Summary of " informal " meeting on 7/14/2012

Dear All,

Summer greeting !. I hope this e-mail finds everybody well and healthy.

My wife and I just returned from Vienna Hakka Convention and sightseeing trip couple days ago. The European Hakka group held  a very good convention but it only lasted for a day. Then we had an evening show as usual and then Sunday Vienna City tour followed by one whole week of sight seeing. We choose Group B tour to visit Austria and Hungary. It is a very beautiful countries along the Danube River

filled with culture and art. We also enjoyed one Spring bath ( Onsen in Japanese ) in Mid of Hungary, a place called Sarvar. It was a plus for the trip.

HAPA-NA did hold a short late evening meeting on July 14th. Because only 10 members were there it was not a formal meeting. ( I will keep it for record only)

Summary of " informal " meeting


Date : July 14th 2012   at 10 PM

Attendents : Ed Lin, Wm Wei, Susanna Wei, Abe Chen, James Liang, Frank Hsu, Linda Yau, Franklin Lee, Albert Tsai , Chanchi Lee

President's report ( since previous meeting on August 5th 2011 in Houston )

1. FAPA financial report. Please see attachment #1

2. HAPA-NA held board election in Dec 2011.  James Liang, Mike Kwan, Ed Lin were the newly elected board member to service in year 2011 and 2012.
 The other 4 board members' ( Charles Chung, B-Chan Wen, Shien-Sen Perng, Agnes Wu ) and president and vice-president's term will be due by the end of this year and we will elect the official slots again by the end of this year, preferably by end of Nov.

3. On Jan 10th to 13th, HAPA-NA took up the responsibility of doing Tao-Chu-Miao 3 county Bus Tour Campaign before the Taiwan presidential and Legislator election. The activity was meaningful but the  DPP election result in this 3 counties was disaster. Many thanks for members' participation.

4.On Feb 5th, HAPA-NA joined the other 11 Taiwanese American Organizations wrote an open letter to president Obama to protest about US interference of Taiwan Election. See Attach #2.

5.On March 1st, HAPA-NA donated $ 500 dollars to Rutgers University Taiwan Study Association's Fundraising to show the movie " Hand-in-Hand " ( The story of Dr. Tien and His Wife's life long struggle for Taiwan Freedom against  KMT's oppression ) in the colleges and communities in Taiwan. This is very good way to educate Taiwan student and populace for Freedom,Democracy and Taiwan Identity.

6. On June 20, HAPA-NA donated $ 1,000 dollars to support Taiwan Hakka Culture Award. This is our yearly contribution to promote Hakka Culture event for many years.

There were no other discussion and meeting adjourned at 10:35 PM.

If you have any question about the meeting or the activity since last year please write to me in e-mail. Thank you.

Have a nice Summer.

Chanchi Lee,
President, HAPA-NA