A Former sponsor of our current scholar, Arthur Kiboit, visited him recently at Ga. State. Mr. Gerard Geraghty, who is pictured with Arthur to the right, was kind enough to send us the following write-up on his visit:
I have known Arthur Kiprop for just over ten years. My first contact with him was as a student in High School in Kajiado, Kenya. During my many years in Kenya I had assisted students obtain a High School Education and, if results were promising, funded their further education. Arthur was one such person…
Arthur’s first four years in America have presented him with an immense challenge. This challenge is not dissimilar to that challenge his mother faced at the untimely death of Arthur’s father. But the same character strengths visible in his mother those many years ago are visible in her son today as he enters his final semester as an undergraduate at Georgia State University.
I had the pleasure of visiting Atlanta and Georgia State University with a stop at the Ronald E. McNair Post-Baccalaureate Achievement Program last week. A memorable point of my journey was a visit to Martin Luther King’s Tomb and hearing again his immortal words…. ‘I have a dream’… In Arthur Kiprop, Georgia State University has a student who is living proof that the American dream is alive and well and attainable to those who are capable of seeing beyond the mountains of poverty and race.
