2. May 8, 1967
May 8, 1967, is the date of the letter we went to TEEA accepting their offer to go to East Africa for two years. Dear Mr. Kelly, We received your telegram of May 6, 1967, offering us a tutoring position with TEEA. We will be very happy to accept this offer...." There was probably more to the letter, but it is lost in the long list of Things To Do and in the rush of getting them done. There also were numerous letters with instructions from TEEA that did not survive the move. One of the first letters announced the date, July2, that we were to be in New York to begin orientation. That left eight weeks to get ready! We were told to get our passports in order. This was a new experience too, because we didn't have any. First of all we called the Boise post office to see what we needed to do, and the first thing was to get our pictures taken. We were to have two passports, one for Frank and one for the children...