in early 2009, the group switched its focus from reading and translating chinese to working on getting professor mather's biography of his father, william arnot mather, and his own autobiography published as a single-volume memoir. the group that worked on it consisted of professor mather and his wife, virginia mather; professor chun-jo liu as the project coordinator; classical chinese specialist james m. kindler as the editor, typist, and author of the afterword; gary august as the official artist, who painted two separate paintings for the book (one of professor and mrs. mather standing by two chinese scrolls, and one of the great wall of china); professor p. richard bohr as the author of the foreword; daniel h. donnelly as the copyright specialist; professor alan l. kagan as the group treasurer; mae a. kindler as the technical consultant; james h. nebel as the multimedia talk show host, who interviewed professor and mrs. mather, professor chun-jo liu, and james kindler for a television special; and wang nai-chen as a major financial contributor. by october 2010, the mather family memoir was completed by the group and published by the edwin mellen press in lewiston, new york. on december 03, 2010, the chinese reading and translating group then hosted a private, by-invitation-only memoir party for professor and mrs. mather to honor them for their success in getting professor mather's family memoir published.