Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Arthur G. Robinson, Kansas City, Missouri, January 28, 1927

Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Arthur G. Robinson, Kansas City, Missouri, January 28, 1927

Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Arthur G. Robinson, Kansas City, Missouri, January 28, 1927

My dear Mr. Robinson:

I have your letter of January 19 but have delayed my answer owing to my recent absence from home.
Yes, Arthur Sun is working for the Metropolitan Water Company, a position there having been secured for him by the combined efforts of Mr. Freeman, Mr. Spencer Murray, and some of his Technology instructors. I hear from him constantly, and he seems to be enjoying and profiting by his work. He secured the position after he finally passed off his Tech examinations and became eligible for the coveted degree.
I hope you will have a chance to see the children before you go back to China. Mary, as you know, is at Elmira College, but seemingly quite homesick and, according to her letters, eager to return to China next summer. Apparently her homesickness and discouragement are due almost wholly to the fact that she had always expected to be able to go back this year and has recently been told by her father that she was not to return until her college course had been completed. At about the same time Mr. Sun wrote Arthur urging him to remain still another year. This put Arthur "up in the air" also, and I think that the two youngsters have reacted on each other. Their letters to me, at least, have been distinctly distressing, and both have urged me to do what I could to get their father to relent. I imagine, though I may be wrong, that Mr. Sun is naturally loath to have the children return to China until conditions there have settled down a bit.

Charlie is of course, at Amherst and Tom at Middlebury College. Just when their vacations come, I don't know but they will doubtless give you the information if you ask them direct.

Frank Lin is still plugging away at Tech trying to win his degree, and Sheh is rounding out his final year at Bowdoin with a splendid record behind him.

Faithfully yours,

Alfred E. Stearns

Phillips Academy

January 28, 1927

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