Wednesday, November 11, 2015

Farewell to Harry Chang/ Carlos Pueblo

Farewell to Harry Chang/ Carlos Pueblo
Harry Chang passed away on November 6, 2015. As an alumnus
and a friend of the old Taiwan Normal University, I mourn for the
loss of his family and with tremendous admiration  of his career,
and dedication to serve to our alumni association.

I have known Harry since January, 2004 when we worked together
to re-build the alumni association. We nominated him for the honor
of a distinguished alumnus for the university in 2007; thereafter, he
served as our president of the alumni association in 2010 and before
that he established a small scholarship for the current students in
Taipei, Taiwan, as a matter of fact, his last trip back to Taiwan was to
Deliver the check personally to the university.

Because of the association’s affair, we have started a good friendship.
I always admire smart students at schools especially for those good at
mathematics, and he is in that category, a B.S. in Physics and a Ph.D
in Electrical Engineering. In his career, he had been in charge of the
thermodynamic  portion of the famous space shuttle. I always desire to
read his story in Chinese language about how do you  maneuver such
shuttle in space for such a long period of time. I believed that he had
that plan.

Every year, he would take a visit to his beloved university, stayed at the
university inn or a teachers inn nearby his old middle school, Chien Kuo
Senior High, another famous school. I appreciate his love for Taiwan and
the university; therefore, we have had so much to discuss about. The
university took advantage of his experience and arranged some students
of interests to meet him at a seminar.

I always think of Buddhism at the moment of departure. I believe that Harry
has lived a very meaningful life, in Buddhism, we call it Nirvana, and he has
been on his way to the western extreme happiest paradise.





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