“A scholarship enabled me to come to St. Lawrence,” recalls Ken Okoth ’01. That changed my life. I arrived on campus in 1997 with a suitcase filled with my cleanest clothes and $800 in cash that I had received from my friends and relatives in Kenya,” recalls Ken Okoth ’01. Ken, a history teacher and an adjunct instructor in African studies at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, still values his four years as a student and one year on the student life staff at St. Lawrence University as the high points of his life. “In my time at St. Lawrence, I was fully engaged as a singer, a writer and in exploring the life of my mind and interest in world affairs. St. Lawrence was that kind of special place where I was allowed to become anything I wanted,” says Ken. Ken majored in German with concentrations in European studies and English writing and traveled to eight different countries from Estonia and Russia to Italy, Austria and Canada. He went to Austria and Denmark through St. Lawrence’s International and Intercultural Studies program. He sang with the University Chorus, the Laurentian Singers, and the Singing Saints. He was a staff writer for the Hill News, interned for University communications, and was a teaching assistant for German and Swahili and a writing mentor for First-Year Program.