Catherine A. Denfey Award

NEW ENGLAND CIRCLE

OCTOBER 24, 1995

OMNI PARKER HOUSE

CATHERINE A. DENFEY AWARD

The Catherine A. Dunfey Award is

given annually to a person or organi-

zation that exemplifies the personal

courage, commitment and compas-

sion of Catherine Dunfey: mother,

grandmother and great grandmother

of the Dunfey family. The award

designee will have demonstrated

leadership, reflecting a significant and Harry and Ching Lee Wu positive impact on a pressing human 1995 or social condition somewhere in the Catherine A. Dunfey Award world. The recipient will also evidence the capacity to work closely

with women and men of different

races, ideologies and professions

while striving to bring about construc-

tive change in our world. Harry Wu Mr. Wu Is the Executive Director of the Laogai Research Foundation and a Resident Scholar at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. He has dedicated his life to protecting human rights and expanding civil liberty.

As a young student in Beijing, Harry Wu was arrested for expressing counter- revolutionary opinions during the anti-rightist campaign of 1957. In I960, Wu, as a political prisoner, was inducted into China's clandestine system of forced labor camps, the laogai. For nineteen years he was placed in more than twelve different camps in northern China, manufacturing chemicals, mining coal, constructing prison buildings, and working in rice fields and fruit orchards. During these years he was beaten, tortured, and starved. Several times, close to death himself, Wu witnessed the death of many fellow inmates from brutality and starvation and by suicide, he was released from the Laogai in 1979.

In 1985, Harry Wu came to the United States as a visiting professor at the University of California at Berkeley. After his arrival, he began writing about his experiences in the laogai. Confronted with the inability of policymakers to believe the stories of the camps, he devoted himself to proving their existence. He scraped together funds to by satellite photos on which he could locate the laogai. He returned to China three times posing as a business man to obtain visual evidence of the brutality of the camps. Hidden cameras from "60 minutes" brought the Harry and American audience pictures of the gulag for the first time and motivated the American public to cry out against them. On his fourth such visit, Wu was arrested and charged with stealing state secrets. He was sentenced to fifteen years in prison. Under pressure form the United States, the Chinese government expelled him on August 24, 1995. Harry Wu has dedicated his life to alerting the world to the Ching Lee atrocities committed at Chinese forced labor camps and has written an autobiography entitled Laogai: The Chinese Gulag Bitter Winds. Ching Lee Wu Ching Lee Wu is assisting her husband in his work, she is the secretary/treasurer of the Laogai Research Foundation. Mrs. Wu was born in Sichuan, China, and raised in Taiwan. Between 1982 and 1991, she worked in the Office of the Vice Minister of Economic Affairs in the government of the republic of China. After marrying Harry Wu in February 1991, they moved to the United States in Milpitas, California.

Wu Mrs. Wu has accompanied her husband on two trips to China to film and document human rights abuses in the Laogai Camps. Recently, she spearheaded efforts to gain the release of Harry Wu from his captors in China. Loret a McLaughlin Loretta McLaughlin's career the continuing need for bachelor of science degree in Radcliffe Public Policy in journalism has spanned health care reform. From journalism. In 1989, BU Institute. Also in 1994, she several decades during 1992 until 1994, she served named her a Distinguished was named a member of which she has contributed to as editorial page editor of Alumna. In 1993, she was the Board of Overseers of the understanding of health the Boston Globe, and for awarded an honorary doctor- the Lahey Clinic Foundation, care and public policy. She six years prior to that as al degree, Doctor of Humane the board of directors of writes as a regular op-ed the associate editorial Letters, by Curry College. the Boston Globe page columnist for the page editor. In 1994, she was appoint- Foundation, and a trustee Boston Globe with an She is a graduate of ed a fellow at the Harvard of Massachusetts Eye and emphasis on AIDS and on Ear Infirmary. MODERATO R Boston University, holding a AIDS Institute and at the 1995 Catherine A. Dunfey Award Recipients - Harry and Ching Lee Wu Guest List

