TEAA (Teachers for East Africa Alumni) Newsletter No. 40, January 2019. 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]>. !This is the 20th anniversary issue. The newsletter circulation is currently 389, of which 64 are UK TEAs, and 21 are guests. The remainder are former US TEAs, TEEAs and/or their family members. TEAA website. New and past information can be found on the TEAA website, tea-a.org that Henry Hamburger continues to faithfully keep up to date. There you’ll find “What’s Hot?” including photos. Brooks’ book reviews, story project entries, past newsletters, and much more are also there. ! In this issue: President’s Message, Brooks Goddard TEEA-UK annual meeting, by Clive Mann News from East African Head Teachers and Principals Cattle Keeping, by Mike Rainy Feeding the Basketball Gene, by Bruce Franklin Exploring a Cave in Kenya’s Meru District in 1965, by Dagmar Telfer Muthamia Culture Shock, by Joel Watne Our Best/Worst Experiences in East Africa, by Joel Reuben Your Stories We’ve Heard From You Friendship Demands: Remembering Jay Jordan, by Brooks Goddard The Unusual Story of Hal Sondrol, by Ed Schmidt Obituaries (omitted on web version) Directory Update (omitted on web version) President’s Message, Brooks Goddard Dear Rafikis, !As I follow literature about Africa written by all sorts of people, I find more and more people using such platforms as CreateSpace to draft their own reflections. I continue to have great respect for personal voice and encourage you all to write, whether or not you publish.