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William Cho (卓甫良)

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William Cho (卓甫良)

Identity Snapshot

  • English: William Cho
  • Chinese: 卓甫良
  • Era: 1932
  • Geography: Taiwan, Hualien 台灣花蓮
  • Core roles: engineer, scientist
  • Source: TAH Foundation Who’s Who
  1. Subject and year: Advanced Mechanics of Structural, Fluid, Heat Transfer & Dynamics; 1957-1964

Education

  • 台北工專 — 1952 — 土木科
  • Univ. of Michigan — 1959 — B.S., 結構力學
  • Illinois Institute of Technology — 1964 — M.S., 結構力學

Employment

  • Procon — 1960 — Engineer
  • A.G. Mckee — 1964 — Engineer
  • Sargent & Laundy — 1968 — Engineer-Scientist/Consultant
  • The Illinois Department of Nuclear Safety — 1999 — Nuclear Safety Specialist/Reactor-Risk Assessments

Role in the Community

  • The corpus history of the Taiwanese American Foundation (33. 台美協進會的歷史; English version 33. History of TAF) names Cho a founding member of the Midwest Formosan Christian Foundation (photo of MFCF founders incl. Carol Cho and Bill Cho, circa 1990) and one of the six first-board directors who passed the by-law renaming MFCF to TAF in Chicago on October 18, 1980 — alongside 莊明哲, 張信義, 陳植哲, 洪宏謨, and 楊忠正 — after which TAF launched its first youth programs.
  • In retirement he gave back as a teacher in the community’s lifelong-learning programs: the Irvine 台灣長老教會 (ITPC) 長青教室 curriculum lists Cho as the lecturer for 「人生下半場」 (02).
  • He also wrote from inside the movement: his own memoir of the 1994 TAF youth summer camp, 「意外的收獲」, is preserved in the corpus (2016), complementing the 1981 camp memoir written by a camper’s parent.
  • Name-collision note: the roundtable in the 2024 TAF–Hong Konger community event report A Tale of Two Islands: Fire-ex Ignite Community names a “Pastor William Chou” of the Formosan United Methodist Church — a different person (clergy, not the engineer/nuclear-safety specialist Cho 卓甫良). Not merged.
  • The English TAF history names Cho and Dr. James “Jim” Chen as the founders of MFCF, with origins in the mid-1960s wave of Taiwanese graduate students who settled in the Midwest after their studies — HOLD: origins 1966 (History of TAF) vs founding 1973 (楊遠薰); plausibly retreat origins 1966, formal MFCF founding 1973. The same account adds that Cho served as Executive Director of MFCF/TAF from 1973 to 1987, before his fourth presidency (33. History of TAF).
  • Family involvement in the foundation’s first fund-raising program after the October 18, 1980 rename: his second daughter Esther 卓慧文 gave a fund-raising piano recital at DePaul University, Chicago, upon her 18-year high-school graduation, raising $750 for the TAF Fund; wife Carol 林秋菊 is named among the women who launched the Junior/Junior-High art and musical programs under Dr. 張信義’s vision (33. History of TAF).
  • The corpus holds a dedicated biographical record for Carol Cho 林秋菊 alongside Cho’s own (01), confirming the family’s standing as a documented pair in the TAH collection.

Family

  • Wife: Carol 林秋菊
  • Daughter: Elsa 卓慧麗
  • Daughter: Esther 卓慧文

Sources

From the record

  • 覆核（TJJ-A09240600-1, 2026-09-25）：本 slice 文章 f06677a469620539（卓甫良與TAF的故事(楊遠薰 2021-06-22)）正文再驗證——主體連結為真實提及（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。

  • 覆核（TJJ-A09240500-1, 2026-09-25）：本 slice 兩組TJJ再存檔（楊遠薰《卓甫良與TAF的故事》e7aad53f 2025-03-23／b4206bcf 2024-03-02）正文再驗證——卓甫良為MFCF/TAF共同創辦人兼第四任會長、州府核安鑑定專家等論述之連結為真（無錯鏈、無虛鏈），對應日期事實條目（含該文 wikilink）已在庫（含1987 vs 1989 任期起年HOLD）— SKIP，無新材料。

  • 覆核（TJJ-A09230500-1, 2026-09-24）：本 slice 文章 f06677a469620539（卓甫良與TAF的故事(楊遠薰)） 正文再驗證——主體連結為真實提及（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。

  • 覆核（TJJ-A09230500-2, 2026-09-24）：本 slice 兩份楊遠薰《卓甫良與TAF的故事》TJJ存檔（e7aad53f 2025-03-23 repost／b4206bcf 2024-03-02 repost）正文再驗證——卓甫良為MFCF/TAF共同創辦人兼第四任會長、州府核安鑑定專家等論述之連結為真（無錯鏈、無虛鏈），對應日期事實條目已在庫 — SKIP，無新材料。

  • 覆核（TJJ-A09171100-2, 2026-09-24）：本 slice 文章 f06677a469620539（卓甫良與TAF的故事） 主體連結對照正文再驗證——連結為真實提及（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。

