1967 復興小學

Dear Lin Li,

Just a note to let you know how much pleasure and excitement you have given me and my classmates during the past few weeks.

It all started with an email and phone call from my classmate, Chang Xiao Ying (Sylvia 張小瑛)in LA on 18 Aug. Sylvia saw my name and phone number in the directory.   Wrote and called within a few hours.  The following week Sylvia, Wan So Bai (Jake 萬守白) flew in from LA to NJ.  We met up with other classmates,  Liao Hong Yi (廖宏毅) ,  Tong Pei Lei (童蓓蕾)and Fang Qing Xian(方慶嫻) on 29 Aug.   I have also spoken to our other classmates Chu Pei Zen (Alice 朱蓓真) in Taipei and Wu YiLi（吳亦立） in LA.  I just received an email from my other classmate C C Chao (趙靖之) this morning.   I will write to him as soon as possible.

You may recall our daughter Kristy is starting her first year at NYU this year.   By chance Wu YiLi told me his daughter is a 2nd year student at NYU.  Sylvia's daughter is a first year student at U Penn.  We plan to meet when Sylvia and Wu come to the east coast in Nov.

With the exception of Liao Hong Yi I have not seen or spoken to my other FuShing Classmates for 42 years!  We shared many warm embraces and tears of joy at our meeting last Saturday.  So much to catch up after 40+ years.  We are planning our next reunion already.

After attending schools in Montgomery NJ all his life our son Erik David started 10th grade at TAS last month.   We had trouble finding airline tickets at a reasonable price for Erik to return for the Xmas holidays.  I noticed Alice Chu's email list her contact at a travel agency in Taipei so I picked up the phone and called her.  Alice had the ticket reserved and delivered within 24 hrs.  The FuShing network is so wonderfully efficient!

With Erik going to school in Taipei and Kristy at NYU we plan to be in both cities a lot more often.  Hope we have an opportunity to meet in TPE or NYC in the near future. 

Thanks again for the great work.  Have a wonderful week!

林偉星  2009, 09, 07

Dear Lin Li,

Good to hear from you.  Yes.  My daughter Kristy took some photos for us at our reunion.  So did Chang Xiao Ying's husband David and Wan So Bai.   Here is the first 4 photos from our camera. 

In the bottom photo (100434):  張小瑛,  林偉星,  萬守白, 童蓓蕾 and 廖宏毅.  

We met at the Ichi Umi Japanese buffet in Edison,  NJ.    方慶嫻  drove 5 hours from Ithaca NY to meet us then drove 5 hrs back after lunch.   That's why Fang is not in the first few photos.   We arrived at 11:45 am just as they opened for lunch.  Stayed till 3 pm when asked us to leave.  After that we went to Barns and Noble coffee shop and talked till 5 pm.

Xiao Ying's husband David took my daughter Kristy and their daughter Jacki to a movie while we talked,  laughed and shared a bit about our lives of the past 42 years.   After that Xiao Ying, her family,  Wan So Bai and Liao Hong Yi came back to our house in Montgomery, NJ. We had Hu Nan food take out. They stayed till 10 pm.   Kristy and Jacki rode bikes around our neighborhood for nearly two hrs.  It's great to see our next generation becoming friends too.  ;-))

Looking at those photos again I can still FEEL the joy of reunion that day!

Chang Xiao Ying and her husband spend last week in Philly moving her daughter into U Penn.  I expect to see more when she goes back to work this week.  Chang Xiao Ying has been working for NASA for more than a decade. 
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童蓓蕾 wrote last week to say:

Hey All, Thank you all to add another page of my life which will be cherished dearly.  I truly enjoy our gathering and your friendship.  On the way home, the radio station was playing songs from the '70, I turned up the volume so high that other drivers might have thouhght I was high on something!!! Anyway, I was smiling all the way home!  Thank YOU!
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We Salute you,  Lin Li!

林偉星  2009, 09, 08


2009, 08, 29 Edison, NJ
張小瑛、林偉星、萬守白、童蓓蕾、廖宏毅


2009, 08, 29 Edison, NJ
？、張小瑛、林偉星、萬守白、廖宏毅


2009, 08, 29 Edison, NJ
童蓓蕾、萬守白、廖宏毅、林偉星、張小瑛、方慶嫻


2009, 12, 26 台北私立復興實驗高中
彭美嫻、王妙華、吳小雯、莊暢、趙書琳、楊先隆(楊堯任)