British Studies Seminar, University of Texas at Austin with live oaks and the scattered ashes of one of the founding members of the seminar. On arrival at the seminar, the participants help themselves to a glass of Tio Pepe or Dry Sack sherry, though teetotalers prefer cranberry juice. Sherry has come to symbolize the attitude. The seminar meets to examine in a civilized way whatever happens to be on the agenda, Scottish or Indian, Canadian or Jamaican, English or Australian. The discussion is civil, but sometimes grows a bit heated. What makes the debate engrossing is the clash of different perspectives—including those of lawyers, physicians, retired ambassadors, and
Tio Tek Ho old, wealthy family of merchants. By the mid-nineteenth century, Tio's family was making marital alliances with, and slowly but surely becoming part of, the so-called "Cabang Atas" or the local Chinese gentry. Both Tio's father Tio Tjeng Soey and grandfather Tio Him were prominent businessmen. His uncle Tio Tjeng Sioe was married to Lie Loemoet Nio, a daughter of Lie Pek Tat, a granddaughter of Kapitein Lie Tiang Ko (1786 - 1855), as well as a first cousin of Lie Tjoe Hong, the third Majoor der Chinezen of Batavia (1846–1896). Tio's cousin, Kapitein Tio Tek Soen, was - like him