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Natalie Tyrrell's foreshghtness of being an Associate Fellowof WBTI
By Tiffany Chang
Ms. Natalie Tyrrell was appointed by Washington Business and Technology Institute (WBTI) as Associate Fellow of Public Administration Institution (PAI) on June 1, 2000.
Natalie received her Juris Doctor degree from theUniversi- ty of Minnesota Law School, Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1989 with an honor of the Dean's List. In 1986, she received her B.A. Magna Cum Laude with a major of Political Science and a minor of Spanish from the Mankato State University, Mankato, Minnesota, where she was student body president her senior year.
Natalie has been Staff Attorney of the Senior Citizens Law Project of the city of Las Vegas since February 1992. She was with the Clark County District Attorney from November 1990 through October 1991. She was a Broker licensed in Securities and Insurance at the Tyrrell financial Services (TFS) from June 1986 through July 1989. She was admitted to the United States Supreme Court on March 1995, to U.S. District Court (District of Nevada) in November 1992, and to Nevada Supreme Court in October 1991. She is a member of American Bar Association, State Bar of Nevada, and Clark County Bar Association.
With honors on the list of Who's Who Among Rising Young Americans, 2000 Notable American Women, The World Who's Who of Women, etc., Natalie's community involvement include : (1) North Las Vegas (NLV) Chamber of Commerce Member and Voluntary Counsel for the Board. (2) NLV police Department Citizens Police Academy - Ninth Class. (3) NLV Library District - Friends of the Library Attorney Board Member. She believes that her knowledge, skills, and commitment to this society, as evidenced by her community service and judicial experience, have prepared her to best serve our citizens.
"It is really an honor for me to be appointed by WBTI as an Associate Fellow of PAI. I look forward working with our famous Fellows such as Dr. Roy Adamson from Pepperdine University, Justice of the Supreme Court Nancy Becker, District Judge Valorie Vega under the leadership of our Director and Fellow Dr. William Thompson of PAI and President Dr. Tony Lei of WBTI," said Attorney Tyrrell. "WBTI has built a sound foundation with its excellent and achieved faculty members. We have been encouraged to better our endeavor for we have Dr. Kenny Guinn, Governor of Nevada as our Chairman of the Advisory Board, U.S. Senator Harry Reid as Vice Chairman of the Board, and U.S. Congresswoman Shelley Berkley as the Executive Advisor."
"Even with the constancy of his presidential responsibili- ties, Tony carved out time and energy during the past three years with wisdom and knowledge through the cooperation of Dr. William Thompson to create the blueprint for the institution that ultimatelypavedtheway for the 2000 openingofourPublic Admini-
strationInstitution," said Justice of theSupremeCourt Nancy Becker.
"The Institution's activities and reputation already have earned local and national applause and attention," said Deputy Attorney General of Nevada Ann Zimmerman. "It was Tony and Dr. Thompson who conceptualized its mission as an outreach network to the wider public administration community, and we look forward to establishing this lasting and advancing accomplishment to their foresight and leadership."
"PAI is exploring such themes as computer and quantitative analysis for administration, seniors power by voting, economic renewal, educational technology, elder abuse, social security and Medicare, and the important relationship between faith and public policy," Dr. Lei noted. "We have worked to provide a setting of ideas in which the principles and perspective of the program come into contact with leading issues of the day in order to improve the quality of life of all our Nevadans."
Elder Law Attorney Natalie Tyrrell was very happy during the dinner party that she was invited by Dr. and Mrs. Tony Lei at the Center Stage Restaurant of Plaza Hotel in celebration of her appointment by WBTI as an Associate Fellow of PAI (6/01) and her birthday (6/20) on June 12, 2000.
On the first table of the Center Stage, Natalie was cleaver, judgmatic, pleased, and thankful. Just like last time for Justice of the Supreme Court Nancy Becker, the waiters formed a large team with canddled cake and joined President and Mrs. Tony Lei in singing happy birthday song for their new faculty member Attorney Tyrrell. Once again like last time for Justice Becker, thunders of applause brought a climax of the evening at the sky room of Center Stage Restaurant.
