H. R. Hsu (許惠茹)
Identity Snapshot
- English: H. R. Hsu
- Chinese: 許惠茹
- Era: —
- Geography: Taipei, Taiwan
- Core roles: Taiwanese American (TAH Who’s Who)
- Source: TAH Foundation Who’s Who — profile record held in the corpus at 1931. H. R. Hsu 許惠茹 (record, 2017-11-06)
Education
- National Chung Hsing Univ. — B.A., Accounting
- Long Island Univ. — M.A., Accounting
Employment
- Eastern Savings and Loan — Accountant — Georgia State Postal Services — Senior Accountant — Community — Taiwanese American Association, Atlanta Chapter — President — Formosa Public Affairs Association, Atlanta Chapter — President — Taiwanese American Conference, Southeast Region — Coordinator
Role in the Community
TAH movement memoirs (romanized “Ho Rui Hsu” / “Ho Ru Hsu”) place this figure among the founding generation of the Taiwanese Association of America (全美同鄉會, TAA):
- 1970-01-28 — co-signed (for the Taiwanese Association of Los Angeles) the letter with Yi-Ho Cheng (East) and Chin-hung Lin (Chicago) proposing a national body; the TAA was founded in New York on 1970-07-01, with H. R. Hsu elected first Vice-president under President Yi-Ho Cheng (term to 1972-06-30). Our Journeys 76 — TAA history (memoir)
- TAA President — in a later term, nine new chapters were added (Atlanta, Pittsburg, Purdue, San Francisco, Syracuse, Urbana, N.Y. Capital, New Jersey, Athens), taking the TAA from 34 to 43 chapters. Term work, per Vice-president Chiung-hui Ke’s summary: a central membership register compiled from chapter lists; a TAA emblem, anthem, and flag; cooperation with the publishers of May Flower (梅花). Our Journeys 76 — TAA history (memoir)
- TACL founding (1982–1985) — attended the 1982-01-21 SCTAI-vice-president Y. C. Hsu meeting that first proposed a Taiwanese American Citizens League; on 1984-12-01 joined the five-member revived preparatory committee; handled contact with lawyer Chung-yuan Liao for state incorporation and was assigned preparation of the founding general assembly (division of labor, 1985-01-29). Our Journeys 272 — TACL founding memoir
HOLD: conflict — TAH press-kit profile places H. R. Hsu in Georgia (TAA Atlanta chapter President, TAA Southeast Region Coordinator), while the TAA/TACL memoirs place Ho Rui Hsu in the Los Angeles / Southern California circle (Taiwanese Association of Los Angeles, LA-area TACL organizing). Whether these are the same person or two people cannot be resolved from the corpus; not auto-merged.
HOLD: identity disambiguation — the romanization “Ho Rui Hsu” in the TAA/TACL memoirs matches a different TAH Who’s Who entry, [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/whoswho1071|TAH #1072 Ho Rui Hsu 許和瑞]] (2016/06), not this page’s 許惠茹 (TAH #1931, 2017-11). The 1970 letter, first TAA vice-presidency, TAA presidency, and TACL preparatory-committee roles attributed above may belong to 許和瑞 rather than 許惠茹; the two TAH profiles have not been merged and the memoir attributions here rest on the shared romanization only. Additionally Our Journeys 81 (UFAI memoir) lists “Powen Wang, Ho Rui Hsu, and Fu Yuan Hsu” as active UFAI members — same-romanization attribution, subject to the same hold. The same memoir records a UFAI charter amendment that abolished the Chairman of the Central Committee and created a six-member decision-making committee whose named members were Edward Chen, Michael S. K. Chen, Tien-ming Lu, and Ho Rui Hsu plus the two Vice-chairmen — if the romanization match holds, “Ho Rui Hsu” sat on UFAI’s top decision body, not merely its general activities.
Corpus re-check 2026-09-24 (slice 09230600-2): fresh ZH+EN grep of works+articles returned a hit set identical to the records already linked above (memoirs 272, Who’s Who #1931 and #1071); no new absorbable material; both HOLDs stand. Corpus re-check 2026-09-25 (slice 09240600-2): fresh ZH+EN grep (許惠茹 / H. R. Hsu / Ho Rui Hsu) returned the same closed hit set (ourjourneys76-eng, ourjourneys81-eng, ourjourneys272-eng, whos-who-1931, whoswho1071); SKIP — no new material, both HOLDs stand.
Family
No filled family fields on the TAH profile.