MY EDITING AND PUBLICATION OF THE MORNING STAR MAGAZINE COMES TO AN END!

Bye Dear all,

My communication to SMACK OBs on my mailing list comes to an end today.  It has been an experience.  I am grateful to the audience you have accorded me.  It has been challenging.  The only communication I may have to make in form of “The Morning Star” Magazine may be that of December 2013 if the Professor I communicated to over the matter gives positive response. 

I am most grateful to Dr. George Kkolokolo who since 2007 has given input into the publications I have worked on as editor.  

What is gratifying is that these works will leave beyond me. 

I wish all of you the best in your endeavours. 

William Kituuka Kiwanuka

Lourdel House (1974 – 1979)

DUC IN ALTUM   

Willy!

You leave my eye tearing! It has been a time of selfless giving and sharing on your part! Am happy to have been associated with you in that we shared a House, Lourdel, although at different times and that I always enjoyed reading your productions! God bless and reward you as only He can!

Charles Okoth – Owor

(Advocate & Member, Judicial Service Commission)

Well done William.
You have done a great Job.

May the Lord award you most abundantly

Rgds
Paul

Dear Mr. Kituuka,

Greetings

I have been unsettled by your mail just at the time when, in my view, you were awakening so many of us to the wonders of communication and interaction among us through your pen! Only last week, when attending a funeral Mass for Bernard M. Onyango at St. Augustine Chapel, at Makerere, we met with Dr. Coutinho; and straight away we commended your work which enabled us to be up to date about each other! 

Exactly what has happened, that all of a sudden you have to terminate the splendid work you have been doing? And, of course, I have a personal and pressing interest: what will happen to the joint project of our anticipated issue of the Magazine? By copy of this mail, I am posing the same question to our good mutual friend Dr. Kkolokkolo. George, what has happened to kill this literary enterprise?

Otherwise, it is difficult to say good-bye!

Warmest regards

Paul K. Ssemogerere

Honorable Sir,

I'm interrupting my activity concerning a report on my recent trip to Djibouti

in order to lend some moments to this issue.

In any case, I begin by thanking my very much beloved friend in Duc in Altum, our beloved Mr Willy Kituuka for the very immense work he has done regarding the history of our great college and then concerning our very popularly beloved Magazine, the Morning Star, which has indeed a worldwide audience! Mr. Kituuka must be thanked and I have always proposed that SMACKOBA recognizes his effort and comes out to help him see to it that his work continues without fail and that he be decorated as an outstanding OB who has initiated something that is adorable to all OBs, Brothers, and others

even the very many who never made it to St Mary's College Kisubi! Personally I extend a very formal THANK YOU to Willy!

Of course, anybody is entitled to a decision! But Mr. Kituuka's decision to leave Morning Star is something any serious-minded OB, like you, Honorable sir, and me, etc must look to without any iota of indifference. Here we are

faced with the loss of an authority on SMACK and the downing of a very smart attractive magazine that had already conquered mountains and valleys and brought on board, for SMACK's good, all these geniuses and international figures including the influential national opinion makers, and the plucky Goans who studied at SMACK, etc... the Magazine was regularly winning hearts and it was the only credible authority, as source of information on SMACK and OBs and the Brothers, that SMACK's Diaspora respected. I remember one day in London when I was invited to supper by a medical doctor / specialist who had done SMACK and during an appetizer, out of the blue, he told me in Luganda:

" Omuvubuka waffe owa Morning Star tannaba kutwongerayo birala, ndowooza ali busy! "

Of course I re-assured him!  He was one of those very many OBs and friends and others who had been moved by the the special edition on Prof J.C. Kiwanuka, and of course by all other editions!

The Magazine can run better when in Willy's very efficient hands, unless he points to a collaborator whom he knows will do well the job, even carrying it out to a less satisfactory degree in comparison to the very excellent work Willy has been doing! And that's why I always adored working with him!

Hon. Mr. Ssemogerere, all along Willy has been showing us the challenges he faced in putting up this colossal monumental intellectual work: lack of supplies both in form of articles and the stiff question on finances. I personally think without those two items our beloved Magazine may land into extinction! How could we avoid this? How could the others be motivated to give something financially in order to ensure the life of the Magazine? Could SMACKOBA Administration be kind enough to take more responsibility on this? The Morning Star mustn't die and Willy mustn't be abandoned and SMACK mustn't be a loser on the media type of this calibre! So, how could we go about it? Your experience in all domains as well as your expert wisdom should help find a solution to this situation! And you know how anything written on you, as the Morning Star is doing, always strikes far beyond the borders of our homeland!

So now, Hon P K Ssemogerere, the ball is now in our camp to try to influence a solution that will ease things for all of us.

Warmest regards to you, Honorable sir, and nice weekend to both of you!

George