AMY ANTHONY, Housing Investment, Inc., Boston, MA RICHARD DUNFEY, Publishing Director, Sports Marketing Group, MARIA BACZYNSKI, Metropolitan Indochinese Children & Boston, MA Adolescent Services, Cambridge, MA ROBERT DUNFEY, JR., Regional Director, General Service E. LORRAINE BAUGH, President & CEO, Charles River Hospital, Administration, Boston, MA Wellesley, MA ROBERT DUNFEY, SR., Director. Working Assets Management CAROLYN BENTHIEN, Executive Director, United Way of Greater Company, Portsmouth NH Manchester, Manchester, NH WILLIAM DUNFEY, Dean of Admissions, Bradford College, RANDALL BENTHIEN, Consultant, Randall Benthien Associates, Bradford, MA Goffstown, NH PAUL F. EVANS, Commissioner of Police, Boston Police Department, JOHN BOETTIGER, Vice President, Christopher Reynolds Foundation, Boston, MA Amherst, NH TERRI EVANS, British Vice Consul, Press & Public Affairs, NANCY BOETTIGER, Head of School, Derryfield School, Boston, MA Manchester, NH PATRICK FERRY, Volunteer, New England Circle, Boston, MA PENNY BRAGONIER, Ph.D., Executive Director, Boston Institute for JOHN FERRY, Volunteer, New England Circle, Boston, MA Psychotherapy, Boston, MA ELEANOR DUNFEY FREIBURGER, Professor of Ethics and English, CHRISTINE CARR, President, Carr Institutional, Bedford, NH New Hampshire College, Manchester, NH ASSUNTA H. CHA, Brookline, MA DR. ROBERT GUEN, Mandarin Charter School, Boston, MA GEORGE CHA, Brookline, MA JOE HANLEY, Account Executive, McDermott/O'Neill & Associates, CONNIE CHAN, Professor, Institute of Asian-American Studies, Boston, MA UMass, Boston, MA RUDY HERMOSA, Westwood, MA CAROLINE J. CHANG, Regional Manager, Office for Civil Rights, ARNOLD HIATT, Chairman, The Stride Rite Foundation, Boston, MA Boston, MA JOANNE HILFERTY, President & CEO, Morgan Memorial Goodwill, HEMMIE CHANG, Ropes & Gray, Boston, MA Roxbury, MA MARY CHIN, Director of Social Work, BU Medical Center Hospital, ELIZABETH HOLLAND, Gilmore Realty, West Roxbury, MA Boston, MA ROBERT E. HOLLAND, Esq. Partner, Deutsch, Williams, et. al., HONG CHOI, Korean-American Citizens League of New England, Boston, MA Concord, MA WILLIAM HOLLAND, Associate, McDermott/O'Neill & Associates, ARN CHORN, Cambodian Volunteer for Community Development, Boston. MA Phnom Penh, Cambodia HERBERT L. HOLTZ, Attorney. Hultz, Gilman and Grunebaum, CHU TZE CHOU, Reporter, World Journal News, Boston, MA Boston, MA GEORGE E. CHRISTODOULO, Burns & Levinson, Boston, MA ANGIE HOVLAND, General Manager, McDermott/O'Neill & DORIS CHU, President, Chinese Culture Institute. Boston, MA Associates, Boston, MA HIEP CHU, Institute Coordinator, Institute for Asian American Studies, LYLE HOWLAND, Affordable Housing Developer, Cohassett, MA U Mass, Boston, MA NICOLE HYNES, Program Assistant, New England Circle, Boston, MA MARIAN CROCKER, Co-Director, Hobbamock Design, Boston, MA RONICA JACKSON, Volunteer, New England Circle, Boston, MA JUNE CROSS, Producer, "Frontline", Boston, MA HARLAN JONES, Executive Director. Citizens for Safety. Boston, MA ROBERT CROWE, The Commonwealth Group. Boston, MA MARY JO KANE, Director, Corporate Relations. Patriot Trail, Girl LOUIS D'ALLESANDRO, VP of Continuing Education, Franklin Scout Council, Boston, MA Pierce College, Nashua NH RACHEL KEMP, Asst. Secretary, Economic Affairs, Boston, MA MARIA DELANEY, SND., Notre Dame Education Center, KATHERINE KENNEDY, Ph.D., McLean. VA South Boston, MA LESLEY KING, Director of Special Events, The American Ireland GERI DENTERLEIN, Program Director. New England Circle. Fund, Boston, MA Boston, MA DR. MAY KWAN, Boston. MA CAROL DESCOUTEAUX, CSC., President, Notre Dame College, MARISA LAGO, Chief Economic Development Officer, Boston Manchester, NH Redevelopment Authority, Boston, MA JACK DUNFEY, Founder, Omni/Dunfey Hotels, Portsmouth, NH DANIEL LEAHY, Sr. Vice President, Celtic Vision, Boston, MA JERRY DUNFEY, President, New England Circle, CHAU-MING LEE, Executive Director, Asian American Civic Portsmouth, NH Association, Boston, MA JUDGE HOWARD LEE, Weston, MA TUN-HOU