50^th Year Anniversary Meeting report               Place: Tana Haik, Bahir Dar                                           Date: January 4, 2015

Tana Haik School 50^th year anniversary will be celebrated in April 15-22, 2015 (Miazia 7-14,2007 E.C). The meeting is organized by a committee, which has seven main sections and established with school administration, staff members and former students of Tana Haik. We, members of the Alumni, were invited to attend the first meeting on January 4, 2015.

 Agendas and Discussions

1. Former students of the school met in the school and visited the new library, classrooms, laboratories and school compound. The school administrators well explained about the current conditions of the school.
2. The meeting held in school hall opened with the current students music show, coffee ceremony and opening speech. Former students were introduced each other. Most of them studied in Tana Haik before 25 years and currently they are working in different sectors in Bahir Dar.
3. The committee gave briefing about the aim of this anniversary and organized plans are presented. Some of them are the following:

• Former students of the school meet for the anniversary and share experience.
• In few years the school should be model school in the region
• Full fill the school materials and infrastructure to give quality education for students
• The detail activities and fund raising plan was distributed with fliers

4. The committee organized in the following seven categories:
   • Documentation
   • Fund Raising
   • Research and Development
   • Public Relation and printing medias
   • Advertisements
   • Discipline and school beauty
   • Entertainment
5. Three committee nominated from former students: Fund raising, Public relation and Entrainments.
6. Supporting ideas proposed from the attendee. From our side:

• We suggest ideas about mobilizing the current students to take responsibility on their school beauty.
• Organize events in different part of the world about the 50^th Anniversary of the school.
• Scholarship for the current students in the name of the Anniversary of the school.
• We promised to support the committee in all aspects and let our members know about the progress. In the future we will have Skype meeting to discuss about our role for the anniversary. Feel free to forward your idea.
• If you need direct communication with the head of organizing committee, he is happy to respond:  Ato Muluken Ayehu +251918728323

Cher Yigitemen,                                                                                                                   Tana Haik Family                                                                                                                Bahir Dar, Ethiopia

 In the coming November, 50th anniversary of Tana Haik

Meeting report
Meeting Date: 19/09/2014
Platform Skype – ID – tana.family1
Time 9:00 PM ( 21:00 Central European Time)

Agendas
1. Members’ contributions for the 50th year anniversary of the school
2. Proceeding the regular plan
➢ Strengthening the alumni library by ICT infrastructure
➢ Supporting students from lower income family.
➢ Annual Ethio-tour events aiming to reward outstanding students
3. How to ship those computers from Imperial college London.
4. Prioritizing the plan.

The meeting started after the report presentation by Tenager Bekalu during his school visit on June 2014.

Discussions and decisions
1.Proposed ideas for the anniversary and responsible persons to be contacted (All graduate members are invited to forward their ideas and works)
o Artworks (Literature or graphic designs) for the 50 anniversary of the school in the next November. (Solomon Nurga)
o Statistical review and poster presentations.(Dawit Gezahagne)
o Live demonstrations and experience sharing with current students. (Misganaw Birhan).
o Addressing the activities on the day of the anniversary to the alumni abroad by      sharing memories and live comments ( Tenager Bekalu and Tewodros Tesera).
o Best teachers and students of the year award by Tana Haik graduates.(Solomon Nurga)
o Fund raising programs such as shoe polishing and finding organizations for
Sponsorship (Tenager Bekalu).
o Reaching out to and inviting more Tana Haik graduates through public means, such as renowned former graduates and media. (Tewodros Tesera)

2.Proceeding the regular plan.

o Strengthening the alumni library by introducing new ICT infrastructure to enhance the trend of reading by using the library resources. To run with a better potential empowering computers and Internet connection to the students library is one big issue. This task is given to Tenager Bekalu

o Giving continuous support for students with lower income families. However, no final decision was made and the issue will be raised in the next meeting.

3. Shipping the computers from London to Ethiopia.
This task will be given to Yonatan Gossaye,Yebeltal Mesfin, Heran Nurga, Misganaw Birhan & Tewodros Tesera.

Cher Yigitemen,
October 2014
Misganaw Birhan
Turku,Finland