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Judy & Tony
WBTI & CAAAN
6:00 p.m. 09/11/2001

City of Las Vegas and Thai Cultural Arts Association of Las Vegas (TCAALV) will present Thai Performing Arts - Appreciation Day 2001 at Charleston Height Arts Center on September 13, 2001. It will be co-sponsored by Kids For a Better Society (KBS), Washington Business and Technology Institute (WBTI), Chinese American Academic Association of Nevada (CAAAN), among others. Dr. Tony T. Lei, President of WBTI and Chairman of CAAAN and Mrs. Judy K. Lei request the honor of your presence at the Event and Dinner Party in the Charleston Height Arts Center, Las Vegas, Nevada. The Party will start from 6:30 p.m. to about 11:30 p.m. on the coming Thurday. Please RSVP to (702)255-9058 or (702)369-5439 or E-mail: tojulei@yahoo.com. Seating is limited. Confirmation required for seating. For all the advisory, director, and faculty members of WBTI, CAAAN, South Shores Community Association, CAN-DO, Asian Chamber of Commerce, Las Vegas Review-Joural, Nevada Examiner, Southern Nevada Chinese Weekly, and Southwest Hispanic, please call Judy Lei at 255-9058 on or before 12 noon, Saturday, September 8, 2001. Invitation tickets are for you. Door prizes from Thailand will be offered.
Sapatra Chemprachum is the Chair/President of TCAALV. On August 26, 2001, she called Mrs. Judy Lei that Mr. Bobby Siller would like to have invitation card from Dr. Tony Lei. Bobby is the former Special Agent in Charge - FBI. He is a Member of the Nevada Gaming Control Board . Meanwhile, Bobby feels honor to be in Dr. Lei's guest group for Event and Dinner parties. On August 30, WBTI was pleased to fax the invitation card to Mr. Siller for Tony.
"Please accept my best wishes as you come together in celebration of the Thai Performaing Arts , Appreciation Day 2000," wrote U. S. Senator John Ensign to the public on September 7, 2000. "The importance of sharing culture through art and festivities that bring people together serves to enhance all of us more by enriching our lives with the diversity of people and their customs. I especially would ike to extend my appreciation to Dr. Tony T. Lei for his commitment and enthusiatic support of the Thai Performing Arts," continued our outstanding Member of the Senate in Washington, D. C. Honorable John Ensign.

