After a personal encounter with China's civil war, she ended up in Taiwan, where she quite inadvertently became Taiwan's earliest, most famous and most caring foreign teacher of English.
她在豆蔻年華就帶著上帝福音飄洋過海，歷經戰亂，輾轉來到台灣，爾後無心插柳成為台灣最早、最知名、最親切的英語教學老師。