TAS Connections

Several current faculty members visited London during Spring Break and went to see the new Broadway show Urinetown starring Rosie Hyland ’03 (center) as Hope Cladwell, the daughter of the evil president and owner of the Urine Good Company.

Jessica Chuang ’99 received 2nd place at a recent Go Karting event at Taroko Karting Land in Taoyuan City, Taiwan. The race track is a fairly new facility equipped with special safety measures. The event was sponsored by Lexus. Jessica has competed in several GoKarting races. She is a professional race car driver for Honda based in Taiwan.

Who takes family vacations with high school friends? TAS Alumni do. These alumni spent Thanksgiving weekend together bringing their entire family including spouses and children: Sherry Hsia ’92 and Cheney Wang ’92, David Ko ’92 and Elizabeth Wang ’91, and David Tong ’92. Aki Liao ’84 co-authored an e-book titled A Halo for Red Betsy available on Amazon. A pulp noir novel with adult themes, this is not a bedtime story to read to your children!

Ben Voegele ’93 and Tim Wenger ’93 attended the Super Bowl in New Jersey in February, 2014.

Harold Lemke ’70 (known as Benkong Shih), was featured in an article titled A Buddhist Ritual Gets an Ecologically Correct Update on the site of Audubon Magazine. Read the full article online: http://www.audubonmagazine.org/ articles/birds/buddhist-ritual-getsecologically-correct-update.

Then-and-now photos of three TAS friends from the Class of 1968: a class photo from the 1960s and a photo in New York City in the mid-2000s: Valerie Saint-Rossy (Brooklyn, NY), Terry Shu (Boston, MA), Penny Zee (San Francisco, CA).

Dan Cooper ’89 celebrated a 25th-year reunion with his fellow classmates at his home in Shanghai: James Tsao, Philip Yu, and Steve Gee. He even printed special t-shirts for all the family members.

Laird Silsby ’11, a junior at Middlebury College and a member of the Men’s Rugby Club, finished a historic season in November. The National semifinal game was held at the Middlebury campus for the first time. Laird said in an interview, “Since our lackluster inaugural season in Division I my freshman year, we’ve worked hard to become one of the rugby powerhouses in the American northeast. While it was tough to lose in the national semi-finals, I would like to thank all the members of the TAS community who have supported me this past year. TAS has and always will hold a special place in my heart. I feel that the standard of excellence the school and the community holds itself to played a significant role in my development on and off the field. While playing in the collegiate national championship is very different than at IASAS, I feel that much of the passion and drive that I now have in my approach to rugby and life began behind those orange-brick walls.” Dwight Sung ’92 is publisher of the only badminton magazine in the USA: http:// badmintonmonthly.com.

Ken Hsu ’95 and Millie Su ’98 got married in October. Ken and Millie met through Michelle Hsiao ’97 in New York in 2008. Millie received a Ph.D. in management from Rutgers University and Ken had just moved to New York from Boston. Having similar experiences in TAS, the couple shares many similar family values and memories growing up in Taipei. Millie is currently working as an independent academic researcher specialized in biopharmaceutical innovation and management. Ken is a

Andrew Wu ’97 and his TAS ’97 classmates conquered the run and the obstacles together at the San Francisco Urbanathalon 2013, an 11 mile run with 10 obstacles. Andrew’s running mates included: Dai-Bin Deh, Eugene Hsu, Jeffrey Liu, Will Pan, Ericson Wen, Andrew Wu, and Charles Yeh. digital advertising consultant and has been in the industry since graduating from college. He is now working as a regional director of digital analytics in Wunderman Singapore. The couple is residing in Singapore now.

Send your updates to TAS! We love hearing news from our alumni, especially when you meet up with other TAS friends. We are always delighted in receiving photos of these gatherings. Send submissions to alumni@tas.edu.tw.