Sisters Welcome Alumni to the Mount

A large number of alumni gathered with the sisters on June 8 to share memories at an ice cream social during alumni weekend. Two guests from the class of 1964 came from a great distance to attend the reunion: Agatha (Wangeci) Kahara traveled from Nairobi, Kenya, and Shoko Shiga Komaya came from Tokyo, Japan.

Agatha came to Mount St. Scholastica College (MSSC) in 1960 as part of the “Kennedy Airlift,” a program partially funded by the Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Foundation to provide higher education to African students. Agatha came to MSSC with another Kenyan student, Mary Jo (Wangari) Muta Maathai, who later went on to become a Nobel Peace Prize winner. Shoko graduated from MSSC in 1964 with a bachelor’s degree in English and has stayed in touch with her former teachers and classmates through the years.

The sisters also welcomed alumni to attend Mass in St. Scholastica Chapel on June 9. Many alumni remembered which pew they used to sit in as students and said that being back in the chapel was like “coming home.”