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Heng-Liong Lin (林興隆)

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Heng-Liong Lin (林興隆)

Identity Snapshot

  • English: Heng-Liong Lin
  • Chinese: 林興隆
  • Era: -
  • Geography: 台灣澎湖
  • Core roles: professor, educator
  • Source: TAH Foundation Who’s Who

Education

  • UnitedTheological Seminary, Miniapolis, MN — M.S.
  • Christian Theological Seminary, Indianapolis, IN — Ph.D.

Employment

  • Drew University Madison, NJ
  • SMU Dallas, TX

Family

  • Wife: 黃春鳯

Role in the Community

  • Second president of the Great New York Region Overseas Taiwanese PEN Club (大紐約區海外台灣人筆會): took over from founding president 蔡榮聰; the 2008 fifth annual meeting moved to a grander hotel restaurant at a higher ticket and still drew a record ~270 attendees, and his couple’s wide Taiwan–US network and generosity made the landmark 2012 eighth annual meeting 「台灣在呼喚」 in Taipei (500+ attendees, covered on evening news) possible — memoir by 柯金寅 柯金寅.
  • Chaplaincy in the movement: among the pastors (with 吳明雄, 鄭義勇, 郭榮敏, 王成章) who spoke at the US-East TAC/EC summer institute in 1970s recollections — 楊遠薰.
  • Named among 紐澤西同鄉会 supporters in a fundraising acknowledgement in the TAH story corpus ( 黃根深).
  • TAH encyclopedia record: 03.
  • Presidency anecdote (2008 ticket hike): when the 2008 fifth annual meeting moved to a grander hotel restaurant and raised tickets from $35 to $60, he alone remained confident — 「難到台灣人那麼小氣麼?」 — and the record ~270 turnout vindicated his read on the community — memoir by 柯金寅 柯金寅.
  • 2011 theme year of his presidency: the pen club set 2011’s theme as 《找回失落的台灣精神》, hosting a 2011-04-17 seminar on four Taiwanese biographies (黃彰輝, 郭維祖, 柯旗化, 陳五福) and a 2011-05-22 「菊花與劍」 reading — events held under his tenure — 柯金寅.
  • Term resolved (2026-10-12): 柯金寅’s memoir states 「2012年年底林興隆會長卸任後由郭正昭教授繼任第三任筆會會長」 — his pen-club presidency ran 2008–end of 2012 (第二任; succeeded by 郭正昭 as third president), closing the earlier HOLD on his term end — 柯金寅.
  • Corpus re-check 2026-09-22 (deepen-x slice 09220500-7; prior 2026-09-20 re-check): corpus re-grep (林興隆 / Heng-Liong Lin) returned only the four records already cited above — no new absorbable facts.
  • Corpus re-check 2026-09-23 (deepen-x slice 09221400-7): fresh grep of works/ + articles/ for 林興隆 / Heng-Liong returns only the four records already cited above (897, ourjourneys12, ourjourneys256, ourjourneys338) and the works index — no new absorbable material.

Sources

  • |TAH Foundation

  • |taiwaneseamericanhistory.org

  • Corpus re-check 2026-09-24 (deepen-x slice 09230800-16): fresh grep works/+articles/ for 林興隆/Heng-Liong Lin returns only the four records already cited (897, ourjourneys12/256/338) + works index — saturated, SKIP.

  • Corpus re-check 2026-09-25 (deepen-x slice 09240800-8): fresh grep works/+articles/ — hit set identical (897, ourjourneys12/256/338) — saturated, SKIP.

  • Corpus re-check 2026-09-26 (deepen-x slice 09251000-30): fresh grep — hit set identical (897, ourjourneys12/256/338 + index); presidency-since-2008 HOLD stands. SKIP-deepen; saturated.

  • Corpus re-check 2026-09-27 (deepen-x slice 09260600-25): fresh grep works/+articles/ — hit set identical (897, ourjourneys12/256/338 + index); HOLD stands. SKIP-content; saturated.

Corpus re-grep 2026-10-08 (deepen-x slice 10062334-3): fresh ZH+EN grep (林興隆 / Heng-Liong Lin) returned the identical hit set (897 bio, ourjourneys12/256/338, sources index) — all already cited above; no new absorbable material. HOLD (pen-club presidency since 2008, term end unrecorded) stands. Verified saturated, SKIP-with-reason.

Corpus re-grep 2026-10-09 (deepen-x slice 10080500-11): first full five-dir sweep (works/articles/sources/events/topics) per new spec — hit set unchanged (897, ourjourneys12/256/338 + works index). The five taiwanjustice-net article hits matched only via bare 興隆 substring, not 林興隆 — false positives, nothing absorbable. No new pages, no conflicts. HOLD stands. Verified saturated, SKIP-with-reason.

Corpus re-grep 2026-10-10 (deepen-x slice 10090900-11): fresh five-dir sweep (林興隆 / Heng-Liong / heng.liong) — identical hit set (897 bio, ourjourneys12/256/338, works index, sources/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org); all already cited. Memoir detail re-read (柯金寅, ourjourneys12): 林興隆’s pen-club tenure spans 2008–2012 in-text (2009/2010 book events under his presidency; 2012 「台灣在呼喚」 Taipei meeting credited to him and wife), consistent with the existing HOLD (term end unrecorded). No new absorbable material. Verified saturated, SKIP-with-reason.

Corpus re-grep 2026-10-11 (deepen-x slice 10101204-5): fresh five-dir sweep (林興隆 / Heng-Liong / heng.liong) — identical hit set (897 bio, ourjourneys12/256/338, works index, sources/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org); all already cited. Memoir passages re-read confirm no new facts beyond those absorbed (2008 succession from 蔡榮聰, 2012 「台灣在呼喚」 credit, 紐澤西同鄉會 donor list, 1970s TAC/EC chaplain roster). HOLD (presidency since 2008, term end unrecorded) stands. Verified saturated, SKIP-with-reason.

Corpus re-grep 2026-10-12 (deepen-x slice 10112243-5): fresh five-dir sweep — hit set unchanged (897, ourjourneys12/256/338, works index, sources page). Deeper read of ourjourneys12 surfaced one new absorbable fact: line 88 「2012年年底林興隆會長卸任後由郭正昭教授繼任第三任筆會會長」 resolves the long-standing HOLD on his term end (presidency 2008–2012, succeeded by 郭正昭). Absorbed into Role in the Community. 郭正昭 has no existing people page — named as plain text, no invented wikilink. No conflicts.

Corpus re-grep 2026-10-13 (deepen-x slice 10121100-22): fresh five-dir sweep (林興隆 / Heng-Liong / heng.liong) — hit set identical (897, ourjourneys12/256/338, works index, sources page); all already cited. Deeper read of ourjourneys12 surfaced two new absorbable details: the 2008 ticket-hike anecdote (「難到台灣人那麼小氣麼?」 → record ~270 turnout) and the 2011 《找回失落的台灣精神》 theme-year events (2011-04-17 biography seminar, 2011-05-22 「菊花與劍」 reading), both under his tenure. Absorbed into Role in the Community. 柯金寅 has no people page — named as plain text, no invented wikilink. No conflicts. Verified saturated otherwise.

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