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MEMORANDUM
Date: Friday, February 7, 2003 To: Professor Ellie Siegel From: Wayne Frazee In Reference To: Ho Tang Lam Ho Tang Lam, one of this semester’s additions to the English 109 Writing for Business and Technology, brings with him education and experienced in varying corporate fields, offering our class a well rounded student with astounding potential to be drawn on. Background Ho Tang Lam was born in 1981 in the small island of Hong Kong, amidst the bustle of an urban sprawl. At the meager age of one, while still working to master the intricacies of walking, talking, and interacting with the culture presented to him, Ho moved along with his family to the United States, persuing a broad range of opportunities that awaited his family here. Raised domestically, the culture and traditions of Hong Kong were still a significant factor in the course of his childhood due to the culture ingrained into his parents and his family, his main influences in those crucial early years. Ho’s multicultural background has empowered his upbringing with exposure both to the traditions of his native land as well as the casual society that the United States of America thrives on, has allowed Ho to mature, enjoying the fruits of both cultures. Education Ho Tang Lam is joining our class in his 4th year of study, concurrently attending classes at Montgomery College and the University of Maryland Baltimore Campus. A computer science major, Ho is working to further his education in technical areas which Montgomery College does not have the staff and resources to offer students and hopes to shortly have his Bachelors of Science in Computer Science, a field which has become competitive of late as career opportunities have become scarce. Employment Ho has enjoyed the opportunity to earn experience in a kaleidoscope of vocational fields, associating concrete methods of customer service, research, development, and management with those abstract goals of ethical employment that management seeks in new employees. Ho works in an employee owned company called Westat, specializing in individual research and some aspects of technical support. While his current job is highly technical in nature, Ho has spent the last several years earning experience in customer service and sales retail ventures in the Montgomery County area. After some discussion, Ho revealed that he has not yet set an overriding career goal, choosing instead to complete his education and then consider the opportunities avialible to him at that time, a range changing literally daily in this dynamic tide of markets and technology. Hobbies Not all of Ho’s time is spent in scholastic or vocational settings, Ho also enjoys a number of distractions to take his mind off the more serious tasks associated with school and work. Spending time at the gym, excersizing his body and pursuing a generally higher level of fitness is a fun pursuit, allowing Ho to sweat and exert himself, a release for stress after long days of school. Ho also enjoys to eat out at restaurants, anywhere that classifies as fine dining according to him, with and without female company. While individual sports don’t really hold a big draw for Ho, not all of his free time is dominated by his fitness pursuits at the gym, another familiar activity that Ho particularly enjoys spending his time on is the modification of oriental import cars, sprucing up rice runners into rice rockets. The Polyglot, Ho Ho has had the intriguing opportunity to experience multiple cultures, employment sectors, educational institutions, and hobbies, the summation of which lends itself to the intelligent polyglot of talent that is taking part in our course this year. Over the stretch of this semester, Ho should rise to the top as a prime student and focal point of learning, an example to each student that pursues his or her own writin
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