LEE, Professor, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA HONORABLE LOIS PINES, State Senator, Waban, MA FRANCES LEWY, Manchester, NH HONORABLE BARBARA PRESSLY, State Representative, STEPHAN LEWY, Manchester. NH Nashua, NH VIVIEN LI, Boston Harbor Associates, Boston, MA MARY QUAN, Mass. Division of Insurance, Boston MA ZVI LIPCHIK, Volunteer, New England Circle, Boston, MA MARIA QUIROGA, Partner, Sessa, Moore, Boston, MA CHING-HSIN (CHET) LIU,Graduate Student in Business, Taiwan ALDEN S. RAINE, PhD., Principal, Raine Associates, Brookline, MA NANCY LO, Senior Policy Advisor to the Mayor, Boston, MA ERICA RAINE, LicSW, Brookline, MA SHAUNA LO, Somerville, MA MARK E. ROBBINSON, Massachusetts Port Authority. Boston, MA YVETTE LONGUS, Volunteer, New England Circle, Boston, MA JEFFREY ROSENBERG, Chestnut Hill, MA DR. ANTONIO LORENZO, Boston, MA, DR. MASSOOD SAMII, Professor and Coordinator, International MAY LOUI, Project Manager,Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative. Bussiness Programs, N.H. College, Manchester, NH Roxbury, MA HELEN CHIN SCHLICHTE, Executive Office for Administration and KEN LUKE, President. Asian American Lawyers Association, Finance, Boston, MA Boston, MA SEK SOPHAL, Cambodian Volunteer for Community Development, GRACE YOUNG MADSON, President. New England Organization of Phnom Penh, Cambodia Chinese Americans, Brookline, MA SAMANTHA SPEZESKI, Student, New Hampshire College, JOHN P. MANNING, President, Boston Capital Partners, Inc., Manchester, NH Boston, MA MATTHEW STORIN, Editor, The Boston Globe. Boston, MA JEREMIAH MALONEY, Division Director, Office Civil Rights. MAUREEN SULLIVAN, Vice President. Public Relations, United Way, Boston, MA Jamaica Plain, MA ALICE MARKOWITZ, independent Firm Producer. Boston, MA CARRIE TANG, Reporter, World Journal, Boston, MA HANNAH M. MCCARTHY, President, Daniel Webster College, DR. ISAAC TAYLOR, Boston, MA Nashua, NH ROSS TERRILL, Writer. Boston, MA PAMELA McDERMOTT, President, McDermott/O'Neill & Associates, JUDITH THOMPSON, Children of War. Arlington. MA Boston, MA SARA TING, Reporter/Artist/ Educator, Jamaica Plain, MA JOANN McGRATH, Boston, MA MARY LING TONG, Executive Director, New England Minority JOY HAYWOOD MOORE, Director, Development A Alumni Purchasing Council, Boston, MA Relations, Dana Hall School, Wellesley, MA DR. SUSAN ROOSEVELT WELD, Harvard University. REJI MUSSO, Paladin Communications, Gloucester, MA Boston, MA FARIDEH NAMASI, Professor, Economics and Finance, JoANNE WILBURN, Conference & Development Coordinator, JFK Merrimack, NH School of Government, Cambridge, MA BIK FUNG NG, Program Manager, China Town Main Street. LEVERETT WING, Senator Birmingham's Office, Chelsea, MA Quincy, MA LIBE WINSHIP, Newspaper Columnist. Lincoln. MA PEGGY O'BRIEN, Amherst, MA TOM WINSHIP, Writer. Lincoln. MA ROBERT O'MALLEY, The Sampan Newspaper, Boston. MA KAREN WONG, Founder, Hobbamock Design, Boston, MA BRIAN O'NEILL, Attorney, Boston. MA REGGIE WONG, President, Chinese Consolidated Benevolent, DIANA O'NEILL,State Street Bank. Quincy. MA Association, Boston, MA JACQUELINE A. O'NEILL, Staff Director. Office of the President. WANDA WONG, Boston Women's Fund, Boston,MA Harvard University, Boston, MA YOKE W. WONG, Minority Women Construction, Mgr., Massachusetts LEIGH O'NEILL, Student, Boston. MA Turnpike Authority. Boston, MA THOMAS P. O'NEILL, III, Chairman, McDermott/O'Neill & JANET WU, Reporter, WCVB-TV 5, Needham, MA Associates, Boston, MA MARY YEATON, Boston, MA LEON PALADJIAN, Belmont, MA CLAIRE YEH, Graduate Student in Business from Taiwan NAM PHAM, Executive Director, Office of Refugees and Immigrants, ANNE ZACHOS, Chair, New Hampshire Charitable Foundation, Boston, MA Manchester, NH TIM PHILIPS, Co-Chair and Founder, The Foundation for a Civil KIMON S. ZACHOS, Chair. Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, NH Society, New York City, NY LOUISE ZKU, Editor, The Sampan Newspaper, Boston, MA COLETTE PHILLIPS, President, Phillips Communications, Brighton, MA New England Circle

