Ruth Mulan Chu Chao Center was made possible through the support of a Dr. James Si-Cheng Chao and family foundation and is a tribute to the life and legacy of the family matriarch, the late Ruth Mulan ...
Chao, 50, was the daughter of Ruth Mulan Chu Chao and James S. C. Chao, who founded the Foremost Group, a global dry goods shipping company. She was CEO of the company at the time of her death and ...
She lived in Austin. Chao was the youngest of six children born to James Chao and the late Ruth Mulan Chu Chao, immigrants from China who moved to the U.S. in the 1950s. She was greatly respected ...
Kresge Way runs along the base of the former site of Kresge Hall that was taken down in 2014 to allow for the building of the Ruth Mulan Chu Chao Center. Kresge Hall was dedicated in 1953 and was a ...