August, 1963, Nairobi. I am in TEA. It is four months until Uhuru. We have trained for six weeks at Teachers College in New York and for ten days in Nairobi. During the latter, two incidents. A colonist second cousin tells me that Africans will not learn math from me, because they have only recently descended from the trees. And the program assigns me to teach white British colonial girls in this major urban center. I say I came to Africa to teach Africans and I'm taking the next plane home. They relent. I go to Kakamega 30 miles from Lake Victoria, where Africans not only learn math from me, they learn Advanced Level math and some pass with distinction on exams created at Cambridge University, pride of the metropole. One rises to become Dean of the Faculty of Science at Kenyatta University and in 2010 is honored by them as a pioneer dean. This I learn from searching the web where my second cousin is not mentioned.

1999. I have been back in the USA for thirty-four years. Ed Schmidt calls. He is finding us all, us ex-TEA people. Reunion talk starts. We schedule a reunion in Washington for 9/20/2001, nine days after what becomes "9/11." We go forward anyway. Two East African ambassadors to the US join us. Inspiring things get said about the old days. We still want to help. We think we have what to give - at the very least, money. Even just to do that and especially to have anything useful to say, we need to go back, so some of us do that, in 2003. We meet principals, teachers, students, education officers, even ministers of education. We find a school in Uganda to assist. We develop criteria. I go back in 2004 to find a school in Kenya to assist. Ultimately we will find many more. In 2005 another gang of us travel and visit schools in Tanzania. One of us knew Benjamin Mkapa when they were at Makerere and invites him. He consents to address us in Dar and the press is all over it! See photo.