Walter Fong
American educator, missionary and linguist
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- PhD Linguistics University of California, Berkeley
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Walter Ngon Fong was an American educator, missionary and linguist who founded the first technical college in Hong Kong. He was Stanford University's first Chinese graduate. Early life Fong was born on 1 April 1866 to a humble farming family in the village of Sunning, Guangdong, China. At 15, he emigrated to California, United States, where he initially attended a Presbyterian Mission. While later working at the Chinese Methodist School in San Jose, he pursued further studies at the University of the Pacific from which he graduated in 1892. He went on to be the first Chinese student to graduate from Stanford University, in 1896, majoring in Economics and Social Studies.
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