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WBTI encourages a life of service By Tiffany Chang
Public Administration Institution (PAI) of Washington Business and Technology Institute (WBTI) was established on January 18, 2000 based on the following reasons: (1) To upgrade the quality of the public services through academic research and experiental practice. (2) To promote the knowledge, technical application, and science of the executive public administration. (3) To upgrade the talents and skills for the Nevadan public administration practicians on the background with modern management and educational technology. "Even with the constancy of his presidential responsibilities, Dr. Tony Lei carved out time and energy during the past three years with wisdom and knowledge through the cooperation of Dr. William Thompson to create the blueprint for the institution that ultimately paved the way for the 2000 opening of our PAI," said Jusitce of the Supreme Court Nancy Becker.
The first Director of PAI, Dr. William Thompson, who is the chair and professor of the Department of Public Administration of UNLV, has numerous academic publications with excellent teaching and administrative qualifications. His leadership in this Institution since January 18, 2000 has been applauded by both the political and educational professionals. On March 3, 2000, Emeritus Professor Dr. Roy Adamson of the famous Pepperdine University in California joined the Institution as a Fellow. His experiences as a superintendent in Southern California and an Associate Dean of USC and CSU have been a good background for him to merge for an orientation with both of academic research and executive administration for PAI. Justice of the Supreme Court Nancy Becker has also felt the honor to be a Fellow of PAI since her appointment by WBTI on May 2, 2000. With Juris Doctor degree from George Washington University National Law Center, she was an outstanding District Judge for ten years. She received numerous awardsfor her accomplishment and social service. Herexcellent ex-pertise and professional integrity have added a valuableasset to PAI.
"It is indeed an honor for me to become a Fellow of PAI. This position will undoubtedly provide me with new avenues for exploring improvements in public services to which I am most dedicated. I look forward to working together with Dr. Lei in these endeavors," said District Judge Valorie Vega.
The value of an academic institute should also put an eye on community service aside from its academic research. Take only one example, for the positive effort of the research and promotion of the seniors benefit, the Institute has done sizable works and received valuable results. Associate Fellow of WBTI, Elder Rights Attorney Besty Kolkoski of the Nevada Division for Aging Services (NDAS), with Juris Doctor degree of University of Cincinnati College of Law held the Forth Anniversary Meeting of the Nevada Elder Abuse Prevention Council (NEAPC) as Co-Chairpersons with Nevada Attorney General Frankie Sue Del Papa. She did a research paper on elder abuse prevention through quantitative methodology. Both of them have received a fruitful consequence on the prevention of elder abuse with their cooperation of the NDAS and the Office of the Nevada Attorney General. Associate Fellow Sheri Vogel of PAI, a Juris Doctor degree holder of Detroit College of Law, Detroit, Michigan, has been the Project Administrator of the City of Las Vegas Senior Citizens Law Project since 1986. Sheri has obligatory assisted to and solved the concrete benefits and difficulties of seniors for many thousand cases. Her effort to help Las Vegas Seniors has won a lot of applauses. The President of WBTI, Dr. Tony Lei, has been a member of the Las Vegas Senior Citizens' Advisory Board and now also a member of the Seniors Advisory Committee of the Congresswoman Shelley Berkley . The Institute President Dr. Lei, elected as Executive Vice President of Seniors United recently, has been supported both by the educational and political sectors to get advance in leading the research and promotion of the seniors benefit, social security, and Medicare.
"WBTI is a very well respected and integral part of this community. To be an Associate Fellow of PAI is a very prestigious honor for me. I am also grateful to be joining such a distinguished panel of professionals who are committed to improving the lives of our citizens in this community," said Deputy Attorney General of Nevada Ann Zimmerman.
By the leadership of the Chairman of Board of Chinese American Academic Association of Nevada Dr. Tony T. Lei with a group of achieved scholars, WBTI has been founded since January 8, 1996. Dr. Kenny Guinn, Governor of Nevada is Chairman of the Advisory Board; and U. S. Senator Honorable Harry Reid is Vice Chairman of the Board. U. S. Congresswoman Honorable Shelley Berkley is its Executive Advisor.
