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Dr. Grace Wu (吳秀惠醫師)

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Dr. Grace Wu (吳秀惠醫師)

Identity Snapshot

  • English: Dr. Grace Wu
  • Chinese: 吳秀惠醫師
  • Era: —
  • Geography: Taiwan
  • Core roles: scientist, physician
  • Source: TAH Foundation Who’s Who

Accomplishment

  1. President of North American Taiwanese Woman Association (NATWA) 1989

Education

  • National Taiwan Univ. — 1956 — M.D.
  • Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison — M.S.

Employment

  • University of Wisconsin-Madison, Enzyme Institute — Biochemical Researcher — Community — North American Taiwanese Woman Association (NATWA) — President — Taiwanese American Association, Cleveland Chapter — President — Taiwanese Summer Conference, Midwest Region — Coordinator — Taiwanese American Parkinson Association (台美人帕金森互助會) — Co-Founder

Timeline (absorbed from on-page TAH biography)

  • 1956 — 國立台灣大學醫學博士（M.D.）
  • 威斯康辛大學麥迪遜分校（Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison）碩士；Enzyme Institute 生物化學研究員
  • 共同創立台美人帕金森互助會（Taiwanese American Parkinson Association）
  • 台美人在克利夫蘭社區：曾任 |台美協會克利夫蘭分會 會長
  • 中部地區台美人暑期營（Taiwanese Summer Conference, Midwest Region）召集人
  • 1988/03 — NATWA 創會時與張富美一同當選為第一任正、副會長之一（見 |北美洲臺灣婦女會）
  • 1989 — 北美洲臺灣婦女會（NATWA）會長

Family

  • Husband: 周烒明

Sources

Role in the Community

(absorbed 2026-09-14 revisit pass from the vault corpus)

  • Co-author of the movement record itself: the NATWA history in the Our Journeys corpus ([[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys60-eng|Our Journeys #60 (EN)]]) is authored by Grace Wu Chou & Elena M. Ling — the NATWA 1988 founding account on this page rests on her own writing.
  • Cleveland memoir ([[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys74-eng|Our Journeys #74 (EN)]]): the Cleveland chapter of the International Human Rights Association (IHR) was founded 1981-10-11 at the Chou home; as West Virginia regional head she had already led IHR work, and in Cleveland her effort got IHR to adopt 陳菊 (Chen Chu) as Ohio’s prisoner of conscience — she later came to Cleveland to thank them after release. A FAPA chapter was also founded at the Chou home, building ties with Reps. Louis Stokes, Edward Feighan and Sherrod Brown.
  • 1983 — elected president of the Taiwanese (American) Association Cleveland; that year’s Midwest Taiwanese American Summer Conference at Oberlin College drew speakers 周鏡由, 許榮淑, Edward Chen and Parris Hsu-Cheng Chang — unprecedented attendance (corpus detail narrowing the undated “Midwest coordinator” line above).
  • Madison origin story (same memoir): came to Univ. of Wisconsin research in 1958 on professor 董大成 (Ta-cheng Tung)‘s recommendation after two years as NTU Biochemistry TA; married 周烒明 (Suy-Ming Sam Chou) end of 1959; their house was the gathering place for Taiwanese-identifying international students, feeding into the UW Formosan Club’s official registration 1963-10-19.
  • Husband’s own memoir confirms the household’s role: 周烒明’s first-person account [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys81-eng|Our Journeys #81 (EN)]] (2014-12-29) retells the same 1958 arrival / end-of-1959 marriage and describes the Chou house as the weekend gathering point where Taiwanese students sang 歌謠, spoke 台語 and exchanged views — the domestic side of the milieu that produced the UW Formosan Club. Cross-linked with the #74 account; no date conflicts, nothing to HOLD.
  • Her TAH profiles are corpus works: [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/senior-taiwanese-american-23|TAH #23]], [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/133-dr-grace-wu-chou|TAH #133]], [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/whos-who-2154-grace-wu|TAH #2154]].
  • Saturation note: corpus materially extends the press-kit bio (IHR/陳菊/FAPA at the Chou home, Oberlin 1983 conference, 1958–59 Madison chronology); no conflicts with existing dates, nothing to HOLD.

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