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KEN
KASHIWAHARA
ABC TV NEWS REPORTER
Ken Kashiwahara is an Overseas School Alumnus. He attended Kubasaki High
through the 8th Grade, then moved to Chevy Chase, MD, where he graduated from
Bethesda Chevy Chase High School.
STEVE KERR
NBA PROFESSIONAL BASKETBALL PLAYER
(1965- )
Steve Kerr, a member of the Chicago Bulls Basketball team is an Overseas
School Alumnus. He was born in Beirut,Lebanon. While in sixth grade
he attended Cario American College in 1976-77. He had previously
attended the American School of Beirut.
He is one of the leading three point shooters in NBA history.
He is currently playing for the San Antonio Spurs. He previously played
with the Chicago Bulls (1993-1998); Cleveland Cavaliers (1989-1993) and
the Phoenix Suns (1988-89).
ALLAN KEYES
INDEPENDENT PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE
1996 & 2000
Allan Keyes is a military brat. His father was a US Army Sergeant.
Born in New York, New York on August 7, 1950, he is a 1968 graduate of
Robert G. Cole High School at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, Texas. He
was President of his Senior Class.
He is recognized as a leader in the Conservative movement. He has served
our country in a variety of ways: U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations
Social and Economic Council and as Assistant Secretary of State for International
Organizations.
ROBERT
M. KIMMITT
US AMBASSADOR TO GERMANY
Ambassador Kimmitt is an Army Brat and an Overseas School Alumnus.
He attended Baumholder High School in Germany and was a member of the Class
of 1965
GREG KINNEAR
ACTOR FILM & TELEVSION
Greg Kinnear is a Foreign Service Brat and an Overseas School Alumnus.
His father was an American diplomat.
Kinnear attended elementary school in Beirut relocating to Athens, Greece
where he graduated from the Athens Community School as part of the class
of 1981.
He is best known for the television program "Talk Soup" and film roles
in "Sabrina" and "As Good As It Gets."
He mentioned his overseas education in a 1998 Parade Magazine and as
a guest on the 12/08/98 broadcast of the "David Letterman Show."
KRIS
KRISTOFFERSON
SINGER, SONGWRITER, ACTOR
Kris Kristofferson is an Air Force Brat. His father was an USAF
Major General. This was recently confirmed by the Air Force History
Support Office Library: Vicky Crone, Librarian, Air Force History Support
Office. Library vicky.crone@pentagon.af.mil
He graduated in 1954 from San Mateo HS in San Mateo, California.
It is unknown if he attended any schools overseas.
He has often mentioned being a military brat and it is mentioned on
the liner notes of one of his albums that he was: "born into a military
family in Brownsville, Texas, in 1936."
The following quote from Kristofferson is from an interview published
in the Sept. 1991 issue of the magazine "The Progressive", pp.35-38: "....I
grew up in a military background. One grandfather was a colonel in the
Army, had his eye put out with a spear in the Philippine insurrection.
The other one, before he came to this country, was in the Swedish army.
My father was major-general in the Air Force, served in WWII and Korea.
The military was for me and my brother, you know, just a fact of life.
When I graduated I got my commission in the Army but got deferred to go
over to Oxford [as a Rhodes scholar]. Afterwards, I was a helicopter
pilot in Germany....In 1965 I volunteered for Vietnam--and was turned
down. They told me I was going to be assigned to West Point to teach
English. I decided to get out and go to Nashville instead...."
Kris Kristofferson, a Hall of Fame singer-songwriter, actor, and political
activist, was born in 1936 in Brownsville, Tex., just over the border from
Matamoros, Mexico. He spoke Spanish before English, and much of his
music still carries the sentiments of the bordertowns. The son of an Air
Force officer, Kristofferson spent his youth moving around the country
wherever his father was assigned, finally finishing high school in San
Mateo, California.
This life-in-motion style has never left him. He has clocked well over
a million miles on his tour bus since 1970, when his songs, "Me and
Bobby McGee," "Help Me Make It Through The Night," "For The Good
Times," "Loving Her Was Easier," and "Why Me," to name a few, made
him sought performer. Kristofferson has toured several months a year for
the last 20 years, most recently as one of The Highwaymen with longtime
friends Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, and Waylon Jennings.
Kristofferson was a creative literature major at Pomona College
and received a Rhodes Scholarship in 1958. At Oxford University,
he studied William Blake, but Never abandoned his lifelong admiration of
the down-home poet of country music, Hank Williams.
After a stint as an Army pilot, he declined a teaching post at West
Point and moved to Nashville to pursue a writing career and a foothold
in the country music scene. He worked various odd jobs, including janitor
at Columbia Studios, bartender, and helicopter pilot ferrying workers and
executives back and forth to the Gulf oil rigs.
Stardom arrived in 1970, when he received the Songwriter of the Year
Award and his now-classic song "Sunday Morning Coming Down" won Country
Music Song of the Year. He has since been inducted into the Songwriter's
Hall of Fame and his songs have been recorded by hundreds of major
artists.
Kristofferson simultaneously launched an acting career, starring in
his first major motion picture in 1971. His film credits include "Alice
Doesn't Live Here Anymore," "A Star is Born," in which he co-starred with
Barbara Streisand, and, most recently, the highly acclaimed independent
1996 film "Lone Star." He received a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor
for his portrayal of a declining rock superstar in "A Star is Born." |
