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...time of his death, he was working on compiling dictionaries of the Lakeside Tonga and Tumbuka languages of Northern Malawi...

Author: By Nathaniel L. Schwartz, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Vail Honored at Service | 5/6/1999 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Destination: Skagit Valley | 12/19/1960 | See Source »

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