Dear Former Students and Friends of Taipei Language Institute,

    TLI was first founded in 1956 and over the last 53 years, TLI has trained over 200,000 non-Chinese speakers in Mandarin, Taiwanese, French, Japanese, as well as English. Former students of TLI come from literally all corners of the world, representing people from all types of professions and ethnicities.

    TLI realize that its success could not have been possible without the help and support of its outstanding alumni and friends. We would love it if our alumni could help us by contributing their stories and pictures of their experience here at TLI. Our intention is to contact students that we have lost touch with over the years and create an alumni network for former students to keep in touch with TLI and let us know how your progress is going. If you would like to be a part of TLI Alumni Association and receive Alumni news and information on the types of programs we have in the works, please send back this survey along with your contact information and a picture of yourself.

    The TLI Alumni Association would like to thank you in advance for your time. We look forward to hear from you and hope that we can create an association for students to keep in touch with TLI as well as their peers.

Note: Stories and experiences maybe selected to be used in our Language Interaction publication. 

Thank you Alumni for 53 wonderful years.

Yours truly,
Marvin Ho
Chairman of Taipei Language Institute
2009/1/1

                                          【TLI Alumni Association】

TLI Language Institute, Taipei (Headquarters)
4F, No. 50 Roosevelt Rd., Sec.3, Taipei, Taiwan
Tel：(+886-2) 2367-8228
Mail:  tli.taipei@msa.hinet.net
Website:  www.tli.com.tw

TLI Outstanding Alumni
	Prof. John King Fairbank: world-renowned Chinese studies expert and one of the most important initiators of American Chinese study systematization and specialization in the 20th century. Studied Chinese at TLI in the 1960s.
	Dr. Martin Wilbur: American Chinese history expert and authority. Studied Chinese at TLI in the 1960s. Returned to Taipei in 1986 to provide an address for TLI’s 30th anniversary.
	Mr. Stapleton Roy: outstanding TLI alumnus and former U.S. ambassador in Beijing. Greatly contributed to the promotion of relations among the U.S., China, and Taiwan.
	Mr. and Mrs. Ding David: former TLI students (1966 to 1968). Made great contributions to the maintenance of Sino-US relations.
	Dr Gu Boli: currently a professor of American University. Studied Chinese in TLI in 1970 and possesses a good command of Taiwanese. As a representative of TLI, he took part in the international college students’ speech contest, becoming proud champion.
	Mr. William Cunningham: outstanding TLI alumnus and Chinese expert. Served as the Secretary of State for 30 years, and acted as TLI’s program coordinator for numerous foreign service institutions.
	John Thomson: for the first time in 1966, California State College International Program sent a group of students to TLI to study Chinese. Thomson was the group leader and outstanding TLI alumnus of 1966.
	TLI alumni: David Hartung, photographer; Donald Shapiro, Time Magazine, Taipei Bureau Chief; Terry McCarthy, Time Magazine’s East Asia Correspondent. Accompanied by Dr. Ho and Dr. Lin Pi-chao, Deputy Secretary General of the Presidential Office of Taiwan.
	Dr. and Mrs. Ho with New York Times Tokyo Bureau Chief Nicholas D. Kristof and Tokyo Correspondent Sheryl WuDunn, co-authors of the Pulitzer Prize-winning account of their five year assignment in mainland China: “China Awakes”.
	Dr Marvin Ho presenting New York Times Beijing Bureau Chief Patrick Tyler with TLI’s Certificate of Appreciation.
	TLI alumni Mr. Nicholas D. Kristof and Ms. Sheryl WuDunn earned the Pulitzer Prize in 1990 for their reporting on the pro-democracy student movement and the related Tiananmen Square protest of 1989.