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Dear Alumni, Summer 2009
In July and August we usually can meet up with some students who are going away for their advanced study or just come back from their studies abroad. Over the years, lots of my former students have become friends to me, and each reunion brings me great joy and much happiness. Our friendship, like a special rainbow that never fades away, transcends the gaps in geography and lifestyle. Good friends always have stories to share, and we share those with great heartfelt warmth and care.
Against All Odds
Let me begin with some faculty updates. After Tom Nash and Xie Jin Guei Yu’s retirement last year, Dr. Llyn Scott was retired last February, and is now teaching in Department of Foreign Languages and Literature, Aletheia University. We will always appreciate her contribution to our college theater and remember all the wonderful theatrical performance she directed. The senior play in December 2008, Hair, the American Tribal Love-Rock Musical, became the last play Llyn Scott directed at Fu Jen. I cannot recommend a better play for her to conclude her directing career as HAIR is a celebration of life, a love letter to freedom, and a passionate cry for hope and change. We thank you, Llyn, and wish you the best!
(Llyn in 2006, New York) |
(2008 FJU Arens Performing Art Center) |
(Ray in July 2004) |
For those who are wondering about Ray Schulte, I have good news. He just had his birthday in early July! Ray has been a great fighter, setting a good example for all of us, that is, a positive attitude can help increase our ability to cope with life's problems or with a disease. We have a chance each day when we get up to make this a great day and achieve what we wish, or to merely accept events that occur and not try to improve your lot or set new goals. Some things in life are more difficult to change than others. Thus, how we live is in part controlled by our attitude toward life, which becomes the pivot on which the future hinges. We salute you, Ray!
Remember Paul Gabriel who taught in the late eighties and early nineties? He now lives in the south part of San Francisco and has a private practice as an educational therapist, working with kids from 5th grade-high school, mostly treating dyslexia and ADHD-related issues. We send our regards, Paul.
Friends in NYC
Our old friend, Margarette Connor, is now back to New York. See the picture on the left below she took with our alumni: Karina Chen陳慧瑩, Sylvia Hung洪得仁, Diana Lee李孟璇, Dwandwan Ou-Yang 歐陽端端and Sophia Ho何修宛(from left to right).
Once in a while Sophia, Sylvia, Angela Peng, Diana and Earl Liau 廖胤威 (all from the class of 2000) also find time to catch up in NYC. Dwandwan Ou-Yang and Chih-ping Ma, and Earl Liau are PhD students in City University of New York (CUNY), almost in their final stage of their doctoral studies. Angela Peng 彭, Diana Lee, Sophia Ho, Sylvia Hung and Zoe Chiu邱凡恩are working in NYC. Zoe Chiu has been working in a gallery that specialized in Chinese contemporary art in New York since fall of 2007. As the Exhibition Director at the gallery, Zoe is mainly responsible for day-to-day gallery operation, liaison with artists and client relations. Sophia Ho is in online advertising industry, currently at Media Innovation Group (MIG) as an account manager (www.themig.com). MIG is a WPP (www.wpp.com) company, one of the big six advertising holding companies in the world. Her job is to consult the advertising agencies on campaign performance by providing the client with analysis obtained from our proprietary trafficking and reporting tool. Dove, Royal Caribbean, HSBC, etc are a few accounts that she is currently working on.
Sylvia Hung received herMBA from Duke University (2006-2008) and moved to NYC last year. She is now working as a senior consultant for a boutique pharmaceutical consulting firm based in New York, specializing in pricing and market access. Her job is to help pharmaceutical & biotechnology companies optimize their pricing and reimbursement strategy for the specific product life cycle and geographies across the globe. Her main responsibility is to manage the client and supervise the team to carry out the deliverables.
An assistant professor now in SUNY, Stony Brook, EK Tan陳榮強 is teaching in Department of Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies (http://www.sunysb.edu/complit/new/tan.html) while Rita Sung 宋怡德 is a Ph D student in the same program. However, Davie Sun 孫國展is in SUNY, Albany, studying in the doctoral program of Linguistics.
