N.Y.C. CHINATOWN REUNION NEWSLETTER January 16, 2011 NEW YORK JANUARY 15, 2011 Museum Of Chinese in America (MoCA) THE POSITION: The Program Manager will be Chinese Cinema Club Upcoming Screenings primarily responsible for managing, developing, and evaluating OCA’s Internship Program and APIA U: Leadership 101 Program. Oxhide| 牛皮 The Program Manager will also provide direct February 4, 2011, 7pm supervision to designated staff in the OCA 2005, 110 min. Directed by Jiayin Liu( 劉伽茵) Scholarship Program. The position will report directly to the Executive Director. Daily life in an impossibly cramped Beijing apartment takes on epic proportions in this, RESPONSIBILITIES: intimate portrait, with unprecedented access, of a • working-class Chinese family. Develop and implement student leadership development programs • Design and implement evaluation Three Times mechanisms for relevant programs April 1, 2011, 7 pm • Supervise activities of staff and interns 2005, 135 mins. Directed by Hou Hsiao Hsien who assist with the relevant programs (侯孝贤) • Collaborate with the development department to provide written reports to The film tells three chronologically separate stories funders, OCA leadership and others as assigned of love between May and Chen, set in three times, • Collaborate with the communications 1911, 1966, and 2005. department to develop and update

content for the organization’s website, Little Moth print magazine, electronic newsletter, June 3, 2011, 7 pm and outreach materials 2007, 100 mins. Directed by Peng Tao (彭韬) • Coordinate activities with partner organizations • Frequent travel to speak on behalf of When an impoverished couple adopts a crippled OCA at program events and related young girl and puts her to work begging on city external functions streets, a battle soon ensues over her fate. • Respond to requests and inquiries about ***************************************************** OCA’s student leadership development WASHINGTON, DC programs in a professional and timely JOB ANNOUNCEMENT manner

MANAGER, OCA Student Leadership QUALIFICATIONS: Development Programs • Minimum of 1to 2 years of work Headquartered in the nation’s capital, OCA, a experience in program management national organization dedicated to advancing the social, political and economic well being • Bachelor Degree or equivalent required of Asian Pacific Americans (APAs), is seeking to • Strong writing and communication skills fill a Manager position to lead OCA’s student • Capacity to work independently and as leadership development programs. OCA part of a team to fulfill the student represents over 80 chapters and affiliates development goals of the organization across the United States and embraces the • Excellent organizational and time- hopes and aspirations of APAs. For more management skills, with attention to information on the organization, please visit detail and ability to manage multiple www.ocanational.org . projects N.Y.C. CHINATOWN REUNION NEWSLETTER January 16, 2011 • Knowledge in and experience with APA minimum grade point average of 3.0 or above communities and issues preferred (on a 4.0 scale). OCA-UPS Gold Mountain scholarship is intended for APA students who SALARY & BENEFITS: $36,000 to $40,000, health are the first person in their family to attend an insurance, and paid vacation and holidays institution of higher education. The OCA-AXA scholarship is geared for students who have LOCATION: OCA National Center in dedicated time to community service and Washington, D.C. demonstrated leadership ability.

HOW TO APPLY: Send an email with cover Current undergraduates who are studying letter and resume to George C. Wu, Executive technical majors and are entering their third or Director, at [email protected]. No phone fourth year in college may apply for the OCA- calls please. Verizon College scholarship. Applications for the OCA-Verizon College Scholarships must be APPLICATION DEADLINE DATE: January 26th, 2011 submitted online.

START DATE: Immediate For more information, or to download the application, please visit www.ocanational.org . OCA Accepting Scholarship ======Applications for Fall 2011 World War II Japanese American Soldiers Awarded Congressional Gold Medal Mary Kong | Program Assistant 202 223 5500 | [email protected] WASHINGTON - It was a long-awaited honor for Americans who fought for our country in World Washington DC – OCA, a national organization War II. President Barack Obama and Congress dedicated to advancing the social, economic, awarded the Congressional Gold Medal to and political well-being of Asian Pacific Japanese American soldiers of the 100th Americans, is pleased to announce that it is Infantry Battalion, the 442nd Regimental accepting 2011 applications for the OCA-AXA Combat Team and the Military Intelligence Achievement, OCA-UPS Gold Mountain, and Service (MIS). News & Video courtesy of Fox OCA-Verizon College scholarships. Each News scholarship is valued at $2,000 and is nonrenewable. Applications for all scholarships ***************************************************** are due by April 4, 2011. CALIFORNIA

