Ann Arbor Boy In Philippines

Samuel T. Lee, son of Mrs. Betsey Lee, of this city, who has been tor the past three years in the Philippines, has been promoted to the division superintendency of schools of the province of Oriental Negros. He has been deputy superintendent of the whole island of Negros, which has just been divided into two civil provinces and Mr. Lee has been made superintendent of one of them. Mr. Lee, who is 26 years old, is the youngest division superintendent of schools in the islands. He has 25 teachers directly under his supervision. They have a high school at Dumaguete, and his wife, who was a Vermont B. A., whom he married after reaching the islands, is a teacher in this high school. Mr. Lee, in a recent letter to his mother, speaks of planning a university course in Ann Arbor.

Mr. Lee attended the Ann Arbor high school, but left to go to the World's Fair as a chair boy. Afterwards he went to California, drifted down to Mexico, where he picked up Spanish. Returning to Ann Arbor he went out with the Ann Arbor company in the Spanish-American war. He acted as an interpreter in Cuba and went to the Philippines, his knowledge of Spanish proving invaluable to him. His friends here will be much pleased to learn of his rapid advancement.