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Photo by Terry Rayburn Mitchell, '93
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Whitworth friends welcome Anderia Lual, '08, as a fellow American citizen after his swearing-in ceremony May 1. Lual spent most of his youth as a Sudanese "Lost Boy," an orphaned war refugee who traveled the African wilderness to seek protection. When he was just 4 years old, his village was attacked by Sudan's government militia, forcing him to make his way to Ethiopia, back to Sudan, and then to Kenya. Thanks to a program run by the United States, the United Nations and the Sudanese government, Lual came to America after his second year of high school and settled in Yelm, Wash., where he earned his diploma. He participated in high-school soccer, track and cross-country, and eventually met up with Toby Schwarz, Whitworth's head track & field/cross-country coach. Lual, a biology major at Whitworth, plans to use his undergraduate degree to help others in America or back in Sudan.
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