From the recent Textile Institute 83rd World Conference look I have chosen a number of papers to be printed in the June and July issues of Textile Asia. Among these papers I found the recent history of Donghua University and its predecessors to be a fascinating subject. It would clearly be a daunting task to go into it in detail, but I had no fear. For instance the chart of the development of these institutions - see Textile Asia for July at p.4 - shows one of the four main founder bodies to have been Cheng Fu Textile Academy. Then I learnt that my late friend Stephen Sung, one of the first 30 graduates of the special class of Cheng Fu, had had good training from this institution. After graduation he worked at the National No. 1 Cotton Mill in Shanghai, then followed the President of the Academy, Lee Sun Pei in working in a spinning mill at Kunming in Yunnan Province until the end of the Japanese war. Subsequently he returned to the No. 1 Mill to work as an engineer, married Miss Ji and moved to Hong Kong, where he worked first as a spinning engineer, then as a senior engineer. In 1958-59 he worked for an M.Sc at North Carolina State University, studying textile quality control.
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