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  • Great friends, beautiful memories: UIAA's Korea Chapter celebrates 100 years

    Jan 24, 2023 10:30 am by Jay CoppAlumni
    Duck Choo Oh shared her memories of being the first Korean-born Homecoming Queen at the University of Illinois—and perhaps the first in the nation—during a virtual centennial celebration hosted by the UI Alumni Association, Korea Chapter. (Images courtesy of UI Archives)

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    Duck Choo Oh’s Homecoming coronation in 1955 symbolized the blossoming of an international era for the University of Illinois. The seeds of that growth started nearly five decades earlier with President Edmund Janes James (1904–20).

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