When the financial hardships became unbearable in 1970, Mbwega suggested to the school management that a boarding section for girls be started.

That's why all people founding school are concentrating on making them boarding," Mbwega contended.

The growth of the school to the present status and the development in the locality paint a deceptive picture.

"The founders gave their all for the sake of the student," Mbwega stated in an interview at Lweza parish.

By then Mugerwa, then working with Uganda Posts and telecommunications provided his vehicle for all school activities.

To explain better Mugerwa's pivotal role and attachment to Namugongo, several student who left the school in the 1970s end up at his home in search for their academic transcripts.

The mother General appointed Sister Bernadette Mary who had previously been head mistress of St. Joseph S.S Nsambya for nine years.

Her order barred member of the congregation from teaching boys above 12 years of age.

After some discussion a middle line was found in allowing the boys already in school complete and leave.

However, when the head teacher discovered this she banned gardening and food was brought from Kireka market.

When I reached the junction in Kyaliwajjala, I met some men standing on a raised ground.

That was my experience and it was really a hard one," Sister Bernadette recalls Before coming to Namugongo Sr. Bernadette had applied for leave to return to the quietude of Nkokonjeru away from, in her own words "the popcorn in Kampala" [rattling of the guns and explosion that characterized Amin's regime].

Sr. Bernadette's best memories focus on the five girls she won for the vocation of being a nun and the name are on her finger tips: Sr. Goretti Nassuna (now secretary to Mother General at Mother Kevin House, Jinja District), Sr. Teopista Adyeri (now head mistress of Busowa Secondary school in Busoga region) Sr. Sylvia Tamale (now in the United States), Sr. Gertrude Nana samba (was secretary in Nsambya but died) and Rose Nakiyonga(who later quit).

I hope that these students will put in mind whatever they are taught and become good citizens of tomorrow," Sister Bernadette stated in an interview.

In 1984, when sister Justine left Emmanuel Kibirige Musoke came in from Stella Maris Nsuube.

The creative head teacher also established a small-scale poultry farm to generate more funds for the school.