Word: skagit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bourbon bottles, bean cans, and instant-coffee jars. Signs warned: PROTECT YOUR ACCESS TO THE RIVER, and a productive "beat" (60 ft. of river frontage) sold for $5,000. But the only gold around was in somebody's teeth. The hardy types who lined the banks of the Skagit and a hundred other rivers in Washington state last week were fishing. For trout. In the winter, no less...
Legson Kayira is a Tumbuka tribesman from Nyasaland who is in love-with Skagit Valley College in Mount Vernon, Wash. The junior college, which has 650 students, mainly local, first learned of Kayira's devotion last February when he sent a scholarship application from Kampala, Uganda. The school heard from him again this fall, when he sent a letter that began: "In October of the year of our Lord 1958, I began a journey-a long and difficult journey-a journey to glory or death." The letter went on to paint a picture of a youngster so hungry...
...eventually to Mwanza on Lake Victoria in July 1959. There he worked for six months to raise money for a boat trip to Kampala. He spent $1.05 for a physics book (which he memorized), and haunted the U.S. Information Service library. One day he stumbled on Skagit Valley in a directory of U.S. colleges. "I wrote a letter and got one back saying I had a scholarship...
Cash & Good Will. Consul Emmett M. Coxson was so impressed by Kayira's "journey of unbelievable hardship" that he quickly wrote Skagit for aid. While the boy spent hours in the U.S.I.S. library boning up on algebra, Skagit's students raised more than $1,100 to guarantee clothing and round-trip fare. Schoolteacher William Atwood, father of seven, offered a free home at the Atwoods' roomy farmhouse in nearby Bayview. Mrs. Atwood quashed the only unpleasantness in the entire affair. Huffed one neighbor: "What if he wants to take your daughter to a dance?" Replied Mrs. Atwood...
...Skagit is determined to see him through academically, steer him on to a university. Says Dean George Hodson: "This boy is going to have a good experience in every way. We're going to send back to Africa an emissary of good will for America." Legson knows precisely what he wants: "When I go back to Nyasaland, I will be a teacher. Then I enter politics. When I get defeated, I go back to teaching. You can always trust education...