Cross-posting:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3015864/posts?page=163#163
To: Greenperson
From memory, both Elizabeth and Frank Laubach were in Kenya in 1958 when the kenyan started working for her as her secretary. She was instrumental in providing the funds for his flight to New York in August 1959, and his initial sponsor is shown as the Laubach Literacy Fund, as is Frank Laubach himself as a nearest contact in the US.
Frank Laubach spent something like 15 years as a missionary in the Philippines...
At first interview in Hawaii in September, the kenyan stated he only had enough funds for one or two semesters and needed to find work and a sponsor.
Elizabeth apparently provided funds from her own resources for his living expenses, but that stopped...when she advised him he should contact the AASF (African American Students Foundation) as she was now married (Kirk) and could no longer assist him financially.
True or not? If he did contact the AASF that would have brought him to the attention of Cora Weiss, who would not have known who or where he was, as he wasn’t connected in any way to the AIRLIFT, a fact which Cora Weiss has been forced to admit...recently:
“The first plane was paid for because Harry Belafonte, Jackie Robinson and Sidney Poitier, together signed a fundraising letter,” Mrs. Weiss said.
“In that first group of 1959, 81 students came.”
“Barack Obama missed out on a seat on that first plane. Luckily the two teachers stepped in and raised money for him to come over on a parallel flight,” she said.
“He picked up the scholarship from the University of Hawaii. And while he was there, he needed money for books and tuition and clothes, some of which we sent him.
“So he wasn’t on the airlift, but he was a member of the airlift family.”
http://www.mvgazette.com/news/2009/08/27/unlikely-events-recall-story-president
How-ever, if Cora did make funds available to him from the foundation, he must have ‘forgotten’ to acknowledge it, because he doesn’t, throughout his entire period in the US, show the AASF as a sponsor. He shows The Stokes-Phelps Fund which might have had some connection to the AASF, but that sponsor isn’t noted until he’s already at Harvard.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/54015762/Barack-Hussein-Obama-Sr-Immigration-File
Cora Weiss insists and insists that the AASF supported the kenyan, but although she says ‘I can show you check-butts’ and waves her hands around in the air very convincingly, there has never been any confirmation that he was a beneficiary of the AASF.
If you look at the INS docs you’ll find he worked for the pine-apple cannery The Dole Corp for one month. So other than the Laubach/Elizabeth Mooney-Kirk contribution and some casual work (washing dishes in a cafe?) that was all he had to live on in Hawaii, and as his associates stated in tribute letters, he lived in a small room with one hotplate for cooking, ‘rather like a hermit’ .
The INS docs show his forwarding address after he left Hawaii as - THE KOINONIA FOUNDATION in Baltimore,Maryland. Both Frank Laubach and Elizabeth were on the board of that foundation:
http://www.koinoniafoundation.com/history/
And to get back to your question...another American mother...who knows, it’s like the man said, I came here to drain the swamp, not kill the crocodiles, LOL....
163 posted on Monday, May 6, 2013 5:36:28 PM by Fred Nerks (Come Visit Tasmania!)