Doris Brougham


Doris M. Brougham is a Taiwanese educator and Christian missionary., the English teaching program Brougham founded in 1962, has taught English to hundreds of thousands people in Taiwan. Brougham also founded Overseas Radio & Television Inc., a Taiwanese Christian media outlet.

Education

Born 5 August 1926 in Seattle, Washington, Brougham earned a B.A. in Far East Studies from the University of Washington, Seattle in 1948. She then declined a scholarship from the Eastman School of Music and traveled by ship to China. After witnessing the civil war of China, she moved to Hong Kong in 1949, then moved to Taiwan in 1951.

Career and honors

In 1994, she established the Doris Brougham Scholarship to provide financial assistance to high school students with good grades in English, as well as college and graduate students majoring in English or Mass Communications.
Brougham was awarded the Order of the Brilliant Star with Special Grand Cordon—the nation's highest non-military decoration—and was made an honorary civil servant of the highest level by then-President Chen Shui-bian in 2002.
Brougham was one of the first four foreigners to receive Permanent Resident Status in the ROC.
The city of Seattle in the U.S. state of Washington declared April 2 as Doris Brougham Day. Awarded Honorary Citizen by Tainan City Government.

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