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Westchester Taiwanese Women’s Association WTWA (威郡台灣婦女會)

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Westchester Taiwanese Women’s Association WTWA (威郡台灣婦女會)

Identity Snapshot

  • English: Westchester Taiwanese Women’s Association WTWA
  • Chinese: 威郡台灣婦女會
  • Era: Contemporary
  • Geography: Taiwanese American community
  • Core roles: Community organization (TAH directory)

The Westchester Taiwanese Women’s Association (WTWA) is a nonprofit, non-political organization founded in the fall of 1974 by Taiwanese women in the Westchester County area of New York, approximately 30 miles northeast of Manhattan. The organization holds monthly gatherings from September through June at rotating host family homes, featuring programs on topics such as family life, children’s education, finance, arts, health, and Taiwanese cuisine. WTWA has actively engaged in cultural exchange with local organizations such as the Scarsdale Woman’s Club, presenting Taiwanese music, folk songs, and puppet theater performances. The association also participates in broader community events including Taiwanese American Heritage Week activities, the Passport to Taiwan event in Manhattan, and the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure as part of Team Taiwan. In 1999, to celebrate its 25th anniversary, WTWA organized a charity piano concert that raised funds for the Taiwan Center’s Steinway Concert Grand Piano and the Music Conservatory of Westchester Scholarship Fund.

History

Facts absorbed from this page’s own description; no new sources.

  • Fall 1974 — Founded by Taiwanese women in Westchester County, NY (~30 miles northeast of Manhattan); nonprofit, non-political
  • Monthly gatherings September–June at rotating host family homes — programs on family life, children’s education, finance, arts, health, Taiwanese cuisine
  • Cultural exchange with local organizations such as the Scarsdale Woman’s Club — Taiwanese music, folk songs, puppet theater performances
  • Community participation — Taiwanese American Heritage Week activities, Passport to Taiwan (Manhattan), Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure as part of Team Taiwan
  • 1999 — 25th-anniversary charity piano concert; funds raised for the Taiwan Center’s Steinway Concert Grand Piano and the Music Conservatory of Westchester Scholarship Fund

From the record

  • 2015-08-27 — Our Journeys #169 (Chiou-Hung Chen’s introduction of the Taiwanese Hakka Association of the East Coast, itself translated from Taiwan Tribune #636, 1988-02-04) lists WTWA among its subjects, and its translation note cites the association’s own record “18. 威郡台灣婦女會 /2014/09” — the association is referenced as a cross-link in a Hakka-association record, not as a subject of its narrative. source

Sources

Deepen pass 2026-09-10 (vault-only)

The association’s own TAH encyclopedia record (#108) and directory record exist in the vault and are now wikilinked above, along with the Passport to Taiwan event record and Westchester, NY geography page its history references. History section already absorbs the directory description in full (founded fall 1974; monthly Sep–Jun gatherings; Scarsdale Woman’s Club exchanges; Heritage Week / Passport to Taiwan / Komen Team Taiwan participation; 1999 25th-anniversary charity piano concert for the Taiwan Center Steinway and Music Conservatory of Westchester scholarship).

Vault re-check 2026-09-11 (deepen-x slice 7, vault-only)

All wikilink targets on this page verified to exist in the vault; all cited-source facts were already absorbed in the prior deepen pass. No new vault facts found, no web used, no new pages created, nothing published.

Vault re-check 2026-09-14 (deepen-x slice 09132337-3, vault-only)

  • All wikilink targets re-verified (Taiwan Center, TAH #108, directory record, Passport to Taiwan, Westchester NY geography, Heritage Week of Westchester County). Every fact in the directory description remains fully absorbed in the History section; no new vault-only facts surfaced this pass. No web used, no new pages created, nothing published.
  • Corpus grep surfaced the Association’s own band-A memoir record [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys18-eng|Our Journeys #18: 威郡台灣婦女會 / WTWA]] — first-party account, now linked here.
  • The 1999-04-11 25th-anniversary charity piano concert is its own corpus record: 1999 — confirms the concert pictured in the 1999 History entry (title gives 郭陳芳玉 as the performing pianist; venue Purchase, NY).
  • Nearby Westchester geography in the corpus: 紐約威郡 Chappaqua Library 台美人傳統月 (2018 TA Heritage Month event in the same county) and 65. ITO Chhong-bi Memorial Fund by Westchester Taiwanese Church — sibling Westchester-org records, not WTWA’s own acts (no facts merged).

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