Photo of Chinese Students in Ministerial Association in 1918

Photo of Chinese Students in Ministerial Association in 1918

The Spider 1918

Photo of Ministerial Association. Chinese students are in the second row to the right (T.S. Cheung) and in the back to the middle (Y.T. Cheung).

This is a club photograph of the Ministerial Association. The Ministerial Association was a Christian student organization at the University of Richmond. The purpose of this student organization was to bring together a group of Christian young men whose purpose was to spread the Christian gospel. Students joined the club as a way to connect with other students with similar religious backgrounds. T.S. Cheung and Y.T. Cheung, as Chinese students who were members of the Ministerial Association, were photographed among its members. T.S. Cheung and Y.T. Cheung were the only minorities in the student organization as the majority of the members were white.

Virginia Baptist Historical Society

Richmond, VA

1918

Scott Shim