We hope you will enjoy our EWCA Alumni e-News. It is designed to give you quick updates on what is happening with your alumni association. The newsletter will be published on an occasional basis when we have items of interest to tell you about. We would appreciate getting your reactions and suggestions to make the e-newsletter better. Let us know at alumni@eastwestcenter.org.
About Us
More than 55,000 men and women have been EWC participants in its 49-year history, and many have joined the 48 established EWCA chapters in 22 countries.
The East-West Center Association, the Center's official alumni organization, works with alumni to strengthen the EWC network. We hope that you'll keep in touch with us.
First drawing for Amazon gift certificates approaching!
Update your email address and be a winner!
We have already received over 100 updates for our current promotion to enter to win free airfare! If you update your name and contact information with the EWCA office by December 31, 2009, your name will be entered in a Grand Prize Drawing awarding one free round trip airline ticket to Honolulu in 2010 to attend our conference (valued at up to $1,750) or 3 second prize awards for free 2010 Conference registration. We are also offering Monthly Drawings giving away $50 gift certificates
to Amazon.com. To enter, all you need to do is update your email contact information! There is still time to make it for the first drawing for three Amazon.com gift certificates, to be held on August 3, 2009.
Announcing the Winner of Free Registration to the 2010 Golden Jubilee Conference
The Associates Office launched its first promotion which ended June 30, 2009 to update alumni contact information for a chance to win EWCA Memorabilia and a grand prize of free registration to the Golden Jubilee Conference. Congratulations to the following winners!
Patience Korkor Cofie (Rsch '02), Free Registration to 2010 Golden Jubillee Conference
Gloria Merbitz Golec (ASDP '00), East-West Center memorabilia
Nadeem Ikram (OG '83-'85), East-West Center memorabilia
Ana Marie Tiuseco Pamintuan (Media '01), East-West Center memorabilia
Laila Rahman (GDF '07-'09), East-West Center memorabilia
Steve Wilhelm (EWSem '08), East-West Center memorabilia
United States-South Pacific Scholarship Program Alumni Workshop
The United States-South Pacific Scholarship Program (USSP) held an alumni workshop, "Leadership and Social Networking: Strengthening the Ties that Bind Our Pacific Islands Community" in Honolulu, Hawaii from June 22 - 26, 2009. Twenty-two alumni from the Cook Islands, Fiji, Kiribati, Papua New Guinea, Samoa and the Solomon Islands spent five days attending team building and leadership workshops, learning about and participating in cultural activities, and attending forums led by East-West Center fellows and University of Hawaii faculty.
One highlight of the week-long program was an evening sail on the Hokule‘a, during which the participants learned about the ancient art of wayfinding, the traditional form of navigation that brought populations to previously uninhabited islands across the Pacific.
To learn more about the United States-South Pacific Scholarship Program please click here.
EWC alumni in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, gathered on June 2, 2009 on the occasion of a visit by William Feltz, EWC Arts Coordinator (seated second from left). Together they met with Vice Governor Muhammad Nazar (seated third from left), seeking his support for increased educational exchange between Aceh and Hawaii.
The Chicago and Mid-West Chapter met at the College of Lake County for an Aikido demonstration by EWCA alumnus Charles Tseng (ISI '61-'63 et al) and his Aikido class on July 11, 2009. This group photo was taken in front of the shrine to the creator of Aikido.
From left to right in the photo: Usha Neupane, Pam Drymiller, Neel Chapagain, Lita Biejo (Pam's cousin), Jinn Tseng, Charles Tseng, Jerry Ostermann, Alex Ostermann (grandson), Tsue Ostermann, Zach Ostermann (grandson), David Drymiller.
A special thank you to everyone who voted on last month's question of the month! Check out this month's question below or on the EWCA Discussion Board. Be sure to look for the results in next month's e-newsletter!
Last month's question:
Will you join the East-West Center Alumni and Community group on LinkedIn?
I'm already part of the group - 40%
I will join as soon as possible - 33%
Maybe, thinking about it - 7%
No - I'm just not into online social networking - 20%
The Alumni e-News is a supplement to the EWC Associates Update newsletter and is produced by the Center for Cultural and Technical interchange between East and West, Inc. View Alumni eNews archives.
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