The anniversary great "$5 dinner" to invite all the people in dinning with one of the highest government officials, has been held by the Paradise Democratic Club very successfully for many years. This year it was held on March 16 at the Culinary Training Center of Days Inn Motel. The Honorable guest speaker was U.S. Senator Harry Reid. The Center was filled with many hundred of government officials, scholars and experts, and business owners and executives. A famous professor Dr. Tony Lei was introduced as the Executive Vice President of Seniors United among the first several characters with a great deal of applauses from the participants. Senator Reid delivered a significant speech. He loves the people and country very much. His bright leadership full with practical knowledge and diligent efforts. The senior U.S. Senator of Nevada won the third times to the Senate in 1998. He was unanimously elected by his Democratic colleagues to serve as the Assistant Minority Leader. He is now the Vice-Chairman of the Senate Ethics Committee. Senator Reid has achieved many years accomplishments to improve the quality of life of all Nevadans and help people realize the American dream. The Dinner Party was successfully completed under pleasant and fruitful atmophere. Professional photographers were arranged to take pictures for Senator Reid and important presenters including Dr. and Mrs. Lei.
In this 21st Century new era and society, we need economic growth, but we also need the establishing and promoting of rich creativity, fairness and justice, service and love, educational knowledge, and spirit engineering. The paralleled practice of both the positive thinking and love in action, through the skills with personal traits such as optimism, enthusiasm, belief, intelligence, creativity, judgment, liveliness, vision, courage, desire to excel, and persistence, will be able tohelppeople pur-suinga more rich, happier, and successful live. Therefore, Dr. Lei
believes that: knowledge, ultimately, calls for a life of service.
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District Judge Valorie Vega enjoys the honor to be a Fellow of WBTI
By Tiffany Chang

This is to complete the feature article entitled "WBTI Fellow Valorie Vega wins election and keeps the title of District Judge" of last week. The columnist received an artistic photo of Judge Vega at the large size sent by her. It is our pleasure to publish the photo also together with this continuity.
District Judge Vega was honored with the 1992 "Women of Achievement Award" from the Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce and recognized by the Latin Chamber of Commerce as the "Hispanic of the Year" in 1995. She is a holder of Juris Doctorate degree from the University of Southern California's Law Center. She received Bachelor of Arts degree from CSU Northridge. She got a graduate studies certificate in Interpretation/Translation from UC Santa Barbara. On May 3, 2000, Judge Valorie J. Vega was appointed by WBTI Fellow of PAI.
Judge Vega was very happy that she and her husband were invited by Dr. and Mrs. Tony Lei for a dinner party at the Center Stage Restaurant of Plaza Hotel in celebration of her victory on election as a District Judge (5/15) and appointment as a Fellow of WBTI (5/03) on June 1, 2000. The Faculty of WBTI joined Pre-sident Dr. Lei to welcome her being one of their fellows at PAI.
"We are convinced that District Judge Valorie Vega is good equipped to be a Fellow of this Institute with her outstanding professional expertise and practical public administration achieved experience as one more faculty member insupporting Director Dr. William Thompson to lead PAI into the next millennium with academic excellence and administrative practicality," said Dr. Tony Lei, President of WBTI.
"Thank you very much for showing your faith in me as evidenced by your nomination. It is indeed an honor for me to be nominated by you and to become a Fellow of Public Administration (Institute) Institution of the Washington Business and Technology Institute. This position will undoubtedly provide me with new avenues for exploring improvements in public services to which I am most dedicated. I look forward to working together with you in these endeavors. Warm personal regards to you and your lovely wife," wrote the District Judge Valorie Vega to WBTI President Dr. Tony Lei from her Office of the Eighth Judicial District Court at the Clark County Courthouse on May 22, 2000.
During the celebration dinner in the evening of June 1 at the Center Stage, Judge Vega was noble and bright. She was fill-ed with happiness and desire to excel. She enjoyed to have the opportunity in joining the efforts both of academic research and judicial practice to improve the quality of life for all our Nevadans.

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WBTI Fellow Valorie Vega wins election to keepas a District Judge
By Tiffany Chang

Filing for political office in Nevada closed May 15, 2000. Incumbent District Judge Valorie Vega got no opponent and won the election. Appointed by Governor Kenny Guinn, she has been a DistrictJudgesince February 21, 1999. She wasappointedto Mu-nicipalCourt in 1989 and was retained and reelectedby the voters.
