Thursday, September 26, 1996: TCS holds its first Taiwanese Table of the 1996-1997 school year, returning yet again to the Adams Small Dining Room.

Wednesday, October 2, 1996: TCS holds a combined mua-ji making workshop and food festival in the common room of 20 DeWolfe Street. In addition to providing ingredients and instruction for making peanut and/or red bean mua-ji, they serve yu beng (sticky rice), bi hun (rice noodles), almond jello, and miso soup. Costs to attend the event stood at $3 for non-paid members and free for paid members (with membership dues set at $5 for the year).

Sunday, October 6, 1996: Led by James Chang, TCS basketballers take to the court for their first practice of the year in anticipation of that year's semi-traditional basketball game against Yale's Taiwanese American Society (TAS) over Harvard-Yale weekend.

Saturday, October 19, 1996: For the first brunch run of the year, TCS heads into Boston for an authentic Taiwanese brunch at Newbury Street's Wisteria House.

Friday, November 1, 1996: TCS holds a movie night in the Quincy House Junior Common Room, showing Jackie Chan's Supercop.

Monday, November 16, 1996: TCS puts out the call for applications for first-year representatives to represent the Class of 2000 on the TCS officers board.

Friday, November 22, 1996: TCS hosts Yale Taiwanese American Society members over Harvard-Yale weekend. On the Friday evening before The Game, TCS takes on TAS in a friendly game of basketball at Harvard's Malkin Athletic Center, defeating them soundly.

Sunday, December 8, 1996: The TCS officer board selects Grace Liu of Straus and Sheree Chiou as Class of 2000 first-year representatives.

Saturday, December 14, 1996: TCS goes for dim-sum at Chinatown's Dynasty Restaurant for a pre-winter break brunch run.

Saturday, January 4, 1997: In order to aid TCSers in putting off studying for exams for at least the first few days of reading period, TCS goes on its second dim-sum brunch run in less than a month.

Friday-Sunday, February 7-9, 1997: TCSers James Chang, Yu-Han Chang, James Chen, Jay Chen, Julie Chen, Michelle Chen, Shaw Chen, Yen-Rong Chen, Eric Dai, Jeff Gu, Charles Hsu, Chienlan Hsu, Flora Kao, Michael Lai, and Grace Liu pack into two minivans and head off to Ithaca, New York for the 1997 ITASA Conference at Cornell University.

Wednesday, February 19, 1997: TCS holds its annual elections. This year's candidates for the co-presidency are publicity co-chair James Chang, Yu-Han Chang, Yen-Rong Chen, and publicity co-chair Chienlan Hsu, with James and Chienlan being elected. Harvard Foundation representative Elaine Yu is elected secretary while Grace Liu retains her position as first-year representative. Newcomers to the TCS officer board include treasurer Yu-Han Chang, educational & cultural chair Flora Kao, publicity co-chairs Eric Dai and Henry Hsieh, Harvard Foundation representative Michael Lai, and Minority Students Alliance representative Yen-Rong Chen.

February 22, 1997: The Harvard Foundation for Race and Intercultural Relations holds its annual Cultural Rhythms cultural show and food festival. The show is hosted by Sinbad in Sanders Theater, and features among other acts, TCSer Christine Lay on the zheng (Chinese zither). Additionally, TCS plans to serve almond jello and pearl milk tea at the subsequent food festival, but the almond jello prepared the night before in a borrowed DeWolfe kitchen fails to congeal on time and TCS is left able to only serve pearl milk tea which is ultimately fortuitous after all as TCS enjoys considerable popularity at the festival as virtually the only ethnic group serving any sort of beverage rather than food items.

March 1, 1997: TCS holds a 2-28 Incident commemoration, with secretary Elaine Yu leading the organizing effort, in Sever Hall featuring speaker Dr. Sidney Chang, a virologist at Harvard Medical School, giving assembled audience members a synopsis of the events of and following February 28, 1947, and their significance in modern history. Four days earlier on February 25, anticipating the 50th anniversary of the Incident, the Taiwanese Legislative Yuan passes a bill making February 28 a national holiday, 2-28 Peace Memorial Day. The bill is signed by President Lee Teng-Hui the same day.

'2-28' Massacre in Taiwan Commemorated

May 5, 1997: TCS holds its annual end-of-year senior picnic in JFK Park, handing out hand-decorated mugs to its graduating seniors who include Stephen Lui, Charles Hsu, and Bert Tseng. Painstakingly constructed the night before by various officers, the mugs feature assorted miniature photocopied and laminated photos floating in the mugs' water-filled outer shell. The thought perhaps was more respectable than the final result as the pictures and additional random floating confetti tended to sink to the bottom of the mugs' edges, and furthermore, the use of toxic super-glue to seal the top edges of the mugs ensured that the senior recipients would never, or at least should never, use the mugs for their intended purpose of holding liquid intended for consumption.