You are invited to join us!

MORNINGSIDE COLLEGE CHOIR

CHINA PERFORMANCE TOUR

MAY 12-25, 2008

HONG KONG – GUANGZHOU – XI'AN – BEIJING – SHANGHAI

Alumni and friends, faculty, staff, and students, you are invited to join the Morningside College Choir for a fantastic 14-day, 12-night journey, the China Performance Tour.  The Choir will tour China as Sioux City’s ambassadors and give a total of six concerts in Guangzhou, Xi’an, Beijing, and Shanghai.  Hearing these young men and women perform is always moving, but it is even more heart-warming when they are representing your college and country abroad. Between these inspiring concerts and the magnificent sights and sounds of China, this tour will be an unforgettable experience to cherish for a lifetime.

Joining the College Choir on the tour will be: Morningside College President John Reynders and his wife, Robin; Tim Watson, director of the College Choir; Gerry Bouma, director of the Music Department, and his wife, Donna; and Gene Ambroson, director of Alumni Relations.   

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In the early 1900s, Morningside College graduates and the Women’s Foreign Ministry Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church worked together to establish the first college for women in China, Hwa Nan College of Letters and Sciences. The college became a reality in 1908, and Morningside alumnae, including Lydia Trimble 1904, Ida Belle Lewis 1909, and Lucy Wang 1921, served as the college’s first three presidents.

When the Chinese Communist Party came into power in 1949, the college merged with three other institutions, which formed Fujian Teacher’s University in 1949. Not quite forty years later, in 1985, Hwa Nan alumni and teachers came together and founded the Fujian Hwa Nan Women’s College in Fuzhou. Now commonly referred to as the “new Hwa Nan,” it remains the only private women’s college in China. They remain proud of their heritage, proclaiming that the college was founded in 1908.