Doris M. Brougham (born 1926) is a Taiwan

Taiwan

Taiwan , also known, especially in the past, as Formosa , is the largest island of the same-named island group of East Asia in the western Pacific Ocean and located off the southeastern coast of mainland China. The island forms over 99% of the current territory of the Republic of China following...

ese educator and Christian

Christian

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 missionary

Missionary

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. Studio Classroom(空中英語教室), the English

English language

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 teaching program Brougham founded in 1962, has taught English to hundreds of thousands of native Chinese speakers throughout the world. Brougham also founded Overseas Radio and Television Inc.(救世傳播協會), a Taiwanese Christian media outlet.

Education

Born in Seattle, Washington

Seattle, Washington

Seattle is the county seat of King County, Washington. With 608,660 residents as of the 2010 Census, Seattle is the largest city in the Northwestern United States. The Seattle metropolitan area of about 3.4 million inhabitants is the 15th largest metropolitan area in the country...

, Brougham earned a B.A. in Far East Studies from the University of Washington

University of Washington

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, Seattle in 1948. She then declined a scholarship from the Eastman School of Music

Eastman School of Music

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 and traveled by ship to China. After witnessing the Chinese Civil War

Chinese Civil War

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, she 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

President of the Republic of China

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 Chen Shui-bian

Chen Shui-bian

Chen Shui-bian is a former Taiwanese politician who was the 10th and 11th-term President of the Republic of China from 2000 to 2008. Chen, whose Democratic Progressive Party has traditionally been supportive of Taiwan independence, ended more than fifty years of Kuomintang rule in Taiwan...

 (陳水扁) in 2002.
Brougham was one of the first four foreigners to receive Permanent Resident Status in the ROC.

Other degrees

• Doctor of Humane Letters (L.H.D.) Seattle Pacific University
  Seattle Pacific University
  Seattle Pacific University is a Christian university of the liberal arts, sciences and professions, located on the north slope of Queen Anne Hill in Seattle, Washington, USA. It was founded in 1891 by the Oregon and Washington Conference of the Free Methodist Church as the Seattle Seminary...
  
  , Seattle, (1991)
• Doctor of Human Letters (L.H.D.) Azusa Pacific University
  Azusa Pacific University
  Azusa Pacific University is a private, inter-denominational, evangelical Christian university located near Los Angeles in suburban Azusa, California. It was founded in 1899, with classes opening on March 3, 1900 in Whittier, California. It began offering degrees in 1939...
  
  , Los Angeles (1988)
• Doctor of Laws (L.L.D.) Pacific States University
  Pacific States University
  Pacific States University is a private university in Harvard Heights , Los Angeles California, U.S. and member of ACICS . Founded in 1928 as an independent private institution, it has provided a comprehensive education in the fields of business, and computer science to more than 10,000 graduates...
  
  , Los Angeles (1986)
• M.A. Communications, Pacific Western University, Los Angeles, (1986) (an unaccredited institution)
• A 1953 alumna of Seattle Pacific College
  Seattle Pacific University
  Seattle Pacific University is a Christian university of the liberal arts, sciences and professions, located on the north slope of Queen Anne Hill in Seattle, Washington, USA. It was founded in 1891 by the Oregon and Washington Conference of the Free Methodist Church as the Seattle Seminary...
  
  

External links

• Doris Brougham profile via Studio Classroom
• Doris Brougham profile via ORTV