Taiwanese American Seniors Association of Southern California
Taiwanese American Seniors Association of Southern California (|南加州台灣人長輩會) is listed as a group member of the |Taiwan Center Foundation of the Greater Los Angeles.
Identity Snapshot
- Chinese: |南加州台灣人長輩會
- English (as listed): Taiwanese American Seniors Association of Southern California
- Relation: Taiwan Center group member (official listing)
- Source: https://www.taiwancenter.org/group-members ·
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Role in the Community
The corpus records this organization (as 南加州台灣人長輩會, English variants “Taiwanese-America Seniors Association of Southern California” / TASA — see |TASA) as a founding generation of the Taiwanese American senior movement:
- 1979-05-05 — Founded as 台灣長輩會, meeting at the Los Angeles Gospel Church (洛杉磯福音敎會). First president: |陳夢蘭 (M. L. Chen), with his son pharmacist 陳銓仁 as secretary; after a dispute over his absence (he often stayed at his daughter’s home in New York), a church-rotation deal installed Dr. 蕭華銓 as second president. Source: [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys54|Our Journeys #54 — 海外台灣人第一所老人公寓鶴園 / Kenjohn Wang]].
- 1979-04 — 陳隆 led ~20 elders of the newly formed 北加州台灣長輩會 on a long tour of Southern California; the two associations became sister orgs — the Northern California chapter was explicitly a transplanted copy, since 陳隆’s father 陳夢蘭 was the Southern California founding chairman. Source: [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/our-journeys-350|Our Journeys #350 — 舊金山灣區台灣基督教會史料簡介 / 何義麟]]; related page |北加州台灣長輩會.
- 1987–1988 — 鶴園老人公寓及台灣長輩會館 built in El Monte with community leaders 賴高安賜、王桂榮、丁昭昇、卓敏忠、許鴻源、張正宗、楊嘉猷、吳西面 — the first overseas Taiwanese senior housing, described as the first milestone of Southern California Taiwanese immigration history. Source: [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys173|Our Journeys #173 — 台美人移民史的首座里程碑 / 曾輝光]].
- 1988 — The 300-person fundraising dinner for Rep. Norman 戴謀利 Mineta, organized by TACL to press for a separate “Taiwanese” census code, was held at the 長輩會 apartments. Source: [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys253|Our Journeys #253 — 1990年美國人口普查TACL的角色 / 周實]].
- 2015 — 35th-anniversary special issue published under president 蔡漢成. Source: [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys173|Our Journeys #173]].
- 陳夢蘭 was also a founding consultant of the Southern California Taiwanese FCU. Source: [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys244|Our Journeys #244 / 周實]]; his Who’s Who record: [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/whoswho1031|TAH #1031 M. L. Chen 陳夢蘭]].
- The association’s own activities record: [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/2-activities-of-taiwanese-america-seniors-association-of-southern-california|TAH #2 南加州台灣人長輩會各式活動]]; its community-program record includes a 台美式民俗成年禮 (TAH 台美式民俗成年禮).
- 2015-11-21 — 臨時會員大會 combined with the 百歲人瑞 卓許招治 celebration ([[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/photo-albums-activities-104|TAH #104, 2015-11-21]]); the 35th-anniversary year also produced its own special issue ([[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/860-e5-8d-97-e5-8a-a0-e5-b7-9e-e5-8f-b0-e7-81-a3-e4-ba-ba-e9-95-b7-e8-bc-a9-e6-9|TAH #860 35週年年會特刊, 2015-03]]).
HOLD: founding 1978 vs 1979 (TAH story #75 dates it 1978; Our Journeys #54 says 1979-05-05) — carried unresolved, same hold as the sibling TASA page.
- Corpus check 2026-09-22: the English memoir of the founding ([[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys54-eng|Our Journeys 54-eng]]) adds pre-history: in 1978 tens of elders including 賴高安賜 and 蕭華銓 began the formation process, hampered by friction between the two sponsoring churches (Evangelical Formosa Church and the Taiwanese Presbyterian Church); Kenjohn Wang brokered between them, and the church-rotation presidency deal was his compromise — this corroborates the 1978 side of the founding HOLD without resolving it. The same record (excerpt from the 20th-anniversary memorial issue) states the association’s peak membership was 1,400, and notes officials visiting from Taiwan routinely stopped at the Flamingo Garden Apartments after Chinatown for want of a Taiwanese community center. Related records now linked: the association’s own 通訊月刊 newsletter (TAH 通訊月刊 by TASA), a photo album of its activities ([[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/photo-albums-activities-78|TAH #78 TASA 活動相簿]]), and a 2016 litigation record: 南加州台灣人長輩會與鶴園之訴訟 ([[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/disputes6|TAH disputes #6, 2016-10-21]] — band B, bibliographic; the dispute’s outcome is not in the corpus). Church-adjacency of the membership is corroborated independently: First Presbyterian Church of Los Angeles records that many of its members participated in TASA and related advocacy groups ([[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys231-eng|Our Journeys 231-eng / FPCLA history]]).
Source Notes
- Content priority A: Name on Taiwan Center group-members page
- Hub: |taiwancenter.org
- Content priority C: Independent history not expanded from listing alone