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Hamilton H.T. Lee (born Hang Tao Lee; October 10, 1921 – March 4, 2018) was a Chinese-born educator and poet.  His teaching largely focused on the development and use of instructional technology for teachers.

Background

Lee was born in Chowhsien, Shantung, China.  He attended high school in Formosa, Taiwan. Upon graduating high school, Lee enrolled at the National Peiping Teacher’s University where he earned a Bachelor of Arts in general studies and education.  While pursuing his baccalaureate degree, he met Chin Chang, who was an MD at the Central University of China.  They married on August 24, 1945 and eventually had four children together.

Career and Research

Lee began teaching English in 1948 at Yuanli High School, Hsin Chu, Taiwan.  He then taught English at Kangshan High School, also in Taiwan.  In 1956, Lee and his family moved to the United States to permit Lee to attend graduate school.  He received a Master of Arts in Educational Administration with a minor in curriculum and instruction from the University of Minnesota in 1958.  Later that year, Lee was accepted into Wayne State University’s doctoral program in instructional technology and was simultaneously hired as a research associate at Wayne State’s Center for Instructional Technology.  Lee’s dissertation, titled “Design and Development of Programmed Materials for Secondary English Teaching in Taiwan with Future Technological Development in Instructional Procedures,” examined various means of improvement in English language teaching.  Lee received a Doctor of Education degree in instructional technology, with minors in psychology and linguistics, in 1964.

Lee’s first faculty position was as a visiting professor and director of the Language Laboratory at Seton Hall University, New Jersey, during the summer of 1964.  That upcoming fall semester, Lee was hired at Moorhead State University in Moorhead, Minnesota, where he taught undergraduate and graduate-level courses in audiovisual education.  In 1965, Lee left Minnesota and joined the faculty at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse.  In addition to teaching, Lee was responsible for the supervision of instructional materials for the campus.

In 1966, Lee was hired at East Stroudsburg State College (East Stroudsburg University) in Pennsylvania where he taught the required course in audiovisual education for all undergraduate education majors. He soon developed three graduate courses in instructional technology for the college’s department of Professional and Secondary Education.  Early in Lee’s tenure at East Stroudsburg, a communications center was constructed that was to be used as an instructional resource center for the campus as well as a teaching facility for media production courses.  This coincided with the development of the College’s Department of Educational Communications and Technology, a new department that was established in 1971.  Lee, along with two of his colleagues, became its first three faculty members.  Lee remained in this position until he retired from teaching in January 1984.

In 2006, forty years after his hiring at East Stroudsburg, Lee and his wife established the Dr. Hamilton H.T. Lee and Mrs. Jean C. Lee Endowed Scholarship for freshman communication majors.

Later Life and Death

In retirement, Lee moved to Los Altos, California. He died on March 4, 2018, at the age of eighty-six.  

Honors

Lee received numerous awards for his poetry writing. These include the following:

• 1981: Certificate of Merit, Nashville Newsletter
• 1981: Rainbooks’ Honorable Menton on the Edward A. Fallot Poetry Competition
• 1982: Ursus Press’s Honorable Mention, Anthology of New Poetry
• 1982: Honorable Mention, Peteranodon Magazine’s Poetry Contest
• 1985: Golden Poetry Award, World of Poetry
• 1986: Award of Merit, World of Poetry Contest
• 1986: Ursus Press Poetry Contest winner
• 1987: Golden Poetry Award, World of Poetry
• 1988: Golden Poetry Award, World of Poetry
• 1989: Honorable Mention, Be a Big Winner Poetry Contest
• 1992: Honorable Mention, Eddie-Lou Cole Poetry Contest
• 1993: Editor’s Choice Award, National Library of Poetry
• 1994: Poet of Merit Award, International Society of Poetry
• 1998: Editor’s Choice Award, National Library of Poetry

Lee was also named Professor Emeritus at East Stroudsburg University in 1984.

References

1. Lee, H. T. (1964). "Design and Development of Programmed Materials for Secondary English Teaching in Taiwan with Future Technological Development in Instructional Procedures". [Doctoral dissertation]. University Microfilms International.
2. Costa, J. T. (2020). "Lee, Hamilton Hang Tao." American National Biography. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/anb/9780198606697.013.369742