PROGRAM

6:00 pm RECEPTION MARTIN LUTHER KING ROOM DINNER 6:45 PM PRESS ROOM

WELCOME REMARKS JACK DUNFEY, CHAIR, New England Circle NEW England CIRCLE "OUR PURPOSE IS TO ASSEMBLE A DIVERSE GROUP OF 8:00 PM 1995 CATHERINE A. DUNFEY AWARD CONCERNED INDIVIDUALS FOR DISCUSSION OF SOCIAL, PreSEntaTiON T0 HARRY & CHING LEE WU POLITICAL, LITERARY AND EDUCATIONAL TOPICS; BY ELEANOR DUNFEY FREIBURGER, OUR GOAL IS TO EXCHANGE CHALLENGING IDEAS AND VICE CHAIR, New England Circle OPINIONS THAT CAN LEAD TO CONSTRUCTIVE CHANGE IN OUR LIVES, OUR NATION, AND OUR WORLD."

8:15 PM CIRCLE DISCUSSION DUNFEY FAMILY 1974 INAUGURAL CIRCLE INTRODUCTIONS BY THOMAS P.O'NEILL, III VICE CHAIR, NEW ENGLAND CIRCLE New England Circle has become a Boston tradition HARRY AND CHING LEE WU, DISCUSSION LEADERS with roots that date back more than a century. LORETTA. MCLAUGHLIN, MODERATOR In the late 1800's, great thinkers such as Emerson, Hawthorne, 10:00 PM CLOSING REMARKS Holmes and Longfellow gathered at the Parker House to GERI DENTERLEIN, discuss probing issues of the times, often moving the members PROGRAM DIRECTOR, New England Circle to bold action. The last meeting of the "Saturday Club" was in 1902, led by Booker T. Washington. 10:05 PM REFRESHMENTS AND INFORMAL DISCUSSION When the Dunfey family acquired the Parker House, they revitalized this tradition, broadening its mandate and "We draw the circle of our friends too small" expanding its participation. During the past 20 years, more — Mother Teresa than 8,000 people have participated in New England Circle gatherings. Discussion leaders have included such prominent guests as Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa; President Jimmy and Rosalyn Carter; Mary Robinson; Marian Wright Edelman; Bill Moyers; Senator William Cohen; Warren Rudman.

