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An-Su Gao Lai (賴高安賜)

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An-Su Gao Lai (賴高安賜)

Identity Snapshot

  • English: An-Su Gao Lai
  • Chinese: 賴高安賜
  • Era: 1908-2011
  • Geography: Kaohsiung, Taiwan
  • Core roles: educator
  • Source: TAH Foundation Who’s Who

Accomplishment

  1. 3rd President of |Taiwanese America Seniors Association of Southern California (TASA) (南加州台灣人長輩會) 1983-1988
  2. Selected in the first nationwide 模範阿婆 (Model Grandma) selection as the only Asian-American awardee, 1994/09 (per TAH #283).

Education

  • Chang Jung Girls’ High School (長榮女中) — 1926
  • Tokyo Aoyama College, Theology (日本東京青山學院神學部) — 1926-1928 — Theology

Employment

  • Kaohsiung Girls’ Senior High School (高雄女中) — Teaching Music — (1945-1948) — Chang Jung Girls’ High School (長榮女中) — Teaching Bible & Music; Dormitory Superintendent (長榮女中舍監) — Community — Taiwanese America Seniors Association of Southern California (TASA) (南加州台灣人長輩會) — 3rd President (1983-1988) — Chang Jung Girls’ High School Alumni Association (台南長榮女中南加州校友會) — Founding Member

Community roles

  • Taught music at Kaohsiung Girls’ Senior High School (高雄女中), 1945–1948; later taught Bible & music and served as dormitory superintendent (舍監) at her alma mater Chang Jung Girls’ High School (長榮女中).
  • 3rd President of the Taiwanese America Seniors Association of Southern California (TASA), 1983–1988. During her term she restored the association’s name to 「台灣長輩會」 (Taiwan Seniors Association) and advocated construction of senior apartments; membership stood at over 600 at the time ([[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys54-eng||Our Journeys #54 英文版]] / |中文版: 「第三任會長賴高安賜，恢復「台灣長輩會」名稱，並提倡籌建老人公寓」).
  • Founding member of the |Chang Jung Girls’ High School Alumni Association of Southern California (台南長榮女中南加州校友會).
  • Background to the building campaign: from TASA’s founding in 1979 until January 1983 the association only rented office space and had been forced to move three times — “流離失所，無固定會址.” This instability was the impetus for her 1984 proposal to the board that the association build its own senior center and senior apartments, which the board approved unanimously; membership stood at about 600. Second president 蕭華銓 (Hua-chuan Hsiao) willingly stayed on as vice-president to help carry the project ([[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys173-eng||Our Journeys #173]]).
  • Assembled the Flamingo Garden project’s advisory group of about twenty, inviting community leaders such as Kenjohn Wang, Charles Ting 丁昭昇, Symeon Woo 吳西面, Hong-yen Hsu 許鴻源, Ming-chung Zhuo 卓敏忠 and others as consultants, plus three lawyers — Mao-ching (David) Huang 黃茂清, Chung-yuan Liao 廖重遠 and R. S. Wu 吳瑞信 — as legal advisers, with Ti-sheng Yang 楊惕生 as secretary ([[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys173||Our Journeys #173 中文版]]).
  • 1985 — a large fundraising dinner for the association was held by 卓敏忠 (Ming-chung Zhuo, manager of 萬通銀行 General Bank of Commerce) together with the memoir’s narrator-officer; the Monterey Park parcel was optioned immediately afterwards ([[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys50||Our Journeys #50]]).
  • 1985 offer on a 40,000-square-foot parcel in Monterey Park was opposed by local residents and the city government; after protests and demonstrations the association won, but difficulties put the project on temporary hold, and in 1986 the city’s budget deficit ended its senior-apartment subsidy. Her co-workers’ slogan for the push: “Our elderly should be taken care of by our own community; we should not rely on the U.S. government to do so” ([[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys54-eng||Our Journeys #54 英文版]]).
  • Financing of Flamingo Garden: 58 shares in total (one held by the association); a $50,000 share required $25,000 cash with the rest bank-financed. When General Bank of Commerce balked at lending — amid its own real-estate loan losses — the response was that a Taiwanese bank that would not lend to Taiwanese public-welfare causes served no purpose, and the loan then passed. After a year of promotion only about 20 people had registered for accommodations, but Charles Ting 丁昭昇, Cheng-tsung Chang 張正宗 and fellow promoters ultimately bought up the remaining shares ([[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys54-eng||Our Journeys #54 英文版]]).
  • On resigning in July 1988, handed the fourth president An-hsin Hsu: $18,632.04 in association funds, two Flamingo Garden shares bought with $50,000 of raised funds, and the permanent free-and-exclusive rights to the social hall and recreation room.
  • Author of 《回首廿八年路》, published in the 1997 《南加州台灣長輩會會員名冊》.
  • Appeared in the television advertisement produced to raise support for the Taiwan Community Hall (台灣會館), alongside former TASA president 蔡盧錫金.

