This page continues the Kenya series, featuring another three images.
The accompanying captions are Laura's own. Any text provided by the
Archives is enclosed within brackets; the image number begins each
bracketed comment.
Four young men
[I.32.]
The cornerstone laying
[I.15. The cornerstone is for the Rift Valley Academy.
The man in the front row wearing a pith helmet and holding his right arm parallel to
his waist is former United States president Theodore Roosevelt. Roosevelt was in
Africa in 1909 on a hunting expdeition and at the invitation of his friend Charles
Hurlburt, the head of AIM, he gave the dedication address. Hurlburt is the tall man
directly in back of Roosevelt's right shoulder.]
Rift Valley Academy for white children
[I.8. For several generations, the children of
American and European AIM missionaries have been educated at Rift Valley.]
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