Dr. Way-Sung New was born in Shanghai on June 14 1892, being a son of the late Shang-Chow New, who was one of the early Chinese students sent to America and upon his return was the secretary of the Kiangnan Dock and Engineering Works of Shanghai. Dr. New received his primary education under private auspices and attended the St. John's Middle School from 1902 to 1907. From 1907 to 1910, he studied at St. John's University, graduating in the latter year with the B. A. degree. In July he went to the United States and entered Harvard, joining the Medical School where he graduated with the M. D. degree in 1914. During and after his college years, Dr. New had considerable practical experience, being house physician and surgeon of St. Luke's Hospital, New Bedford, in 1914-1915. Upon returning to China in August 1915, he took charge of the Department of Anatomy at the Harvard Medical School of China, Shanghai, from September 1915 to July 1916 when he once more sailed for the United States as a fellow of the Rockefeller Foundation. From September 1916 to April 1917, Dr. New served at the Out-Patient Department of the Carney Hospital, Boston, Children's Hospital and the Massachusetts General Hospital as orthopedic assistant. From September 1916 to February 1917, he was also instructor in bacteriology at the Harvard Medical School. From May 1917 to April 1918, he became orthopedic house surgeon at the Massachusetts General Hospital. From May to July 1918, he was orthopedic assistant of the Johns Hopkins Hospital. Then he returned to China to take charge of the department of orthopedic surgery, Peking Medical College, which offices he kept till June 1920. Dr. New was admitted to be a member of the Boylston Medical Society upon the presentation of a thesis entitled "Acute Anterior Poliomvelitis,” in March 1913. He became a fellow of the American Medical Association and a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society in 1917 and was licensed to practice medicine by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in 1917. He was a charter member of the National Medical Association of China when the organisation was inaugurated in 1915. In the same year he was elected a member of the China Medical Missionary Association. He served as the secretary of the Peking Medical Society in 1919-1920, secretary of St. John's Alumni Association of Peking, 1919-1920, secretary-treasurer of Harvard Club of North China, 1919-1920, secretary of American University Club of North China, 1919-1920, secretary of The National Medical Association of China, 1915-1916 and 1920-1922, treasurer of The National Medical Association of China, 1922, Councillor of the Shanghai Medical Society, 1921-1923, member of the executive committee of the China Medical Missionary Association, 1923, secretary of St. John's Alumni Association of Shanghai, 1921-1922, secretary-treasurer of St. John's University Alumni advisory Council, 1922, and national secretary of the Phi Tau Phi, 1922. Dr. Now is also one of the officials of the Red Cross Society of China at present, Dr. New is physician to the Shanghai College of Commerce as well as to the Chinese Institute for the Blind, orthopedic surgeon to the Red Cross General Hospital, to the Margaret Williamson Hospital and to the Soochor Hospital, Medical Officer to the Yangtze River Commission, director of the Rotary Club of Shanghai, medical advisor to the Shanghai-Hangchow-Ningpo Railway and medical examiner for the West Coast Life Insurance Co
