Taiwanese Association of America Greater Washington (華府台灣同鄉會)
Identity Snapshot
- English: Taiwanese Association of America Greater Washington
- Chinese: 華府台灣同鄉會
- Era: Contemporary
- Geography: Taiwanese American community
- Core roles: Community organization (TAH directory)
The Taiwanese Association of America Greater Washington Chapter (TAAGWC, 華府台灣同鄉會) is a regional chapter of the Taiwanese Association of America (TAA), the national umbrella organization for Taiwanese American community associations in the United States. The chapter serves the Taiwanese American community in the greater Washington, D.C. area, including Maryland and Virginia suburbs.
Timeline
- 1967–1968 — Predecessor organization TAA Baltimore/Washington led by Norman Chen 陳淮崇 (1967) and Kenneth C. Yang 楊基規 (1968), per 華府台灣同鄉會歷屆會長芳名錄 in Our Journeys 138.
- 1969 — First recorded president of the TAA Greater Washington Chapter: Frederic Wang 王穎裕; successive chairs through the 1970s include 陳哲仁 (1970), 賴經都 (1971), 張學賢 (1972), 潘昭治 (1973), 江應鐘 (1974), Andrew Y. Lee 李友義 (1975), 蔡文博 with VP 黃俊平 (1976).
- 1994–2000 — 華府台灣同鄉會於 1994 年末決議成立台灣文化中心籌備委員會；華府台灣文化中心於 2000 年 3 月正式成立為獨立操作的非營利免稅組織，為華府台灣人及社團提供固定活動場所 — per 華府台灣文化中心簡介 (黃泰郎, 2014-09), 2014-09. English text of the same memoir adds: 1999-11-12 籌備會完成非營利申請、2000-03-09 正式開幕；2003-12 取得現址 (7509 Needwood Rd, Derwood, MD)、2004-01-10 首次 Open House — Tai-lang Huang.
- 2008 — Chapter council (理事會) recorded in 華府台灣同鄉會歷屆會長芳名錄 in Our Journeys 138: 會長 Kwei-Yang Chang 張貴洋, 秘書 Janice Wu 吳玉琴, 財務 Ted Chang 張懷德, 鄉訊 Stephen Hung 洪啟峰. 同年的 2008-11 為本會四十週年紀念特刊 (HOLD: work frontmatter cataloging date 2016-10-31 vs title’s 11/2008 — likely a later cataloging date, not merged).
- 2015 — July 4 獨立紀念日大遊行：歷屆會長謝榮春以 TAIDP（台美人獨立紀念日遊行團隊）名義連續八年（約 2008–2015）取得參加權，2015 再獲邀，華府台灣同鄉會與巴城台灣同鄉會合作共辦；吳玉琴、黃美鳳等會長積極領導催生，當天 60 餘人參加，多為華府台語學校師生家長 — per 陳美麗, 2015-07. (HOLD: 黃美鳳 absent from the chapter past-president list above; 吳玉琴 recorded as 秘書 in 2008 but called 會長 here — not merged.)
- 2015 — Chapter record of community advocacy: 華府亞太裔傳統週 Asian-Pacific American Heritage Week, in 8. Asian-Pacific American Heritage Week, Washington, D.C. (HOLD: author “潘昭治” vs the 1973 chapter president of the same name — likely the same person, not merged).
- 2015 — Charles Kuo 郭超瑜 served as chapter president in 2015: described by 楊遠薰 as the youngest president in the chapter’s then-half-century history and the first second-generation Taiwanese American to lead a 台灣同鄉會 chapter — 2017-09-16. (HOLD: this conflicts with the same-year records — 謝榮春 as 歷屆會長 leading the TAIDP parade effort in 2015 per Our Journeys #150, and 劉美齡 as 會長 in 2016 per Our Journeys #232 — not merged.)
- 2016 — July 4 美國獨立紀念日大遊行：歷屆會長謝榮春以 TAIDP（台美人獨立紀念日遊行團隊）名義取得參加權，本會（TAA-GWC）從旁協助；會長劉美齡及部分理事在最後階段招募志工並帶家人加入遊行團隊；理事張懷德與蔡碧珠參與花車構建（Our Journeys #232, 2016）。
- 2018 — 本會 50 週年慶典於 Gaithersburg, MD 舉行（2018-11-10），TAH 記錄：15. TAA-GWC 華府台灣同鄉會 50 Anniversary; chapter history pamphlet 華府台灣同鄉會簡介 recorded 2018-02-22 ( Greater Washington, DC) — implies founding ~1968, matching the 1967–68 TAA Baltimore/Washington predecessor records above. 李明典博士 (Dr. Min-Ten “Milton” Lee) holds the chapter’s longest recorded membership, 1971–2018, per 2018-11-17 (李明典); anniversary commemoration footage: 歷屆會長 portraits 2018-11-18, 50th Anniversary video 2018-11-18, Thanksgiving Banquet & 50th Anniversary Celebration 1257. 2018 TAAGWC Thanksgiving Banquet and 50th Anniversary Celebration.
- 2020 — Chapter co-signer of Greater Washington Taiwanese community joint statements: 2020-09 大華府僑團聯合聲明 supporting Taiwan’s UN membership, signed alongside 巴爾的摩/哥倫比亞台灣同鄉會, 大華府台美人長樂會, 華府台灣文化中心 and 12 other groups — 2020-09-30; 2020-02-23 joint statement supporting Taiwan’s participation in WHO, with 華府台灣同鄉會 among the co-issuing 大華府台僑組織 — 2020-02-25.
- 2025 — 華府台灣同鄉會 listed among 合辦團體 of the 紀念陳文成博士 online commemoration (線頂活動) — 2025-05-18.
- Chapter’s own publications held in corpus: directory 2019 and newsletter records 2016-11-01 and Washington Chapter 華府台灣同鄉會, 2019-05-15; chapter directory entry TAA-GWC 華府台灣同鄉會, 2015-12-07.
- Re-verified 2026-10-10: fresh ZH+EN grep across all corpus dirs surfaced 4 previously-unabsorbed chapter records now added above (1994–2000 cultural-center founding, 2015 TAIDP parade per 陳美麗, Min-Ten Lee membership 1971–2018, 2008 四十週年特刊 + 2018 anniversary video records); remaining hits are sibling-org records (華府台灣文化中心, FAPA/TASS/商會大華府分會, 華府台灣合唱團, 台大校友會 etc.) or already-absorbed works.
Greater Washington community context
- Corpus records for sibling Greater Washington Taiwanese organizations exist but are distinct bodies, not this chapter: 華府台灣文化中心 (Taiwan Culture Center of Greater Washington D.C., founded by Tai Huang — oral history [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/video-188|TAH video #188]]) ran the Taiwan Night Concert series in Rockville, MD 2007–2018 ([[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/concerts5|concerts #5]]) and the 2017 Award Ceremony / Music Concert (Our Journeys 303); FAPA 大華盛頓分會 is a separate advocacy chapter ( FAPA).
- Re-verified 2026-09-21: fresh grep for 華府台灣同鄉會/Greater Washington returns only chapter-level records already absorbed above plus the sibling-org records below — page saturated this pass.
- Re-verified 2026-10-13: ZH+EN grep across all 5 corpus dirs surfaced 4 previously-unabsorbed taiwanjustice-net records now added to the Timeline (2015 Charles Kuo presidency, 2020 UN + WHO joint statements, 2025 陳文成 commemoration); remaining hits are sibling-org records, works/index.md and sources/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org.md directory listings, or already-absorbed works.