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Shu Lai (賴淑遠)

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Shu Lai (賴淑遠)

Shu Lai (賴淑遠) is listed as 副董事長 on the official board of the |Taiwan Center Foundation of the Greater Los Angeles (大洛杉磯台灣會館).

Identity Snapshot

  • English: Shu Lai
  • Also seen: Shu-Yuan Lai — TAH #159. The Taiwan Center board prints Shu Lai. That spelling stays.
  • Chinese: 賴淑遠
  • Role: 副董事長
  • Organization: |Taiwan Center (TWCLA)

Source Notes and Confidence

Sources

Education

  • National Taiwan Univ. — 1974 — B.A., Accounting
  • State Univ. of New York at Buffalo — 1979 — M.B.A., Finance, and Accounting

Employment

  • Florida State Government — Regulator — (1984-) — HTX International, KS — Associate Controller — (1989-1991) — General Bank / Cathay Bank, CA — AVP, SVP, EVP — (1991-) — Cathay Bank — EVP and Chief Lending Officer — (2016-) — Community — Miss Taiwanese American Pageant Committee — Chairwoman (2011, 2012, 2016, 2017) — Taiwan Center — Board of Director (since 1998); Vice Chairman (2014 to present) — Taiwanese American Chamber of Commerce — Board of Director (2015 to present) — North America Taiwanese Women’s Association, Los Angeles — President (1997-1998) — Chia-Yi Girls’ High School Alumni Association — President (1995) — FAPA (Formosan Association for Public Affairs) — Board of Director (1994, 1995)

Career and community service

（以下事实已见于本页 TAH 表格档案，无新增来源）

  • 银行业： 1984年起任佛州政府监理职务；1989–1991年任 HTX International（Kansas）Associate Controller；1991年起先后任 General Bank / Cathay Bank（加州）AVP、SVP、EVP，2016年起任 Cathay Bank EVP 兼 Chief Lending Officer。
  • 台湾会馆： 1998年起任 |Taiwan Center（大洛杉磯台灣會館） 董事，2014年起任副董事长（副董事長）。
  • 社團： 北美台湾妇女会洛杉矶分会（NATWA LA）会长（1997–1998，見 |NATWA-SC）；|Miss Taiwanese American Pageant 主委（2011、2012、2016、2017）；|台湾裔美国商会（TACC LA） 董事（2015年起）；|FAPA 董事（1994、1995）；嘉义女中校友会长（1995）。
  • 教育： 國立臺灣大學會計系（1974 學士）；State Univ. of New York at Buffalo（1979 企管碩士，財務與會計）。

Family

  • Husband: 賴聰域
  • Daughter: Sharon Lai
  • Son: Irving Lai

Role in the Community

  • Our own TAH encyclopedia corpus holds two records on her: [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/159-shu-yuan-lai|TAH #159, Shu-Yuan Lai 賴淑遠]] and [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/whos-who-389-shu-yuan-lai|TAH #389, Shu-Yuan Lai 賴淑遠]].
  • From our memoir corpus, [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys212|Our Journeys #212 (生活座談會 history)]]: she co-founded the 聖東生活座談會 in October 1992 with 林富文夫婦, 孫嘉璘, 郭漢甫, and 許貞華; the group’s members went on to serve in NATWA, 陳文成基金會, 同鄉會, FAPA, 公民協會 — matching her NATWA-LA presidency and FAPA board service.
  • Co-initiator of the May 2021 Southern California 僑界 joint statement supporting Taiwan’s participation in WHA — 2021 WHA joint statement — initiated jointly with Taiwan Center (大洛杉磯台灣會館) and TAHS (台美人歷史協會), consistent with her vice-chairmanship there.
  • Signed the July 2018 open letter of NTU alumni protesting the invitation of 管中閔 by the SoCal NTU alumni council — 2018 alumni protest letter — listed as 賴淑遠(商學), corroborating her NTU 商學院 (accounting) degree. The letter also lists 賴聰域(數學), corroborating her husband’s NTU math-alumnus background.
  • As 總召集人 of the Miss Taiwanese American Pageant, she fronted the 2016 training-camp press conference, stating the pageant’s purpose is for winners to advance 台美人形象 and Taiwan’s visibility internationally — 2016 開訓記者會, and again in the 2017 registration announcement — 2017 選拔開跑. She also presented the pageant at the 2017 台美人傳統週 文化美食園遊會 — 2017 傳統週報導.

From the record

  • 複核（TJJ-A10030400-5, 2026-10-05）：本 slice 文章 17835ad9（2016-06-12 會館第十屆董事會報導）正文再驗證——賴淑遠當選第三副董事長確認見於正文，subject 連結為真，無錯鏈、無虛鏈；含該文 wikilink 的 2016-06-11 條目已在庫 — SKIP，已飽和。

  • 複核（TJJ-A09250400-14, 2026-09-25）：本 slice 文章 17835ad9（2016-06-12 會館第十屆董事會報導） 主體連結經正文再驗證為真實對應（無錯鏈、無虛鏈）；對應日期事實條目（含該文 wikilink）已在庫 — SKIP，無新材料。

  • 2016-06-11 — 大洛杉磯台灣會館會員大會選出第十屆董事31名，賴淑遠當選第三副董事長（董事長林榮松）（TJJ, 2016-06-12）。

  • 2018-06-17 — 大洛杉磯台灣會館會員大會選出第11屆個人董事20名（七位新聘），第一次董事會選出田詒鴻董事長，賴淑遠任第三副董事長（第一副董陳柏宇、第二副董蔡漢成、第四副董劉玲華）（會館會訊, 2018-06-27）。

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