Celebrating its twentieth anniversary season and anticipating

CHAIR John P. "Jack" Dunfey the challenges of the 21st century, the Dunfey family and New VICE CHAIRS Eleanor Dunfey Freiburger & Thomas P. O'Neill, III England Circle board members welcome Thomas P. O'Neill III PRESIDENT Jerry Dunfey • VICE PRESIDENT Pamela G. McDermott as Vice Chair, Pamela G. McDermott as Vice President and TREASURER Robert J. Dunfey, Sr. • PROGRAM DIRECTOR Geri Denterlein Geri Denterlein as the Program Director. Their involvement BOARD OF DIRECTORS Bill Batson, Sophia Collier, Richard J. Dunfey, Jr., creates a new sense of purpose and secures a place for ongoing Frieda Garcia, William S. Green, Esquire, William B. Hart, Jr., Frederick Jervis, dialogue designed to lead to constructive change in our lives, Ph.D., Hubert E. Jones, William J. McNally, Esquire, Honorable David S. Nelson, Geralyn White-Dreyfous, and JoAnne Wilburn our nation and our world. Walter J. Dunfey 1932-1989 and William L. Dunfey 1925-1991 Past Catherine Circles Past A. Duntey Award Recipients

Governance/Politics/ Michael Harrington Urban & Rural Crisis/ 1988 Congress/Presidency/ John Hume Housing/Health Care/ Marian Wright Edelman, Supreme Court Bianca Jaggar Education President, Children's Yelena Khanga Defense Fund Hodding Carter III Julian Bond George Kistiakowsky Jimmy & Rosalynn Sarah Brady Tony Lewis Carter Jimmy Breslin Henry Cabot Lodge William Cohen Marian Wright Edelman Martin McGuiness 1989 Henry Steele Commager James Freedman Robert McNamara Charlie Clements, President, Ken Curtis Tom Harkin Michael Manley StateLife, International Barney Frank Ed Koch Ed Markey Physicians for Prevention of Harvey Gantt Eugene Lang Beyers Naude Nuclear War Mark Gerzon Mickey Leland Chris Norton Dick Goodwin Jonathan Mann Yosef Olmert Mark Green Clara Lopez Obregon Tony O'Reilly Reverend Jesse Jackson Jim Rouse 1990 Olin Robison Ted Kennedy Donna Shalala Henry E. Hampton, Presidnet, Jim Shannon Madeleine Kunin Martin Sheen Blackside, Inc.,Executive Walter & Albertina Tom McIntyre N. Pete Shields Producer, "Eyes on the Prize" George Mitchell Sisulu Mitch Snyder "Tip" O'Neill Frank Smyth Andy Young Oliver Tambo Jody Powell 1991 Warren Rudman Inga Thorsson Human Rights/ Albertina and Walter Sisulu, John Sununu Desmond Tutu Race Relations Deputy President and National Dick Thornburgh Committee Member, African Laurence Tribe Harry Belafonte Environment National Congress Maxine Waters Victoria Garron de Industry/Economy William Webster Doryan Ben Bradlee Geraldine Ferraro 1992 Greg Easterbrook Jane Fonda Arnold Hiatt, Chairman of the International Affairs/ Doug Fraser Dick Gregory Stride-Rite Foundation World Peace/Nuclear John Kenneth Galbraith Henry Hampton Arms Control Lawrence Ingrassia Judge A. Leon Gerry Adams Amory Lovins Higginbonam Ed Asner Stanislav Menshikov Coretta Scott King Mubarak Awad Bill Moyers Isabel Letelier 1993 Daniel Berrigan Ralph Nader Reverend Paul Mayer Wilma P. Mankiller, Principal Jennifer Casolo Robert Reich Margaret Papandreou Chief of the Cherokee Nation Frank Chikane Anita Roddick Carmen Saenz de Charlie Clements Tom Winship Phillips William Sloane Coffin Gloria Steinem Douglas Farah Margot Strom 1994 Roger Fisher Cornel West Mary Robinson, President of Paul Fitzgerald Susan Wood Ireland Boutros Boutros-Ghali Donald Woods Tom Gibb Allen Gotlieb Design by Hobbamock