Asian American communitiy had been united together to hold an event and dinner party successfully to honor U. S. Senator Harry Reid. More than 384 against the 250 planned individuals of government officials, business owners and executives, organizational leaders among others attended the party at the Asia Palace Chinese Restaurant on August 24, 2001. Kenote Speaker was U.S. Senator Harry Reid. Guests of Honor presented were: U. S. Senator John Ensign (by Sonia Joya), U. S. Congresswoman Shelley Berkley, U. S. Congressman Jim Gibbons (by Judith Ray),
and Nevada Attorney General Frankie Sue Del Papa.
U. S. Congresswoman Shelley Berkley introduced Senator Harry Reid to the public with his successfully story to be the greatest political leader of Nevada arsing from the son of an ordinary family of mining worker. The first time as an honorable Master of Ceremony for Asian American community, Shelley' attractiveness and talent are really professional. She has been famous of her arts of leading on social activities since her college life. "On behalf of Washington Business and Technology Institute, I'm glad to be one of the Chairmen of this Event and Dinner Party for a Special Tribute to U.S. Senator Harry Reid. Following a successful tribute party to Nevada Supreme Court Justice Nancy Becker, this Event is an united efforts of all our Asian American community. Thanks to Dr. Raj Chanderraz, Dr. R. D. Prabha, Dr. Ram Singh, Mr. Tonie Sison, and Ms. Rita Vaswani to join me as Chairpersons. Thanks to all our guests of honor, special guests, hosts, guests, and participants. Thanks to Dr. Peter Lok as our wonderful Coordinator and Ms. Nancy Diaz to initiate the plan of this event with me. Finnally, we, Asian Americans have put all our effort and wisdom together to have this Special Tribute to our U. S. Senator Harry Reid, because Harry is our great hero to build a community where this and future generations will have more opportunities and advantages to live a prosperous life," spoke Dr. Tony Lei, the Chairman of the event and dinner party.
According to the prepared introduction by Congresswoman Berkley to the Party, "Dr. Tony Lei is the President of Washington Business and Technology Institute (WBTI) and Chairman of Chinese American Academic Association of Nevada. He received his M.B.A. and Doctor of Education in Institutional Management degrees from Pepperdine University in 1969 and 1980, respectively. He had been an Associate Professor and a Fellow of Management of the Graduate School of Business Administration of National Chung Hsing University and Pepperdine University from 1985 to 1991 and 1991 to 1996, respectively. He has completed numerou scientific papers, text books, best selling books, and research projects during past 30 years in universities and academic institutes. His famous publications Modern Business Management, Information Management, Human Behavior Science, The Arts of Leading, among others have been adopted by several universities as text books."
The highlight of the event was the presentation of a plague of Award of accomplishment to Senator Harry Reid by the Chairmen of the event and dinner party. Fowllowing to sing a happy birthday song for Governor Kenny Guinn and Judge Jessie Walsh, Dr. Lei introduced a former State Senator Mark Malone presenting an Award to Senator Harry Reid from the State Board of Educaton of its elected Member Theresa Malone.
Special Guests presented at the event and party were: Elected Officials of Kathy Augustine ( by Candy Bowser), Merle Berman, Barbara Buckley, Burt Brown, Terry Care, Barbara Cegavske, Michael Cherry, Vonne Chowing, Mark Denton, Michael Douglas, Allan Earl, Robert Gronauer, Cedric Kerns, John Lee, Myron Leavitt, Michelle Leavitt-Fitzpatrick, Robert Lueck, James Mahan, Theresa Malone (by Mark Malone), Mark Manendo, William Maupin (by Cathy Nelson), Cheryl Moss, Denis Nolan, Judith Ray, Gary Reese (by Loretta Arrington), Cynthia Steel, Dina Titus, Natalie Tyrrell, Valorie Vega, Jessie Walsh, Myrna Williams, and Ann Zimmerman; Government Officials of Radha Chanderraj, Michael Davidson, Nancy Diaz, Nadia Jurani, Sonia Joya, Dr. Donald Kwalick, Jerry Reynoldson, Bobby Siller, Charles Thompson, Sheri Vogel; and Guests of Nadia Contreras, Karen Foster, Miguel Isassi, Anthony Lu, John Ponticello, John Smith, Barbara Robinson, David Teis, among others.
Besides the six chairpersons, hosts of the dinner party were: Mildred Arquero, Dr. Raj Chanderraj, Albert Chang, Supatra Chemprachum, Dr. Andres Costas, Dolly DeLeon, Leonie Domingo, A.J. Dudekar, Cathy Endy, Steve Escalona, Larry Espinueva, Pia Galapon, Dr. Sonny Ho, Nadia Jurani, Drs. Nilofar Kuraishi and Shaheed Siddiqui, Steven Kwon, Dr. Tony Lei, Jose Lim, Anthony Lu, Ann Melton, Zenny Mendoza, Lillian Morizono, Peter Nguyen, Dr. R. D. Prabhu, Kate Recto, George Regner, Dr. Francisco Sanchez, Dr. Ram Singh, Richard Segerblom, Nick and Laxmi Singh, Tonie Sison, Rita Vaswani, Joey Villaflor, and Roddy Wong.
Senator and Majority Whip of the U. S. Senate Honorable Harry Reid smilled most of the time during the Party. Many of the partcipants in the Party had felt suprisingly Harry's friendship and popularity with his sociality. Harry and his wife Landra were the last two people after the accomplishment of the pleasent and successful party to leave sending by Dr. and Mrs. Tony Lei.

*Please use my picture that you used on
August 3rd, 2001 which has my hair more
straight. Thank you very much.

Attorney General Frankie Sue Del Papa confirmed with Dr. Tony Lei that she would attend the Event and Dinner Party for a special tribute to U. S. Senator Harry Reid. It will be held at the Asia Palace Chinese Restaurant at 6:00 - 9:30 on August 24, 2001. Raj Channderaj, MD, Dr. Tony Lei, R. D. Prabha, MD, and Rita Vaswani are the Chairpersons. The Dinner Party is organized by Dr. Peter Lok, the Chairman of the Coordinating Committee of Washington Business and Technology Institute (WBTI).
Attorney General Ms. Del Papa is a native Nevadan. She received her bechelor of arts degree in political science from the oUniversity of Nevada, Reno in 1971 and received her law degree (J.D.) from the National Law Center of George Washington University in 1974. She practice law for 12 yeqrs and was also elected to the University of Nevada Board of Regents, Where she served from 1980 to 1986. In January 1987, She was sworn in as Nevada Secretay of State, the first woman to hold this office.
With very good personal traits and apperance, Ms. Del Papa is excellent both in production and human relations for her work performance as a famous public service leader. She was nominated by Dr. Lei for the honor as a Fellow of the Public Administration Institute of WBTI on August 7, 2001. She chaired the Nevada Domestic and Family Violence Prevention Council. She has been a leader of many association and committees. On March 6, 1997, a joint project was released by Attorney General Del Papa and Nevada's Division for Aging Services Chief of Elder Rights, Ms. Betsy Kolkoski, with a goal to help identify and prevent elder abuse. The Plan entitled "Elder Abuse: An Action Plan to Better Protect Nevada's Elderly." The first woman elected to the Office of Attorney General in Nevada, Attorney General Del Papa is now in her third term.
Majority Whip of U.S. Snate Harry Reid wrotw Dr. and Mrs. Tony Lei
on January 11, 2001 from his office in Washington, D. C. that the holiday season is a time for remmembering the good things that have happened during the year, for reflecting on the many blessings of our lives, and for renewing the bonds of love and freindship that make ourlives special. The famous and powerful political leader from Nevada continued his literary and intimate writing about his family with lots of granchildren