Bulletin Number One 1986

Profiles Mr . And r ew George Piper Senior Lecturer, Department of Accounting & Finance Mr. Andrew Piper graduated from the University of Birmingham in 1952 after completing one of the early relevant degrees which were designed to provide a foundation for subsequent accountancy qualifications. After articles, he passed his professional examinations for membership of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (1955, Plender prize for Advanced Accounting) and the Institute of Cost and Management Accountants (1961). Mr. Piper was in the professional employment for six years, followed by another six years as the Accountant of a steel plant before returning to the University of Birmingham in 1966 as Lecturer and P.D. Leake Teaching Fellow (1967). He was Assistant Dean (Finance) of the Faculty of Commerce and Social Science from 1969 to 1972 and was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 1971. Mr. Piper retired in 1984. He has been an external examiner for the University of Nottingham, City University, London, and the Polytechnics of Birmingham, Bristol, and Lanchester (Coventry). His two major interests have been international accounting and examination activities, both academic and professional. His academic visits overseas included teaching in Zaria and Enugu (Nigeria), Austin and Denton (Texas, U.S.A.), examining in Kuala Lumpur and consultancy in the Republic of Cameroon and Tanzania. Examination work has been undertaken for the three major professional accounting bodies in England, the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, the Institute of Cost and Management Accountants, and the Chartered Association of Certified Accountants. Mr. Rper has several books to his credit. The first books were revisions of Teach Yourself Book- keeping (1970, 1976 ， 1984) and Teach Yourself Costing (1970 )， and other books were coauthored with colleagues of the University of Birmingham: Marginal Costing (1980)， Advanced Financial Accounting (1981) and International Accounting (1985). Dr. A l be rt H. Yee Senior Lecturer, School of Education Not unlike many overseas Chinese, who have that certain yearning for heritage, Dr. Albert H. Yee was happy to join the School of Education of this University as Senior Lecturer last August. Although a fourth- generation American, he was sent by his elders to study at Lingnan University in China in 1947-48. During that stay in old China, he formed an abiding interest in Asia heretofore unfulfilled and first met friends still in Hong Kong and his wife. Prior to joining this University, Dr. Yee completed twenty-eight years as teacher, professor, and academic dean in the United States. His perspective to the meaning of life has been honed by real-life crises forcing decision and reflection, such as Korean War service with the United States Army when he was awarded five medals and citations. His education includes a liberal arts BA degree from the University of California, Berkeley; an MA degree in administration from San Francisco State; an EdD degree with focus on the social psychology of education from Stanford; and postdoctoral research at the University of Oregon in 1966-67. Promoted full professor by the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1970, he has been honoured also by election to Fellow by four national scholarly societies ， such as the American Psychological Association (APA) for distinguished contributions in research and solving national issues. Dr. Yee has published eight books and over 100 articles on topics ranging from ethnicity to statistics and teacher education. As a member of a generation with few Asian Americans in the social science and university administration, it was not hard for Dr. Yee to be the first Asian American to appear at whatever step he took in his career. Some examples of his professional experience are: (1) originating and struggling to put life into what is California's leading faculty association today; (2) proposing and assisting President Nixon's National Security Council to prepare what became the 'educational, scientific, and cultural exchange agreement' in the historic Shanghai Communique; (3) entering China as the first Fulbright scholar, he fulfilled a mission in 1972 for the APA to meet China's psychologists and establish communications, which thereby brought him to identify the anti-intellectual nature of the Cultural Revolution; (4) serving as Chairperson of the first Federal Advisory Committee commissioned for Asian/Pacific Americans in 1976-81 ， which directly affected United States demographic policies; and (5) serving as ‘foreign expert' in Psychology for China's Academy of Sciences, Academy of Social Sciences, Ministry of Education, and others in recent years. PROFILES 23