擔任美國著名私立學校校董會主席的Oscar L. Tang

菲利普斯學院（PHILIPS ANDOVER ACADEMY）是美國最著名的私立中學，名聲顯赫，實力雄厚，教學不俗，英才輩出，畢業生大都進入美國的頂級名校，成為領袖和精英人才。該校董事會主席是一位原籍上海的該校校友Oscar L. Tang.

Phillips Academy is the oldest incorporated academy in the United States,[established in 1778 by Samuel Phillips, Jr.. Phillips's uncle founded Phillips Exeter Academy three years later, starting a rivalry that has continued through the centuries.Phillips Academy's endowment stood around $787 million in January 2008, the fourth-highest of any American secondary school.Andover is subject to the control of a board of trustees, headed by Oscar Tang, a New York financier and philanthropist.


Oscar L. Tang, a New York financier and a philanthropist, is a graduate of Phillips Academy '56 and received his engineering B.S. from Yale University where he was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon and his business administration M.B.A. from Harvard University. A native of Shanghai, China, he fled from the Communist revolution in his home country with his family in 1949. He enrolled at Phillips Academy as a 10th grader and currently serves as the President of the Board of Trustees there, as of April 2004. Before being instated as the President of the Phillips Academy Board of Trustees, he was a charter trustee since 1995 and a major school volunteer for over two decades. In 2008, he contributed the school's largest gift of $25 million. This gift made him one of the greatest benefactors of Phillips Academy in the history of the school.
In 1970 Tang founded Reich and Tang, an investment management firm headquartered in New York City; he headed the firm until 1993. It is now part of the money management firm CDC Ixis.
An active and well-known philanthropist, Tang is a member of the board of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, to which he made an extraordinary $14 million gift to in 1997. His gift included 11 major paintings from the C.C. Wang collection and additional funding toward Chinese art galleries.
He is also responsible for the building of the teaching museum and art gallery at Skidmore College, where he is a major benefactor in memory of his deceased wife, Frances Young Tang. He met his wife, a graduate of Skidmore College in 1961, while she was a student at Abbot Academy, the all-girls school in Andover before it merged with Phillips Academy in 1973. In addition to being a trustee at Skidmore, he is also a trustee of the China Institute in America.
Mr. Tang resides in New York City.


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