“For over 10 years, OCA has been providing San Francisco leaders pick Asian-American as scholarship assistance to those with financial mayor - Yahoo! News need, who otherwise may not have the opportunity to attend college,” said Ken Lee, http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110108/ap_on OCA National President. “OCA is proud to be _re_us/us_san_francisco_interim_mayor able to recognize students who have demonstrated a strong commitment to Sweet and Sour: Life in Chinese Family academic achievement and civil Restaurants by Dr. John Jung engagement.” Book signing tour 2011 schedule in San Francisco In order to be eligible for the OCA-UPS Gold Mountain and OCA-AXA scholarships, students Sat. Jan. 22, 2:30-3:30 P.M. must be a current Asian Pacific American Chinatown Library (APA) high school senior entering their first year 1135 Powell, San Francisco of college, demonstrate financial need, be a permanent resident or U.S. citizen, and have a N.Y.C. CHINATOWN REUNION NEWSLETTER January 16, 2011 With Renowned Poet, Nellie Wong, performing MISCELLANEOUS her Chinese restaurant poems. Recommended reading: Sun. Jan. 23, 2:30 -3:30 P.M. Main Library, Civic Center Mae Ngai, Professor of History at Columbia 100 Larkin, San Francisco University, recently published a book entitled With Renowned Installation Artist, Flo Oy Wong, "The Lucky Ones." describing her life growing in a Chinese family restaurant. It follows three generations of one family against the backdrop of the prejudices and Tues. Jan. 25, 11 a.m.-Noon the difficulties of becoming a Chinese- In April 1975, young Kim Phan Delevett and her American in California and America. It reads 10-year-old brother fled Saigon just before the like a novel, but reveals the multitude of city fell. Now, decades later, Delevett is problems encountered by the early searching for the American who helped the immigrants. children escape. Was he an intelligence operative? A diplomat? All she has to go on Sun, Jan 02, 2011, are a few faded photos and the most generic Granddaughter of Sun Yat-sen seriously hurt in of names: visit www.findingjimsmith.com crash

IN A COMA: In to visit the flora Expo, Nora Sun was on her way to the airport when the accident happened. The driver of the other vehicle was killed

Nora Sun ( 孫穗芬), a granddaughter of the late Republic of China (ROC) founding father Sun Yat-sen ( 孫逸仙), was seriously injured in a car accident in yesterday, police said.

Nora Sun, 72, was still undergoing emergency treatment at the Shin Kong Wu Ho-su Memorial Hospital at press time.

According to Chen Ching-lin ( 陳慶霖), chief of ***************************************************** surgery, Nora Sun suffered serious blows to her GEORGIA chest and abdomen, resulting in multiple traumas, lacerations of the liver and massive Master Works internal bleeding. Date: Sunday, February 27, 2011 Time: 4 PM - Nora Sun was in a coma when she first arrived Place: Emory University at the hospital at around 8:15am and her Schwartz Center for Performing Arts heartbeat and blood pressure could not be 1700 N. Decatur Road measured, Chen said. Atlanta, GA 30322 "Bach Mass in B Minor" After a first emergency -operation to repair her For more information, please visit abdominal aorta, she underwent a second http://www.atlantasacredchorale.org/index.p procedure to treat her chest trauma and hp?page=calendar received an infusion of 12,000cc of blood, the doctor said. N.Y.C. CHINATOWN REUNION NEWSLETTER January 16, 2011 Nora Sun was traveling on the city’s Jianguo CHINATOWN REUNION LINKS Overpass in a Volvo sedan driven by a friend when the accident occurred at around Please go to any of the following links to 7:40am. Her car was hit by a March sedan access information about previous reunions, coming from the opposite side of the highway, past newsletters, old pictures AND also to join in police said. our Chinatown Yahoo Groups where you can relate your stories of the past and read of ONE FATALITY others. Please join our group, there is no While Nora Sun, her friend and a passenger in charge and no obligation, just a fun way to the March sedan were injured, the driver of the read some writings of the past and maybe March sedan died. reunite with an old friend. (Copy and paste to your address line and go to the end of the link Nora Sun lives overseas but returned to Taiwan and hit ENTER.) this week to attend the Taipei International Flora Expo. 1. Chinatown-NYC web page : http://aditl.com/chinatown/ She was heading to Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport to take a flight to Hong 2. Join the Chinatown-NYC Group : Kong at the time of the accident, according to http://aditl.com/chinatown/#join-forum police. 3. Read the archived messages: Her son arrived in Taiwan late yesterday from http://groups.yahoo.com/group/chinatown- Hong Kong to be by his mother’s bedside, Shin nyc/messages Kong Hospital said.

PRESIDENT VISITS President Ma Ying-jeou ( 馬英九) yesterday said he felt sorry about what had happened and visited Nora Sun in hospital last night. The Presidential Office would be in close contact with the hospital and will swing into action if necessary, he said. Nora Sun was born in Shanghai, but spent her youth in Taiwan. She began a career in the US diplomatic service in the late 1980s. Apparently she is an American citizen.

Taipei Mayor Hau Lung-bin ( 郝龍斌) yesterday thanked Nora Sun for visiting the flora expo to show her support for the event and urged the public to join him in praying for her recovery.

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