Committee of 100 Newsletter

PRESS RELEASE: APALC MOURNS PASSING OF COMMUNITY LEADER EDWIN KWOH

PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE  DISTRIBUTION May 31, 2011

APALC MOURNS PASSING OF COMMUNITY LEADER EDWIN KWOH

 

LOS ANGELES - Edwin Kwoh, a self-made businessman with a long history of involvement and service to the community of Los Angeles, passed away on Monday, May 30. He was 95.   Edwin Kwoh was married to actress Beulah Kwoh (stage name Beulah Quo) who passed away in 2002. He is survived by son Stewart Kwoh, the executive director of the Asian Pacific American Legal Center; daughter Mary Ellen Shu; daughter-in-law Pat Lee Kwoh; son-in-law Jack Shu; and five grandchildren, Steven and Nathan Kwoh, and Christina, Teddy and Julia Shu.   Edwin Kwoh was a long-time supporter of APALC, as a member of the Executive Advisory Council.

In Beijing, 300 Attend C-100 Leadership Scholarship Symposium, 38 Students Win Scholarships

The eminent Tsinghua University, as part of its centenary this year, co-hosted the 2011 Leadership Scholarship Symposium and Awards Dinner on April 25 in Beijing. A number of Committee of 100 members also took part in Tsinghua’s 100^th anniversary celebration at the Great Hall of the People.

2011 LSP and LSP (Art) scholarship recipients with C-100 members [middle row].

THE COMMITTEE OF 100 MOURNS THE PASSING OF Member Matt Fong

An exemplary Chinese American who dedicated his life to making a difference through public service and a member of the Committee of 100 since 1997, former California State Treasurer Matt Fong died on June 1 at his home in Pasadena. The cause was cancer. Undaunted by his illness, two weeks before his death, Fong gave a commencement speech for his alma mater, Southwestern School of Law, and received “thunderous applause” for his spirited words: “As fellow Southwestern graduates, we are survivors. Your future will be diverse and difficult but you will survive! Now, don’t forget to come back and give.”

Matt Fong and Dominic Ng at the 2006 Annual Conference.

C-100 Chairman Dominic Ng visited Fong and his family a few days before his death and found him “in good spirits and very much at peace with nature.” Fong was a C-100 Director for many years and also co-chaired the Membership Committee, which recruits new members. Ng recalled that not only did Fong bring him into C-100 more than a decade ago, but soon persuaded Ng to take over as Membership Co-Chair. “I am very much saddened that he left this world and his beautiful family at such a young age. He was a giant in our community and contributed tremendously to our society.”

Committee of 100 Greater China Conference, Hong Kong December 4-5

 
The Committee’s Fourth Greater China Conference will be held in Hong Kong this December and feature roundtables and topics mirroring the 20^th Annual Conference in New York City. Highlighted will be Hong Kong and Southern China perspectives on U.S.-China relations. Greater China Conference Co-chairs are Ronnie Chan, Tony Chan, Victor Fung, and Ya-qin Zhang.

Ronnie Chan	Tony Chan	Victor Fung	Ya-qin Zhang

The conference on December 5 will be preceded by a gala evening on December 4.

For more information, go to http://www.committee100.org/

C-100 Members on the Lecture Circuit—Linda Tsao Yang, Sir Gordon Wu Distinguished Speaker Forum, Columbia University

Linda Tsao Yang and Lulu C. Wang

More than fifty years after she earned a degree in economics from Columbia University as the only female and minority in her class, made up mostly of World War II veterans, Linda Tsao Yang ’48, returned on May 10 to address the Sir Gordon Wu Distinguished Speaker Forum at Columbia Business School’s Jerome A. Chazen Institute of International Business. Her talk on “Effective Leadership in a Multicultural Work Environment” distilled lessons learned from a distinguished and diverse career in challenging cultural and political management environments.