Woman Who Could Not Forget (62 page)

Iris was celebrating her 5th birthday in Princeton, N. J. with her brother, Michael (far right) and her friends, over the much-beloved gingerbread house.

A family portrait with Iris (aged 7) and her maternal grandparents.

Mother’s Day, 1978.

A family portrait with Iris (age 10) and paternal grandparents.

The family trip to Yellowstone National Park in the summer of 1984 when Iris was 16 years old that she referred to throughout her whole life.

Iris’s high school graduation photo.

Iris, Ying-Ying, and Shau-Jin in the football stadium at the 1988 University of Illinois Homecoming game. Iris was selected as one of the princesses for the Homecoming Court.

Iris as a college student at the University of Illinois.

Iris’s graduation from the Journalism Department of the University of Illinois in 1989. On the right is Professor Robert Reid, her mentor.

A family portrait taken on Ying-Ying’s 50th birthday when Iris was 22 years old working at the Associate Press in Chicago.

Iris and Brett on their honeymoon in 1991 in Las Vegas.

One of the postcard letters Iris sent home, Nov. 3, 1991.

Iris at the Great Wall of China in Beijing in 1993 conducting research for her biography on Dr. Tsien.

Iris in Nanjing, China in the summer of 1995 interviewing the survivors of the Nanjing Massacre. Photo was taken in front of the Nanjing Memorial Hall for the Victims of the Nanking Massacre.