Timeline（自本頁既有記載彙整，deepen 2026-09-10；2026-10-10 補 corpus 細節）

  • 1908 — 出生於高雄（Era 1908–2011）
  • 1926 — 自長榮女中畢業
  • 1926–1928 — 就讀日本東京青山學院神學部
  • 1945–1948 — 任職高雄女中，教授音樂
  • 其後 — 回母校長榮女中教授聖經與音樂，並任舍監
  • 1979–1983 — 長輩會租賃辦公室、被迫遷移三次（籌建會館之背景起因）
  • 1983–1988 — 任第三屆南加州台灣人長輩會（TASA）會長
  • 1984 — 向理事會提議籌建長輩會會館與老人公寓，獲一致贊成（會員約 600 名）
  • 1985 — 萬通銀行經理卓敏忠與長輩會幹部合辦大型募款餐會，會後於蒙市（Monterey Park）訂購 4 萬平方呎土地，提案受阻，抗辯勝訴仍暫擱
  • 1986 — 於 El Monte 現址購置六萬平方呎土地，發出認捐單招募股東，命名《鶴園公寓》（共 58 股；General Bank 拒貸後經抗辯核准）
  • 1987/03/17 — 鶴園動工
  • 1988/02/26 — 長輩會辦公室遷入鶴園內會館
  • 1988/03/05 — 開幕典禮，市長與約 500 名鄉親觀禮
  • 1988/07 — 卸任，移交第四任會長許鞍心：資金 $18,632.04、鶴園二股（募款 $50,000 購得）及交誼廳、娛樂保健室永久免費專用權
  • 1994/09 — 首屆全美模範阿婆選拔，為唯一亞裔得獎人（TAH #283）
  • 1997 — 著《回首廿八年路》刊於《南加州台灣長輩會會員名冊》
  • 2011 — 逝世（Era 記載）

Other vault records（deepen 2026-09-10，僅彙整 vault 內既有記載）

  • [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys54-eng||Our Journeys #54（TASA 長輩會回憶錄）]]：本人任內協會會員逾 600 人；主推長者公寓計畫，1985 年募款（Monterey Park 购地提案受阻），1986 年改購 El Monte 土地、1987 年動工興建 Flamingo Garden 長者公寓，1988 年完工落成（03/05 舉行開幕典禮）；回憶錄稱其為將該大樓轉為台灣人自有長者公寓的最大貢獻者之一。英文版另載：General Bank 貸款風波、58 股認股結構、第一年僅約 20 人登記、丁昭昇與張正宗等認購剩餘股份。
  • [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys173-eng||Our Journeys #173（英文版）]]：1984 年向理事會提議籌建長輩會會館與老人公寓獲一致通過；聘請王桂榮、許鴻源、卓敏忠、吳西面、丁昭昇等賢達及律師黃茂清（David Mao-ching Huang）、廖重遠、吳瑞信組成約二十人顧問團，楊惕生任秘書；1988 年 7 月卸任移交許鞍心會長 $18,632.04、鶴園二股與交誼廳永久專用權。
  • [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys173||Our Journeys #173（中文版）]]：同上之中文記載，並註明《回首廿八年路》刊於 1997《南加州台灣長輩會會員名冊》。
  • [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys50||Our Journeys #50]]：籌建過程記載 — 1984 提倡籌建、會員約 600 名、1985 蒙市购地受阻抗辯勝訴、1986 政府停補助後賴會長堅持推動購定 El Monte 現址。
  • [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys29||Our Journeys #29]]：台灣會館電視廣告紀錄 — 本圖與蔡盧錫金女士同為廣告演出之前長輩會會長。
  • [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/winners15||TAH winners #15 首屆全美模範阿婆（1994）]]：與 FF #283 對應之模範阿婆選拔紀錄頁。
  • [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/126-e8-b3-b4-e9-ab-98-e5-ae-89-e8-b3-9c-e5-a5-b3-e5-a3-ab-the-famous-senior-taiw||TAH #126：賴高安賜女士，102 歲]]（2015 年條目）
  • [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/136-e8-b3-b4-e9-ab-98-e5-ae-89-e8-b3-9c-e7-9a-84-e6-95-85-e4-ba-8b-ef-bc-9a-e6-8||TAH #136：感謝／賴高安賜的故事]]

Family

  • Husband: 賴聰獻
  • Daughter: 賴惠美、賴惠玉
  • Son: 賴英澤

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