page_title: Presbyterian Boys' Senior High School
section_title: Odumase campus (1938–1968)
hierarchical_section_title: Presbyterian Boys' Senior High School / Odumase campus (1938–1968)
caption_attribution_description: English: Odadeetree
context_page_description: Presbyterian Boys' Secondary School is a prestigious secondary boarding school for boys, in Legon, Accra, Ghana. It was founded in 1938, under the auspices of the Presbyterian Church of the Gold Coast. The Basel missionary, Nicholas Timothy Clerk, who served as the first Synod Clerk of the Presbyterian Church of the Gold Coast from 1918 to 1932, used his tenure to advocate for the establishment of the secondary school. The school has ties with its sister schools, Aburi Girls' Senior High School and Krobo Girls Senior High School.
  The school's crest has a shield with the Presbyterian symbol with the motto of the school, "In Lumine Tuo Videbimus Lumen", meaning "In Thy Light We Shall See Light", scrolled beneath the shield. The school was originally located in Odumase - Krobo in the Eastern Region of Ghana before moving to its current location in Legon, in 1968.
  The school anthem is "Happy Are We", written by J. L. Anang and transcribed by Stephen Appiah Danquah.
context_section_description: The school was started in Odumase after a Ghanaian educationist with the Presbyterian Church of Ghana, E. A. W. Engmann, lobbied for a boys' school to be started by the church. This came to fruition in 1938 with the first group of 16 boys and four teachers. Rev. Engmann was the first headmaster.
  The Odumase campus housed German missionaries, then a primary school and then a government survey school before becoming the Presbyterian Boys' Secondary School.
  One of the traditions of the school is the "ɔdadeɛ" (baobab tree) located on the campus. An alumnus of the school is referred to as "Ɔdadeɛ". The baobab tree is a Ghanaian symbol of knowledge, resourcefulness and strength. New students were traditionally initiated at the feet of this tree clad in bedsheets and powdered faces. PRESEC was located here until 1968 when it was moved to its current location at Legon, Mile 9.
caption: Odadee tree
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