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.

CAAAI sends wonderful greetings to the men and fathers who diligently keep up the good work and maintain their commitment to the pledge we have undertaken to uphold Mr. Robert Pinkerton’s dream. To honor each one of you, this Special Father’s Day message is dedicated to you.

HAPPY FATHER’s DAY!

As we celebrate Father’s Day, June 19, this is a good time to refresh our intellect with the poem “Mother to Son” by Langston Hughes. The research and historical context purport that the poem was published at a time and had relevance to the civil rights era that included the struggles blacks faced in the racial divide in this country. Even though historical events still present themselves, the poem still depicts life’s challenges that mothers, and all parents face today to survive. That conversation is so relevant and continues as mothers are still speaking to sons who are now grown up and are fathers of their children.

CAMBRIDGE ACADEMY IS 72-YEARS OLD.

HELLO Fellow alumni and friends, welcome to our March 2022 editorial of the monthly Website and Facebook message. 2021 was an active year for CAAAI in spite of the ravages of the Covid Virus, our Executive Board and membership body rose to every challenge to keep the Alumni Association united, coherent, focused, and involved in virtual events such as Sip-&-Chat, three Prayer Warrior sessions, and significant support to the Nehemiah school, establishing Sub-committees with broader authority, reconstructing the alumni’s Website, increased donations, and trimmed our expenses, among others.

We are now in the third month of 2022, and our membership body has yet another milestone to be proud of, one that we must celebrate joyfully and in reverence, as 2022 marks 72-years since our hero, founder, and Principal, Robert A. Pinkerton started the school on nothing but faith, imagination, and determination.

Dear Alumni, Friends and Supporters:

It’s been the best of times and the worst of times! Despite individual and collective challenges, griefs and tests of our resilience, there is still much to be thankful for, and plenty to celebrate.

During this season, we take time to reflect upon the good things we have accomplished during 2021 … like perpetuating Mr. Robert A. Pinkerton’s appeal to us to ‘give back’ and contributing $500,000. (GY) to our adopted school, Nehemiah Comprehensive, in Georgetown Guyana – the presentation was made by Advisory Board Member, Mrs. Barbara Atherly (CG); the creation of the Prayer Warriors’ Committee led by Ms. Petal Crockwell and Ms. Grace Syfox was formed after several alumni and friends requested our prayers during the pandemic; Ms. Lorna Welshman-Neblett chaired the successful Sip and Chat virtual variety concert; the altruistic donation of 20 Tablets from our Advisory Board Member, Dr. Frank L. Douglas to Nehemiah school. This gesture was done in honor of Mr. Pinkerton and on behalf of CAAAI.