Meet the Happiest Man in America: Alvin Kuo Wong, a 69-year-old Asian-American Jew from Hawaii.
Alvin Kuo Wong, 69, was singled out as the happiest man in a short newspaper article tucked away in the middle of the Sunday New York Times Week in Review section.
His phone hasn’t stopped ringing since.
“This has been crazy,” Wong said yesterday after being interviewed by radio stations, television reporters and newspapers from across the country.
The Times relied on a formula called the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index and asked Gallup to come up with a statistical composite for the happiest person in America.
Gallup said this hypothetical person would be a tall, Asian-American, observant Jew who is at least 65 and married, has children, lives in Hawaii, runs his own business and has a household income of more than $120,000 a year.
The Times then called Oahu’s three Jewish synagogues to see whether such a person exists.
There are only a handful of Asian-American men who practice Judaism in Honolulu, said Wong and his wife, Trudy Schandler Wong, who belong to two of the synagogues.
When factoring in key data such as age, marital status, parenthood and income, Wong was the only man on Oahu who fit all the criteria, Trudy Wong said.
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