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.

Fellow alumni members, friends, and supporters, as the year 2021 draws to a close and we are actively participating in the festive season of Christmas and other holidays in the month of December, on behalf of the CAAAI Executive Board, we extend a heartfelt Merry Christmas to the entire Cambridge family in Guyana, the United States, the Caribbean, and the rest of the world; may the season bring you peace, joy, unity, and comfort.

We suffer no illusion that 2021 was not without difficulty for our association’s members as we continue to battle the pandemic, lose jobs, and even lives of our loved ones. But we continue to place our hope and faith in a merciful God who has never left us and will continue to provide our needs and wishes for the coming year, 2022.

From its rejuvenation in 2008, the Cambridge Academy Alumni Association International Board of Executives, has had the privilege and honor of serving its membership body alongside the unique quality of leadership found in Dr. Frank L. Douglas as one of three permanently appointed advisors to the Board. Dr. Frank, as he is fondly referred to in caucus, needs no introduction to our readership, as he is firstly Guyanese, has been our teacher at Cambridge Academy, a recipient of the highest scholastic eminence, fluent in the German language, recognized globally for his leadership and brilliant contributions to the complexed world of science, biomedical research, and pharmaceutical medicine. In 2010, Dr. Frank Douglas was a recipient of the prestigious Robert A. Pinkerton award, and in 2019 he penned his memoirs entitled - ‘Defining Moments of a Free Man from a Black Stream’.