DR. FONG FOO SEC
A DISTINGUISHED ROTAKIAN The splendid gesture of Rotary International in appointing Dr. Fong Foo Sec, M.A., Ph.D. LL.D., of Shanghai, to represent it at the district conference of Rotary to be held at New Plymouth at the end of this month, was referred to by Mr T. C. List, District, Governor, in an address to V/anganui Rotarians this week.
"He is one of the greatest men the East has ever produced," Mr List stated, "and one you will be privileged to meet and hear. I formed a very high estimate of hira, \ and I do not think that there was one of the 70 governors of 70 countries x-epresented at the Boston Rotary Conference last year that was appreciated more than this distinguished Chinese." Mr List added that Dr. Sec had been sent by his father to Sacramento that he might learn gambling and return to his native land and teach his people. On the way over . to America the young Chinese came under the influence of some good people, and instead of learning gambling he went to school, and became possessed of practically every scholarship there was to win. Ha was a doctor of laws, of philosophy, and of literature, and a master of aits.
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Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21084, 8 February 1934, Page 8
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