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Shwu Lih Lin (林淑麗)

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Shwu Lih Lin (林淑麗)

Identity Snapshot

  • English: Shwu Lih Lin
  • Chinese: 林淑麗
  • Era: —
  • Geography: Taiwan
  • Core roles: engineer
  • Source: TAH Foundation Who’s Who

Accomplishment

  1. Chief Inventor of U.S. Patent # 5264397 ( “Method of Activating Zinc in Semiconductor Devices”, Shwu Lin, John Kulick, Randall Wilson)

Education

  • National Taiwan Univ. — 1968-1972 — B.S., Chemical Engineering
  • Rutgers Univ. — 1981 -1982 — M.S., Chemical Engineering
  • Miami Univ. — 1974-1976 — M.S., Chemistry

Employment

  • General Optronics — Associate Research Engineer — (1984-1986) — Lytel Inc. — Device Engineer — (1987-1990) — Community — NATEA (北美台灣工程師協會) / Greater New York Chapter — Former President — Greater New York Region Overseas Taiwanese Pen Club — Co-founder and Former Director

Family

  • Husband: Keng Chih Wu (吳耿志) — engineer, Lockheed Martin; 2006 “Lockheed Martin Maritime Systems & Sensors 年度作家獎” record: KingChi Wu 吳耿志 (2006); his own Who’s Who entry: [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/whos-who-39-keng-chi-wu|TAH Who’s Who #39]]
  • Daughter: Stephanie

Sources

Community activity (in-vault detail)

Founding detail absorbed from [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys12||TAH #12, 大紐約區海外台灣人筆會十週年 / 柯金寅 (2014-09)]]: the pen club was initiated by four writing enthusiasts including 林淑麗 — 楊慶安, 蔡榮聰, 王淑芬 and 林淑麗 — and formally founded 2003-11-29, with 蔡榮聦醫師 as first president; the founding convention was held at 佳壇台語教會 and covered by the major Chinese-language papers on the US East Coast. The club grew quickly: 12 permanent members ($300 one-time dues) and 60 ordinary members ($20/year) at the outset, holding its first annual meeting 2005-01-01. 林淑麗 is recorded as a permanent member; in 2007 she translated the club constitution into English at the president’s request, and in 2008 board member 黃正雅醫師 revised and expanded it (three new chapters), with the new English constitution adopted at the fifth annual meeting 2009-01-01. The club’s first activity, in 2004-03, was a 60-plus-person presidential campaign support team that returned to Taiwan to campaign for the DPP; its statement at Taoyuan Airport — that the cross-strait status quo could only be changed through peaceful negotiation between the Taipei and Beijing governments with the consensus of the people of Taiwan — was published the next day in 自由時報 and other papers.

Her TAH encyclopedia entries are archived in the vault:

  • [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/79-ms-sue-lin-e6-9e-97-e6-b7-91-e9-ba-97-the-first-speech-on-becoming-american-t||TAH #79 — first speech on becoming American, Cranbury NJ Woman Club (2002)]]
  • [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/78-ms-sue-lin-e6-9e-97-e6-b7-91-e9-ba-97-the-first-seminar-of-taiwanese-literatu||TAH #78 — first seminar of Taiwanese literature, English edition (2002)]]
  • [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/77-ms-sue-lin-e6-9e-97-e6-b7-91-e9-ba-97-the-first-book-donation-of-taiwanese-li||TAH #77 — first book donation of Taiwanese literature to public libraries (2002)]]

Writing (in-vault)

  • Author of two TAH literature entries under the pen name Sue Lin: [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/63-e6-99-ae-e6-9e-97-e6-96-af-e9-a0-93-e6-95-a3-e8-a8-98-e6-9e-97-e6-b7-91-e9-ba||TAH #63, 普林斯頓散記 (2007-07)]] and [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/67-nylon-panty-hose-journey-sue-shwu-lih-lin-e5-b0-bc-e9-be-8d-e7-b5-b2-e8-a5-aa||TAH #67, 尼龍絲襪之旅 / Nylon Panty Hose Journey]] and its story-corpus record [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/mystories67||TAH mystories #67, 尼龍絲襪之旅 (2014-09-05)]] — consistent with her pen-club co-founding role and with the 2002 Taiwanese-literature seminar and book-donation entries above.
  • Her Who’s Who entry is archived in-vault: [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/whos-who-7-shwu-lih-lin||TAH Who’s Who #7]].
  • Further in-vault writings under her name: [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/mystories65||TAH #65, My Journey across Two Cultures — the Cranbury Woman’s Club talk text]], [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/my-stories-68||TAH #68, 也是失聲的一代? (2019-09)]] and [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/50298||TAH #655, 希望小城 (2018-10)]].
  • Additional story-corpus records in the vault, not previously linked: [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/mystories66||TAH mystories #66, Becoming an American (2014-09)]] — companion text to the 2002 Cranbury Woman’s Club speech above; [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/mystories443||TAH mystories #443, 走過二ＯＯ一年 (2016-06)]] and its English version [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/my-stories-443||#443 Year 2001 (2019-09)]] — her account of the 2001 community year; [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/my-stories-716||TAH my-stories #716, 我的母親 (2020-01)]] — a memoir piece on her mother; and [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/private-collections-88||TAH private-collections #88, Sue Shwu Lih Lin 林淑麗的收藏 (2019-09)]] — her own private collection deposited with the archive, consistent with her book-donation and literature-promotion work.

Organizing (in-vault activity records)

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