ABSTRACT
While the Nationalist Party set up its government in Nanjing in the spring of 1927, Gee sailed across the Pacific and then traveled the breadth of America, stopping at educational institutions along the way. The final stop was Converse College in Spartanburg, South Carolina. He was back in time to watch his daughter Gertrude graduate. Converse dean Mary Gee, Gee’s elder sister, was proud of her niece; a second generation of Gees had been educated at Converse. Dean Gee, childless and unmarried, succeeded in getting Gertrude to attend her school. Christine Gee, also partial to her alma mater, had wanted Gertrude to attend Winthrop College, but Mary had prevailed. Another round would soon be fought over Gee’s second daughter, Drucilla. This time Christine would come out on top; Drucilla attended Winthrop, to her aunt Mary’s chagrin.
