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By Mark Denton, Jessie Walsh, Cheryl Moss, and Tiffany Chang
***** "Every memorable act in the history of the world is a triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever achieved without it because it gives any challenge or any occupation, no matter how frightening or difficult, a new meaning. Without enthusiasm you are doomed to a life of mediocrity but with it you can accomplish miracles." ---Og Mandino (1923-1996, Speaker and Author)
One of the main three missions of Washington Business and Technology Institute (WBTI) is community service. To participate, initiate, and help promote significant programs have been some of our efforts. The following article was just one of the examples to state that Asians united means Asians power:
Asian American Community Honors U. S. Senator Honorable Harry Reid
By Tiffany Chang
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.*1
The 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.*2
The 2nd Edition of "Effort and cooperation will bring us a peaceful, happy, and prosperous community in Nevada" by Rory Reid, Mark Denton, and Tiffany Chang, which was posted by WBTI on September 20, 2003, stated the effort and cooperation between officials and Asian communities in Nevada.
"Our endeavor is to help Southern Nevada be a country of the people, by the people, and for the people where our and our future generations may have a better opportunity to live a happy and succeeful life," said Rory Reid, Clark County Commissioner, at the Event and Dinner Party at the Zax Restaurant of Golden Nugget Casino and Hotel on September 17, 2003 in Las Vegas.
To pay a special tribute to Nevada Chief Justice of Supreme Court Bill Maupin; Commissioner of Clark County Rory Reid; Sherif of Southern Nevada Bill Young; District Judges Mark Denton, Valorie Vega, Jessie Walsh, Jackie Glass; Nevada Controller (the late) Kathy Augustine; and Chief Judge of Las Vegas Toy Gregory; the above Event and Party was held by WBTI. The Theme was: Light Candles along the Silver Stream of Southern Nevada with Clark County District Attorney and Police Civil Commission.*3
"It's my great pleasure to be nominated by WBTI as its Honorary Chairman and Senior Advisor of CCDAPCC," said District Attorney Stewart Bell at the Dinner Party to "Nevada Examiner" and "Las Vegas Review-Journal". "The significance of the creed of a County deserves to encourage administrative professionals to emphasize the value of the truth, goodness, and beauty in order to maintain it as a place of the people, by the people, and for the people. It's my honor to join the Commission." The Dinner Party was held by WBTI to celebrate Bell as Honorary Chairman and Senior Advisor of CCDAPCC at the Steak House of Binion's Horseshoe Club on October 7, 2002.*4
"I'm glad to be an Advisor of Pan Pacific and Asian American Forum, where Governor Kenny Guinn is Chairman and Bud Cranor is Executive Director. We all endeavor to promote the quality of life of all our Nevadan residents and visitors," said Brian Sandoval on March 8, 2002 at the Event and Dinner Party held by the Asian American Community.
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