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Congratulations! We Did CHARTER MEMBERSHIP Celebrate one of Seattle’s and the nation’s acclaimed cultural treasures! Join as a Charter Member today Members Newsletter Winter 2008 and become a founding member of the Wing Luke Asian Museum at its new expanded home! Congratulations! We Did It! After a journey of five years, congratulations and a • Attend a special preview of the extraordinary new home of the WLAM heartfelt thank you to all our wonderful supporters who have • Receive the exclusive WLAM umbrella helped us reach our $23.2 million fundraising goal! We made • Take advantage of array of outstanding benefits it to the finish line by involving over 100 campaign volunteers, and receiving contributions from 1,500 individuals, as well as Charter Memberships will only be offered in 2008 and will not be offered beyond December 31, 2008. WLAM significant public and private institutional gifts. Charter Membership is also a great gift for your family and friends! For more information on becoming a Charter Five years ago 16 brave souls pledged the first personal Member, please contact Claire Cho at (206) 623-5124, ext. 126 or [email protected]. gifts to the Wing Luke Asian Museum capital campaign. Thus did the Museum Board members kick off a historic initiative, Complete list of Charter Membership levels and benefits:http://wingluke.org/membershiplevels.htm each member giving the largest philanthropic gift of his or her Sign up for a Membership online: https://www162.safesecureweb.com/wingluke/join.aspx life. Since that time succeeding Board members have added their gifts, and with 100% participation have today contributed over $750,000, exceeding their original audacious Board goal by 50%. Since the moment our Board swallowed hard and set out on a course to create a permanent and expanded home for this 40-year old community institution, numerous public and private entities as NON–PROFIT ORG. well as over 1500 individuals have made personal investments in US POSTAGE PAID the Museum’s future. A heartfelt congratulations and thank you to all who have been part of this successful campaign! SEATTLE, WA We owe a HUGE thank you to you, our members and supporters, who have responded with overwhelming generosity and PERMIT NO. 918 encouragement. Your support during the “quiet phase” of our campaign many years ago, and the community phase, which began 407 Seventh Avenue South shortly after the Blessing Ceremony for the new building back in 2005, continues today. (continued on Page 5) Seattle, WA 98104 www.wingluke.org (206) 623-5124 Hard Hat Gala: Building on Legacies Presenting Sponsor – KeyBank As of March 1, 2008: Prime Sponsor – Safeco • Major Sponsor – Boeing 719 South King Street Media Sponsors – KOMO TV, KUOW, The Seattle Times Seattle, WA 98104 Join us! Be the first to explore the new facilities of the Wing Luke Asian Museum! Don your black tie and boots or sequins and steel-toe shoes for an evening of savory hors d’ We’re currently closed for public oeuvres, lively entertainment, and fabulous works of art. You’ll feel like a star with the full visitation. Please visit us in our red-carpet treatment and valet parking! You’ll also have a chance to participate in both silent B0E4C7430C4 new site after May 31, 2008. and live auctions and bid on exquisite original works of art by renowned artists such as Roger <0A27!!k!' Our new hours and admissions Shimomura, Aki Sogabe, Lolan Lo Cheng, Darlene Nguyen-Ely and Barry Wong. Co-chaired 70A370C60;0) information will be listed soon. by Victor and Stacy Mizumori and Larry Yok and Eric Olson, this event will serve as the "UILDINGON,EGACIES Wing Luke Asian Museum’s annual fundraiser and will take place before the public Grand PRESENTEDBY Opening of our new building in May. DATE: Saturday, March 22, 2008 TIME: 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. | Special VIP Reception 6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. (continued on Page 6) PLACE: 719 S King Street (At the Wing Luke Asian Museum’s new expanded home!) Message from the Executive Director Wing Luke Asian Museum Capital Campaign Honor Roll I am excited to become the Museum Executive Director at (Gifts as of 12/31/07) this historic juncture. The Museum has been part of my life Board of Trustees since 1991 when I was working up the hill in the Nippon Kan building and I heard there were meetings in the basement of Gloria Lung Wakayama, Co–President Capital Campaign Tribute Gifts (continued) Surgery Center-Proliance, Sharman Communications, Trima Ellen Ferguson, Co–President the Wing Luke Asian Museum. People were getting together to Tsuchiya, Will and Myrna Tsukamoto, Diane Yamaguchi • In Simek, Karen Sutton, Linda J. Takami and David J. Grendahl, Casey Bui, Vice-President talk about what happened