Issue No. 63
December 2010
From the Editor
Mimi Gardner '52
This is an end-of-year issue, rather than Fall of 2010 – it just worked out that way! It's a big issue, full of goodies. Please read cover-to-cover. We open with a menu of upcoming events that we hope many of you can put on your calendars – the 2011 Reunion and especially the 2012 Centennial of SAS. I commend to you a most interesting book review by Father Augustine Roberts (Bruce Roberts SAS'50) of Chinese Religiosities by Professor Mayfair Yang. Many of you may identify with the article about Peter Kim and the First Mission to Shanghai at the end of World War II. David Merwin's (SAS '53) photo essay of changing Shanghai and Betty Barr Wang's (SAS '49) report on the World Expo take us to the heart of this beautiful city. Please note also the article about Kuling American School Association and their launching of a venture with Nanjing University called the Lushan Institute. The "Notes From You" and "In Memoriam" sections, as always, reflect what interesting people we all are in our own way. This time we highlight two of our alumnae who are writers in what we hope will be an on-going section called "Of Special Note". Enjoy the reading as much as I enjoyed gathering and writing and a blessed new year to each of you.
Three Exciting Events Ahead
Reunion 2011 – September 12-16, 2011 – Split Rock Resort in the Poconos April in Shanghai, 2011 SASA-sponsored Lecture featuring Chia Lun Huang (SAS 2000) SAS Centennial Celebration featuring Ambassador J. Stapleton Roy (SAS '52).
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The SASA News The SASA News
December 2010
Reunion 2011 – September 12 to 16
"500 million years ago there was an ocean here! 400 million years ago…a mass of convulsions, earthquakes and tremors. 300 million years ago, 3 glaciers slowly crept over the land that is now Lake Harmony and The Split Rock Resort. It is believed that the actual split rock, a large outcrop of red sandstone, was the result of the last ice sheet, known as the Wisconsin Glaciation, about 70,000 years ago. " A little more than 180 years ago, the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company bought 45,000 acres in the Pocono Mountains to protect its headwater rights to the Lehigh River. In 1938, Robert V. White took over …realized the potential of the beautiful mountain terrain…and by 1941, The Lodge was one of the East Coast's finest year-round sports resorts." In the years since then a number of different owners have preserved the beauty and tradition, adding amenities and new facilities to make it the welcoming resort that it is today. We have 40 Galleria Slopeside Suites reserved,

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