51 10 3636 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/de1e040bcccb7494e0695a657d7b8f6a.jpg 435996a2b1674166f6d3b378e943ed65 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Box 29 Sun Siblings 1930, Head of School (Stearns) Records Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Mary Sun, New Haven, Conn., June 17, 1930 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Mary Sun, New Haven, Conn., June 17, 1930 Relation A related resource Dear Mary: Your note of June 14 reached me yesterday. Tom has been to see me and has decided to remain in Middlebury this summer and take special work in French in the Middlebury Summer School, which specializes in that language. Next fall he expects to take up advanced work at Yale. At least, that is the plan as I understand it at present. I hope you don't find the strain of the work in the isolation ward too hard and that you will have no serious difficulty in learning to sleep in the day time and work at night. It is quite a change, though, and not every one can make the new adjustment easily. Success and good luck to you. Sincerely yours, Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred E. Stearns Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource June 17, 1930 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Mary Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/dd35e523599a4966307cdc21a125b152.jpg b6ac7db2fda912373da5a077d6a5ebcb Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Box 29 Sun Siblings 1930, Head of School (Stearns) Records Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Mary Sun, New Haven, Conn., June 6, 1930 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Mary Sun, New Haven, Conn., June 6, 1930 Relation A related resource Dear Mary: I have your good letter of June 3, and first of all wish to thank you for your birthday greetings. With my family pretty well [illegible], a birthday at present is a rather lame affair--something a bit different from what the birthdays need to be when you were a member of the family circle! I am immensely interested to hear that you are going to have a couple of months of psychiatric work at Butler Hospital. Dr. Ruggles is a very warm personal friend of mine, and will, I am sure, take a special interest in you if you tell him of your connection with the Stearns family. I am sure you will find the work immensely interesting. I am enclosing check for four hundred dollars as requested, and hope it will cover all our immediate and necessary expenses and have you enough to enable you to enjoy a really happy vacation this summer when the opportunity is given you. With all best wishes, believe me Very sincerely yours, Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred E. Stearns Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource June 6, 1930 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Mary Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/8dc346fecb29c3c6ee696db6bea8756e.jpg fac4d951e3cc07dd6f443b4c7282c08b Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Box 29 Sun Siblings 1930, Head of School (Stearns) Records Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Thomas Sun, Middlebury, Vermont, May 27, 1930 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Thomas Sun, Middlebury, Vermont, May 27, 1930 Relation A related resource Dear Tom: Thanks for your last and interesting letter. I am enclosing check for five hundred dollars as requested. Kindly sign and return the accompanying receipt. I shall look forward to the chance to talk with you more fully when you come down next month. Don't forget though that our own commencement comes about the time you have suggested for your visit, and that June is naturally about the busiest month of the year for me. Even so, I am sure that we can find a chance some where to sit down and talk over your problem, which I grant you is a real problem and one which we must handle with tact and care. With all good wishes, believe me Very sincerely yours, Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred E. Stearns Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource May 27, 1930 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Tommie [Tom] Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/a34a5c45b2d63075c0372fdc8117d930.jpg 50c524072cd655f7bb9476b34d762161 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Box 29 Sun Siblings 1930, Head of School (Stearns) Records Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Thomas Sun, Middlebury, Vermont, May 19, 1930 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Thomas Sun, Middlebury, Vermont, May 19, 1930 Relation A related resource Dear Tom: I have read with interest your letter just received. Frankly, I am sure that your father would not be at all enthusiastic about a summer spent wholly in traveling about, valuable as it would unquestionably be for you to see same thing of this big country. Further, I can’t believe that a car is necessary merely to cover the periods between the close of college and a summer school session and the close of that session and the opening of the next college year, “the world has changed mightily if this is true, and while I know that it has changed some, I am sure that it has not changed to quite that extent as yet. After all, the problem of the intervening periods between the closing of a college year and the regular summer session in camp or school and the intervening period which must be faced again before college opens in the fall is a problem which has been with you and all the other Chinese ever since you first came to this country. More than that, it is a problem which faces a great many other boys as well, and I am not aware that the possession of a car has been found to be the only or even common solution. But I don't want to be unfair at all in this matter, nor do I feel competent to advise you on the basis alone of the reports contained in your letter. It looks as if we ought to sit down together some time and talk things out face to face, and if you can get down here some time just before or just after graduation. I think we can probably work out a satisfactory program. Very sincerely