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Kump Education Center is proud to host another lecture by Nasra Adan (Zuboy) who will share her experiences and photos from a family trip to South Africa. The title of her presentation on Thursday, July 25 at 7 p.m. is "Where Two Oceans Meet."
The Atlantic and Indian Oceans meet near Cape Town, where sailors from the Netherlands established a colony in 1652. By 1806 the British took control of the region and organized four small colonies to create what is now known as South Africa in 1910.
There is a long history of seafaring people making their way around the southern tip of Africa traveling between Europe and Asia.
Stories of pirates along the eastern coast of Africa capture the imagination. It will be fascinating to learn more about South African cities like Pretoria and Cape Town. The atlas tells me that people mine platinum and gold and manufacture automobiles there.
Nelson Mandela is the person most Americans remember hearing about because he led the struggle against apartheid and helped bring more equality to his people.
Once again, Nasra and her sons are visiting in Elkins with her in-laws John and Ginny Zuboy during summer vacation from Saudi Arabia. Nasra teaches essay writing at the college level each school year, and her husband Jacob Zuboy, serves in Saudi Arabia as a con Stories of pirates along the eastern coast of Africa capture the imagination. It will be fascinating to learn more about South African cities like Pretoria and Cape Town. sultant from the Educational Testing Service [ETS].
Last summer Nasra presented a dazzling collection of photographs from Saudi that made me realize that human culture in the rest of the world is changing much faster than I thought.
This year Nasra has been to South Africa, and she says that she has never tasted better seafood than she did there where the two oceans meet.
Increasing international and cultural awareness is an important learning goal at Kump Education Center. Several teachers in the Kump family have taught in foreign countries. Mary Gamble Kump, who gave the Kump house to the City of Elkins, was a teacher for American military dependents during four decades on bases in Morocco, France, Germany, Italy, Cuba, Okinawa, and the Philippines.
One of Gov. Kump's granddaughters, Nancy Wooddell Warlick, was a Presbyterian missionary in the Congo, and her daughter Elizabeth Turk is a nurse in Madagascar now. Other family members have served in the military as doctors, engineers, lawyers, and soldiers in other countries.
Many West Virginians have served overseas, and we have benefited from the emigration of many ethnic groups in the past.