MISS CHINATOWN USA 2012
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2 Asian Rice Owls Fifty-years of Asian Students Rice University Chinese Alumni Association 1995 Rice University Community of Asian Alumni 2010 Senior Houston Asian Alumni-Hope Kobayashi First Asian Rice Faculty – Riki Kobayashi Adjunct Faculty Astronaut Franklin Chang Diaz President Association of Rice Alumni-Harry Gee Member of Board of Trustees-Albert Chao T. T. and W. F. Chao Center for Asian Studies
A University So Conceived from History of Rice-2012
• Visiting Houston again in the late spring of 1891, Rice called his attorney, Captain James A. Baker, to his hotel room and told him that he had decided to endow […] a separate establishment to be called The William M. Rice Institute for the Advancement of Literature, Science, and Art. The charter that Rice brought to Houston […] did not contain the words college or university, but it did call for the establishment of “a Public library,” “a Polytechnic school,” “scientific collections,” “scientific and philosophical apparatus,” various works of art, all for instructing “the white inhabitants of the City of Houston, and State of Texas.” Further instructions directed that this institute would be free of cost to both male and female students and that it would be nonpartisan and nonsectarian. CHINESE ARE COLORED
” Lum v. Rice, 275 U.S. 78 (1927), is a The Supreme Court's decision opinion United States Supreme Court case in written by Chief Justice William Howard which the Court held that the exclusion Taft, the Supreme Court affirmed the on account of race of a child of Chinese state supreme court's ruling and thus the ancestry from a state high school did not position of the Board of Trustees. In the violate the Fourteenth Amendment to the unanimous opinion, Taft held that the United States Constitution. The decision petitioner had not shown that there effectively approved the exclusion of weren't segregated schools accessible for minority children from schools reserved the education of Martha Lum in for whites. Gong Lum's case was not that Mississippi: racial discrimination as such was illegal, "We must assume, then, that there are but that his daughter, being Chinese, had school districts for colored children in incorrectly been classified as colored by Bolivar county, but that no colored school the authorities. is within the limits of the Rosedale consolidated high school district. This is not inconsistent with there being at a Since the ruling went against them, the place outside of that district and in a Board of Trustees became the plaintiff different district, a colored school which and Lum was named the defendant in the the plaintiff Martha Lum may case Rice v. Gong Lum. The state Supreme conveniently attend." Court reversed the lower court's decision and allowed the Board of Trustees to exclude Martha Lum from the school for Overruled by: white children. Gong Lum appealed the Brown v. Board of Education, state Supreme Court's ruling to the 347 U.S. 483 (1954) federal Supreme Court Wikipedia At Rice Institute Asians were white 1917 1919
RUDOLFO HULEN FERNANDEZ P. WATANABE 3RD FROM RIGHT FRONT Future Kobayashi Asian Owls HOPE RIKI MITSU HOPE RIKI
Hope Kobayashi BA 1937 Japanese Women 1934 1937 1937
Chinese Women Ella Eng ; Clara Eng Charles Soon Chan & George Yee Chan First Chinese Graduates-1941
Charles and Berda Chan Archi Arts George Yee Chan First Rice Chinese Chemical Engineer Graduated early: Married Stella Young of Honolulu Hawaii PHI BETA KAPPA ’40
Jane Eng Gee ’42 Hobart Joe ’50 John S. Tang
Kobayashi Family
Riki ’44 Lee Mary ’50 Mitsu ’49 1st Row: Ed Chen 2nd; Harry Gee, uniform 2nd Row: Mae Fong C’ Tol; 7th 3rd Row: Mae Jean C’ Tol; 7th 4th Row: Marlene & Virgie Eng; Mary C’ Tol Last Row: Jane Eng Gee, last person
Future Asian Rice Owls & Mary C’ Tol 1953
Daniel Lum 1955 Chang Yi Wang; Wayne Kent Wong 1959 1950’s Katherine Chu Leong-1953 PhD Sui Sheung Tang 1951 MS Pui L Leong 1952 MS Man Wei Kwei 1953 MS W. C. Wong 1954 MS
1960 Chih Hung Lin; Robert Moy; Philip Chang; Stephen Tsai; John Lam; T. Shivaji Rao; Yu Tsai Chen; Son Yung Kim; Robert Shih Lo; Hsiang Yun Lu; Chang Shu Wu; Chang Yi Chang; Kuo Shing Chang; Feng Shang Hsu; Toyaki Ishibachi; Kuo Chi Lin; Shiu Lin; Pravin Shah; Tseng C. Sun; Chang Chai Tu; Frank Chin Tung; Yung Chi Wong; Sang Hung Woo; Ing Chang; Kai Shing Ching; Joanne L. Kao; John Lau; Ching Tsung Lee; Shi Kuyu Lee; Shui Li Lu; Wei Hung Ng; Mahmud Tai; Ting Kao 2008 Rice University Chinese Alumni Association RUCAA 2/7/95 and 7/20/95
FOUNDERS
Dr. Peter Chang ‘74 Dr. Ed Chen ‘59 Cecil Fong ‘75 Harry Gee ‘60 Asst. Dean Laura Hsu Lynne Hsu ‘88 Ronald Joe ‘81 Frank Liu ‘78 Prof. Richard Smith Wellington Yu ‘77
Presidents: Harry Gee, Cecil Fong, Dr. Ed Chen, Henry Chiu , Ben Chu, Dr. Lawrence Chan ’89 ;Officers Mary Shih, Denise Chan, Irwan Chan, Sriwan Chan, ’74; Sherry Hill, ’80; New Year’s Meetings: Dr. Sylvia Hsu, Dr. Lawrence Chan, Prof. Randi Martin
RUCAA and RICE FACULTY DR. PETER CHANG MD PhD NEW PRESIDENT Rice University Community of Asian Alumni
Eugenie and Ed Chen Judge Theresa and Dr Peter Chang co-Chair with Jane Eng Gee, Honoree at the Chinese Community Center 2011 Gala Chinese Community Center 2011 Gala
ASIAN TENTURE TRACK FACULTY 2012
ECONOMICS
31 Asian Astronaut Asian Rice Owls Ed Chen three Generations: Hobart Joe two Generations: Harry Gee two Generations Past Presidents CACA Asian Owls
Hobart Joe Harry Gee Ed Chen Ed Chen Jane Gee Hobart Joe
Charles Chan Hobart Joe Harry Gee Antje Gee
Asian President Alumni Association Asian Rice Trustee Asian Rice First Lady