  • 再核（TJJ-A09220900-2, 2026-09-23）：本 slice 兩份楊遠薰《卓甫良與TAF的故事》TJJ存檔（b4206bcf 2024-03-02／e7aad53f 2025-03-23 repost）正文再驗證——卓甫良為MFCF/TAF共同創辦人兼第四任會長、州府核安鑑定專家等論述之連結為真，對應日期事實條目已在庫（含1987 vs 1989 任期起年HOLD），無新材料。

  • 2024-03-02 — Repost of 楊遠薰’s profile of Cho: the 1967 lakeside retreat that grew into MFCF (1973), the 1980 rename to TAF at 楊忠正’s Chicago home, his fourth presidency from 1987 (ethics-values theme), 13 years as the State of Illinois nuclear-safety certification expert, 2002 retirement, and the 鷹翅團契/營友會 initiatives after settling in Irvine (楊遠薰《卓甫良與TAF的故事》, TJJ 2024-03-02 repost).

  • 2025-03-23 — 楊遠薰’s TAF history reprinted on TJJ (same text as the 2021-06-22 article below) re-confirms the full arc: 1956 cargo-ship emigration via Tokyo where he plighted his engagement to 林秋菊, University of Michigan BSE 1959, 42-year engineering career capped as the State of Illinois nuclear-safety certification expert (13 plants, retired end-2002), and 20+ years of MFCF/TAF servant-leadership as fourth president (TJJ reprint 2025-03-23).

  • 2021-06-22 — 楊遠薰’s TAF history describes Cho (Bill Cho, 卓甫良) as co-founder of the Midwest Formosan Christian Foundation (MFCF, 1973) and fourth president (from 1987) of its successor, the Taiwanese American Foundation 台灣人協進會 (TAF); after 42 years as an engineer — ending as the State of Illinois nuclear-safety certification expert — he retired from state government at the end of 2002 and later settled in Irvine (楊遠薰 TAF history, TJJ 2021-06-22).

  • 2015-02 — Dedicated biographical record in the TAH corpus: 2015-02.

  • 2021-10 — A camper-parent memoir of the first TAF youth summer camp (1981, Calvin College, Michigan) names Cho as a camp founder and records his daughter Elsa 卓慧麗 co-instructing the Junior Camp alongside Bob, son of 楊忠正 ( 2021-10, value band A). The memoir lists the presidential line as 莊明哲 (1980–82), 張信義 (1983–85), 鄭天助 (1986–88), 卓甫良 (1989–91) — HOLD: fourth-term start-year conflict, 1987 (楊遠薰 2021 article) vs 1989 (camp memoir); not auto-merged.

  • Obituary note: the 2021 camp memoir records Cho passing away (“安息主懷”) in May 2021, announced in 太平洋時報 2021-06-21.

  • 2021-10-23 — Wayback snapshot of the taiwanjustice.net tag archive for 楊遠薰 indexes 卓甫良與TAF的故事 (2021-06-22) among the columnist’s entries, i.e. the profile was live on the site by this crawl date (Tag: 楊遠薰, TJJ archive 2021-10-23).

  • 2023-03-26 — Three snapshots of the 楊遠薰專欄 category listing (random-posts view) index 卓甫良與TAF的故事 alongside the 鄒族的人權軼史 series and 懷念彭昕醫師 — the profile remained a standing entry in the columnist’s Taiwanese-American category (楊遠薰專欄, TJJ archive 2023-03-26 (a); (b); (c)).

  • 2023-05-30 — Dedicated tag archive for the article title itself, Tag: 卓甫良與TAF的故事, confirms the profile had its own tag page on taiwanjustice.net by this crawl (Tag: 卓甫良與TAF的故事, TJJ archive 2023-05-30).

  • 2023-12-08 — Root 楊遠薰專欄 listing snapshot indexes 卓甫良與TAF的故事 alongside 懷念彭昕醫師 and the 鄒族 series (楊遠薰專欄 root, TJJ archive 2023-12-08).

  • 2024-03-02 — Two root 楊遠薰專欄 listing snapshots the day of the article’s repost (b4206bcf, see the 2024-03-02 dated fact above) index 卓甫良與TAF的故事, corroborating the same-day republication (楊遠薰專欄 root, TJJ archive 2024-03-02 (a); (b)).

  • 2024-04-25 — Wayback snapshot of the taiwanjustice.net Tag: 楊遠薰 root indexes 卓甫良與TAF的故事 among the columnist’s entries, with 卓甫良 registered as a named subject of the archive page — the profile remained a live, tagged entry on the site by this crawl (Tag: 楊遠薰, TJJ archive 2024-04-25).

  • 2015-01-19 — Dedicated bibliographic record in the TAH collection: 210. William Cho 卓甫良 / 2015/01 (essay/feature, value band B), the encyclopedia entry underlying the page’s Identity Snapshot; the record names Cho as its subject and links back to this page ([[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/210-william-cho-e5-8d-93-e7-94-ab-e8-89-af201501|TAH #210 William Cho 卓甫良, 2015/01]]).

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