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Simon Lin (林榮松)

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Simon Lin (林榮松)

Simon Lin (林榮松) is listed as 執行長 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: Simon Lin
  • Chinese: 林榮松
  • Role: 執行長 (Executive Director)
  • Organization: |Taiwan Center (TWCLA)

The archived board source (taiwancenter-org-board.md, mirrored under |taiwancenter.org) is the sole vault source for this role; board colleagues documented in the same source set include |Alan Thian (田詒鴻), |Ken Wu (吳兆峯) and |Linda Liu (劉玲華). No further biography is published in the vault source set.

Public record (vault-sourced, deepen pass 2026-09-10)

Additional roles for this person are already recorded elsewhere in the vault (Taiwanjustice.net tier2 archive):

  • 2016 — elected 董事長 of 大洛杉磯台灣會館: 「台灣會館第十屆董事會選出新任董事長林榮松」 (2016-06-12): |taiwanjustice.net tag page. A 2017-08-26 會館會訊 invitation is likewise signed 「台灣會館董事長林榮松」: |TWCLA newsletter archive page.
  • 2020-11-19 — 南加州林榮松僑務諮詢委員獲聘行政院政務顧問 (Overseas Affairs Advisory Committee member, S. California, appointed Executive Yuan political advisor): |taiwanjustice.net article.
  • 2025-02-22 — led the roll-call of 228 victims (林茂生、湯德章、施江南) at the 台灣會館 228追思紀念大會 (24 groups; TAHS 會長 楊嘉猷 present): noted on |Hsu Ling-yun with the source article.

Network

Pages that link to simon-lin (simon-lin):

People (1)

  1. ken-wu

Organizations (1)

  1. taiwan-center

Sources (1)

  1. taiwancenter-org

Source Notes and Confidence

Role in the Community (corpus absorb, deepen-x slice 10080958-19, 2026-10-09)

Fresh ZH+EN grep (林榮松|Simon Lin) across works/articles/sources/events/topics surfaced five previously-unabsorbed community records, all attributable to the anesthesiologist-organizer 林榮松 (Dr. Simon Lin) of the TAH Who’s Who record |Dr. Long Song (Simon) Lin:

  • 2003 — advising the Northern California center: invited, as “director of the Taiwan Center of Southern California,” together with the Taiwanese Canadian Center’s former president, to share operating experience during the founding of the Taiwanese American Center of Northern California: [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys24-eng|TAH #24 (Our Journeys, 2003)]] — the work already wikilinks him; the record confirms cross-regional center-building as an acknowledged community role.
  • 2014 — election-week photography: as an anesthesiologist at Whittier Hospital, photographed the 2014 presidential campaign rallies (Tsai Ing-wen, Eric Chu) for the overseas Taiwanese community delegation: [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys192|TAH #192 (Our Journeys)]] — consistent with his photo-album record-keeping.
  • 2015 — NATMA documentation: provided the NATMA photo album “North American Taiwanese Medical Association photographed by Dr. Simon Lin”: [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/photo-albums-activities-38|TAH #38 (2015-01-05)]].
  • 2003 — 鄉土之美 photography exhibition: held a solo photography show 「鄉土之美」 alongside 陳文石’s 「台灣之美—水的世界」 painting exhibition, El Monte, CA, 02/2003: [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/artshow26|TAH #26]].
  • Doctor-wave oral history (date unspecified): as 台灣會館執行長 he hosted a 耆老講座 on Taiwanese doctors in America, recalling that most of KMU’s 1967 class (40+ of 72 graduates) moved to the U.S. to practice, and that his son followed him into anesthesiology: [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/our-journeys-388|TAH #388]]. The KMU connection corroborates the M.D. (Kaohsiung Medical Univ., 1975) in the TAH table on dr-long-song-simon-lin.
  • HOLD: the TAH table on dr-long-song-simon-lin lists him as President of the Taiwan Center Foundation while this page’s board source lists 執行長 — same person, different titles across sources; flag retained, not auto-merged.

Vault re-check 2026-09-14 (deepen-x slice 6, vault-only)

  • All 37 wikilink targets re-verified to exist in the vault. The board role (執行長, TWCLA), the 2016 當選董事長 record, the 2020 僑務諮詢委員獲聘行政院政務顧問 record, and the 2025 228追思 roll-call note were all absorbed from the taiwanjustice.net tier2 archive in prior passes; no further biography exists in the vault source set.
  • No web used, no new pages created, nothing published.
  • Re-verified 2026-09-14 (deepen-x slice 09140741-2): deepen sections and all wikilink targets confirmed on disk; no further vault-sourced facts.

Role in the Community (corpus absorb, deepen-x slice 10100400-27, 2026-10-10)

Fresh ZH+EN grep (林榮松|Simon Lin) across works/articles/sources/events/topics surfaced five previously-unabsorbed TAH records:

  • 1998 — founding-era organizer & commemorative-book editor: authored 「The Southern California Taiwan Center Train is on the Move」 as editor and compiler of the Taiwan Center commemorative book, recalling the first preparatory meeting (1998-02-19) and the Center opening (1998-06-12), crediting Kenjohn Wang’s donation of the building: [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys29-eng|TAH #29 (Our Journeys, eng)]].
  • 第一任會長 record (title-sourced): TAH work title 「163. 林榮松 / 南加州台灣會館第一任會長 / 1998」 — [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ff163|TAH #163]]. HOLD: this “第一任會長 (1998)” title adds to the existing title divergence already flagged above (執行長 on the board source, 董事長 from 2016, President in the TAH table); retained as separate source-attributed titles, not auto-merged.
  • Volunteer-ethos oral profile: 「180. 林榮松 甘願做義工」, story by 林蓮華 (2015/01): [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/mystories181|TAH #180 (My Stories)]] — community memory of him as a willing volunteer.
  • 2015-04 — UN for Taiwan campaign: photo-activity record 「67. UN for Taiwan/林榮松」: [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/photo-albums-activities-67|TAH photo album #67]].
  • Overseas-backer experience, told by him: video 「25. 林榮松談參與海外後援會的經驗」 — his account of participating in overseas (海外後援會) support work: [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/videos25|TAH video #25]].

Role in the Community (corpus absorb, deepen-x slice 10110000-32, 2026-10-12)

Fresh ZH+EN grep (林榮松|Simon Lin|Long Song) across all 5 corpus dirs returned 20 works; records not yet absorbed in prior passes:

  • 1996–2012 — election-support photography, 16-year span: photo album 「34. Taiwanese American’s Support & Activities involved in Presidential Election in Taiwan from 1996-2012 / 台美人的助選活動」 provided by Dr. Simon Lin (posted 01/03/2015): [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/photo-albums-activities-34|TAH photo album #34]] — widens the 2014 rally record already noted above to a documented 1996–2012助選 corpus.
  • 2015-01-04 — 台美小姐選美會 documentation: photo album 「37. Miss Taiwanese American Pageant by Taiwan Center Foundation of Greater Los Angeles / 台美小姐選美會」 photographed by Dr. Simon Lin: [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/photo-albums-activities-37|TAH photo album #37]].
  • WHO for Taiwan campaign by NATMA: photo activity 「54. WHO for Taiwan by NATMA / 林榮松醫師」: [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/photo-albums-activities-54|TAH photo album #54]] — complements the NATMA photo-album record (#38) already noted.
  • 2018-07-03 — collector record: 「69. Collection of Dr. Simon Lin 林榮松醫師的收藏」 — his personal collection documented by TAH: [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/collection-of-dr-simon-lin|TAH #69]].
  • 2025-08-01 — full oral history: 「186. Director of TCFGLA – 林榮松 Simon Long Song Lin’s Journey | TAH Taiwanese Americans Oral History Project」: [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/video-186|TAH video #186]] — the fullest first-person record; consistent with the 執行長/Director title on the board source.
  • 2017-02 — 「父親完整地走完了他的一生」: by 林榮松 (2017-02-09): [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/mystories515|TAH #515]] — family-memory essay; authorship attribution (his own piece vs. about his father) not disambiguated from the title alone.
  • 2021-09 — 「林榮松：行醫救人 一心為臺灣」: profile piece (2021-09-09): [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/my-stories-803|TAH #803]].
  • 2018-10-09 — profile 「134. Dr. Long Song Simon Lin 林榮松醫師」: [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/134-dr-long-song-simon-lin|TAH #134]] — alongside the Who’s Who entry #702 already linked via dr-long-song-simon-lin.
  • HOLD (carried forward): title divergence across sources (執行長 on board source; 董事長 from 2016; President in TAH table; 第一任會長 1998 in TAH #163 title) — retained as source-attributed, not auto-merged.

Role in the Community (corpus absorb, deepen-x slice 10120315-31, 2026-10-12)

Fresh ZH+EN grep (林榮松|Simon Lin|榮松) across all 5 corpus dirs returned 20+ works; records not yet absorbed in prior passes:

  • 2026-01-25 — NATMA medical-diplomacy award, accepted as 執行長 of the NATMA 義診團: at the 第五屆國際醫療典範獎 (Taiwan), the North American Taiwan Medical Association won both the group and individual prizes; 「北美洲台灣人醫師協會之義診團林榮松執行長代表領獎」 — the NATMA relief team described as the largest overseas Taiwanese doctors’ relief mission (18 years, 22 international clinics, ~50,000 patient-visits across Latin American ally nations): |taiwanjustice.net award report. This is the first vault record naming him as 執行長 of the NATMA 義診團 — a role distinct from the TWCLA 執行長 title already flagged in the title-divergence HOLD above.
  • 2014-09 — NATMA international relief team account: 「35. 北美洲台灣人醫師協會國際義診團 / 林榮松 / 2014/09」 — his own account of the NATMA international medical-clinic program: [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/mystories35|TAH #35 (My Stories)]] — corroborates the 2026 award record from the primary corpus.
  • 2015-02 — WHO-for-Taiwan eleven-year narrative: 「100. Care for Taiwan by Taiwanese American: 8, WHO for Taiwan by NATMA 台灣欲加入WHO十一年來的心路 / 林榮松 / 2015/02」 — complements the photo-activity record #54 already noted: [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys100|TAH #100 (Our Journeys)]].
  • 2016-03 — mother-tongue essay: 「203. 我對母語的看法及所持的態度 / 林榮松 / 03/2016」 — his published views on the mother tongue (Taigi) and the attitude he holds: [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys203|TAH #203 (Our Journeys)]].
  • Doctor-wave record, family note: 「醫師潮時期到美國行醫的林榮松醫師與太太石秀文」 — his wife named as 石秀文 in the doctor-wave oral-history caption: [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys236|TAH #236 (Our Journeys)]]; no vault person page for 石秀文 exists, so the name is recorded without wikilink.
  • DISAMBIGUATION HOLD: the page best-of-the-best-2020-lists-taiwan lists “Simon Lin, CEO of Wistron” (Forbes 2020 Heroes of Philanthropy) and wikilinks this page — that Simon Lin is the Wistron CEO, a different person; the mention link on that work is a false match and should not be treated as a record of this Simon Lin.

Role in the Community (corpus absorb, deepen-x slice 10120316-5, 2026-10-12)

Fresh ZH+EN grep (林榮松|Simon Lin|Long Song) across all 5 corpus dirs returned 93 files; records not yet absorbed in prior passes:

  • 2021 — Pew statement signatory: signed the Taiwanese American Historical Society / taiwaneseamerican.org response 「Response to Pew Research Reports Hiding Taiwanese Identity: “We made it count. Now tell our stories.”」 listed as “Simon Lin Physician” alongside June Lin (FAPA) and Jerry Hsu (US–Taiwan Watch): taiwaneseamerican.org statement, band A — a documented identity-advocacy public statement, consistent with the physician-organizer record.
  • HOLD (name collision): Best of the Best 2020 lists mentions “Simon Lin, CEO of Wistron” — a different Simon Lin (Wistron executive); NOT attributed to this page’s subject, retained as a disambiguation flag only.

Role in the Community (corpus absorb, deepen-x slice 10121400-32, 2026-10-13)

Fresh ZH+EN grep (林榮松|Simon Lin|Long Song|榮松) across all 5 corpus dirs returned 93 files; records not yet absorbed in prior passes:

  • 2016-06-23 — vision-and-strategy essay as 董事長: his own published essay 「大洛杉磯台灣會館的願景與策略」, signed 「林榮松(台灣會館董事長)」 days after the 2016-06-12 election, laying out the Center’s plan: prepare a new public face for the 20th anniversary (2018) and build relationships with mainstream organizations of similar character: taiwanjustice.net essay, 2016-06-23 — a first-person strategy statement, corroborating the 董事長 title from June 2016.
  • 2018 — rebuilt-fundraiser composition (title-reconciling): the 24th-anniversary gala report describes the 2018 expansion/fundraising drive as launched 「由時任台灣會館董事長暨行政院政務顧問田詒鴻帶領，執行長暨前董事長林榮松籌組」 — the first vault record naming him simultaneously 執行長暨前董事長, i.e. the 執行長 and 前董事長 titles coexist for him in one source sentence. This partially reconciles the long-standing title-divergence HOLD: 董事長 (2016) → 執行長 by 2018, with 前董事長 retained as honorific; the TAH-table “President” remains a translation variant, not a conflict.
  • 2022-01-25 — Executive Yuan advisor on the record during Lai Ching-te’s LA transit: as 「行政院政務顧問、旅美醫師林榮松」 he told CNA that Taiwan’s diplomatic position is difficult and Lai’s Honduras-inauguration trip should strengthen the ally relationship and give Taiwan more voice internationally; he also noted 蕭美琴’s standing in U.S. political circles: taiwanjustice.net report — the 政務顧問 role exercised publicly, complementing the 2020-11 appointment record already cited.
  • 1996–2020 — returns to Taiwan for every presidential election: the 選前黃金週 report describes him as 「在洛杉磯行醫多年，前台灣會館董事長林榮松」 and states he has returned to Taiwan for every presidential election since 1996, paying his own way; his quote: 「從海外的角度看台灣選舉，20多年來，沒有流任何一滴血，歷經了3次政黨輪替，可以說是世界民主史上的奇蹟，身為台灣人感到非常驕傲。」: taiwanjustice.net report — extends the 1996–2012助選 photo-album corpus (TAH #34) through the 2020 cycle.
  • 2020 — most experienced 海外助選團 veteran: the 小英後援會助選團返台 report names him 「助選團經驗最豐富的林榮松」 and quotes his account of how overseas campaigning shifted from flyers and street-walking to media exposure, jeep convoys and rally appearances: taiwanjustice.net report — complements his own video account [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/videos25|TAH video #25]].
  • 2024 — still on the TWCLA board: the 2024 26th-anniversary gala ticket listing names him among the 38 董事 (under 董事長 田詒鴻): taiwanjustice.net gala announcement — confirms continued board service through 2024.
  • Note: the 2017 newsletter and 2016 當選 article hits (e.g. 20230129123056_2016_06_12_台灣會館第十屆董事會選出新任董事長林榮松-_大_77328a2c6454177f) are duplicate mirrors of records already cited above; not re-linked.

From the record

  • 2015-12-13 — convening the 海外小英後援會 助選團 briefing as convener: his two newsletter updates (signed 「Simon Lin, 626-215-6481」) report 150–154 registrants for the overseas Tsai-support campaign group, five charter buses, and the 行前說明會 scheduled 2015-12-19 at 1pm in the 洛杉磯台灣會館 meeting room (3001 Walnut Grove Ave, Rosemead), with a flag analysis, itinerary briefing, and logistics (40 large flags, 4,000 small flags, banners) — the fullest single record of his role as overseas 助選團 organizer, complementing the 1996–2020 election-return corpus above: taiwanjustice.net newsletter record, 2015-12-13.
  • 2025-10-03 (sourced) — 以國策顧問／大洛杉磯台灣會館執行長身分，與國策顧問楊信、羅省中華會館主席聶澤英三人代表僑界，在駐洛杉磯經文處（處長紀欽耀）於環球影城 Universal Hilton 舉辦的114年國慶酒會（近千賓客）上台致詞，提出三項見解：中華民國是亞洲第一個共和國、2020年民主指數176國中列第12亞洲第一；「中華民國／台灣」一體兩面不應再爭，全世界只有中國威脅終結中華民國的存在；感謝中華會館堅定支持民主的中華民國台灣，籲僑界互相尊重團結合作（美洲台灣日報 南加社區，記者林蓮華，2025-10-05 刊）。— 美洲台灣日報 — vault-sourced via the 202510 month absorb (2026-10-19) of 美洲台灣日報 source hub: the source hub records this as his single 202510 hit (×1 — 會館執行長 three-point address at the same reception) and holds the 林榮松 name collision (simon-lin / lin-rongsong / dr-long-song-simon-lin) so the record was absorbed only here, the sole 執行長 page.

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