E-Newsletter of the Organization of Chinese American Women February 2016 P. O. Box 815, Great Falls, VA 22066 Telephone: 301-907-3898 Email:
[email protected] Website: www.ocawwomen.org 501(c)(3) Nonprofit Organization (from Linda Devine, Editor) Happy New Year and Happy Chinese New Year! I hope that 2016 has started off well for all of you. As always, thank you to those who submitted material for this issue. Special kudos to my husband Ed for his photo preparation work this time, as it was more involved and trickier than usual. I continue to encourage OCAW members to write articles for the publication if there is something you think would be of interest to the membership. Even a short paragraph would be welcome! Please feel free to send me any suggestions or recommendations that you might have for any aspects of the e-newsletter, and I will be happy to see if they work for our publication. My email address is:
[email protected]. Table of Contents Page News from the Virginia and Maryland Chapters…………………………………………………… 1 News from the New Orleans Chapter…………………………………………………………......... 22 News from the Silicon Valley Chapter……………………………………………………………... 27 News from the Hawaii Chapter…………………………………………………………………….. 32 News from the Kohala Hawaii Chapter……………………………………………………………. 33 From and About Our Members……………………………………………………………………... 38 Chinese Lantern Festival (Part III)…………………………………………………………………..43 News from the Virginia and Maryland Chapters Caregiving Wisdom from an Ancient Sage (from Veronica Li) (Editor’s Note: Veronica is a Virginia Chapter member and author of Confucius Says, a novel about caring for aging parents.) -2- I would like to thank OCAW National and the Virginia and Maryland Chapters for sponsoring my talk, titled “Caregiving Wisdom from an Ancient Sage.” The program was cosponsored by AARP Virginia as part of its caregiver outreach efforts.