Summer Cookout
Lora Feng
Hi, All:
Sorry for the tardy email. I was buried with work the last couple of days.
Thank you all for joining us for a great get-together at Doris’ home last Saturday. The food was plenty and delicious, and the company was even better. Thank you Doris for being a great hostess again!
I am glad we got to enjoy the art demo from Charlene, Professor Ju’s student. It was great we had the opportunity to know each other more around the table. Hopefully we get to meet more often than once a year. I like some of your suggestions to join forces with other groups. Maybe we could create a Yangtze Delta group that would include Shanghai, Zhejiang and Jiangsu groups.
Attached is the list of attendees and their contact information. If you find your information incorrect, or missing, please feel free to fill it in and send back to me. I will then incorporate it into the Jiangsu Group list.
Thanks and keep in touch.
Best regards,
Lora Feng
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From: js...@googlegroups.com [mailto:js...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of doris ju
Sent: Sunday, August 12, 2012 7:16 PM
To: fan...@yahoo.com; JianSu tongxianghui
Subject: [jstxh] Jiangsu Tongxiang
Lora: Thank you for stepping in to take the lead yesterday (in the absence of Mike Yao who took the lead albeit also informally the two previous summers). Today our new Jiangsu friend Frances called me to thank me and tell me how glad she was to have joined us, and expressed ideas for the next meeting(s). Lora, I am sure you will be adding the new emails you collected at the gathering to the JSTXH group distribution, but I told Frances today I will email you and Shaoping to add her to the JSTXH disbribution right away so she can express her ideas to the whole group. Shaoping, I assume you are in-charge of that?
I explained to Frances that I will not be able to do any more than hosting a cookout each year, but if the JSTXH organizes other meetings, and my mother and I are in NJ, certainly I can bring my mom to attend. Also, as you know my motivation to support the JSTXH has been my Dad who was from Jiangyin, who dedicated himself to the spread of Chinese art and literature, and I have some regret that I did not dedicate myself to the same goal while he was alive (you realized, I being still on the NJCCPS distribution meant I was at one time a computer professional. It was only after my involuntary retirement from BMS 2005 that I tried to re-bond with my parents and my cultural roots). Joseph Liu who started the whole idea in June of 2010 with a telephone conference now suggests joining forces with Shanghainese tongxiang, again I am not in any position to take that initiative. Well, I will continue to be supportive in honor of my Dad.