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What's new with the TAS alumni community? Submit your own updates, or scroll down to see news and announcements as well as our alumni feature articles. You can use the navigation panel on the left to read current and past issues of the Alumni News Magazine, see pictures of classmates in the Alumni Media Gallery, and learn about what events are coming up next for TAS alumni in the Calendar.
Submit News and Updates
Did you recently move? Add someone to your family? Made a career change? Share the milestones in your life with the TAS alumni community! We welcome your submission of photos and descriptions of your family, gatherings with your TAS friends, and news of your recent accomplishments. We are also interested in interview alumni for feature stories in the monthly alumni e-newsletter and annual Alumni News Magazine. Please click here to submit your news and updates.
News and Announcements
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TAS continues to offer an excellent education thanks to the support of its community members. We encourage our alumni to contribute in any way, big or small, and recognize them for their contributions. Every year, alumni have the opportunity to contribute by sponsoring our events.
Alumni Spotlight Articles
![Noordhoff Family Christmas Photo c. 1970]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1547780248/taipei/epxzqkaux1pmwkviagah/AnneNoordhoffLin80Spotlight-1.jpg","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_2/v1547780248/taipei/epxzqkaux1pmwkviagah/AnneNoordhoffLin80Spotlight-1.jpg","width":512},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_3/v1547780248/taipei/epxzqkaux1pmwkviagah/AnneNoordhoffLin80Spotlight-1.jpg","width":800},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_4/v1547780248/taipei/epxzqkaux1pmwkviagah/AnneNoordhoffLin80Spotlight-1.jpg","width":1200},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_5/v1547780248/taipei/epxzqkaux1pmwkviagah/AnneNoordhoffLin80Spotlight-1.jpg","width":1600},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1547780248/taipei/epxzqkaux1pmwkviagah/AnneNoordhoffLin80Spotlight-1.jpg","width":1800}])
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When Dr. M. Samuel Noordhoff passed away in December 2018 at the age of 91, he was mourned by the entire country of Taiwan. As a famed medical missionary who served in Taiwan for over 40 years, Dr. Noordhoff pioneered the field of craniofacial surgery in Taiwan, performing over 10,000 cleft lip and palate surgeries himself, and founded the Noordhoff Craniofacial Foundation in 1989.
To Anne Noordhoff Lin ’80 and her three siblings, however, he was simply Dad. Upon his passing, Anne returned to Taipei recently in January 2019 to celebrate the life of her father with the friends and colleagues in Taiwan who knew him well, and to take on the mantle of the family legacy that her parents have passed on.
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Where is Taiwan headed in the 21st century? Who will come here to live, work, and invest? How will Taiwan stay relevant on the world stage? Many people in Taiwan may want to debate these weighty questions, but David Chang ’99 is actively working on an answer. After working in politics and law in New York state, he moved back in 2010 to work on projects that would impact Taiwan. Through the translation platform WordCorp and his new project Crossroads (www.crossroads.tw), David hopes to make it easier for companies and individuals to come to Taiwan and for companies and individuals in Taiwan to make their mark on the world.
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Imagine marrying a girl you met in high school forty years later. This may sound like the plot of a Nicholas Sparks novel, but it is the actual real-life story of Lesley Hall ’79 and Jim Smith ’78. Forty years ago, they both lived in Taipei, where they attended TAS. Four years ago, their lives reconverged at a TAS reunion in Virginia. This year, they tied the knot in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
![On the set of "Many Names"; Photo credit: Juliana Chang]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1535347022/taipei/tqrrzbfohkavmacfskyc/OnthesetofManyNames.jpg","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_2/v1535347022/taipei/tqrrzbfohkavmacfskyc/OnthesetofManyNames.jpg","width":512},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_3/v1535347022/taipei/tqrrzbfohkavmacfskyc/OnthesetofManyNames.jpg","width":800},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_4/v1535347022/taipei/tqrrzbfohkavmacfskyc/OnthesetofManyNames.jpg","width":1200},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_5/v1535347022/taipei/tqrrzbfohkavmacfskyc/OnthesetofManyNames.jpg","width":1600},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1535347022/taipei/tqrrzbfohkavmacfskyc/OnthesetofManyNames.jpg","width":2048}])
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Juliana Chang '15 is making her screenwriting and directing debut in Many Names, a short film which explores "the daily labor of deciding how to present yourself". Many Names took third place in the AT&T Create-a-thon competition in June 2018.