was founded on the 23rd of October 1978. As everything goes through stages of development so did Presbyterian Secondary School Mankon.
In 1961, the school was opened as Women’s Teachers Training College Mankon (WTTC Mankon) with 38 women, under the patronage of Na Webah, the erstwhile Principal of that establishment.
Later hired by the Cameroonian government for about a year, and in 1978 P.S.S Mankon therefore came into existence as C.P.C Bali annex.
The Presbyterian secondary school as we know it today, saw its birth on the 23rd of October 1978, under the aegis of the Presbyterian Church in Cameroon. It opened its doors in 1978 for both boys and girls, with Mr. Memoh as the first principalfrom 1978-1987.

According to Mr Memoh: “October 7th 1978: The beginning of the beginning. But why? The Principal-to-be and his family arrived the former WTTC Mankon campus. Admission interviews were conducted of 85 candidates interview results proclaimed. Provisional admission notices were offered to 53 (12 to 14 year-old children).Mother nature cooperated with a sustained brilliant sunshine.”

Also find here an excerpt of a revelation about the events that led to the eventuation of PSS Mankon, from Mr. Memoh, the first Principal of this prestigious institution of learning:

“Thanks to the then Proprietor, the Rt. Chief Jeremiah Chi Kangsen and his Education Secretary (ES) Mr. Eugene A. Ekiti, both of blessed memory, for wisely advising the Presbyterian Education Authority (PEA) to create PSS Bamenda in Late August of 1978. Thanks to the PEA for assigning me to what it’s ES called this little school in the dynamic provincial headquarters of the Northwest. Thanks to Pa E.A. Ekiti for his unprecedented authorization to let me take from PSS Batibo whoever and whatever I would need to start PSS Bamenda smoothly. In this way I was immediately sure of a flying start. I took four teachers, two cooks, two typewriters, one duplicator, and some stationary. Mrs. Helen Anyangwe was added to our number just before we started. An educational establishment with the awesome mission to form anxious youths and give their lives purpose and direction was about to be born! It was an exciting assignment, freighting and humbling too. In my anxious moments I assured myself that the work we were about to start was God’s. Because it was God’s it would not fail. God was already in the future, I believed!”

FOUNDING DAY…

4:30 pm… The drum.
Fifty-three kids, cleanly shaved, lined up in front of the main classroom block. The entire staff! Six strong! PSS Bamenda had started for true! The journey had begun. God is in the FUTURE!
God did not however quite like the name PSS Bamenda, it seems. So He spoke to the mind of the Synod meeting in the Church center, Mankon. The Synod then renamed the school you’re so proud of PSS MANKON in April 1980. Even as a school doing seventh-form work, it continues to be called PSS MANKON. No other PSS changing status has that privilege. No other one might ever have”.Narration by Late Pa Memoh, the Founding Principal of PSS Mankon.

After Mr. Memoh came Mr. Francis Ndzuenyuiy as principal from 1987 until 1994. He was later succeeded by Rev. S.A.K Ndingwan, who took over from 1994 till 2006 and was succeeded by Rev. Henry B. F. Fomusoh who kept the sit warm for another 4years before being replaced by Mr. Samuel Awantu. Mr. Samuel Awantu led the school from 2010 till 2011 and was succeeded by the current principal Mr. Constantine Kimah.

In 1997 P.S.S Mankon became P.H.S Mankon with 88 students in the second
cycle (High School) and has been growing since then. Today P.S.S Mankon is renowned for its excellent academic performance, its high level of discipline, and sports. P.S.S Mankon today admits 780 students yearly and its staff members comprise of 57 people. The school so far has sent out sixteen.
batches of graduates who together are recognized as PEMEXANS.