Alumni Building to Mark Gen. Chiang's Release Dr. Chang Po-ling, President of Nankai University, Tientsin, made a vow while Gen, Chiang Kal-shek, President of the Executive Yuan, wes In detention in Sian during the Chang Hsueh-liang revolt that if the Generalissimo should be released safe and sound, he would construct in Nanking a building for the local Nankai Alumni Association as a cultural and social centre in the capital, and to-day he 1s fulfilling it, Generously taking out $7,000 from his own pocket as the first contrlbution, the eminent educator has {initiated a plan for raising the total outlay for the projected "structure, which has been tentatively fixed at $21,009, "Still in the embryonic stage, the project has met with spontaneous and' whole-hearted support of the alumni throughout the country and broad as weill as the faculty friends of the University. It has al~ ready won several pledges besides the rst contribution made by Dr, Make Donations Within one single day when the project was first made mown here, approximately $4,000 was pledged by alumni in Nanking, including' §1,000 from the sons of Gen, Chen iao-yuan, Chairman of the Military. Advisory Council. Another alumnus promised "to contribute all the Cement needed for the construction of the building while a third Purchase all the furniture for the luk A piece of land, measuring tour mow, situated at the intersection of Shanghai Road and Kwangtung Road near the American Embassy has been chosen as the site of the building. Preliminary arrangements having been completed, a contract for sts purchase at a cost of $8,000 will soon. be signed, Of the total required outlay of $21,000, according to the tentative project, $7,000 will be solicited from the alumni in Nafking and $7,000 from the alumni in Tientsin and elsewhere in China, while the remaining $7,000 has been pledged by Dr. Chang himself. The drive for Contributions has been set for March 27 to April 3, Construction of the building, it Is Jearned, will proceed by two stages, To meet the urgent need for a meeting place for the alumni, a two-storey building will be frst constructed during the current year, which will house a dormitory of ten rooms upstairs and a dance and ming hall on the ground. oer. Next year a larger dormitory and an assembly hall will be added, After the completion of the larger dormitory, the first dormitory will be transformed into administer tion otices, one of which will be an employment agency for the benefit of the alumni, Upon completion, the structure will be the first alumni building. in Nanking of a Chinese university, the present alumni houses inthe capital have all been founded by Felurned students, including the German-Austrian-Swedish " Returned Students? Club, and the Japanese Returned Students! Club. Tt will be the second Nankai alumni building in the country, the Mrst one being In Tientsin, according {0 the Central News, There are now over 200 Nankai alumni in Nanking. Among the Prominent names are Dr. Hsu Mo, Vice-minister of Foreign Affairs, Dr. Franklin Ho, Director of the Political Affairs Depariment of the Executive Yuan, Mr, Chang Tao-fan, - Vice-minister of Interior, Mr, Tung Kuan-hsien, of the Control Yuan, and Messrs Cheng Tao-Ju, Chang Jul and Chang Ping-chun, Councillors of the Executive Yuan,
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