Ho Chow, aka Horace Chow, was born at Changshu, Jiangsu in 1924. After graduation from Zhong Hua Vocational School, Ho was luckily admitted to CTU in Shanghai to continue studying mechanical engineering. After graduation in 1946, he worked for one year as a teaching assistant to Prof. Shu-Pei Huang who was the head of the department. In August 1947, Ho entered University of Michigan to continue studying automotive engineering. With straight A on all courses studied for MS in ME degree, he was elected to be an honor student in the Annual Convocation of 1948.

He continued study at New York University as a first doctorate candidate in ME Department. He passed the final doctorate qualifying examinations, but discontinued study in 1951. During this period, he worked for China Motor Corp. in New Jersey. Ho joined this company with the hope to build automobiles in China.

After working a few years in drafting and designing with consulting companies, Ho joined Melnor, Inc in 1958. He obtained a license to be a professional engineer in 1960. Melnor was merged into Beatrice Foods Co. from 1968 to 1987. His specialty has been in product development and manufacturing of consumer products. Many product components were subcontracted to firms in the Pacific Rim. He became a part owner of Melnor in 1987 and worked for the same company for over 31 years.

Mr. Chow was awarded membership in the President’s Honor Club of Beatrice in 1976. He holds over sixty patents.

After retirement in 1990 at the age of 65, Ho Chow and his wife, Junlin W. Chow, whom he married in 1953, moved from East to West to Rossmoor at Walnut Creek, California with a group of close friends. Rossmoor, near San Francisco, is a retirement community with over 6,500 families.

They have a daughter, Renee, and a Son, Leon, and five grand children, Alissa & Emma Chastain and Eric, Peter and Joanna Chow. They are busy and healthy and enjoying their retirement life with their family and friends.

Mr. Chow was President of CTUAFA for almost 8 years from 1992 to 1999. During this period, there were 671 donations and collected over 1.3 million dollars and distributed them 101 times to five universities. He contributed $10,000 at the end of year 1994 as the first donor to the 1996 Centennial fund-raising drive by CTUAAA. His contribution was placed in the General Scholastic Fund in January 1996.

He was happy to have the chances to serve his alma mater where he learned to be a responsible, knowledgeable and hard-working person.