yours, Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred E. Stearns Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource May 19, 1930 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Tommie [Tom] Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/703e23adbabb515271a05c61aa343f22.jpg 35307eae01f152470d841fc4111a8fce Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Box 29 Sun Siblings 1930, Head of School (Stearns) Records Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Charles Sun, London, May 19, 1930 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Charles Sun, London, May 19, 1930 Relation A related resource Dear Charlie: I have your interesting letter of May 9. I have learned from Mary's dean that graduation for Mary will not take place until a year from this June. If I recall aright, Mary will actually complete her work a few weeks in advance of that time, but the authorities are very anxious to have her remain until the formal graduation exercises which take place later. Whether Mary and Tom are to go back home together, I do not know. Nothing has been said to me definitely by your father on this point as yet. Tom seems to be a bit upset to know what he is to do, especially for this summer, though he has signed up at Yale for some graduate work next year. I don't wonder that you can't get enthusiastic about London, though perhaps spring and summer will clear away some of the fog and murk which made it seem to me, at least, a terribly depressing place during the few weeks I was there last winter. The good clear American skies and the snappier and more bracing air certainly appeal to me more strongly than anything London furnished me. Still we have to get accustomed to all sorts of conditions of weather and surroundings if we are to fill our places and do our proper work in the world. While I do not think for a moment that you will settle permanently in London for your life's job, I am sure that you can do a good work there while you stay, and I believe that you will gradually come to find the place and surroundings increasingly congenial. I hope so, anyway. With all good wishes, believe me Ever sincerely yours, Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred E. Stearns Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource May 19, 1930 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Charles Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/68c5fd7562774aea7b0eb00769a28e88.jpg 6d6f9b1c69f62dab7e2aac865a5d4b40 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Box 29 Sun Siblings 1930, Head of School (Stearns) Records Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Mary Sun, New Haven, Conn., May 14, 1930 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Mary Sun, New Haven, Conn., May 14, 1930 Relation A related resource Dear Mary: Thank you for your good letter of May 13. I am immensely interested in hearing of your work among the foreigners. It is a great experience, and you ought to be ready for about anything when you get back to China and work among your own people. From the fate at which they seem to be wounding each other over there, at present, you ought to have a lot to do. I do hope that the day may speedily come when these warring factions will stop their nonsense. and get down to the main task of straightening out China's troubles and putting the country soundly on its feet. You are certainly old enough to make your own decisions now-a-days, and I am perfectly willing to have you go to Ithaca for your summer vacation if that is your preference. It sounds like a good proposition to me. With all best wishes, believe me Ever faithfully yours, Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred E. Stearns Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource May 14, 1930 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Mary Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/384e37261a58e23cebdde516cbe20566.jpg 7194c203b9e25a679bfaff6418edb712 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Box 29 Sun Siblings 1930, Head of School (Stearns) Records Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Thomas Sun, Middlebury, Vermont, April 28, 1930 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Thomas Sun, Middlebury, Vermont, April 28, 1930 Relation A related resource Dear Tom: I have had to delay answering your letter of April 19 because of the recent Trustees' Meeting and the extra work that that involved. I do not think your father now intends that you should go back to China with Mary, whenever that happens to be, at least if you are in the midst of the process of getting your Master's Degree. Anyway, you should push ahead with the Yale plan with the full intention of completing the course, at least for the Master's Degree. The question of the Doctor's Degree and the extra year can be settled later. I really can’t see my way clear to sanction the purchase of the Ford car at this time, In view of the fact that you are so soon to finish at Middlebury and are to take up the work at Yale not much later. Certainly at Middlebury there could be no good ground for an indulgence of this kind, which even the colleges regularly frown upon and grant only to a limited number of students, as you know. I should feel it necessary in any case to have your father’s sanction, and of course that would take time. So let’s not worry about this for the present, but round out your course at Middlebury with the best kind of a record on which to build your later work. Ever yours, Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred E. Stearns Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource April 28, 1930 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Tommie [Tom] Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/0955f6d6a5a80294a5beffe36cd54b76.jpg c933be0d1e77c5e3be00ba3810630278 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Box 29 Sun Siblings 1930, Head of School (Stearns) Records Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Thomas Sun, Middlebury, Vermont, April 24, 1930 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Thomas Sun, Middlebury, Vermont, April 24, 1930 Relation A