{"id":2508,"date":"2026-04-29T01:57:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T01:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/colby-and-china-ea333\/?post_type=exhibit&#038;p=2508"},"modified":"2026-05-06T04:12:55","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T04:12:55","slug":"colby-alumnus-letter-1945","status":"publish","type":"exhibit","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/colby-and-china-ea333\/exhibits\/song-chin-foh\/traces-of-song\/colby-alumnus-letter-1945\/","title":{"rendered":"Colby Alumnus Letter, 1945"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\"  class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/colby-and-china-ea333\/files\/2026\/04\/colby-alumnus-letter-1945.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"PDF embed\"><\/object><a href=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/colby-and-china-ea333\/files\/2026\/04\/colby-alumnus-letter-1945.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download>Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Transcription<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>COLBY COLLEGE<br>WATERVILLE, MAINE<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>THE COLBY ALUMNUS<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>March 15, 1945<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr. Arthur G. Robinson<br>Walker Missionary School<br>144 Hancock Street<br>Auburndale, Massachusetts<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dear Arthur:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>    I was extremely interested in the material which you sent me on Carl Song. Do you believe that this is the man in the class of 1921 whom we knew as Chin Foh Sung? We do not have anyone else of the name of Sung or Song in our alumni files.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>    We had a nice letter from George Ober the other day in which he spoke of seeing Dana in Hawaii. The letter was printed in the ECHO, and, if I can get hold of an extra copy, I will mail it to you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>    Please let me know if you get any more information about Sung.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>                            Cordially yours,\n\n                            JOSEPH COBURN SMITH\n                            Editor<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>JCS:VM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transcription COLBY COLLEGEWATERVILLE, MAINE THE COLBY ALUMNUS March 15, 1945 Mr. Arthur G. RobinsonWalker Missionary School144 Hancock StreetAuburndale, Massachusetts Dear Arthur: I was extremely interested in the material which you sent me on Carl Song. Do you believe that this is the man in the class of 1921 whom we knew as Chin Foh Sung? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"parent":2224,"menu_order":1,"template":"","institution":[],"place":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/colby-and-china-ea333\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibit\/2508"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/colby-and-china-ea333\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibit"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/colby-and-china-ea333\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/exhibit"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/colby-and-china-ea333\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibit\/2508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2743,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/colby-and-china-ea333\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibit\/2508\/revisions\/2743"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/colby-and-china-ea333\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibit\/2224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/colby-and-china-ea333\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"institution","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/colby-and-china-ea333\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/institution?post=2508"},{"taxonomy":"place","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/colby-and-china-ea333\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/place?post=2508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}