In Memory of My Sister, Dolly Polly Lo Rolland (for Memorial Service) Dolly Tai-Lan Lo was born on March 9, 1955, in Taiwan. Her Chinese Name was Tai-Lan, meaning "the Orchid of Taiwan," and as we all know, orchid was her favorite flower on earth. Her other name "Tan-li," is the red lychee. She will always be remembered as the most beautiful flower in our hearts. My mother says that when she was young she was very thin and had dark skin. In spite of our financial circumstances, she was sent to the prestigious Taipei American School so that she wouldn't be under the tremendous pressure of the Chinese School. But she always gave herself even more pressure, and she would set for herself the highest standards and goals achievable. To us, she has always been the best. She graduated from TAS with an English Award, a Spanish Award and an U.S. Embassy Award. Someone at the graduation whispered the question: "How can a Chinese Girl receive a...
19 Remembering Dolly Tien-wen Tao Wiedmann On a Friday evening in November 1994, I was working late in the office and a fax arrived from LiLin Hsu in Taiwan asking me to look in on her good friend Dolly who was treated for leukemia at Stanford University Hospital. I immediately called Dolly at the number LiLin gave me. Expecting to hear a weak voice from a very sick person on the phone line, I was surprised by a strong voice filled with energy and good cheer though she had just come home from a tough day at the Hospital. We stayed on the phone for more than an hour when Dolly gave me a most impressive and articulate treatise of her illness in a scientific and rational way. Wanting to learn more about how I could help her, I decided to pay her a visit on my way home that same evening. That was when and how I met Dolly for the first time. Dolly and I became friends immediately and our friendship grew quickly. Dolly put it well in her note to me on April 15, 1995 after she had been ...