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Shun Dar Lin (林舜達)

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Shun Dar Lin (林舜達)

Identity Snapshot

  • English: Shun Dar Lin
  • Chinese: 林舜達
  • Era: 1935
  • Geography: Taiwan Tainan
  • Core roles: engineer, scientist, professor, educator
  • Source: TAH Foundation Who’s Who
  1. Water Quality Division Best Paper Award for “Giardia lamblia and Water Supply” from the American Water Works Association, 1986

Education

  • National Taiwan Univ. — 1958 — B.S., Civil Engineering
  • Univ. of Cincinnati — 1964 — M.S., Sanitary Engineering
  • Syracuse Univ. — 1967 — Ph. D., Sanitary Engineering

Employment

  • Illinois Pollution Control Board — 2008 - 2010 — One of 5 board members
  • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign — 1967 - 2002 — Professor Emeritus

Role in the Community

  • Memoirist in the TAHS story corpus. He wrote his own life story 「一個鄉下孩子由台灣台南到芝加哥」 (A Country Boy from Tainan, Taiwan to Chicago, writing as “Stan Lin 林舜達”, 2015/11) — 366 (Chinese) / 366-eng (English). It is the primary first-person record of his journey from a rural Tainan childhood to Chicago.
  • Author, community health writing. 「長生操」, a piece in the TAHS Life/生活 publications column (2004/12) — 1042. 長生操.
  • Archival donor. The TAHS holds “Collection of Prof. Shun Dar Lin 林舜達教授的收藏” — 42. Collection of Prof. Shun Dar Lin — evidence his papers/collection were entrusted to the movement record itself.
  • Biographical encyclopedia entry: 597. Shun Dar Lin 林舜達 (2015/09).

Re-verified 2026-09-25 (slice 09240800-21): grep hit set unchanged (same 5 work pages + index); SKIP. Re-verified 2026-09-26 (slice 09251023-12): grep hit set unchanged (same 5 work pages + index); SKIP.

SKIP note (re-verified 2026-09-22 deepening pass; fresh grep same result): corpus grep of content/works + content/articles for 林舜達/Shun Dar Lin returned only the 5 work pages already absorbed above (mystories366, mystories366-eng, publications1042, collection-of-prof-shun-dar-lin, whos-shun-dar-lin) plus the works index. No new community facts absorbable; nothing invented. Re-verified 2026-09-23 (slice 09221300-8) and 2026-09-24 (slice 09230700-27): hit set unchanged.

Family

  • Wife: Mei-Ling Chang Lin 林章美玲
  • Son: 林滋盛
  • Daughter: 林滋琍

Sources

Re-grep 2026-10-06 (deepen-x slice 10051340-6): fresh grep (林舜達 / Shun Dar Lin / 林滋盛) across works/articles/sources/events/topics returned only the 5 already-cited work pages plus the sources roster row — verified saturated, SKIP.

Re-grep 2026-10-08 (deepen-x slice 10062334-6): fresh grep (林舜達 / Shun Dar Lin / Stan Lin / 林滋盛) across works/articles/sources/events/topics returned only the 5 already-cited work pages (mystories366/-eng, publications1042, collection-of-prof-shun-dar-lin, whos-shun-dar-lin) plus roster/index rows; family-name greps (林滋盛/林滋琍/林章美玲) found no corpus material. Verified-saturated, SKIP.

Re-grep 2026-10-09 (deepen-x slice 10080600-2): fresh grep (林舜達 / Shun Dar Lin / Stan Lin) across works/articles/sources/events/topics returned only the 5 already-cited work pages (mystories366/-eng, publications1042, collection-of-prof-shun-dar-lin, whos-shun-dar-lin) plus works index and sources roster rows; family-name greps (林滋盛/林滋琍/林章美玲) returned nothing. Verified-saturated, SKIP.

Re-grep 2026-10-10 (deepen-x slice 10091400-2): fresh grep (林舜達 / Shun Dar Lin / Stan Lin) across works/articles/sources/events/topics returned only the 5 already-cited work pages (mystories366/-eng, publications1042, collection-of-prof-shun-dar-lin, whos-shun-dar-lin) plus works index and sources roster rows; family-name greps (林滋盛/林滋琍/林章美玲) returned nothing. Verified-saturated, SKIP.

Re-grep 2026-10-12 (deepen-x slice 10112300-21): fresh grep (林舜達 / Shun Dar Lin / Stan Lin) across works/articles/sources/events/topics returned only the 5 already-cited work pages plus works index and sources roster rows; family-name greps (林滋盛/林滋琍/林章美玲) returned nothing. Verified-saturated, SKIP.

Re-grep 2026-10-13 (deepen-x slice 10121200-21): fresh grep (林舜達 / Shun Dar Lin / Stan Lin / 林滋盛 / 林滋琍 / 林章美玲) across works/articles/sources/events/topics returned only the 5 already-cited work pages (mystories366/-eng, publications1042, collection-of-prof-shun-dar-lin, whos-shun-dar-lin) plus works index and sources roster rows. Verified-saturated, SKIP.

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