Dr. Evan Ling (林富文博士)
Identity Snapshot
- English: Dr. Evan Ling
- Chinese: 林富文博士
- Era: 1937
- Geography: Tainan, Taiwan
- Core roles: engineer, entrepreneur
- Source: TAH Foundation Who’s Who
Education
- National Cheng Kung Univ. (成功大學) — 1961 — B.S., Mechanical Engineering
- Auburn Univ. — 1968 — M.S., Mechanical Engineering
- Georgia Technology — 1970 — Ph.D.
Employment
- Merrill Lynch — Financial Advisor — (1988-2015) — UBS — Financial Advisor and Portfolio Manager — (2015-) — Community — Taiwanese American Association (TAA) Atlanta Chapter — Founding President — Up State New York FAPA — Founding President — Dr. Chen Wen-chen Memorial Foundation — Founding President — FAPA — Member and Committee — FAPA — Fund Chair — Shengdong Life Forum — Founding Member
Family
- Wife: |黃美惠
- Daughter: Alvina
- Son: Felix, Benjamin
Role in the Community
- Founding president of the TAA Atlanta chapter; the chapter was established during Ho Rui-hsu’s (許和瑞) national-term expansion, one of 9 new chapters that brought TAA to 43 chapters — see 全美會會史.
- Founding president of the Dr. Chen Wen-chen Memorial Foundation (陳文成教授紀念基金會). Authored the founding account 陳文成教授紀念基金會成立經過 — see [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys8-eng|Our Journeys #8]].
- Per a fellow organizer’s memoir, in late October (1981) Evan Ling called offering to expand the Chen Wen-chen memorial fundraising and arranged for Chen Su-jen (陳素貞) to tour and speak in several cities; funds largely went to the Formosan Association for Human Rights — see [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys321|Our Journeys #321]].
- Agreed with the commemorative-book editor that Evan Ling and his wife would handle printing of the 陳文成教授紀念專集, while the editor handled editing and soliciting articles — see [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys321-eng|Our Journeys #321 (EN)]].
- Anonymity under the blacklist era: the 紀念專集 editorial committee worked under two-character code names — 林富文’s was 石林, and his wife 黃美惠’s was 甘子 (others: 林田=林龍和, 李樸=曹永愷, 許杰=許永華), because Chen Wen-chen’s friends dared not use real names — see [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys321|Our Journeys #321]].
- The Chen Wen-chen Memorial Foundation was formally registered as a non-profit in New Jersey in 1982-03 (over eight months after the fund’s creation) and applied for IRS tax-exempt status; most donations were routed directly to the Formosan Association for Human Rights for custody — see [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys8-eng|Our Journeys #8 (EN), his own founding account]].
- Continued correspondence over the foundation for many years despite never having met the earlier organizer in person.
- 聖東生活座談會 (Shengdong Life Forum) founding: per 劉天良’s 生活座談會簡史 memoir, in 1992-10 Evan Ling and his wife — inspired by the 輕鬆生活座談會 and legislator 沈富雄’s oratory — invited 孫嘉璘, 郭漢甫, 賴淑遠, and 許貞華 to co-found the 聖東 chapter, later joined by 陳秀真, 林碧玉, 許寬正, 林文政, 賴慧娜, 黃瑞祥; the chapter’s notable feature was a women-majority membership, and its members served 北美州婦女會, 陳文成基金會, 同鄉會, FAPA, 公民協會 — corroborating the tah-tables “Shengdong Life Forum — Founding Member” entry — see [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys212|Our Journeys #212 (生活座談會簡史, 劉天良)]]. Ling also appears among the council members planning the movement’s future growth in the same memoir.
Deepen-x re-check (slice 09150700-16, 2026-09-15)
- Re-grepped 林富文／Evan Ling against content/works + content/articles: hit set = Our Journeys #8(EN)/#76(EN)/#321(EN) + own TAH #1679 record + works index — all facts in these memos (TAA Atlanta founding under 許和瑞’s 9-chapter expansion to 43, 陳文成基金會 founding account, 1981-10 phone-call expansion with 陳素貞 tour, 紀念專集 printing division, 石林/甘子 code names, 1982-03 NJ registration) are already absorbed above. No new community material; no conflicts to HOLD.
- Re-grep re-check (slice 09160109-7, 2026-09-16): hit set unchanged (same Our Journeys 321 EN+ZH set + own TAH #1679 record). Verified the ZH memoir passages in #321 (十月下旬來電擴大募款、陳素貞各地演講、捐款大半匯入台灣人權會、紀念專集由林富文夫婦負責印刷) match the absorbed English facts above; no new community material; no conflicts to HOLD.
- Re-grep re-check (slice 10090500-7, 2026-10-10): hit set unchanged (same Our Journeys 212 EN+ZH set + own TAH #1679 record). Two new candidate hits (TJJ articles 新加坡掠影, 黃河石林馬拉松) are false positives — 石林 there means “rock forest,” not the code name. No new community material; no conflicts to HOLD.
- Re-grep re-check (slice 10120018-20, 2026-10-12): hit set unchanged (same Our Journeys 212 EN+ZH set + whos-who-1679 + works index). The two TJJ article hits re-confirmed as false positives (grep count 0 for 林富文/Evan Ling in both; 石林 there = “rock forest”). Verified-saturated; no new community material; no conflicts to HOLD.