THE PRINCETON-IN-ASIA GRANT AT TUNGHAI

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80M01009A000500620014-2
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 12, 2013
• Sequence Number: 14
• Publication Date: February 10, 1961
• Content Type: MISC

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Office of the President
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TUNGHAI UNIVE SITY
TAICHUNG. TAIWAN
THE PRINCETON-IN-ASIA GRANT AT TUNGHAI
The krinceton-in-Asia Foundation, (formerly the Princeton-
yenching Foundation,) has made a total grant of $45,000 US
to Tunghai University to help support its social science
departments, namely Political Science, Sociology, and Econ-
omics, since Tunghails founding in 1955. Of this amount
$24,000 has been used to establish Princeton Chair for
Social Science and for faculty salaries of the social science
departments. $12,000 was used to purchase social science
books, the great majority of which were seIcted by members
of the Princeton faculty. $8000 has gone to the support of
princeton-in-Asia scholarships which were awarded to top
students from the social science and English departments.
One Princeton scholar, Miss Yu Chuin-fang won a Smith College
scholarEthip and is working toward a Ph.D, in comparative
Chinese and English Literature. Another, Mr. Chi Shi-sheng
was awarded the Oberlin-in-Shansi fellowship to study polit-
ical science abroad. Mr. Hu Teh-wei is another Princeton
Scholar who is serving as an assistant in the the Department
of Economics here at Tunghai. One sociology graduate, miss
Liang Shu-hwa will be going to the University of Hawaii under
the East-west Cultural program.
$1000 of the grant was used to furnish a Princeton-in-Asia
room in the Tunghai University library. This reading and
reference room is furnished in attractive woodwork, with an
appropriate wall plaque of carved wood in a representation of
the Princeton tiger, as well as scenes of the Princeton campus
in America. There is a more elegant set of table and chairs
for the use of the faculty, as well as comfortable chairs for
reading and browsing among the many attractive and scholarly
volumes an subjects related to the social sciences.
In addition, Princeton-in-Asia has sent out graduates as
representatives to Tunghai University to teach English in the
Foreign Languages and Literature Department of the College
of Arts. Mr. William Volkhausen, representative from 1959-61
academic years, has taught some advanced courses in English
Literature, while Mr. Gary Martin, representative from 1960-62,
in addition to his freshmen English courses, has taught German.
These two young men, with their excellent undergraduate prepara-
tion for their teaching tasks, as well as their personable way
of meeting students through extra-curricular activities, have
added a great deal to student campus life at Tunghai.
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vinaLly, Dr. Sidney Gamble, a Princeton graduate, has very
generously sponsored to Lorthwhile projects, namely the
translation of folk songE and folk lore by ?rofessor Lsiao
Chik-chung, chairman of the Department of Lthinese Literature,
as well as allowing L, grant of 3UU0 rs to the Social sciences
departments for the study of village life around the Tunghai
rnivelmity'campus.
Turr,hai EniverAty
Taichong, Taiwan
February 1U, 1961
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PRINCETON IN ASIA
Formerly Princeton -Yenching Foundation
475 Riverside Drive New York 27, N. Y.
Riverside 2-2000 Extension 2601
H. ALEXANDER SMITH, '01
DWIGHT W. EDWARDS, '04
TIMOTHY N. PFEIFFER, '08
CLEVELAND E. DODGE, '09
LAURENCE FENNINGER, '09
JULIEN BRYAN, '21
THEODORE CUTLER SPREES, '21
EDWARD EVERETT WATTS, JR.,'21
JOSEPH VAN VLECK, JR., '23
E. HARRIS HARRISON, '28
JAMES B. CocuRAN, '29
ROBERT G. BARNES, '37
STANLEY VANDEN HEUVEL '40
ROBERT F. GOHEEN, '40, Honorary President
SIDNEY D. GAMBLE, '12, President
WILLIAM W. LOCKWOOD, Vice-President
ALFRED H. Hownu., '34, Treasurer
W15.5.5A34 P. FENN, G '47, Secretary and Assistant Treasurer
JAMES A. CAMERON, Assistant Treasurer
December 8 1960
MARIT/S B. JANsEN '44
WILLIAM A. CHISOLM, '41
WILLIAM H. SWORD, '46
CHARLES B. STRAUT, JR., '47
SIDNEY BLAXILL '49
RICHARD B. GAMBLE, 'SO
T. GlYIHRIE SPEERS, JR., 'SO
RICHARD K. PAYNTER, III, '51
RICHARD N. PIERSONJR., '51
JAMES Q. GRIFFIN '15
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ERNEST GORDON
FREDERICK W. MOTE
RALPH L. POWELL
Dear Dr. Dulles:
After a visit to Tunghai University on Formosa and a day spent
with President Wu, Donald Watt '16 writes:
"The quadrangles are fine architecture Which will probably
influence the future building on the whole island.
"The library was packed with students studying with such
concentration that they did not raise their eyes as we
passed through.
"Sleeping four people in a room is economical and at the
same time comfortable for people who are accustomed to
live in little living space.
"The fact that the students are receiving an excellent
education for $100 a year is a striking achievement in
view of U.S. costs.
"He (President Wu) claims that his graduate students
compare favorably with the best in U.S. graduate schools
"I feel sure you can take great satisfaction in your
efforts to build this high grade institution.
Princeton in Asia has two representatives at Tunghai, Princeton
'59 and '60, provides scholarships for students, gives assistance to the
social science departments and is adding books to the growing library.
It's a very good place to invest some of your benevolence dollars.
Please make yourrcheckdaeaus one.
S' rely yours
Sidney D. Gamble
President
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