No scholarship, no money, no connection to the airlift, only Mooney Kirk and Cora Weiss to tell us how he managed financially, and then somehow, he can afford a tour of the mainland US before commencing Harvard?
The only archives for the Star Bulletin I could find go back to 1996. Lucy, can anyone on your pinglist help?
This is a link to the Mboya papers:
http://www.oac.cdlib.org/view?docId=kt9b69q71x;style=oac4;view=dsc#c01-1.7.7.17
The caption on the post of 0 Sr.’s letter says it is in Box 41. This link is to the part of the collection that is labelled Universities and from its description holds a huge amount of information about the air-lift, the scholarships, the students’ records, and correspondence. But it is not online. I wonder if there is any reliable person in LA that would be interested in digging into it.
I’m also wondering if anyone ever made an attempt to obtain his record from the UH. It would be very interesting to check out the dates, subjects, grades etc. to see if he is telling Mboya the truth.
I’m also wondering if it’s possible to track who in American history has received such high ranking awards.