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 ANNOUNCEMENT

All Kerenites are invited to attend our July 6 to 8 third reunion. Our program is filled with a lot of entertainment. To name some, it will include conference about youth education, parents and youth relationships, youth opportunities, challenges, and experiences. Other events planned are our medical and economical issues and ways to tackle them.  All these activities are spiced with different entertainment like jokes, poems, and trivia questions. The program is mostly geared towards laughter and having fun.  Come meet your childhood friends and enjoy!!!


By Joanne Richards (Former Keren High School Peace Corps)

  I joined the Peace Corps in 1966 at the ripe old age of 21, just after graduating from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Our three-month training program, which took place in Cambridge, MA, introduced us to the language and customs of our host country, Ethiopia (now Eritrea), and reacquainted us with the history and political science of the U.S. As we prepared for life in a very foreign land, we became a close-knit group. I was posted to Keren (the northernmost of all the towns where volunteers served), but my friends were distributed all over Ethiopia. READ MORE

 

Welcome to the Keren High School Reunion Web Site

Help Reconnect

Our Keren High School Reunion website www.Sweetkeren.net is fostering a spirit of networking where former Keren students could reflect on their childhood.  We would like to receive your emails and comments.  If you have old pictures, please send them to us, and we will post them. If you have memories of Keren High School that you want to write about, please do so.  We all know that we missed one-another, and by sharing memories, we will be able to stay close and energized.


The Excitement is Intensifying!

The Anticipation is Growing!
July 6, to July 8, 2012 in D.C.
The 3rd Keren High School ReunionIs upon us.
Let The Count Down Begins!
Attendees are encouraged to register
And make their reservation ahead of time.


Keren High School Reunion II of Summer 2010 Alexandria , VA - USA

Keren High school 2010 reunion attracted more than 500 alumni, their families, and friends on July 02, to July 04, 2010. This is the 2nd successful re-union after the last one hosted in Toronto , Canada . Read  More

 

Ustaz Mahmud Kanoni

 

Ustaz Mahmud was my favorite principal. Keren High School students have rich memories about their school, thanks to Mr. Kanoni. He worked tirelessly to make sure that every child got quality education when Keren was a war zone. Read More

Articles from 'Outlook Student Newsletter' Published in Late 1960th and Early 1970th. 

Compiled by Yohannes Ferdinando Drar, Ottawa , Canada February 4, 2010

To all former students of Keren high school (Then called Atzie Dawit Secondary), especially graduates of the 60s and 70s, the school had a magazine run by the students. To preserve the memory of our former students, I am trying to collect copies so that people can remember their classmates and friends.  Read More ...

Suzane & Noah 

In behalf of the KHS Preparatory Committee Allow me to say congratulations
We are extremely elated To witness a wedding that was conceived at our reunion

It was a dream come true
To see youths who met at our get-together
And whose family came from Keren Tsada
Got bound in holy matrimony Read More...

Speech Delivered by the Chairman of the Preparatory Committee

Thank you all for coming to this historic Second Keren High School Reunion. Thank you honorable guests! Let’s give them a round of applause. Thank you spouses and children for sharing this great day with us; we wouldn’t have done it without you and your support. Please help me in giving them a round of applause. Special thanks go to our youth who volunteered to be part of all the discussion of this reunion. Read More...

Memories of Keren

      

By: Raj Rajan and Indira Rajan

We were the first teachers to come to Keren from India .  We came in August 1966. That batch of teachers included Mr.Khanna, Mr. Verma and Mr Gurmit Singh. The others came later. When we came there were 5 Peace Corps teachers. Read More ...

 

ANNOUNCEMENT

Reserve Now !!!

For 3rd Keren High School Re-Union on July 6 to 8, 2012 call, Hilton Hotel 
5000 Seminary Road in Alexandria , Virginia, Washington DC area, 
1-877-783-8258 or (703) 845-1010

(Room rate: $69.00 per night) 

For questions call the chairman of the preparatory committee at (206) 841-7793

Spaces are limited, so act now!

Reserve your Hotel Now

The clock is ticking and the festivities are nearing. Are you ready? We think it is the time when we should start reserving our hotel rooms and shop for our plane tickets. Especially, those ‘DEKI KEREN TSA’EDA’ who are coming from far away need early planning as the hassle of travel could ease out when you have everything about your travel laid out early.

Hilton Hotel is taking reservations for the event right now, and it is time to call. Hotels in Washington are so busy during the 4th of July weekend, and to get a place reserved at the hotel, it is a good idea to do it early enough. Their services are first come first serve; they are expecting us to reserve soon enough.

This reunion is for all friends and class-mates who went to school together and grew up together. As a result of past history, these Keren lovers have many childhood memories. At this third reunion, we will have a chance to go back in our past and reminiscent about our days in Keren. No one should be left out. Let’s tell friends and neighbors who had the same history to come and have a memorable festival. The last reunion was attended by close to five hundred people, and this one is expected to be doubled.

My City My life (Keren)

By Awet Aregay

My beloved City Keren,
you are my City,
You are where i come from,
you gave me my family,
you gave me my life.
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Speech by Mr.  Gallaghar (Peace Corps) at 2nd Keren High School Re-Union in Washington , DC , July 3, 2010   

I got myself into this mess by joining the the Peace Corps. I was 21, and had graduated from Monmouth College in New Jersey only five days earlier. Read More

Can You Remember Your Former Peace Corps Teachers?

Here is a list of former Peace Corps teachers who served in Keren , Eritrea . I have collected this information from the Peace Corps website and it might help former students to reminisce their student life in Keren. Read More...

Pictures by Mr. Terry O’Herron

These historic photos were taken by Terry O’Herron, a Peace Corps, who taught in Keren Middle School (1963-64) before Keren High School was found. The boys and the girls were segregated; they had separate classrooms. Do you recognize anyone? Read More 

 Happiness

By Hassen Fereg

A boat docked in a tiny Eritrean fishing village. A tourist complimented the local fishermen on the quality of their fish and enquired on how long it took to make the catch.

“Not very long.” they answered in unison.

“Why didn’t you stay out longer and catch more?” asked the tourist?  Read More...

The Road to Heaven Pass Through the Keren Secondary School Reunion (KSSR)

ByDr. Fickak Habtes, Dr.PA, MHSA, MPH

Hard work pays off:

After two years of preparation through conference calls and brain storming the board of directors for Keren Secondary School Reunion (KSSR) efforts and planning put to test. The hard work to cultivate the best ways and means to bring back old memories, rejuvenate fading friendship and reconnect old classmates’ reunion arrived. Read More...

 Realizing our Dreams
For some of us it has been quite a long time since we attended or graduated from Keren High School . Much in us has changed. Much of the world around us changed but the spirit, memory and nostalgia of the olden days is alive. This has left some of us with the idea of forming a reunion lingering in our minds although no one had voiced this desire for quite some time.

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