132 Chengtu Road, Tientsin, China.
June 30th, 1947.Dear Miss Turner;
It seems to me that everyday I hope to get a letter written and each day ended with not a line. Life has been very busy with me these days. One of our women doctors just had a baby and shemust [sic] have a month vacation; so part of her work was turned to my already heavy program. This means burning my candle at both ends for a short time. How every [sic] July the first I shall be having more time. First there is little business that I want to ask you to do it for me. I have no way to pay Mount Holyoke Quarterly and my aluminae [sic] dues. I bought two small cheques from a friend. There is on way for anyone to get foreign exchange. Kindly use these twelve dollars to pay quarterly and dues for me. May be the sum is enough for two or three years. I shall be glad if you would kindly attend this for me.
On June 9th this year I have completed my 25 years service. The hospital gave me a celebration and invited three hundred some good friends of the hospital. It was a very ncie party with a chance to call upon our midwife nurses in rural districts to report their work. As hospital is concerned other hospitals are larger and probably better equiped than ours. But no hospital has done so much health work as this hospital. Our serology service is used by all hospitals in city and our rural stations extends from Peiping to Muckden all along the railway line. There are five small maternity and infant welfare stations in city and five along the railway line. Ofcourse [sic] these stations have been established at different times so they are not of same ages. But each station shows the increase care of mothers and babies at every station according to her age (number of years)[.] In one station during ten years our midwife nurse gave care to 3400 mothers and babies. This station is at Hietien situated between Yanching and Tsing Hwa universities. Our nurse Miss Chang has done a wonderful piece of work in that locality. She is like a candle in that dark rural area. Becuase [sic] of her work women and children of that area all have better health. This is all slow work but one can see progress. During years of war our nurses remained faithfully at their stations inspite [sic] of many difficulties. I have another nurse who is in comuunists [sic] area where she has no freedom at all. But she prefers to remain at her station because of her service to many mothers and babies. She is also a travelling public health nurse for several villages around that area. When my nephew's wife should return then I want ave these graduates back for further studies. She is the one you met at Ann Arbor. She was one of our graduate nurses also. Our work for the prevention against tuberculosis in gaining way also. Now all college students must have X eay [sic] chest for check up before admission. This is a great improvement since my school days. Progress is slow but progress is steady. I am very grateful to my college and my university and my professors for every little ability I have and every little deed I have accomplished. You have a great share. On my 25th anniversary I was happy to be able to give two scholarships fund to Yenching one in loving memory of my American mother Dr. Mary H. McLean, other a honor scholarship for honoring Dr. Leighton Stuart of his life work in China. I have also started a honor scholarship at Ginling college in honorung [sic] you of my 25 years service. But this fund is small yet but I hope to complete the fund by end of 1948. Personally I prefer girls to go colleges instead of universities. I think girls really learn to be leaders in colleges. I have noticed Genling College graduates are good leaders in society. Of two scholarships at Yenching they are graduate scholarships in Yenching School of Religion. I feel that China has no great theologians like Mr. Fosdick. Recently I enjoyed his book the title_ "A Great Time to Be Alive"
This summer I hope my nephew S. V. and his wife would be with me. They are teaching at Nanking University. I am very proud of my nephew for he is willing to take a low teaching job. We need good teachers. Both he and his wife are teaching at the same university in the same department. They are very happy so I am happy. Your letter was the only letter we had about Mary Jean and Yuch Ming. Since then we have not had a word from either one of them. We are at lost what has happpened [sic] to either of them after their marriage. My widowed niece from Shanghai is also coming for summer. Although we are right here in China but we have not seen each other during the last eight years of war. Then travveling [sic] was so difficult and it is getting better. There is direct boat from Shanghai to Tientsin _ two days and two nights journey very comfortable sea trip.
Miss Elizabeth Adams sent me a book _ "Endocrinology of Women"[.] The book is very useful for it is written with much clinical data with diagnosis and treatment. In my schoold ays we did study embryology, anatomy, histology, pathology, chemistry and physiology of the secretory glands but I do not even recall any lectures on secretory control. Interrelations of these glands were mentioned little in lectures but not thoroughly understood. I am very happy to add this book to my library. During the Japanese occupation my thousandvolume [sic] library was gone. They would not allow anything in the English language. All my old journals and medical periodals [sic] all gone. This is also true of P. U. M. C. library. I hope in the future that there should be no war. Recently I have been very interested in Miss Muriel Lester's work to prevent war. British government has arrested her three times during periods of war.
You may have conflicting reports about China. The truth of the matter is that Russia is backing our communists and Russia wants to force her way of living upon China. China being poor is a good soil for communism. There is no freedom of speach [sic], no freedom of press and no freedom of worship. In the name of the state a human being is nothing. I want my rights so I would never want to have communism in our country. But the young generation thinks the heaven is created by by [sic] ism. Mr. Yang has arrived in America and I hope that he has sent you my little package. With much love.
Yours lovingly.
Me_iung Ting