TEAA (Teachers for East Africa Alumni) Newsletter No. 36, January 2017. Please send any changes to your contact information and/or items for the newsletter to Ed Schmidt, 7307 Lindbergh Dr., St. Louis, MO 63117, USA, 314-647-1608, <
[email protected]>. In this Issue: Detroit -- TEAA Grand Finale President’s Message, Brooks Goddard On Our Website, Henry Hamburger Next UK reunion, Clive Mann <
[email protected]> Recent Emails from East African Head Teachers and Principals Transformation and Continuity in Tanzanian Teacher Education, Fran Vavrus TEAAers Create View from the Eastern Side of the Pond, Richard Price. Your Stories, John Filby and Paul Haslam We’ve Heard from You Obituaries. Byron Birdsall, Johney Brooks, Larry Olds, Leigh Proudfoot, Robert L. Wendel Directory Update DETROIT - TEAA GRAND FINALE August 17-20, 2017 Mark your calendar for a Detroit visit, August 17-20, 2017. Here’s why. Fifty-six years ago, the first of us went to East Africa to teach. We went before the Peace Corps teachers – we are their proud predecessors! More than 600 of us went in the next ten years. In 1999, Ed Schmidt decided to find us all, and in two years he had located more than 400 of us. We are can-do folks. Our first reunion/conference was held in Washington DC only nine days after the 9/11 attacks. About 130 of us came to that stunned city. The Peace Corps had planned its 40th reunion for that same weekend. They cancelled, but we came. In 2015, at the Minneapolis Reunion, TEAAers voted to make the 2017 Reunion our last in-person gathering.