Stanley Ho, who served the United Nations Secretariat for 26 years, died Dec. 5, 2013. He was 100.
Ho graduated in 1936 from Shanghai University, and earned Princeton master’s (1939) and doctorate (1946) degrees in politics. He joined the U.N. in 1946 at Lake Success, N.Y., rising by 1968 to first officer in the Department of Political and Security Council Affairs in New York City.
In 1972, the year he retired, Ho was appointed special coordinator of the first Chinese table-tennis exhibition at the U.N., following President Richard M. Nixon’s visit to China. He considered his contribution to facilitating U.S.–China relations his greatest career achievement.
While on a peacekeeping mission to Greece in 1948, Ho traveled to Rome, where he married Margaret Wu in April 1949. Her father was the Chinese ambassador to the Holy See. In December 1949, the Chinese Communists took over the mainland; its People’s Republic was not admitted to the U.N. until October 1971.
Ho opened the Shanghai Inn in Tarrytown, N.Y., with two brothers-in-law. This was a popular restaurant for more than 25 years.
He is survived by Margaret, eight children (including John ’75), and six grandchildren. Two children predeceased him.
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