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Love Letters
from Janey
This book describes how Janey achieves a fulfilling career with the help of mentors and Richard, her significant other. She’s a laboratory assistant for a Nobel Prize winner at Stanford, becomes a California-state certified microbiologist, conducts independent research in immunology at the University of Oregon medical school, and earns her Ed.D. She also receives the highest technical award at Bell Laboratories while raising three sons, participating in multiple community volunteer programs. In her free time, she’ss a skier, sailor,chef, and wife of an equally active husband.
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“Love Letters from Janey” is the life story of Janey Young, an engaged Asian American senior at Stanford University in 1960, who wants to have a career after she’s married. Her fiancé, Richard Cheu, is a graduate student at the University of Oregon. She seeks to reconcile a vision of her future which conflicts with cultural, societal, and family pressures to accept the “natural role” of an educated married woman.
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"Author, historian, deacon, and hospice chaplain Richard Cheu has written “Living Well with Chronic Illness: A Practical and Spiritual Guide’’. His recent book “Love Letters From Janey: 50 Years of Breaking Barriers Together” features the 167 letters from his wife. This tribute honors their 50 year love story: A testament to their love and passionate support for each other to succeed despite the discrimination they battled.
His sixty-five oral histories that address the effects of America’s Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 on 20th century Chinese Americans are archived at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. Richard is an economist who created the economic plan transforming Taiwan into a modern economy, a neurophysiologist who received a U.S. Patent for inventing a method for improving vision. Richard is also an auxiliary chaplain of the New York fire department. A National Park Service volunteer history interpreter, he’s given 90 talks onboard Amtrak trains."