Next Meeting TBD: The Author Interview will be rescheduled for March, 2012.
Interview with an Author February 25, 2012 - 1:00 - 3:00 PM Cameron Grove Community Resort Center/Lounge
We will host a special meeting: Inerview with an author - our own Mr. Bill Hopkins.
Mr. Hopkins was a previous chairman of the Senegal Friendship Committee, and current Prince George's County resident. He has written a book, "Young Man in a Hurry." This tells of growing up in the South, his military experience, and travels to Africa.
Come and meet Mr. Hopkins, share his life experiences and the proces of authoring a book.
Meeting Location = Cameron Grove Resort Center/Lounge (just off Hwy 214)
100 Cameron Grove Boulevard, Upper Marlboro, MD 20774
Mr. Hopkins was a previous chairman of the Senegal Friendship Committee, and current Prince George's County resident. He has written a book, "Young Man in a Hurry." This tells of growing up in the South, his military experience, and travels to Africa.
Come and meet Mr. Hopkins, share his life experiences and the proces of authoring a book.
Meeting Location = Cameron Grove Resort Center/Lounge (just off Hwy 214)
100 Cameron Grove Boulevard, Upper Marlboro, MD 20774
January 25, 2012
Location = Cameron Grove community (just off Hwy 214)
100 Cameron Grove Boulevard, Upper Marlboro, MD 20774
Agenda:
- Activities/Planning
. Program Development (Student Exchange and University Library)
. Art/Photo Exhibit
. Film Festival
. Newsletter
. Membership Drive
- Fundraiser
100 Cameron Grove Boulevard, Upper Marlboro, MD 20774
Agenda:
- Activities/Planning
. Program Development (Student Exchange and University Library)
. Art/Photo Exhibit
. Film Festival
. Newsletter
. Membership Drive
- Fundraiser
KWANZAA: December 26 - January 1, 2011:
Kwanzaa is a week-long observance to honor African culture and traditions in America. It falls between December 26 and January 1 each year.
- Umoja (Unity): To strive for and to maintain unity in the family, community, nation, and race.
- Kujichagulia (Self-Determination): To define ourselves, name ourselves, create for ourselves, and speak for ourselves stand up.
- Ujima (Collective Work and Responsibility): To build and maintain our community together and make our brothers' and sisters' problems our problems, and to solve them together.
- Ujamaa (Cooperative Economics): To build and maintain our own stores, shops, and other businesses and to profit from them together.
- Nia (Purpose): To make our collective vocation the building and developing of our community in order to restore our people to their traditional greatness.
- Kuumba (Creativity): To do always as much as we can, in the way we can, in order to leave our community more beautiful and beneficial than we inherited it.
- Imani (Faith): To believe with all our heart in our people, our parents, our teachers, our leaders, and the righteousness and victory of our struggle.
Next Meeting = 12/28/2011, Wednesday
November 18, 2011
Location = Cameron Grove community (just off Hwy 214)
100 Cameron Grove Boulevard, Upper Marlboro, MD 20774
Agenda:
- Report from meeting with Prince George's Community College
- Activities/Planning
. Program Development (Student Exchange)
. Art/Photo Exhibit
. Film Festival
. Newsletter
. Membership
100 Cameron Grove Boulevard, Upper Marlboro, MD 20774
Agenda:
- Report from meeting with Prince George's Community College
- Activities/Planning
. Program Development (Student Exchange)
. Art/Photo Exhibit
. Film Festival
. Newsletter
. Membership
October 26, 2011
Location to be determined.
Agenda:
- Communications report
- Activities/Planning
. Program Development
. Art/Photo Exhibit
. Film Festival
. Newsletter
. Membership
Location to be determined.
Agenda:
- Communications report
- Activities/Planning
. Program Development
. Art/Photo Exhibit
. Film Festival
. Newsletter
. Membership
September 28, 2011
-First meeting of the 2011 - 2012 season! The meeting will be the same time = 7:00 - 8:45 PM.
We are trying a one-time/different meeting location. Our meeting will be held in the:
Fireside Room at the Woodmore Wegman's
9001 McHugh Drive
Lanham, MD 20706
Stop in the Wegman's, pick up a beverage/food for yourself (if you like) and join us for our exciting first meeting of the new season
See you Wednesday 9/28, 2011 at 7:00 PM in the Woodmore Wegman's Fireside Room!
-First meeting of the 2011 - 2012 season! The meeting will be the same time = 7:00 - 8:45 PM.
We are trying a one-time/different meeting location. Our meeting will be held in the:
Fireside Room at the Woodmore Wegman's
9001 McHugh Drive
Lanham, MD 20706
Stop in the Wegman's, pick up a beverage/food for yourself (if you like) and join us for our exciting first meeting of the new season
See you Wednesday 9/28, 2011 at 7:00 PM in the Woodmore Wegman's Fireside Room!
August 2011
- Last month of the official summer break
- Unofficial work continues on the Student Exchange program (see Current Projects and Opportunities).
Please use our contact form if you would like to participate in this effort during the month of August.
- Unofficial work continues on the Student Exchange program (see Current Projects and Opportunities).
Please use our contact form if you would like to participate in this effort during the month of August.
July 2011
- Officially on summer break
- Unofficially continuing to work on the Student Exchange program and planning (see Current Projects and Opportunities).
Please use our contact form if you would like to participate in this effort during the months of July and August.
- Looking for great response to our "Bakeless Bake Sale" fundraiser activitiy.
- Unofficially continuing to work on the Student Exchange program and planning (see Current Projects and Opportunities).
Please use our contact form if you would like to participate in this effort during the months of July and August.
- Looking for great response to our "Bakeless Bake Sale" fundraiser activitiy.
June 2011
- Meeting with the Honorable Mayor Balde' of Ziguinchor and the Senegal Ambassador to the U.S, Ms. Fatou Diagne
- Attend the gala of the Union of Native and Friends of Casamance
- Last meeting until September. Salad pot luck. We will meet at our usual venue
- "Bakeless Bake Sale" in progress
- Attend the gala of the Union of Native and Friends of Casamance
- Last meeting until September. Salad pot luck. We will meet at our usual venue
- "Bakeless Bake Sale" in progress
