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Gin Ru Yeh (葉錦如)

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Gin Ru Yeh (葉錦如)

Identity Snapshot

  • English: Gin Ru Yeh
  • Chinese: 葉錦如
  • Era: —
  • Geography: Taipei, Taiwan
  • Core roles: Taiwanese American (TAH Who’s Who)
  • Source: TAH Foundation Who’s Who

Accomplishment

  1. One of the Founders and President of North America Taiwanese Women’s Association (北美洲台灣婦女會) 1994-1995

Education

  • National Taiwan Univ. — B.S., Philosophy
  • Univ. of Houston — M.S., Social Work

Family

Role in the Community

  • 2004–2005 — Convened (招集人) the 籌備委員會 for the first nationwide 台美族群研討會 (Taiwanese American Conference); through her effort seven 台灣中心, seven Taiwanese American associations and two TA newspapers each sent two delegates — 41 attendees in all — to the two-day round-table meeting at the Hilton Hotel in Irvine, CA on 2005-01-15, which she co-chaired in rotation with 陳立明 and 黃河芬 across 43 proposed topics ([[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys112|TAH Our Journeys #112 台美族群研討會, 台美史料中心 04/2018]]).
  • NATWA presidency: per the association’s own history 「咱的故事—NATWA的歷史」 ([[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys60|Our Journeys #60]], 吳秀惠、黃美惠 2014-11), as 會長 she 設立了 NATWA 基金制度 (the association’s endowment/fund system) and broke ground by openly discussing 「婦女與性」 at the annual meeting — recorded achievements of her term alongside those of later presidents.
  • 2004 — Received the 「2004年美國遠景獎」 (2004 Vision in America Award): [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/winners13|TAH Winners #13]].
  • 2017-03-21 — In Houston, hosted and accompanied Houston Arts Alliance folklorife/civic-engagement director Pat Jasper and program manager Angel Quesada on their first visit to the 台灣人活動中心, arranged via the 台灣人傳統基金會 ([[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys328|TAH Our Journeys #328 休士頓台灣人傳統基金會對大休士頓地區社區服務的參與, 蕭文源 12/2017]]).
  • 1991 — Named to the 募款委員會 formed after the 休士頓台灣人活動中心 (Taiwanese Community Center of Houston) building purchase closed 1991-07-17; one of 17 committee members under 召集人楊朝諭. She is later thanked (with 莊勝義、郭珠貞、林秋成) for reviewing the center’s retrospective memoir ([[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys233|TAH Our Journeys #233 回顧休士頓台灣人活動中心的成立, 2002/07]]).
  • 1991–1992 & 1997–1998 — One of the hosts (主持人) of the NATWA 「婦女信箱」 advice column in 《台灣公論報》 (later also 《自立週報》海外版), per the column’s own history by 阿香(吳美芬) ([[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys161|TAH Our Journeys #161 婦女信箱的歷史, 阿香 2015/08]]).
  • c. 1988–1990 (undated recollection) — Instrumental in the founding of 休士頓台灣語文學校: 蔡淑媛 recalls meeting her by chance at 「小美冰果室」 in the 頂好商圈, where she introduced her husband 李雅彥醫師 — who, learning 蔡淑媛 taught Chinese at Ballaire High School, opened with 「咱著愛來辦一間學校。」 The encounter is told in the school’s founding memoir ([[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys36|TAH Our Journeys #36 此情可待成追憶—休士頓台灣語文學校創建記, 蔡淑媛 09/2014]]). HOLD: the encounter’s date is not fixed in the source (「兩年後」 after 蔡淑媛’s teaching post; no year given).
  • 2004-08 — Hosted/moderated the 「兩代對談」 (two-generation dialogue) Sunday session at the 2004 美南夏令會 (Southern U.S. Taiwanese summer camp), credited by camp secretary-general 王明珠 as 「一個好兮開始」 for台美人’s future direction ([[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys319|TAH Our Journeys #319 2004年美南夏令會, 王明珠 10/2017]]).

Sources

From the record

  • 複核（DEEPEN-X10080958-13, 2026-10-09）：fresh grep 葉錦如|Gin Ru Yeh across works/articles/sources/events/topics (14 files) surfaced 3 previously-unabsorbed records — ourjourneys161 (婦女信箱主持人 1991–92, 1997–98), ourjourneys36 (休士頓台灣語文學校創建記, 李雅彥「咱著愛來辦一間學校」encounter), ourjourneys319 (2004 美南夏令會兩代對談主持) — all absorbed into Role in the Community with wikilinks. Other hits (ourjourneys112/233 ±EN/328/60, winners13, 176/823, a428dceb) already cited. 1 HOLD: 語文學校 founding-encounter date undated in source.

