On Campus
We spotlight Kenya Semester Program
(
KSP) alumni in this issue of
St. Lawrence
,
so it bears noting that
2012
marks the 40th anniversary of the
beginnings of that program.
In January 1972, 15 pioneering
students, including four officers of the
Black Student Union, accompanied gov-
ernment professor Peter French and his
wife, Grace, on what French describes
as “a three-week seminar as part of the
old 4-1-4 program (that) became the
prototype for the KSP, with its rural
homestay, urban homestay and brief
internship. Who would have thought
all this could happen?” He adds that the
first “alumni” trip to Kenya took place
in June 1973, and included six members
of the Class of ’73, the parents of one of
them, a University trustee and a Canton
couple, along with Grace and himself.
The semester program commenced in
the 1974-75 school year.
One student on that first trip, Paul
Gilbert ’72, recalls one his best memo-
ries: “Attending Sunday church services
with my host family and later traveling
by foot to a village five miles away to
meet their extended family. They asked
me, ‘Why do you Americans spend so
much money to go to the moon? Is
there anything up there worth bring-
ing back?’; ‘Why do Americans shoot
their presidents?’; and ‘How come black
Americans do not talk to white Ameri-
cans?’”
To learn more about today’s Kenya
program, go to
www.stlawu.edu/ciis
/
program/kenya.
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NSB
BY THE NUMBERS
14.2%
are U.S. students of color
56%
are women
7.8%
are international students
85%
participated
in high school
athletics
44%
were in the top
10%
academically
at those secondary schools that report class rank
All hail the class of 2016!
with Associate Professor
of Religious Studies
Michael Greenwald
,
an
authority on the region and
its history.
May 21 – June 3, 2013
Highlights:
Tel Aviv,
Caesarea, Haifa, Nazareth,
Capernaum, Jerusalem,
Bethlehem, Jericho, Qumran,
Masada, the Dead Sea, Petra.
Price:
$5,799 double
occupancy, including airfare from
JFK.
For more information, contact
Kim Hissong ’94, khissong@
stlawu.edu or 315-229-5837.
A Laurentian Trip to
ISRael,
Palestinian
Territories ,
and JORDAN
Between flights at London's Heathrow airport in January 1972 are the first Laurentians to study in Kenya:
Diane Fagan Affleck ’72, Fred McCullough ’74, Ann Cheney ’74, Liz Hunt White ’72, unidentified (behind
Hunt), Meg Keeley Forester ’73, Michael Griffiths ’72, Suzanne Hawkes Wight ’73, Ed Beckles ’72, Jane
Hansmann McKean ’73 (who later became St. Lawrence’s first KSP director), Karla Jackson-Brewer ’73, Paul
Gilbert ’72, John Ellis ’74, Odessa Seymore ’73, Ben Giles ’73 and Grace French and Director Peter French.
Our Original Kenya Group
For more , go to www. s t l awu. edu/admi s /prof i l e .html