Below is KASA's 2012 Annual Membership Report - scroll down to read or download
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Lushan, China, July 2012. The Kuling American School Alumni Association members met with the Lushan Museum staff to create an agreement to returning copies to China of historical photographs of "Kuling" from the Westerner residents who lived in Lushan from 1895 - 1951. KASA is continuing in its 2012 mission to rebuild a bridge back to Kuling-Lushan as it is the spiritual and literal home of many Western families dating back to the early 1900's, including Pearl Buck whose villa is now also a museum.
The Lushan Museum is located inside Chairman Mao's villa where Mao stayed during the Communist Party "Lushan Conferences". It houses the best collection of Lushan's art and treasures and also contains the recently discovered gravestone of Pearl Buck's father, Absalom Sydenstricker, who died there in August of 1931. The photo was taken at Kuling Road in the location previously known as "the Gap". A second meeting is being planned in November 2012 to start the process of transferring the first digital photographs from the US back to China for an exhibition sometime next year. In the photo: shown above are KASA Vice-President Paul Keller (back row right) and KASA President Steve Harnsberger (back row left). The Lushan Museum Executive Director, Ms. Hu is shown in pink, front row center. Mr. Huang, the Museam Director, back row left. Xiaojuan Shu, front row left, KASA volunteer, helped to arrange and translate during the meeting along with Emily (Chenhui), 2nd from left, front row (flowered dress). Posted 10-25-12 Anne Tyng -Kuling American School Alumni - Anne-Tyng Architect and Partner of Louis Kahn Dies at 91
Anne was a great lady and a friend of of many of us, a brilliant woman whose family was part of the Kuling American School legacy. We loved Anne and will miss her. Steve New York Times Article http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/07/arts/design/anne-tyng-architect-and-partner-of-louis-kahn-dies-at-91.html |
AuthorSteve Harnsberger is President of the Kuling American School Association. His family, the Woods and Harnsbergers, spent more than 400 combined years in China, the most of any American family as part of the Southern Presbyterian Missionaries in Jiangsu Province from 1887-1940. Archives
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