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President's Message
Brooks Goddard
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TEAA received a big push in 2005 owing to Dar 05 and the personal visits of Henry Hamburger and Ed Schmidt to our schools in November and then by Betty Castor and her husband Sam Bell to Uganda and Tanzania in December. We go into 2006 supporting in the three East African countries 7 secondary schools, 1 university, 1 community library, and 1 secondary school affiliated internet cafe. I have written all the schools to solidify the TEAA connection and want to anticipate regular communication. Contact information about all 10 venues is readily available should you want it. I hope that TEAA can go into a formal fund raising mode soon, and so I hope you will take some delight in writing checks to TEAA and mailing them to Henry, our current treasurer. The funds that we have accrued so far have come from those who attended our reunions and individuals who -- upon visiting -- have dug deeply into their own pockets. We would also like to broaden our active TEAA organization group. More and more of you should be having increased amounts of personal time, and TEAA is always looking for creativity and energy -- basically those skills you took to East Africa in the first place. We have built a nice organization, and we want you to come join us. Which reminds me to send you to our newly revamped website: http://cs.gmu.edu/~henryh/TEAA/. There is much information there and many good pictures. The Dar 05 itinerant conference was a great success, and we hope that many of you are, as we write, planning some kind of trip to Africa. DO GO. And contact us who have been frequently; we can offer some good advice. We are thinking about a gathering in 2007 and would love to learn your thoughts about location and content. We think it is time to gather once again in the USA. Here are the schools that TEAA currently supports.
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