Portrait of Alfred Sze, leader of Central High School's cadet corps, 1895. Sze, the son of a member of the Chinese Legation to the U.S., came to D.C. in the early 1890s. He would later serve as the first Chinese Ambassador to the U.S. He returned permanently to D.C. after the 1949 establishment of the PRC. (Image Source: Charles Sumner School Museum and Archives; viewed photo in Antoinette Lee's article "Asian and Asian American Students in Washington, D.C., Public Schools during the Segregation Era," Washington History Vol 28, No. 2 (Fall 2016).)