  • 複核（TJJ-A09250400-3, 2026-09-25）：本 slice 文章 a428dceb 正文再驗證——gin-ru-yeh 對應真實（記述確認見於正文），無錯鏈、無虛鏈；含該文 wikilink 的日期事實條目已在庫 — SKIP，無新材料。

  • 複核（TJJ-A09230800-1, 2026-09-24）：文章 a428dcebbceacf38（2018 台大校友公開信） 正文再驗證——本頁 subject 連結確認見於正文（無錯鏈、無虛鏈）；對應 From-the-record 條目已在庫 — SKIP，無新材料。

  • 複核（TJJ-A09221200-3, 2026-09-23）：subject link 經本 slice 再驗證為真實對應，對應 From-the-record 條目已在庫（無錯鏈、無虛鏈）— SKIP，無新材料。

  • 2018-07-20 — Signed as 葉錦如(哲學) among the ~170 台大校友 co-signatories of the open letter protesting 南加州台大校友會 inviting 管中閔 to speak at its 2018 annual meeting amid the disputed 校長遴選 case (TJJ, 2018-07-20).

  • |TAH Foundation
  • |taiwaneseamericanhistory.org ,Corpus re-check (2026-09-20, slice 09181500-14): re-grep 葉錦如|Gin Ru Yeh — hit set identical to records already cited (ourjourneys112, ourjourneys233 ±EN, ourjourneys328, winners13, own TAH #176 record); no new absorbable material. Corpus re-check (2026-09-21, slice 09201300-10): re-grep 葉錦如|Gin Ru Yeh — hit set unchanged (ourjourneys112, ourjourneys233 ±EN, ourjourneys328, winners13, 176-gin-ru-yeh); all already wikilinked in Role in the Community. Saturated; nothing new absorbable. Slice deepen-x-slice-09211300-12 (2026-09-22): re-grep 葉錦如|Gin Ru Yeh — identical hit set (ourjourneys112, ourjourneys233 ±EN, ourjourneys328, winners13, 176-gin-ru-yeh); all already absorbed. Saturated. SKIP. Slice deepen-x-slice-09220800-8 (2026-09-22): fresh grep 葉錦如|Gin Ru Yeh adds ourjourneys60 (NATWA 會史) — newly absorbed above (基金制度 + 「婦女與性」 annual-meeting topic); other hits unchanged. Slice deepen-x-slice-09230317-1 (2026-09-23): fresh grep 葉錦如|Gin Ru Yeh — identical hit set (ourjourneys112, ourjourneys233 ±EN, ourjourneys328, winners13, 176-gin-ru-yeh); all already absorbed. Saturated. SKIP.
  • 複核（DEEPEN-X10120315-26, 2026-10-12）：fresh grep 葉錦如|Gin Ru Yeh across works/articles/sources/events/topics — hit set identical to records already cited (ourjourneys112/233/233-eng/328/60/161/319/36, winners13, 176/823, a428dceb); 2026 TJJ article hit confirmed false positive (葉錦龍, HK district councillor). Saturated; no new absorbable material. SKIP.
  • 複核（DEEPEN-X10110000-27, 2026-10-12）：fresh grep 葉錦如|Gin Ru Yeh across works/articles/sources/events/topics — hit set identical to records already cited (ourjourneys112/233/233-eng/328/60/161/319/36, winners13, 176/823); 2026 TJJ article hit is a false positive (葉錦龍, different person). No new absorbable biography material. One link-only deepening: husband 李雅彥 now wikilinked to his own work record 149. Dr. Ya Yen Lee 李雅彥醫師 (a 李雅彥 hit-set probe found 9 dedicated works — memorial scholarship, museum, Who’s Who #21 — all about the husband, not her, so not absorbed here).
  • 複核（DEEPEN-X10121400-27, 2026-10-13）：fresh grep 葉錦如|Gin Ru Yeh across works/articles/sources/events/topics — 12 non-self hits, identical to records already cited (ourjourneys112/161/233/233-eng/319/328/36/60, winners13, works/index 176+823 registry entries, sources registry, a428dceb); a 李雅彥 probe hits 8 dedicated works (scholarship/museum/Who’s-Who #21 etc.) — all about the husband, not her, per prior sweep. Saturated; no new absorbable material. SKIP.
  • 2016-02-20 — Entered in the TAH Who’s Who encyclopedia record 823. Gin Ru Yeh 葉錦如 ([[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/whos-who-823-gin-ru-yeh|TAH #823 — 823. Gin Ru Yeh 葉錦如]], bibliographic record; link-back added per DEEPEN-X10131000-6).
  • 2018-10-31 — Entered in the TAH encyclopedia record 176. Gin Ru Yeh 葉錦如 ([[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/176-gin-ru-yeh|TAH #176 — 176. Gin Ru Yeh 葉錦如]], bibliographic record; link-back added per DEEPEN-X10131000-6). The record’s title line is not a quotable statement by the subject — no quote added; the one-gap quote check came back negative.

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