Chinese new year celebration at the Meridian Mall (date to be determined)

[Jiang, John]

Dear friends,

 

The Chinese faculty club usually hosts a potluck party for the Chinese new year. We will follow the tradition. In addition, the Meridian Township will kindly sponsor a Chinese New Year Celebration. I was invited to a planning meeting. The attached is the meeting note. Would you please think about what kind of performance, activities, displays that the Chinese faculty and staff at MSU can contribute? Please let me know your ideas. Thanks.  

 

John (Xuefeng) Jiang

Associate Professor of Accounting

http://broad.msu.edu/facultystaff/jiangj/

Broad College of Business

Michigan State University

N252 Business Complex

East Lansing, MI 48824

Tel:  (517)-432-3031

Fax: (517)-432-1101

 

[Betty HC Cheng]

Hi Prof. Jiang:

Thank you for your note. I will keep the date in mind -- it's great

to have all these disparate groups come together for the 

celebration. (As a brief introduction, I'm a professor in the Computer

Science and Engineering Department on campus. My website

is at http://www.cse.msu.edu/~chengb.)

On a slightly unrelated topic, I was wondering if you know of any

Chinese "senior citizens" group in the area. My elderly parents

recently moved to East Lansing, after living in Kansas for more than

30 years. My father was a mathematics professor for many years and

then was a Program Manager at Boeing and then the Air Force until

he retired. They are feeling a bit isolated since they don't know anyone

in the area. 

More than 15 years ago, I was active in CAFA (the MSU Chinese American Faculty Association). Not even sure if that group is

still active. But once we had kids, I've lost contact with that

group. 

Anyway, if you have any pointers to any elderly Chinese groups, I would appreciate getting a contact number. 

Thanks very much. 

Best Regards, 

Betty Cheng

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[kang li]

John,   I will be able to help you with performance piece.   One of the things I am doing as the Director of Neighborhood Cultural Assistance program is to work with Chinese graduate and undergraduate students to form a Chinese Musical and Performing Group (might include faculty, staff, their children and spouses as well). I will be able to provide several high -quality traditional Chinese instrument performances, singing, dance and other programs for the celebration of Chinese New Year.   I still want to schedule a meeting with you, not only introducing the programs that we are setting up, but also discussing how faculty and staff engage in these programs and benefit from them. In addition to my work with Chinese graduate students and undergraduate students, I have also had experiences with faculty and organizational development. I have worked with ICED and POD for a long time. I have also worked with Deb Dezure, the Director of FOD at MSU in the past. There would be things that I can work with Deb's office for Chinese faculty development that might be of special interest to you.   Warm regards,   Kang --- On Tue, 10/30/12, Jiang, John <jia...@bus.msu.edu> wrote:

John (Xuefeng) Jiang Associate Professor of Accounting http://broad.msu.edu/facultystaff/jiangj/ Broad College of Business Michigan State University N252 Business Complex East Lansing, MI 48824 Tel:  (517)-432-3031 Fax: (517)-432-1101

[Jiang, John]

John Jiang

Associate professor of accounting