Jul 99 - International School Moshi

Habari997.txt 20/07/20001999 GRADUATION CEREMONY========================The last IB Graduation Ceremony of this decade, century and millenium tookplace on the 22nd of May. The class of '99, was quite a special group: itconsisted of 22 students representing eleven nationalities. Some had beenat ISM since P1 while others had joined at various stages up to IB1. Thisclass also had the first batch of students from Arusha branch to comethrough to secondary school in Moshi. This year the Chibber award [which isgiven annually to a student who best reflects the values for which weremember Mr Chibber: loyalty to the School, promotion of the School's bestinterests, and above all, demonstration of an active concern for othersboth within and outside the School] went to Meghna Sandhu who joined ISM inP2 in Arusha branch. The guest speaker at this ceremony was Mrs Meghji,Tanzania's Minister of Land and Tourism who gave a speech concerningdevelopments in Tanzania and where priorities should lie in the future. Theceremony ended with the graduating class singing a song composed by MrsEgan, the IB English teacher and put to music by Mr Jones, the school musicteacher. After the ceremony there followed a grand Tea-Party in the dininghall. As far as the school was concerned, that was the end of IB2'99. Whatfollowed after that was the concern of the parents as usual! As for theirfuture, we shall have more to tell you in September.The S5 class, not to be outdone, had their leaving ceremony on June 11th.However,this was a short ceremony as most of them will be back next year todo their IB and practise for the proper thing in May 2001!LEAVING TEACHERS================This year several teachers who have been at ISM for many years are leaving.Laura Egan who has been teaching English at ISM since 1982 will be joiningher husband in Gibraltar and hopes to teach English in an internationalschool in southern Spain.Carolyn Shaffer who has been teaching French at ISM since 1990 is goingback to the United States where she will be teaching French in a school inFlorida.Bob and Sheila Messer have been at ISM since 1991, Bob as an IB coordinatorand History teacher and Sheila as Head of Mathematics Department. Bob istaking up appointment as Deputy Principal of the International School ofRotterdam while Sheila will be teaching at the American School of TheHague.Phil and Cecilia Hudson have been at ISM for four years, Phil as Head ofPrimary and Cecilia as one of the founder teachers of the KindergartenClass. Phil will be taking up a new post as Head of the Junior Section ofAcademia Britanica Cuscatleca in El Salvador.Tom Reppert who has been teaching a number of subjects at ISM for the lasttwo years is moving to Bandung International School in Indonesia.Jennifer Elliott is returning to Canada after two years at ISM as IBBoarding Parent and Science teacher.You will hear about their replacements in September.Asanteni,Elly NkyaNote: The report of the 1998 Oslo Reunion and the April 1999 edition ofHabari za Shule are still available for download from the school's website.Also the Garton's invitation for 14th August is still open - check out theAlumni section of the website.2