Hey, you all said to be specific.
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I was recently informed by a surviving relative that my great grandmother attending finishing school "somewhere around the 1910s" with the to be wife of the Chinese leader Chiang Kai-shek in Boaz, Alabama of all places. Both of his later wives, Chen Jieru and Soong Mei-ling are mentioned as having studied in the US around the proper time with the latter actually having specifically spent time in the general area (GA, TN) albeit a bit earlier than estimated.
This prompts two questions, which of these ladies was the mystery classmate and why in blazes would they be in Boaz, AL and not the more urbanized American North/Northeast?
The only possible place would be the present Snead State Community College , which started out as a girl's school in 1898 and would still be one in 1910.
As for why, I presume she would have been getting proficiency in English. There has long been a notion in language education that rural schools are better than urban ones, because the students will be less likely to encounter speakers of their first language, will be in a smaller community that's more welcoming, and so will adapt sooner to learning their second. That's only a guess, in this case. In 1910, it's also possible there was an American Methodist missionary connection in China that had something to do with it.
They do have a website, with contact info. It's possible they'd have records still on file of the earlier students .