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Jack and Lou Sharp (TEEA 1964-66 Kagumo College, Nyeri, Kenya and 1967-69 Kenyatta College, Nairobi) have moved from their California home to Port Ludlow, Washington (P.O. Box 65198, Port Ludlow, WA 98365 Phone 360-437-0818). Jack continues to operate safaris in Africa and will reduce his trips as head of the groups from five to three times a year. He also designs private safaris and other travel for individuals, couples, etc. who wish to travel in Africa. After living in Kenya for five years in the '60s, Jack has returned to Africa seventy times. Lou has accompanied him about 30 times. Sincerely, Jack Sharp Patrick J. McGowan. Dear Ed, My news is that I retired from Arizona State University at the end of December 2003 after 35 years university teaching and researching at Syracuse, Southern California and ASU. However, I still keep my hand in as I have an appointment as Extraordinary Professor of Political Science at Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa, where my wife Silvia and I spend five months each year from mid-January to mid-June. Indeed, we are leaving this evening for London and then on to Cape Town, arriving Friday, 20 January. I still do research and just published two articles on "Coups and Conflict in West Africa" in the October 2005 and January 2006 issues of Armed Forces & Society. The third edition of my co-authored and co-edited International Relations textbook will be published by The University of Cape Town Press in late January 2006. It is titled Power, Wealth and Global Equity: An International Relations Textbook for Africa. In 2005 we did a small move of about 10 miles from Paradise Valley, Arizona to Scottsdale, AZ to a smaller, albeit newer home which we love. Our new address is: 14127 N 106th PL, Scottsdale, AZ 85255. Our home phone remains 480-948-7642. I have two e-mail addresses that always work: Patrick.McGowan@asu.edu and pjm@sun.ac.za In October Silvia and I had dinner with Kay Strain also of 1B here in Phoenix. She was visiting her daughter, who is interning at a local hospital. Kay was very excited about her new home in Mexico. Regards, Patrick J. McGowan, 1B - Kagumo Teachers Training College, Nyeri, Kenya (1961-64) Lloyd and Thelma Fezler (TEEA6) report from their new domicile: Life here at Keystone Communities has been working very well for us. We are enjoying our apartment, many of our fellow residents have become good friends, and the staff here is so kind. We have breakfast and our evening meal in the apartment, but we take our noon meal in the dining room. It's a good time to see people, and the food is almost always to our liking. Throughout the year there have been many activities for us to choose from, and we have taken in some of the outside talent that comes in to perform. David Imig notes that he has retired from AACTE and moved to Hilton Head. His new contact information is in the DIRECTORY UPDATE in this issue. Thomas and Eldoris Cameron. Eldoris and I are ending another wonderful year. We are pleased that we have already outlived some of the greatest people in history and still remain healthy. We attribute our good fortune to living modestly, eating healthy and keeping active. Although Eldoris thinks I do not do enough, my walking almost every day with my four-pound dumbbells has really strengthened my body and kept me in shape. No more big belly. Of course, Eldoris is a workaholic and periodically burns herself out. Then she sleeps for hours until she recovers and then proceeds to repeat the process. Me, I love retirement. I am still wondering why I want to do something stupid like work as a real estate salesman. Next year we are going to South Africa. I have not returned to Africa since I left in 1965, so I look forward to seeing the change. We, however, keep abreast because we entertain many African guests and I get Google alerts. Fawn Cousens. New Year's Greetings to my fellow TEAAers from warm and pleasant Kampala. I take this opportunity to greet you on the Uganda-recognized New Year holiday: Sunday, January 1 (because there is such a plethora of holidays in this country -- national, Christian, Moslem, et al -- you celebrate them the day when they fall, even on a Sunday). This has been a busy year for TEAA activity in Kampala. Arlone Child and friends continue to support the scholarship scheme for Mackay High School students. Dar 05 saw a number of TEAAers passing through on the way to and from Tanzania, and I managed to travel over to Zanzibar to meet up for a week. Pat Gill and Henry Hamburger visited Kampala in July as did Leal and Audrey Dickson. I enjoyed meeting up with them while they were here. After Dar 05 John Dwyer and his daughter were in Kampala and managed to do some teaching at Mackay. Come November and Henry was back with Ed Schmidt to visit Mackay and Nkumba University and then start their journey around the Lake via Bukoba and Mwanza, visiting schools identified by Dar 05. They then passed through Kenya visiting other TEAA identified schools before returning to Entebbe to start their journey back to the States. Betty Castor and Sam Bell arrived on 10 December and on the 11th attended a lunch in their honor at my house. Betty and Sam visited Nkumba University and met up with Gertrude of MacKay. Sam has donated a consignment of 30 computers to Uganda. They are still in transit on their way to Nkumba. I look forward to meeting any of you when you come to visit Uganda. Have a happy and healthy 2006. Richard Winter. Dear Ed, Am in New Zealand until mid-April as a relief from Euro-winter-gloom. No good as TEA news, but true. Saw Fraser Robinson (TEA 2B) while he was in UK a couple of weeks ago. Miles Paul (in late December). Dorothy and I just returned from Eureka Valley (NW end of Death Valley NP) where we were hiking around in the mountains for a week. Now I'm in the final stages of organizing for my next session as resident astronomer at Sossusvlei Mountain Lodge in Namibia. I leave in a couple of days for 2.5 months there. We had a great time there on our recent trip (June-Sept), and I was more than willing to return when they invited me back. Dorothy will retire in June 06, but her teaching duties at the university prevent her accompanying me this trip. After 32 years living in Canada, we finally became Canadian citizens this year in October. So, best wishes for 2006 - may it be a good one for you. Clear skies, Miles Pat Gill has been recuperating from surgery at her home in St. Augustine, Florida, and recently received a visit from Pam and Magnus Work (4C UK). |