In Memory of Pein Kee Liu (劉炳基校友)
Pein Kee Liu (Pin Si) and his late brother Pin Kai were boarders at CACS. Pin Si, a very athletic student, played both basketball and soccer in school. He came to the U.S. in 1971. He married a former doctor Angela Paw (St. Emilie's Convent) in Hong Kong in 1977. Together they have a daughter Alexandria.
Around 1991, he joined the San Francisco Municipal Railway, which is the seventh largest public transit system in the United States. It is a large city department with a fleet of about 1,000 vehicles that consist of diesel buses, cable cars and light rail vehicles (LRV). Pin Si, a good mechanic, was patient and thorough when diagnosing and repairing a car or a light rail vehicle. He moved up through the ranks to become a superintendent in the mechanical division of the department. As a superintendent, he was powerful with the authority to procure machinery or services worth tens of thousands of dollars. Pin Si was friendly to everyone, but would stand up to anyone to fight for his principles, even at the cost of making enemies within the department. During his 30-year service there, he helped his co-workers from Burma get promoted in their jobs and protected them when they were bullied by their supervisors.
Pin Si invested in real estate to make his money grow for his family. He generously and anonymously donated a large sum of money to coronavirus victims in China through WHAA when news of the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak first hit the world in March 2020.
May Pin Si rest in peace!