Hello esteemed alumni members, friends, and supporters, welcome to our June President’s Message, and thank you for allowing me to share some observations with you. This June promises to be the month of Covid decline, cicada invasion, and high-school graduations.

Congratulations to all Cambridgeittes who are connected in some way to this year’s High School and College graduation season. For awhile it was touch and go, as many school administrations struggled with whether or not Covid restrictions would allow our loved ones to actually walk across the stage on their momentous day. But with faith, our ‘little ones’ got fitted for their caps, gowns, and overall regalia with the hope of taking the walk that we parents and grand-parents look forward to so much. We can’t pretend, last year’s 2020 graduations were somewhat different. Many of our young (and adult) students did not walk the stage, and settled for signs outside their doors and on their lawns announcing their graduations; some had graduation ‘drive-by’ parties.

BOOK IT is a Virtual Book Discussion where participants interact with Guyanese authors on Zoom. This event is organized by Dr. Pauline Baird. Dr. Baird is a Buxtonian who teaches at a Japanese University. She is also an author, who has published several books, such as: Wah Dih Story seh? an oral tradition in the Guyanese Village of Buxton. This is also an opportunity to chat with other accomplished writers including Dr. Frank L. Douglas, a former Cambridge Academy professor who is the author of ‘Defining Moments of a Free Man from a Black Stream’. Don’t miss it. Be sure to converse with Dr. Douglas on Zoom, on Sunday May 30, 2021 from 4:30 pm to 6:30 pm EST.

Fellow Alumni, Friends, Supporters, and Well Wishers, you are invited to attend the Cambridge Academy Alumni Association International (CAAAI’s)

“POWERFUL PRAYER HAPPENING”

Join us on Sunday, May 30, 2021 from 8:00 – 9:00 p.m. as we lift each other up in a joyful prayer event. In the NAME of OUR LORD and SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST we will seek the Lord's Blessings not only for ourselves, but for our friends and families, and all those who are in need of healing, comfort, and courage through hardships. Words of inspiration will be provided by Rev. Dr. Walter V. L. Eversley.
Dial-in number - (978) 990-5151
Access code – 573748#

Please RSVP to:
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PETAL CROCKWELL at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or text to 917 566 1682.

- By the CAAAI Prayer Warriors’ Committee

Hello esteemed alumni members, friends, and supporters, welcome and thank you for sharing my message for the month of May.  An important commitment among members of the CAAAI Executive Branch is to promote positive thinking and forward thinking.  With this in mind, we prayerfully and eagerly look forward to states around this country and in the Caribbean to fully open up soon in a ‘post covid’ environment.  We are also aware that covid has negatively affected Cambridge Alumni members and their families in different ways to include health, finance, working from home, teaching our children at home, and job losses due to companies that closed their doors since the beginning of the pandemic.  But we are determined to bounce right back as conditions return to normal, and as the job markets begin opening up again.

In order to do that, we must be prepared to re-enter the workplace at any and every level. We also know that (no fault of ours) some of us have not done a job interview for sometime, so I hope that the following simple tips will be of help to someone in getting ready for a new job or regaining an old one.

The Cambridge Academy Alumni Association International (CAAAI) joins the family and friends of Alumna, Lola Patricia McCalman to mourn her recent passing. Lola exchanged her cross for her crown on Friday, April 16, 2021, and had her going home celebration online on Friday, April 23rd. Lola, who was a supporter and regular attendee of our association’s biennial reunion events, will be dearly missed by her family, and her alumni brothers and sisters. We are confident that she has gone on to a place of eternal rest, peace, and happiness, where she will meet with her ancestors and be embraced in the loving and welcoming arms of God. On behalf of the CEO, Dr. Desiree (Des) DeFlorimonte, the Executive Board, and the entire Cambridge Academy family we send our deepest sympathy, and the assurance of our lasting support to Lola’s family and loved ones.