Newsletter and Documents

Newsletter

The Conductor is a bi-monthly newsletter with information and announcements about the Society and its plans. It also includes feature articles about Society members and other topics of general interest. It is mailed to all Society members during the first week of alternate months. Electronic versions of recent issues are available via the following links. Send comments to the editor using the form below.

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Documents

Here are a few additional documents related to the Gentrain Society. Note that the Operating Handbook includes our Bylaws and Operating Agreement with the MPC Board of Trustees.

Najm Akbar

I am Muhammad Najm Akbar. Call me Najm.
Born in Multan, Pakistan, I had my initial education there.
In the United States, I have graduated twice from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, MA 1995 and MALD, 2011, and have a graduate degree in History from Fresno State, 2022. Middlebury awarded me an MA in Teaching of Foreign Language, in 2009.

Alia and I have lived In Monterey since 2005. Our children are married and engaged in their professional lives in New York.

Our biggest delight is our two granddaughters, the eldest turns four soon, and the youngest is about a year and a half old.

I remained part of the Pakistan Foreign Service for two decades and at the Defense Language Institute taught Urdu for thirteen years until 2018.

I joined the MPC pool of adjunct history instructors in 2022 and have taught courses in Gentrain, World History, US History, and History of World Religions. 

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