Her Old Class-mates Remembered

Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 181, 3 August 1938, Page 2

Her Old Class-mates Remembered

Madame Chiang Kui-Bhek, China’* First Lady of tho Land, who had hoped to visit her American Alma Mater, Wellesley College, in June, has made a charming gesture of affection to its students.

(As she was unable to leave China, she sent by the steamship Empress of .Russia, which loft Hong Kong in May, 600 presents for her old class-mates. , Madame Chiang graduated from Wellesley Collego in 1917 as Miss Mayliug Soong, and this year she was voted an honorary member of 1938, and it is as a graceful compliment to the students and the college that she has sent these presents. They consist of 600 porcelain teasets of exquisite workmanship, 600 packages of special Chinese tea, and 600 Chinese flags. There are three pieces t* each tea-set, and a small silver spoon. Tho Chinese flags, of fine cloth embroidered with tho rising bud, have been made by schoolgirls, and measure eight inches by twelve. Each was wrapped in a folder on whica were explained ia. English the cardinal principles of tba Now Life Movement, a movement which General and Madame Chiang Kai-Bhch originated in 1934 to bring a new national consciousness to the Chines* nation through tho revival of old Chinese virtues. Accompanying each of tno 600 flags is a copy of the Chinese national anthem with its English translation; and flag, anthem, and New Life Movement principles were enclosed in an envelope inscribed with “Greetings from Mayling Soong Chiang.”