Ilboru School

Inevitably, most of my work was concentrated in the densely populated Moshi district where, with splendid secondary schools, Roman Catholic seminaries and large numbers of middle and primary schools, people were relatively well educated. I particularly liked and often visited the government secondary school at Old Moshi and the Holy Ghost Fathers' secondary school at Umbwe in Chief Abdiel Shangali's Hai division in Machame in West Kilimanjaro.

At Arusha, the Lutheran Ilboru secondary school a short distance from my bungalow, was a home from home and I was sometimes invited to take English classes there.

Apart from courtesy calls on the district commissioner, I rarely visited the headquarters of the Masai and Mbulu districts, though I often stayed with the Irish Pallotine Fathers at Karatu in the north of Mbulu district near Oldeani, and talked to the boys in the middle school there. I once took a party of them to spend Sunday in the nearby Ngorongoro crater and, like me, they were all thrilled with this Garden of Eden where animals and men had coexisted so happily since the dawn of time.

A Ceremony of interment of ashes of the late Stewart Carlson will take place at Ilboru Secondary School on September 14th, 2002. The late Stewart Carlson served the school in various capacities between 1952 and 1970.

The Prime Minister Honourable Frederick T. Sumaye will officiate the event.

All ex-Ilborians who attended the school between 1952 and 1970 are cordially welcome to attend the function starting from 2.00 p.m.

The Prime Minister, Honourable Frederick T. Sumaye will on Sunday, September 15th attend a memorial service at Ilboru Secondary School in Arusha for a former headmaster of the school, the late Stewart Carlson who left a Will that his ashes should be buried at the school�s compound.

The memorial service will be conducted at the same time as the burial of the ashes of the late Carlson who served the school in various capacities between 1952 and 1970. Carlson died in Nebraska, USA on January 14, 2001 at the age of 82. He left a Will that among other things stated that after cremation his ashes should be buried at the Ilboru secondary school�s compound.

The late Carlson, born on January 19, 1919 in Sweden and moved with his parents to USA at an early age, became a member of staff of Ilboru secondary school in 1950 and the school�s headmaster from 1952 to 1960. Thereafter he served as the school�s second master.

The late Carlson, the longest serving headmaster and teacher at the school, had also a reputation of being an ardent enforcer of discipline and a dedicated biology teacher. At times he conducted biology classes from Form One to Form Six. Among his former students is Honourable Frederick T. Sumaye.

When he returned to the United States, he joined the Lutheran Church in Scottsbluff, Nebraska where he served in the congregation as an assistant to the pastor until he retired. After his retirement he continued teaching an adult Bible class in his congregation.

The late Carlson was dedicated to Ilboru school and the people living around it and that is why he left a Will that his ashes should be buried at the school.

A representative of the late Carlson�s family arrived in Arusha with the ashes in July last year and after discussions with a committee of former Ilborians including Dr. Anza Amen Lema, also former headmaster of the school, it was proposed to bury the ashes at a location where the late Carlson nurtured plants for his botany classes and plant a tree on the spot to commemorate him.

The late Carlson left a widow, six children and 12 grand children. His wife Marilyn Carlson accompanied him during his stay at Ilboru and four out of his six children were born in Arusha.

Ilboru Lutheran Secondary School was opened in 1946 and was managed by the Lutheran Church until1969 when it became a government school.