Overholt's Student Makes Headlines: 1942

OVERHOLT

Posted By: Volunteer: Sherri
Date: 2/2/2014 at 09:18:05

Sept. 1942

Overholt's Student Makes Headlines

Chinese Minister Is Featured in Magazine Article; Studied Under Keosauqua Man in 1934.

Hung Hui-yi, former student of William W. Overholt of Keosauqua when the latter was in China, was given prominence in a recent issure of Life magazine. A large picture of Mr. Hung taking a piggy-back ride on a pig and a page shot of Baby Hung being weighed on a Chinese balance are contained in the maagine(sp).

The Hung family hasn't done anything exciting to make the headlines. The pictures and some facts about Hung and other families were part of a treatise on "A Chinese Town."

"What should be made clearest is that life in Lung Chuan I is fun," says the article, which first describes life in the little market town, then tells of the influence of ancient forms, and finally show the town becoming modernized.

Hung Hui-yi completed his high school course at Yenping in 1934 while Mr. Overholt was teaching there. He then enrolled at the University of Nanking and after graduating became a Christian minister.

Mr. Overholt, who is now the Farm Security director for Van Buren county, went to China in 1924 and remained there except for a one-year furlough until 1937, when he returned to the States. For a time he taught in the university of Foochow. Mrs. Overholt also taught school in China a few years, and later taught her children at home.

Mary Jo, eldest child of Mr. and Mrs. Overholt, first enrolled in school in the seventh grade in the junior high school in Ames. She is now a junior in the Keosauqua high school.

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