to the Japanese American community Helen Kay, Secretary during World War II. I wanted to be part of those basement Memory of Kai Wah Gerald Eng: Jon Ten Corporation • In Benjamin and Denise Trogdon, Susan Ulgado, Jayna M. and Victor Mizumori, Treasurer discussions, and thus started my personal relationship with the Memory of Ruth Eng: Calvin and Ruth Locke • In Memory of Sam K. Umeda, Beth Van Camp, Michael and Linda Wishkoski, Bruce Brundige Museum as a community volunteer. Manville Gan: B. Frederica Billingslea, Clement and Shirley Chong A. Wong, Tek H. Wong, Gayle Yamamoto • In Memory Katherine Cheng Chan, Joe and Elizabeth Chan, Leland and Vicky Chan, Warren Gemma Valdez Daggatt of Dr. Yu-Tang Daniel Lew: Richard and Helen Kay • In Like many of you, over the years the Museum has provided a and Ethel Chang, May C. and Dale C. Ching, Myrna and Memory of Wayne Locke: Rina and David Chang, Marvin and Jackie Der way for me to understand and honor our community heroes and Mimi Gan Richard Chow, Evelyn Chun, Edward, Norma, Juliet and Andrea Jan Lock, Park Wei Locke and Yim Yee Ng Locke, Quirino and Bruce Hayashi their personal journeys. My grandmother Kaneji Takekawa was a widow with three young sons born in Seattle, including my Don, Frances L. and Andrew C. Eizember, Marsha and Craig Sue Wong • In Memory of Art Louie: Vivian and Jue Chun • In Patricia Norikane Logerwell Fong; Eun-Sook Han, Jean Xu, Pyong Cho, Steven Lee and Paul Mar dad. She made her living by teaching at the Seattle Japanese Language School. On weekends Memory of James S. Luke: Susan L. Mar • In Memory of Maud JoAnn Mills Marshall she would take the Yesler Avenue streetcar down to Leschi and hop on the Leschi ferry to Raymond Li; Donna M. Horwitz, Shelley A. Horwitz, Ronald V. Leathart: John and Polly Shigaki • In Memory of Myrna Mar Barbara Mizoguchi go teach classes for the Bellevue Japanese American community. My maternal grandmother and Karen Jang, Suk Jang, Dick and Frances Jeong, Richard and Chin: Miyoko Kaneta • In Memory of Dan K. Mar: Mabel W. Savitha Pathi Kazue Hirotaka was born in Bellevue and graduated as valedictorian of the Bellevue High Nancy Kao, Corinne Kong and Wayne Kikuchi, Laura Kong, Lum, Susan L. Mar • In Memory of Hideko Murakami: John Dolores Sibonga School Class of 1926. My grandfather Tom Matsuoka performed shibai at the Nippon Kan in Matthew and Phyllis Kong, Ella Lee, Johnnie Lee, Leon and and Polly Shigaki • In Memory of Calvin Y. Takagi: Suma Yagi Judy Tobin his r&r time from farming in Bellevue, and helping to found the Bellevue Vegetable Growers Mee Mee Lee, Aimee and Ronald Leung, Alice C. Lew, Cindy • In Memory of Rae Takekawa: John and Polly Shigaki • In Dave C. Williams Association. Tom and Kaz were the first Nisei (2nd generation Japanese Americans) to be Sung Yang married in Bellevue, where my mother was then born. Ling, Gregory Look and Lori Sun-Look, Dr. and Mrs. George Memory of Bertha Tsuchiya: Amgen Foundation, Bernie and Louie, Howard and Foy Yu Louie, Wei-Ling and Bock Louie, Wendy Aquino, Asian Comm Celebrations, Asian Counseling & Darrel and Cherryl Lum, Jim and Jessie Luyau, Nelson and Referral Service, Carlyle and Patricia Meyer Chan, David Chan Staff During the World War II incarceration of Americans of Japanese descent, my dad and mom’s Alice Yee Mark, Ping Mark, Vera Matsumoto, Gerry and Kathy Joann Natalia Aquino, Public Relations families were removed from their Seattle and Bellevue homes. So I was born and raised in and Jane Nakagawa, Myra J. Chin, Wilson Chin and Tina Young, and Marketing Manager Minneapolis, where many Japanese Americans relocated after the internment ended, and that is Nakata, Hyrum A. and Susan N. Ngim, Susanna F. and James N. Chuck and Chris Chinn, Frances and Fung Chinn, Mr. and Mrs. Russel Bareng, Education Coordinator also part of the community story. Ngim, Netti C. Ong, Dee and Glen Ouchida, Gordon and Helen Chinn, Kevin and Eileen Chinn, Michelle L. Chinn, Ruth and Vivian Chan, Community Programs Manager Owyang, Jessie Owyang, Judi and Joe Rizzuto, Charlotte L. and Derek Chinn, Wallace and Deanna Chinn, Walter and Linda Cassie Chinn, Deputy Director for Program How marvelous that our community has created a permanent setting to remember our pioneer Art E. Shanen, Marion E. Shu, Hanson and Lucy Siu, Helen and Chinn, Wilton and Paula Chinn, Mei-Lan K. Chiong, Leland Claire Hyon Cho, Donor & Member Services legacies and to help pave future directions. Both my mother and father participated in Museum Manager projects, and like many of you did, we created a family gift to remember them as part of the Alex Soloway, Romayne Louis Toy, Alvin and Betty Lai Wong, and Carol Doung, Dexter and Alice Eng, Lorena Eng, Maggie Cesar Cueva, Visitor Services Manager new museum campaign.
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