Alumni in Taiwan
From the same class of 2000 there are also Beryl Huang黃郁珺,Stephanie Chang 張耘萍, Sharon Hsieh 謝一華, Phoebe Chiu 邱銘心, Andrew Ho何柏蒼, Wendy Yang 楊茲婷, and Eileen Lin林虹秀. After completing her MA degree from Cheng Chi University, Beryl is now studying in the Ph D program in Literature at Taiwan Normal University where Phoebe serves as an assistant professor in the Graduate Institute of Library and Information Studies. Eileen is now teaching Translation in Wenzao Ursuline College of Languages in Kaohsiung after she received her MA degree from GITIS at Fu Jen. Stephanie serves as a specialist in Economic Section in AIT, and Wendy works in American Chamber of Commerce in Taipei. Different from those in the office, Andrew Ho is a make-up artist, a hairstylist, and a rhythm tap dancer (please check out his website: http://www.potsang.com/ and his blog: http://blog.goo.ne.jp/smileandrew). And Sharon with her husband just got back from Madison, Wisconsin, and is now looking for a job!
(Andrew Ho at work) |
(Stephanie) |
(from left to right: Sharon, Karen, ?, and Phoebe) |
New Launches
From the class of 2005, Amanda 林慧茹graduated from Pratt Institute last May, is currently interning at the Metropolitan Museum and looking for a full-time job in NYC. Carl Hsu 徐偉峰, also a recent graduate of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, is an actor and presently gets a show in Ohio. “If I don't get better offers than that, I might be in Ohio from the end of August to December,” said Carl. May everything go well with you, Amanda and Carl.
Isabel Tang 唐威威, married with Jonny Oh, got her M.A. in Translation and Interpretation in Spanish/English from Monterey International College last spring and she actually took a couple of classes with Prof. Dai Jinhui 戴金惠, also another alumna graduated in 1995. Got married last September, Isabel has been working at a translation company for the past 2 years as a project manager. However, she is at a transition period and may become a full-time translator.
Newlyweds!
We have some newlyweds from the class of 2004: Sandra杜慧娟(and Ed Shen) got married in April, Fiona 郭芳吟(and中山佑介) just got married on July 9, 2009. Jason 王豪文and Grace 徐師雅were married back inDecember 2007 in Shanghai, and now live in NYC. By the way, Stephany Hsiao蕭培彥also shows up in New York!
(Sandra and Ed Shen) |
(Fiona and中山佑介) |
(Jason and Grace) |
(Stephany, Carl and Jason) |
Bon Voyage
From Class of 2006, Sarah Kuo 郭曉芸 is now studying Management and Marketing in Lancaster University. However, she will be back to Taiwan to finish her other master in National Sun Yat-Sen University (中山大學) and will stay in Kaohsuing for another six month. Kelsey Hsiao 蕭琬琳 is working at CELINE now. She plans to study marketing in the States next year. Lanni Chu-chun Hsu徐竹君is going to study International Leisure & Tourism Management at Stenden University in Leeuwarden, Northern Neatherland.
Peggy Sun孫韻筑(2008) will further her studies in TESL in Ohio State University at Columbus. Another one also going abroad this summer is Louis Wu 吳育慶(2008) who will go to SUNY at Albany to study Medieval and Renaissance literature. Chris Wu 吳塵軒will soon take off in mid August to study in the University of Memphis, TN. The school has intensive courses of Afro-American literature and Memphis is a good location to delve into blues, which is the subject of his thesis. We believe he will do well there.
With regard to life and the pursuit of knowledge, I love what William Butler Yeats states, “Life is a journey up a spiral staircase; as we grow older we cover the ground covered we have covered before, only higher up; as we look down the winding stair below us we measure our progress by the number of places where we were but no longer are. The journey is both repetitious and progressive; we go both round and upward.” May God grant us wisdom, health, and happiness when we take this life journey onward and upward.
Bless you all!
Sincerely,
Cecilia H.C. Liu
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