On Last Friday May 25, Nancy Diaz, Repesentative for U. S. Senator Harry Reid confimed with Dr. Tony Lei, President of Washington Business and Technology Institute (WBTI) that the Senator's office has agreed with WBTI to hold a grand celebrating party in August for Harry. The party will be hold under the unifying by WBTI with CAN-DO, ACC, among others. Special guests will include VIP from Nevadan high ranking officials, scholars and experts, business owners, and organizational leaders, with WBTI's faculty and members of Advisory Board as their basic resources. The decision has been made after Diaz's trip to the Senator's Office in Washington D. C. and the outstanding and successful practice of the event for the Justice of the Supreme Court Nancy Becker by WBTI on May 23, 2001. The theme and function of the coming August event for our Senator is A Special Tribute to U. S. Senator Honorable Harry Reid in Becoming the Majority Whip of U.S. Senate. The Keynote Speaker is U. S. Senator Harry Reid. Guests of Honor in scheduling are U. S. Senator John Ensign, Congresswoman Shelley Berkley, Nevada Attorney General Frankie Sue Del Papa, and Las Vegas City Mayor Oscar Goodman.
Special Guests already scheduled include: Dr. Roy Adamson, Nancy Becker, Lisa Brown, Terry Care, Radha Chanderraj, Dr. Sue Fawn Chung, Mark Denton, Michelle Leavitt-Fitzpatrick, Robert Gronauer, Nadia Jurani, Jerry Keller, Erin Kenny, Mary Kincaid, Betsy Kolkoski, Myron Leavitt, A. William Maupin, Lynette McDonald, Cheryl Moss, Cynthia Steel, Dr. William Thompson, Natalie Tyrrell, Valorie Vega, Lillian Wallace, Jessie Walsh, Myrna Williams, Dr. Linda Young, Ann Zimmerman, among others.
Chairpersons in contacted are Raj Chanderraj, M.D., Supatra Chemprachum, James Chen, James Cho, Kay and Bashir Chowdhry, Romeo Jurani, Vivienne Kerns, Steve Kwon, David Lee, Ph.D., Tony Lei, Ed.D., Art Macaraeg, Ann Melton, Long Pham, R. D. Prabhu, M.D., Kate Torres-Recto, Judi Rock, Tonie Sison, Frank Tsou, Joey Villaflor, M.D., Rita Vaswani, Roddy Wong, M.D., Tim Wong, James Yu, among others. Hosts are welcomed and to be announced. If you are interested to be a chair- person or host for this event, please call Dr. Peter Lok at 732-0178 before June 30th.
The landslide victory of the Event held by WBTI for Justice Nancy Becker is a significant accomplishment of our Asian American community in Nevada. We had so many high ranking officials from the political and judicial area of Nevada together with the participating characters from the offices of our four representatitives of Nevada for the Washington Scene: Harry Reid, John Ensign, James Gibbons, and Shelley Berkley. The Guest of Honor was Grant Ashley, Special Agent in Charge, FBI. The Presentation Guest was Bud Granor, Southern Nevada Director for Governor Kenny Guinn. Special guests included all the list of the previous second paragraphy ( where Lillian Wallace was not shown), plus Bert Brown, Michael Cherry, Michael Douglas, Nadia Juradi, Nancy Saitta, Jennifer Togliatti, among others.
Dr. Lei, the main found raiser of this dinner party and chairman of the Event spoke to thank Nancy Becker for agreeing with him to hold the event by WBTI three months ago. He thanked also Dr. Peter Lok's diligent and effective work performance for this party. Dr. Lok received an award from Nancy duirng the party. Finanlly, Dr. Lei thanked heartily all the special guests, hosts, participating guests, and a host of friends in the party and event. After announcing the name list of the Faculty of Public Administra- tion Institution of WBTI, he introduced Nancy Becker and invited her to deliver a speech. Nancy performed a marvelous speech with good apperance and achieved content.
Cranor was introduced by Dr. Villaflor to speak. The Director for our Governor praised the accomplishment of community service by Dr. Lei and all our Asian Americans in Nevada. The highlight of this event is the presentation by Cranor of the Speicial Award of Outstanding Community Involvement to Dr. Lei by Governor Kenny Guinn. Thunder of applause in the great hall of Harbor Palace Seafood Restaurant with more than one hundred fifty of attendants from government, business, academic, and professional expertises brought an enjoyable and pleasent reunion as long as three hours for most of the people who were hesitated to say farewell.
Harry loves heartily our country, our people, and our community. He wishes us to enjoy working together. United we stand, devided we fall. Together we can GROW (Go Reach Our World). Knowledge calls, ultimately, for a life of service. We are happy to continue to work for the prosperity and healthy of our society more effectively through mutual coorperation and trust.