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Many Georgia women cannot understand frequent references to Madame Chiang Kai-shek as a Wellesley alumna when they remember her as a student at Wesleyan College, Macon, Ga. Here are the facts...
Madame Chiang, as Mei-ling Soong, graduated from Wellesley College at Wellesley, Mass., in 1917, as you state in your issue of Jan. 25. She came to Macon, Ga., however, as a little girl of 10 with her sisters. (Madame H. H. Kung, Soong Eling, graduated at Wesleyan in 1909; Madame Sun Yatsen, Soong Ching-ling...
...Slappey of Fort Valley, Ga. summoned his friends from far & wide for the Spitz's funeral. Four years later, still grieving, he sat down and wrote a will setting aside the residue of his estate after bequests to relatives for a "Snowball Dog Hospital'' in Macon. Friends tried to persuade him to make it a children's hospital instead, but Dog-lover Slappey said: ''There's always someone who will take care of children. Nobody takes care of sick and injured dogs unless they're special pets. I'm going...
...acquitted of the murder. After the Slappey heirs had taken their shares of his estate, there was $60,000 to $75,000 left for the dog hospital. The heirs wanted that too, started action to break the will. As superior court Judge Malcolm D. Jones pondered his decision in Macon last week, Georgia lawyers opined that unless George Slappey was proved crazy when he wrote his will, Snowball would have its memorial...
Several times you have mentioned Wellesley College as the educational institution attended by Mme Chiang Kaishek. Two of the Misses Soong attended Wesleyan College, in Macon, Ga. Is it possible these two colleges have been confused? The latter is a Methodist institution and the oldest chartered women's college in the world. What...