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Spotlight on Takoma Academy located in Takoma Park, Maryland. Published February 2012 Update: Jan. 31, 2013 Last Update: April 28, 2013 |
Takoma Academy (aka TA) was founded in 1904 and has a long history of preparing youth for college and fitting them for service to God. (See history on their websitewww.ta.edu/#/about-us/history ). This history has been marred by recent events, starting when the Potomac Conference started legal action against the Alumni Association which was established in 1977. This is an update to the article published in Feb. 2012. |
In January, the Potomac Conference has started a legal action against the Takoma Academy Alumni Association which was established 35 years ago in 1977. | |
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The Potomac Conference Trademarked the Takoma Academy name (approved in January) and soon after started legal action asking the existing Association to cease and disist from it's activities. See Cease and Desist letter sent from the Potomac Conference to the president of the Alumni Association. The Alumni Association sent a message to the Alumni on January 30th informing them of their side of the issue.
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The Potomac Conference filed a federal lawsuit on April 16th against the Takoma Academy Alumni Association. An official statement was posted on the conference website http://www.pcsda.org/files/Education/official_statement.pdf The Alumni Association responded with a letter to alumni dated April 19th |
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The Alumni homecoming weekend was April 26 - 28th and the Takoma Academy Alumni Association (TAAA, Inc.) ran its 14th Annual Golf Tournament event on Friday April 26th. The new 'Official' Takoma Academy Alumni Association ran its first Golf Tournament at the exact same time at a Golf course just 5 minutes away. Ted Wilson (Class of 1968) briefly attended the TAAA, Inc. event to see classmates he has not seen for a long time. |
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Ted Wilson, the school's most prominent alumnus because he is currently President of the General Conference, which speaks for the worldwide church with 17 million members; delivered the Sabbath Sermon on April 27th and participated in a luncheon for the Class of 1968. These events were organized by the 'Official' Alumni Association. On April 28th the new 'Official' Alumni Association held its first business meeting and elected its first President and Officers. | |
Bill Miller, President of the Potomac Conference sent an e-mail to the alumni on April 25th explaining the conference position and announced a special webpage with information about the lawsuit. – www.pcsda.org/trademark | |
We will be posting the response from the TAAA, Inc. as well as information about the first business meeting of the new Association. Please come back in a few days.
Updated: April 28, 2013 |
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Lawsuit ended on Aug. 7, 2014 with a Consent Order signed by the judge giving the name Takoma Academy to the plaintiff and restricting the Alumni Association from using this or similar names. Click here to see Court Order |
The Spotlight has been on Takoma Academy since February 2012 and I hope that readers will read and discuss this on the on-line group called E-ventists in Education This group is for ![]() Click here to join this group with 800 members. http://www.linkedin.com/e/gis/72161/028C001E485B |
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