RESOLUTION HONORING ARTHUR WONG AND DR. ELAINE CHONG WONG
WHEREAS, It is with great honor that members of this Chamber recognize the contributions, achievements and dedicated service of Arthur Wong and the late Dr. Elaine Chong Wong to Chicago's Chinatown community; and
WHEREAS, The City Council has been informed of this auspicious occasion by the Honorable Daniel Solis, Alderman of the 25th Ward; and
WHEREAS, Art Wong is the cherished son of restaurant entrepreneurs, Paki-Yuen and Eng Shee. Art grew up in Chinatown and attended Haines Elementary before attending Tilden Tech High School. Art swam in high school as well as played baseball for the Chinatown Dragons. He discovered his true passion after participating in the Chicago Park District's Rainbow Fleet where he learned how to race sailboats. After graduating high school, Art attended Ripon College where he remained highly involved with sports; and
WHEREAS, After graduating college in 1953, Art found work at the Automatic Electric Company in Chicago. During his life, he worked at Bankers Life and Casualty, and Prudential; and
WHEREAS, In his free time, Art was an avid sailor and raced competitively for sixty-five years. He won several Boat of the Year Awards, he won his boat's class in the Chicago to Mackinac Race and he was a member of the Mackinac Island Old Goats Club for sailors who have completed at least twenty-five races; and
WHEREAS, His wife, Elaine, was the adored daughter of Daisy, an entrepreneur and Henry Chong, a foreman at the Dole Cannery, and the middle of seven children. Elaine attended Indiana University majoring in Chemistry and English. She then attended Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania. She did her internship at Queens Hospital in Honolulu before completing her pediatric residency at Milwaukee Children's Hospital, her clinical psychiatry residency and teaching at the University of Minnesota Medical School and her adult psychiatry residency at the University of Illinois at Chicago. E...
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