Asian Heritage Month Celebration Luncheon 2010

 

•  Program and Highlights
• Special Acknowledgments

 

Program and Highlights

The Asian Heritage Month Celebration Luncheon was held on May 10, 2010 in the atrium at National Louis University.  This event included a Photography Exhibition, a Chinese Buffet Luncheon, Awards Presentation, a Special Presentation of the Chinese Chop Engraving, and a door prize drawing (winners must be present).  The door prizes were contributed by Press Division, Taipei Economic & Cultural Office in Chicago and the Chinese club of NLU. 

In addition, Natalia Jerzewski, Chair, Fundraising Committee, participated in WTTW's fundraising event  on 3/2/2010 (see photo below) mentioned by Ms. Judy Kent (CAD faculty) during the Asian Month event; also,  Orange Revolution DVD was one of the gifts to the contributors at that event. 

 

Many friends, colleagues, students, and guests attended the luncheon event (see photos below).  The event was very successful.   

 

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Award Presentations  

 The Chinese Club's Achievement award is given based upon GPA.  Students must have a cumulative GPA of 3.5 or higher in order to receive this achievement award.    

Two students met the club's outstanding achievement standards this year.  Each awardee received a $100 NLU check for NLU text books and an award certificate from the Chinese Club. Ms. Judy Kent, CAS faculty, presented the Chinese Club Achievement Scholarship awards to the following two awardees:

• Joann Chan
• Natalia Jerzewski

Also, our club members and officers were recognized by the Chinese Club for their hard work in organizing and participating in all the activities for the last several years.  Ms. Judy Kent, CAS faculty, presented the Chinese Club appreciation awards to the following Chinese club officers, alumni, and members:

• Guo Ping Liu
• Joann Chan
• Ho Yan Chen
• Olha Omelyukh
• Jin Wen Zhao  

In addition, the Club mailed the appreciation awards to the following alumni and member who were not able to attend the event:

• Catherine Kwong
• Rebecca Young
• Xiao Yan Chen
• Jian Hong LI 
• Carol Yu
• Joanne Huang
• Natalia Jerzewski

 

For Award Presentations highlights, see photos below.

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 For the Special Presentation of the Chinese Chop Engraving, and the door prizes drawing highlights, see photos below.

 

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A note of appreciation!

A Special thank you to the following photographers for supplying their photos for today's exhibition:

Ms. Joann Chan, Ms. Xiao Li Wen, Ms. Po Fan Ng, Mr. Grover Wake and Mr. Feng Yu, professional photographer. 

Also, our club wishes to thank Ms. Joann Chan, and Ms. Ho Yan Chen for presenting the special presentation of the Chinese Chop Engraving, and Ms. Judith Kent, CAS faculty, for presenting the awards and drawing the raffle tickets.  Finally, we express the appreciation to all those who joined this celebration.  

 

Extra special THANKS to       

• Tai Pei Economic and Cultural Office for providing the brochures of "the Chinese Chop Engraving" and door prizes for this event.          

 

• Ideal Pastry for providing the sweet deserts for this event.

          

This event is organized by Student Affairs/Department of Student Life and the Chinese Club of NLU.