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Department of East Asian Languages and LitsAndrew M. Hemm AwardCongratulations to the 2007-2008 Recipients of theAndrew M. Hemm Prize for Excellence
History
Andrew speaks fluent Chinese and has conducted seminars in Chinese for Chinese bank officials, on occasion, even appearing on Chinese television. He is married, and in January, 1999, he and his wife, Hilary, became parents of a son, Christopher Lee. He has never forgotten his alma mater. (At right, Thao Le with Andrew Hemm.)
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Andrew Hemm '76 was in the first Chinese class taught at W&L. This was in 1972. He majored in German (even taking a year off to live and work in Germany), but he also took all of the Chinese courses then available. In his senior year, he attended a Spring Term program in Taiwan and remained there for four and a half years studying Chinese and teaching English at Fujen University. He then returned to the U.S. to earn an M.B.A. degree from the University of Michigan. After graduation, he was employed by a Los Angeles bank that eventually sent him to Taiwan to open a branch there. His next assignment was to the bank's main Asian office in Hong Kong. Somewhat later, he
moved on to Standard Chartered Bank, a major British institution in Hong Kong. After an assignment in Shanghai where he established and managed a Standard Chartered branch, he was recalled to Hong Kong where he headed Sales and Credit Services. He is currently with China Contruction Bank in Beijing, China.