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Dr. Wylie I. Lee (李英偉博士)

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Dr. Wylie I. Lee (李英偉博士)

Identity Snapshot

  • English: Dr. Wylie I. Lee
  • Chinese: 李英偉博士
  • Era: 1943-2018
  • Geography: Hong Kong
  • Core roles: scientist
  • Source: TAH Foundation Who’s Who
  1. Editor-in-Chief of SCAL Tribune, NATPA Tribune, and Taiwan Inquiry (南加學壇、北美學壇、Taiwan Inquiry(NATPA刊物)主編)

Education

  • National Taiwan Normal Univ. — 1964 — B.S., Physics
  • Manchester Univ. — 1972 — Post-doctoral Research
  • Univ. of Massachusetts — 1970 — Ph.D., Physics

Employment

  • Syva Company — Senior Research Physicist — (1984-1987) — Baxter Healthcare — Department Manager — (1987-1991) — Technology Consultant — (1992-) — Community — TAA Northwest Chapter (西北區台灣同鄉會) — President — Seattle Taiwanese Foundation (西雅圖台灣基金會) — President — Taiwanese Alliance for Interculture, N. CA (灣區協志會) — President — S. CA Chapter of NATPA (北美洲台灣人教授協會南加分會) — President — SCAL Tribune, NATPA Tribune, and Taiwan Inquiry — Editor-in-Chief — First Taiwanese American Heritage Week / Los Angeles Celebration — Preparatory Chairman — Taiwanese American Foundation (台美基金會) — President

Community Leadership (absorbed from TAH Who’s Who)

A physicist by training (NTNU 1964, UMass Ph.D. 1970) who moved from industrial research (Syva, Baxter) to full-time technology consulting in 1992, Lee devoted much of his career to institution-building in the Taiwanese American community: president of the TAA Northwest Chapter, the Seattle Taiwanese Foundation, the Taiwanese Alliance for Interculture N. CA, the NATPA Southern California Chapter, and finally the Taiwanese American Foundation |台美基金會. As Preparatory Chairman he launched the first Taiwanese American Heritage Week celebration in Los Angeles.

The association he served is itself documented in the vault: NATPA 北美洲台灣人教授協會 (總會), its 南加州分會 chapter work page, and NATPA 簡史.

According to 廖述宗’s NATPA history 12), Lee was elected one of NATPA’s regional directors for the Western region (西區) at the association’s 1981 annual meeting. The founding history of 台灣協志會 — the association whose Bay Area chapter (灣區協志會) he later presided over — is recorded in the vault at 09) (English translation: Taiwanese Alliance for Interculture — Establishment and Major Events).

Two memoir records add first-person texture to his service. Wu Mu-sheng’s report on the World Taiwanese Association (世台會) annual meetings 04) recalls meeting Lee at the association’s third annual meeting — July 2–5, dated early 1976 (七六年初) in Wu’s account, held at Pepperdine University overlooking the Pacific at Malibu — after years of correspondence without ever meeting in person; the same report describes a KMT-bussed disruption attempt at that meeting. And 紀哲嘉’s history of 台灣協志會 37. 台灣協志會成立與大事記 records that when NATPA, the 全美同鄉會, 台灣文化社 and 台灣協志會 co-hosted the 228 Incident 40th-anniversary academic symposium (1987), Lee and 李啓和 took charge of renting and arranging the venue — the paper sessions were held February 28 at the Syntek Hall Center in Palo Alto, with 陳芳明 as convenor and scholars including 彭明敏, 林宗義, 張旭成 and 陳芳明 presenting (English translation at Taiwanese Alliance for Interculture — Establishment and Major Events).

His editorial work for the scholarly association — Editor-in-Chief of the SCAL Tribune, NATPA Tribune, and Taiwan Inquiry 探討台灣 — is documented in the TAH magazine corpus: [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/916-taiwan-inquiry-e6-8e-a2-e8-a8-8e-e5-8f-b0-e7-81-a3-natpa-200604magazines-e9-||TAH #916, Taiwan Inquiry / NATPA (2006/04)]] and [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/927-2015-natpa-scal-30th-pearl-anniversary-natpa-scal-201512magazines-e9-9b-9c-e||TAH #927, NATPA SCAL 30th Pearl Anniversary (2015/12)]]; the association’s archival record appears at |NATPA Record TA history. His personal profile was recorded twice in the TAH encyclopedia, [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/73-dr-wylie-i-lee||TAH #73 (published 2018-09-04, the year of his death)]] and [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/whos-who-765-wylie-i-lee||TAH #765]].

Timeline & Milestones

  • 1964 — B.S. Physics, National Taiwan Normal University.
  • 1970 — Ph.D. Physics, University of Massachusetts; subsequently post-doctoral research at Manchester University.
  • 1976 (early, per Wu Mu-sheng’s memoir) — First met Wu Mu-sheng in person at the World Taiwanese Association (世台會) third annual meeting at Pepperdine University, Malibu (吳木盛, 世台會年會報告 283).
  • 1981 — Elected one of NATPA’s regional directors for the Western region (西區) at the annual meeting (廖述宗, NATPA history).
  • 1987 — With 李啓和, responsible for renting and arranging the venue for the 228 Incident 40th-anniversary academic symposium co-hosted by NATPA, 全美同鄉會, 台灣文化社 and 台灣協志會 (Palo Alto, Feb 27–28) (紀哲嘉, 台灣協志會大事記).
  • 1984–1987 — Senior Research Physicist, Syva Company.
  • 1987–1991 — Department Manager, Baxter Healthcare.
  • 1992– — Independent technology consultant.
  • Community — President of the TAA Northwest Chapter (西北區台灣同鄉會), the Seattle Taiwanese Foundation (西雅圖台灣基金會), the Taiwanese Alliance for Interculture N. CA (灣區協志會), and the NATPA Southern California Chapter; Preparatory Chairman of the first Taiwanese American Heritage Week celebration in Los Angeles; President of the |Taiwanese American Foundation 台美基金會.
  • Editorial — Editor-in-Chief of the SCAL Tribune, NATPA Tribune, and Taiwan Inquiry.
  • 2018 — Died; his TAH encyclopedia profile [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/73-dr-wylie-i-lee|#73]] was published 2018-09-04, the year of his death.

Family

  • Wife: |郭如月
  • Daughter: Jennifer(美慧), Marylin(美玲)
  • Son: Arthur(宗樺)

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