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God's Grandeur

The world is charged with the grandeur of God.
It will flame out, like shining from shook foil;
It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil
Crushed. Why do men then now not wreck his rod?
Generations have trod, have trod, have trod;
And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil;
And wears man's smudge and shares man's smell: the soil
is now bare, nor can foot feel, being shod.

And for all this, nature is never spent;
There lives the dearest freshness deep down things;
And though the last lights off the black West went
Oh, morning, at the brown brink eastward, springs -
Because the Holy Ghost over the bent
World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.

~Gerard Manley Hopkins, S.J.

Ocer Campion Jesuit College

School life at the end of first term
2012-04-19

The first term in 2012 has gone very fast and has ended today. In the two weeks around Easter Sunday students sat for their end-of-term exams. Open campaigns for the new student leaders were held on the 12th. Candidates held speeches, talked to students individually and performed dances to get as many votes as possible. Voting was done on 13th April. The new prefects will be sworn in during the first week of the coming term. The rainy season is here and each student has been allocated a plot of land to cultivate before going for holidays. Each plot has a number and students have planted various crops. A number of groups like Youth Alive and Health Alert, have given workshops to the students during the past two days. In these workshops which have been so interactive, students have been equipped with skills of caring for their health issues and behaving while not at school. A closing assembly was held yesterday. During this assembly both teachers and students said their farewell words to the OCJC community. All the students have received their report cards before leaving for home this morning.
(Image above: evaluation of voting papers)

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  2012-04-19: School life at the end of first term

  2012-04-10: Easter Celebrations

  2012-04-03: Visiting Day

  2012-03-27: Coca Cola Football Tournament Gulu 2012

  2012-03-19: International Women’s Day Celebrations

  2012-03-05: Welcome Celebrations at OCJC

  2012-02-13: Spring is dug out and sealed as second source of water

  2012-02-06: Student's Report

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OCJC students stock fishpond with 2,000 talapia
Students worked with Fr. Jim and a local fish hatchery to introduce 2,000 Nile talapia fingerlings into the school pond. After contracting a local fish nursery to hatch and grow Nile talapia to finger size, 2,000 talia were introduced into our three-acre fish pond Oct. 13. The pond was created several months ago by daming the headwaters of eight perenial springs flowing through our property. Two control valves and an overflow maintain the water at a desired level. This will allow the fingerlings to grow to hand-size in six months and arms length in the following years. Bring your fishing tackle the next time you visit OCJC.
2011-10-24

The Classroom and IT building nears completion
The new classroom and IT/library building are nearing completion at OCJC. The images show the building in early September, 2011. The building will contain eleven standard classrooms, three science labs, and a library. The whole complex is powered by solar energy. The enterior courtyard contains a very large, 60 cubic meter cistern, which harvests the rainwater for bathroom and cleaning purposes. The science classrooms will be state-of-the art, allowing students to excel in basic sciences like chemistry, physics and biology and environmental sciences, forestry, animal husbandry.
2011-09-06


The girl's dorm and new classroom block turned over The Girl's dormitory and the new classroom block are being turned over to OCJC by the contractors this month. The boy's dorm is next. The contract for constructing the new boy's dorm was signed July 23rd with construciton beginning July 25th. The dorm it to be finished Jan 2. 2012. 2011-08-02


Project Status #1 Construction of the girl's dorm is nearing completion. What remains is rain guttering, three large external water storage tanks and the constuction of a large 60 cubic meter cistern to harvest rainwater during the two rainy seasons for student. We are looking for funds, about $10,000USD to comlete the cistern and purchase the larege plastic external tanks. 2011-05-31

Project Status #2
The backbone for the campus sewerage system is now in place thanks to a generous donation from James O'Kane, Campion Class of '57. The entire underground system of pipes, manholes, septic tanks and three eco ponds that digest raw sewerage from the dormitory, classrom and future developments extends almost one mile along the south side of the campus. While mostly hidden from sight, it ensures that there will be no future contamination of the local water table from foul sewerage. Since OCJC is located on one of the headwater streams of the Nile River, runoff and management of sewerage is carefully managed by the Uganda Enironmental Protection rules. These have been followed carefully in designing the system by Wagner Associates, Kampala.
2011-05-31


Project Status #3 Jim Strzok, S.J., President of the Building Committee for the Eastern Africa Province just returned from three weeks at OCJC. He posts these images and this progress: 2011-05-31

#4
Solar powered street lighting is now being placed along the long 200 meter campus road connecting the girl's dorm to the upper classrooms. Since the entire campus is solar powered, the automatic switching for the light posts had to be developed locally. It is not available on local markets. But thanks to Fr. John Legge, SJ, who teaches electronics at Gulu University, Fr. Jim Strzok, SJ, was able to develop and enstall a light sensor and main solar collector for a system that will soon light the path during the night.
2011-05-31