Fellow alumni members, friends, and supporters, on Thursday November 24^th, members of our association will join in and celebrate the festivity of Thanksgiving. We will have the good fortune of seeing family and friends who will travel countless miles to celebrate and feast with us on this day that transcends peace, happiness, togetherness, and the bounty God has favored us with. Interestingly enough, evidence abounds that the first thanksgiving tables displayed deer meat, shell fish, cornmeal, dried beans, and bean casseroles; the paradisiac turkey came some years later as an additional center-piece adornment. This progression suggest that adding other delicacies to a Thanksgiving table is both normal and acceptable.

The Executive Board and Members of the Cambridge Academy Alumni Association International (CAAAI) are deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Mrs. Constance Yvonne Samuels, (September 6, 1936 – August 26, 2022), beloved sister of our association’s Legal Counsel Mr. Denis Baird, Esq. and alumni, Vilma, and the Baird brothers.

A Funeral Service is scheduled on:

Saturday, September 10, 2022
Visitation: 10:00 a.m.
Service: 11:00 a.m.

Good Hope Union Methodist Church
14680 Good Hope Road
Silver Spring, Maryland 20905

We pray with the assurance that Constance Yvonne Samuels has gone on to receive the glory promised by our Almighty God to all His children; and that Jehovah will provide peace, love, and comfort to the entire Baird and Samuels’ families at this time.

AT CAAAI PRAYER WARRIORS GATHERING
When: Sunday, September 11, 2022 at 8:00 p.m.
Eastern Time (US and Canada)

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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.