{"id":313,"date":"2025-08-28T14:50:47","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T14:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/internationalstudents\/?page_id=313"},"modified":"2025-09-24T19:43:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T19:43:00","slug":"moy-yoke-chong-x-class-1953","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/internationalstudents\/moy-yoke-chong-x-class-1953\/","title":{"rendered":"Moy Yoke Chong, x-class 1953"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/compass.fivecolleges.edu\/islandora\/object\/mtholyoke%3A33310\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"821\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/internationalstudents\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1005\/2025\/08\/InternationalStudents187-821x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Moy Yoke Chong, former member of the class of 1953, wears a light-colored cardigan over a white blouse as she speaks with Academic Dean Meribeth Cameron in the an office, before a shelf of books.\" class=\"wp-image-62\" style=\"width:400px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/internationalstudents\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1005\/2025\/08\/InternationalStudents187-821x1024.jpg 821w, https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/internationalstudents\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1005\/2025\/08\/InternationalStudents187-241x300.jpg 241w, https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/internationalstudents\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1005\/2025\/08\/InternationalStudents187-768x958.jpg 768w, https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/internationalstudents\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1005\/2025\/08\/InternationalStudents187-1232x1536.jpg 1232w, https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/internationalstudents\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1005\/2025\/08\/InternationalStudents187-1642x2048.jpg 1642w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 821px) 100vw, 821px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><sup><sub>Academic Dean Meribeth Cameron talking with international student Moy Yoke Chong, x-class of 1953<\/sub><\/sup><br><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Moy Yoke Chong was the first student from Malaya to attend Mount Holyoke. She was from Kuala Lumpur, Selangor, Malaya, and entered with the class of 1953 but did not graduate. Chong donated two paintings to the Mount Holyoke Art Museum later in her life.<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moy Yoke Chong was the first student from Malaya to attend Mount Holyoke. She was from Kuala Lumpur, Selangor, Malaya, and entered with the class of 1953 but did not graduate. Chong donated two paintings to the Mount Holyoke Art Museum later in her life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2199,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/page-nosidebar.php","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-313","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/internationalstudents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/internationalstudents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/internationalstudents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/internationalstudents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2199"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/internationalstudents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/internationalstudents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":708,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/internationalstudents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/313\/revisions\/708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/internationalstudents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}