Yan Yunchai
Description
Alternate name spellings found in primary source documents: Yen Tsai yün (Mrs. Wu Hsien) (Daisy Yen)
Yan was from Shanghai. After Ginling, she went to Smith College 1921-22 to study chemistry, then got her M.A. at Columbia in 1923. Also did graduate work at the University of Chicago. She went on to work at Peking Union Medical College (PUMC) in the Biochemistry department, where she met her husband and published two papers on nutrition. Then she and her husband went back to New York City, where she worked at Columbia. They went back to China in 1925 and she opened Ming-Ming School in Beijing. In 1929 she moved back to the United States to work at the University of Alabama. After her husband died in 1959, survived by Liu and their six children, she moved to New York and worked at the UN Children's Fund in the Food Conservation Division. She moved to Brookline Massachusetts and was an active member of the Boston Chapter of the Ginling Association in America, becoming president in 1958. From 1964-1971, she worked at the Institute of Human Nutrition of the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University. Later, she worked as an advisor in the Division of Nutrition and Metabolism at St. Luke's Hospital Center until she was 85 in 1987. Her sister Lily Yen (Ms. Yen lien-yun) was in the Ginling class of 1924. Liu and her sisters donated an infirmary to Ginling in 1936, and she attended Ginling's 70th anniversary.
Yan was from Shanghai. After Ginling, she went to Smith College 1921-22 to study chemistry, then got her M.A. at Columbia in 1923. Also did graduate work at the University of Chicago. She went on to work at Peking Union Medical College (PUMC) in the Biochemistry department, where she met her husband and published two papers on nutrition. Then she and her husband went back to New York City, where she worked at Columbia. They went back to China in 1925 and she opened Ming-Ming School in Beijing. In 1929 she moved back to the United States to work at the University of Alabama. After her husband died in 1959, survived by Liu and their six children, she moved to New York and worked at the UN Children's Fund in the Food Conservation Division. She moved to Brookline Massachusetts and was an active member of the Boston Chapter of the Ginling Association in America, becoming president in 1958. From 1964-1971, she worked at the Institute of Human Nutrition of the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University. Later, she worked as an advisor in the Division of Nutrition and Metabolism at St. Luke's Hospital Center until she was 85 in 1987. Her sister Lily Yen (Ms. Yen lien-yun) was in the Ginling class of 1924. Liu and her sisters donated an infirmary to Ginling in 1936, and she attended Ginling's 70th anniversary.
Source
Photograph: Ginling College Magazine June 1928, Archives of the United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia, Group 11, Box 151, Folder 2950, Yale Divinity Library, http://divinity-adhoc.library.yale.edu/UnitedBoard/Ginling_College/Box%20151/RG011-151-2950.pdf.