related resource Dear Tom: I am returning the bondsman’s blank filled out as required. Sincerely yours, Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred E. Stearns Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource April 24, 1930 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Tommie [Tom] Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/cd821ef2db34dd834575b8ad75360763.jpg ea4bbe15b4d098fb729a5ad2b2cf672c Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Box 29 Sun Siblings 1930, Head of School (Stearns) Records Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Mary Sun, New Haven, Conn., April 23, 1930 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Mary Sun, New Haven, Conn., April 23, 1930 Relation A related resource Dear Mary: Thanks for your letter of April 19 and for the accompanying statement of expenses from December 1 to April 1, last. Don't worry about the investment in the Ford car that Tom is so eager to secure. In view of the uncertainty in regard to his plans for the near future, it seems to me that it would probably be unwise for him to have the car. If he were to remain for any length of time at Middlebury and pursue in connection with his regular studies investigations into social conditions existing in towns in that section of the country, such a car might prove not only useful but actually a saving in expense. When I first talked with him, we had something of this kind in mind, and I, at least, had also in mind the purchasing of a distinctly old Ford that would cost little if any money. I can't quite believe that your father would approve of Tom's present wish and I shall endeavor to make Tom see this, though I imagine that he will be a bit "peeved" with me, as he seems to be with you. Very sincerely yours, Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred E. Stearns Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource April 23, 1930 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Mary Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/b741f70d76fe5c1bb03fae08d7b0b242.jpg 2f9174f6d82778a140855f920cd45bce https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/3bc103205c1cb32c4202ff83b354a387.jpg 8335c2fd15a9503982e39f1d796b99f9 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Box 29 Sun Siblings 1930, Head of School (Stearns) Records Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to C.Y. Sun, Tientsin, April 21, 1930 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to C.Y. Sun, Tientsin, April 21, 1930 Relation A related resource My dear Mr. Sun: I have received from the Dean of the Yale University School of Nursing, in response to my recent request, the following statement: "Miss Sun does not complete her course until February, 1931. Furthermore, she will not receive her degree until the following June at the regular Yale Commencement exercises. The University desires whenever it is at all possible that the students should receive their degrees at this time, and the School of Nursing very much prefers to have them do this." I take it from the above that you will wish Mary to remain until her course here is completed next year, even though you may not care to have her stay for the actual awarding of the degree in June. I should myself, however, desire to have her present at the degree awarding if this proves practicable, though I am not prepared to urge that point. Undoubtedly she would find plenty to keep her busy along the lines of her regular work from February to June should she remain for the commencement exercises. Dean Goodrich adds the following also: "In case Mr. Sun desires his daughter to return to China during the vacation months, I think I should also inform you that our vacation periods extend over a month only which would not enable her to make the trip, nor do I believe in her case particularly it would be advisable to give her an extended leave of absence." My impression is that you would not wish Mary to return merely for a brief vacation with only a year of work ahead of her here and the prospect of returning to China for good at the end of that period. I shall await further instructions from you, however, before making any definite report to the Yale Nursing School authorities. Dean Goodrich adds further: "You will be, I am sure, glad to know that on the whole Miss Sun is doing very well. She has made up all but one of her deficiencies, and in the practical field she compares well with the other students." At the end of the letter Dean Goodrich says, "I have recently returned from a trip to the Orient, I had hoped that Mr. Sun would get in touch with me while in Peiping, as I understood his daughter had written him, but such was not the case." I am sorry indeed that you did not have this opportunity to talk with Dean Goodrich in person, for I am sure that you would have welcomed the chance to secure this first-hand and intimate information about Mary and her work and progress at the Yale School of Nursing. Evidently Mary must have carelessly forgotten to write you. I am enclosing a statement of the accounts of Tom and Mary to date. Your last remittance of three thousand dollars came to the Andover bank the latter part of February while I was abroad. It was credited to my account there, though I did not learn until a few days ago that the money had been received, and hence I had not entered it on the accounts of the children. This, however, has now been done, and the enclosed statement shows the accounts, including the remittance in question. Tom has recently been making inquiries at both Harvard and Yale, and apparently has found at the latter institution the courses in Economics, International Law, Government, etc., which he desires. I think it more than likely, therefore, that we shall decide to let him continue his graduate studies at Yale for the coming year. With kindest personal regards, believe me always Very sincerely yours, Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred E. Stearns Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource April 21, 1930 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence C.Y.Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns