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Walter M. Yang (楊茂嘉博士)

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Walter M. Yang (楊茂嘉博士)

Identity Snapshot

  • English: Walter M. Yang
  • Chinese: 楊茂嘉博士
  • Era: 1940
  • Geography: Pingtung, Taiwan
  • Core roles: engineer, scientist
  • Source: TAH Foundation Who’s Who

Education

  • 台灣大學 — 1963 — B.S., 機械
  • Northwestern Univ. — 1969 — Ph.D., Materials Science

Employment

  • Motorola Inc — 1985-2012 — Distinguish Member Technical Staff
  • Western Electric (AT&T) — 1979-1985 — Senior Engineer

Family

Role in the Community

  • His wife 林壽英 (Christine L. Yang) records their Northwestern years in her TAH memoir: 楊茂嘉 had arrived at Northwestern (Evanston) about two years before she left Taiwan in summer 1967; the couple married quickly before the fall term so married graduate students could share student housing. His American advisor Dr. Schwartz stood in as the groom’s parents; 林光輝 gave the bride away and his wife 文女 lent the bride her wedding dress. The newlyweds lived in Dryden Hall within the Taiwanese grad-student circle — the 林光輝、謝嘉峰、陳光和、賴義雄、洪承延、陳冠宇、黃嵩德 families — sharing bridge nights, dumpling-making, and fishing trips. See 01.
  • With his wife he established the Walter M. Yang and Christine L. Yang Endowed Fund (2020) supporting the TAH historical record: |92. Walter M. Yang and Christine L. Yang Endowed Fund.
  • His own TAH story record: 05.
  • Listed among the 台大機械系 alumni signatories in the corpus record of the 2018 protest over the Southern California NTU Alumni Association’s invitation of 管中閔: taiwanjustice.net 2018-07-21 report.
  • 1965 courtship record (corroboration): his wife 林壽英’s own essay account records they met in 1965 in Taichung while he was completing military service after 台大 graduation, preparing for graduate study in the U.S.; he encouraged her to apply to American programs, which redirected her from her planned career at the 瘧疾研究所 to NAMRU-2 (1965–1967) and then Northwestern — the couple’s shared origin story in the diaspora record, corroborating the Northwestern narrative already absorbed via ourjourneys275 (account also preserved in 林壽英’s 2018 essay record 660, web-archive copy).
  • Signed the Taiwanese-American community statement recorded by the Pew Research Center as a representative of the East Bay Taiwanese American Senior Society: Pew Research Center: Taiwanese-American statement.

Sources

— re-grep 2026-10-03 (slice 09300315-12): fresh ZH+EN grep of works/+articles/ — hit set unchanged (awards-92, 401, ourjourneys275, works index, pew statement, taiwanjustice 2018 管中閔 report), all already absorbed; verified-saturated SKIP. hits-hash=800ddcc2f580 — re-grep 2026-10-04 (slice 09300848-18): fresh ZH+EN grep of works/+articles/ — hit set unchanged (awards-92, 401, ourjourneys275, works index, pew statement, taiwanjustice 2018 管中閔 report), all already absorbed; verified-saturated SKIP. hits-hash=5b26f3485313 — re-grep: fresh ZH+EN grep of works/+articles/ — hit set unchanged, all hits already absorbed and wikilinked; verified-saturated. SKIP-with-reason. hits-hash=800ddcc2f580

Slice 09300900-18 (2026-10-05): fresh ZH+EN grep of works/+articles/ hit set unchanged (awards-92, 401, ourjourneys275, pew statement, taiwanjustice 2018 管中閔 report, works index); cross-layer sweep surfaced 林壽英’s 2018 essay record 660 (web-archive copy, knowledge/web-archives/…/posts/660.md — no content/works slug, so cited as prose) with the 1965 Taichung courtship/military-service origin detail corroborating ourjourneys275. Absorbed above as corroboration. No conflicts. DEEPENED.

— re-grep: fresh single-quoted ERE ZH+EN grep of works/+articles/ — hit set unchanged, all hits already absorbed and wikilinked; verified-saturated. SKIP-with-reason. hits-hash=800ddcc2f580 — re-grep (楊茂嘉 / Walter M. Yang, ERE works+articles): hit set = {index, #401, awards-92, ourjourneys275, pew statement, taiwanjustice 2018 管中閔 report}, identical to prior slices. 275 wedding/Dryden Hall passage re-read — already absorbed via the ourjourneys275 line; taiwanjustice hit confirmed as a signatory-list mention (機械組, 楊茂嘉), already cited. No new corpus facts, no conflicts. SKIP-with-reason (verified-saturated). hits-hash=cf319a34e696

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