Jeanyee Wong, 1920–2017

July 22, 1920, San Francisco, California – February 21, 2017, New York, New York

Marriage certificate of Jeanyee’s parents,
Choy Wong and Young Chiu
June 20, 1919, Canton, China

Certificate from her father’s Chinese Exclusion Act
file at the National Archives, San Bruno, California

1930 U.S. Census, Jeanyee is on line 72.

1938 Cable, Cooper Union, Freshman

Jean-Yee Wong, treasurer

1939 Cable, Cooper Union, Sophomore

1940 Cable, Cooper Union, Junior

1940 U.S. Census, Jeanyee is on line 36.

1941 Cable, Cooper Union, Senior

On October 7, 1946, Jeanyee Wong and Waie Lew 

applied for a marriage license in Manhattan. They 

married the following day at the Municipal Building.

1950 U.S. Census, Jeanyee is on line 18.

LibraryThing

(Updated June 19, 2023; next post on Friday: East of Home)

Cooper Union Alumni Exhibition

Publishers’ Weekly
October 15, 1949

Cooper Union Alumni Exhibit Their Book Designs

Fifteen of the younger alumni of Cooper Union Art School, New York,
are represented by books, jackets and illustrations in an exhibition
called “Contemporary Book Design,” which is being held at Cooper
Union Museum, October 10–31, in connection with the school’s 90th
anniversary. Designers represented include Jeanyee Wong, Erica
Gorecka-Egan, Philip Grushkin, Meyer Miller, Edgard Cirlin, Miriam
Woods, Ashley Bryant, David Soshensky, Anne Pracny, Riki Levinson,
Donald Burgess, Richard Stinely, Elizabeth Alden Karpoff and Marvin
Blick. An earlier exhibition in connection with the anniversary was
held this spring (PW July 2), and was made up, in part, of illustrations
book and jacket designs and calligraphy by students now at the school.

(Next post November 7: Sun Yat-sen)

Cooper Union Exhibition

Brooklyn Eagle
April 1, 1946
(Click image to enlarge)

(Next post November 3: Cooper Union Alumni Exhibition)