THE ADDIS ABABA AMERICAN SCHOOL (DOD)

THE AMERICAN COMMUNITY SCHOOL OF ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA

THE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA

The Addis Ababa American School was established in 1959 and was replaced by the American Community School of Addis Ababa in 1966 . In the middle 1970's ACS was renamed "The International Community School of Addis Ababa" and is still in operation today. An American School existed in Addis Ababa prior to 1959 but that was before my time. If you have any information on that school  please send it to me and I would be happy to post it on this Web site. 

On April 29, 1964, His Imperial Majesty Haile Selassie I granted a 50 year lease on a 15 acre tract of land (southeast of the Imperial Golf Course and old International Airport) for the establishment of the American Community School of Addis Ababa. So far, I have posted the 1964 and 1967 through 1974 ACS yearbooks on this Web site. (see tabs to the left) 

To my knowledge, there were no ACS yearbooks printed for school years 1965 and 1966 but there were class photos taken which were made available to the students. If you have any of those photos and are willing to scan them and send them in for use on this Web site please contact me at:  LeeMiller@ethi-usmappingmission.com.

The International Community School has the Senior class photos of 1995, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2007 and 2008 posted on their Web site. CLICK HERE

I arrived with my family in Addis Ababa the summer of 1961 and left the country for the first time in the summer of 1965. We returned to Addis Ababa in June of 1966 and stayed until the summer of 1970 when we moved to Tehran, Iran. I returned to the USA in 1972 to spend my Junior and Senior high school years in deep south Texas.  

While in Addis Ababa I attended the Deutsche Botschaftsschule Addis Ababa (the German School) for the 1962 and 1963 school years (Kindergarten and first grade), the Addis Ababa American School (U.S. Department of Defense School) 1964 and 1965 (second and third grades) and the American Community School of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia from 1967 through 1970 (fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth grades).

Lee Miller -- Web Host and Owner of www.ethi-usmappingmission.com

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