Dear fellow alumni, friends and supporters, welcome to our August 2022 edition of the CAAAI President’s Message. It is summer (in most places), and many of you have taken the opportunity to travel long distances to be with family and friends, especially after two summers of being cooped up at home due to the Covid pandemic. In spite of high gas prices and many air-flight cancellations, in true Cambridge style you rose to the occasion and boldly visited your loved ones, or they visited you in the summer of 2022.
Be assured that your association’s Executive Board Members and Committee Chairpersons dabbled in some recreation time also, but we maintained our commitment to leadership, supervision, deliberation, and decision-making by keeping scheduled Quarterly Meetings and many Committee Meetings online during this season, as required by the CAAAI bylaws.
I am anxious and proud to announce that after a recent CAAAI donation was made to the Nehemiah school in Georgetown by appointed Board Member Ms. Diana Bryant-Wilson, a vibrant 4-member Education Committee was formed in May by CEO Dr. Desiree DeFlorimonte, that has yielded rapid results and success in support of the acquisition of a new, adequately spaced building to house a ‘New Nehemiah school’ scheduled to open next month (September). We join Dr. Osman, Founder and Principal in our praise and thanks to the Almighty God for this ‘summer’s blessing’.
God’s Grace of a new school house brings me to another equally important matter. In a recent conversation with Dr. Trevin London former CEO, now Treasurer, and Education Committee member, we agreed that we must now widen our membership focus to include more ‘latter-day graduates’ who left school in the last graduation classes of 1974 and 1975, as those graduates would currently represent the younger age-group among the core of members and supporters who attend our functions and online events. For this very reason the CAAAI needs your support and involvement for it’s continuity into the future, on big restoration projects such as the New Nehemiah Comprehensive Partnership School in Georgetown. If there ever was a time, regardless of our graduation year, for all Cambridge alumni, friends, and supporters to lend our support to the CAAAI is now, during this summer in which God has blessed us with a new opportunity to strengthen our mission with New Nehemiah and to do more good for its students. Just call or email any Board Member, or call me directly (240-328-7044) if you would like to help add to this Summer’s blessing. Until next month, stay blessed up, and take care of one another.
Submitted by
Dr. Aubrey F. Bentham, President CAAAI