Valorie is a Board Member of the Consumer Credit Counseling Services of Southern Nevada and the Latin Chamber of Commerce. She is a member of the American Judges Association, the Nevada District Court Judges Association, the National Association of Women Judges, the Southern Nevada Association of Women Attorneys, the Clark County Bar Association, the Latino Bar Association, Hispanics in Politics, and the National Association of Latino Elected Officials. She has involved in her profession and community with her efforts.
She is a former Clark County Deputy District Attorney from 1984 through 1989, prosecuting felony cases, and was instrumental in implementing the office's first Sexual Assault and Child Abuse team. Valorie was an associate attorney with the law firm of Sully and Lenhard from 1983 to 1984. Before attending law school, fluent in Spanish, she supervised interpreters for the Eighth Judicial District Court in Las Vegas from 1978 to 1979, where she set up testing and certification for court interpreters and did Spanish-English interpretation and translation.
Dr. William Thompson is the first Director of the Public Administration Institution (PAI) of Washington Business and Technology Institute (WBTI). He is the chair and professor of the Department of Public Administration of UNLV. He has had numerous academic publications with excellent teaching and administrative qualifications. His leadership in this Institution since January 18, 2000 has been applauded by both the political and educational professionals. On March 3, 2000, Emeritus Professor Dr. Roy Adamson of the famous Pepperdine University in California joined the Institution as a Fellow. His experiences as a superintendent in Southern California and an Associate Dean of USC and CSU have been a good background for him to merge for an orientation with both of academic research and executive administration for PAI. Justice of the Supreme Court Nancy Becker has also felt the honor to be a Fellow of PAI. With Juris Doctor degree from George Washington University National Law Center, she was an outstanding District Judge for ten years. She received numerous awards for her accomplishment and social service. Her excellent expertise and professional integrity have added a valuable asset to PAI.
WBTI has been founded by the leadership of Dr. Tony T. Lei with a group of achieved scholars since January 8, 1996. Dr. Kenny Guinn, Governor of Nevada is Chairman of the Advisory Board; and U. S. Senator Honorable Harry Reid is Vice Chairman of the Board. U. S. Congresswoman Honorable Shelley Berkley is its Executive Advisor. The Institute has been expected to play an important role in our community because of its excellent and achieved fellows, encouragement of academic researches, and publicization of good community services.
Judge Vega was honored with the 1992 "Women of Achievement Award" from the Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce and recognized by the Latin Chamber of Commerce as the "Hispanic of the Year" in 1995. She is a holder of Juris Doctorate degree from the University of Southern California's Law Center. She received Bachelor of Arts degree from CSU Northridge. She got a graduate studies certificate in Interpretation/Translation from UC Santa Barbara. On May 3, 2000, Judge Valorie J. Vega was appointed by WBTI Fellow of PAI.
Judge Vega has been very happy that she and her husband were invited by Dr. and Mrs. Tony Lei for a dinner party at the CenterStage Restaurant of Plaza Hotel in celebrationof her vic-tory on election as a District Judge (5/15) and appointment as a Fellow of WBTI (5/03) on June 1, 2000. The Facultyof WBTI joined
President Dr.Lei to welcome her being one oftheir fellows at PAI.
"We are convinced that District Judge Valorie Vega is good equipped to be a Fellow of this Institute with her outstanding professional expertise and practicalpublic administration achieved experience in supporting Director Dr. William Thompson to lead PAI into the next millennium with academic excellence and administrativepracticality,"said Dr. Tony Lei,Presidentof WBTI.
"It is indeed an honor for me to become a Fellow of Public Administration Institution of WBTI. This position will undoubtedly provide me with new avenues for exploring improvements in public services to which I am most dedicated. I look forward to working together with Dr. Lei in these endeavors," said Judge Vega.

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WBTI appoints Nancy Becker Fellow of PAI
By Tiffany Chang
Ms. Nancy A. Becker was appointed by Washington Business and Technology Institute (WBTI) as Fellow of Public Administration Institution (PAI) on May 2, 2000. Nancy received her Juris Doctor degree from George Washington University National Law Center in 1979. She received her B. A. degree with a major of International Relations from United States International University, San Diego, CA. in 1976. She ranked No. 1 in the graduating class.
Nancy is now a Justice of Nevada Supreme Court. She is the recipient of numerous honors including the Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce Woman of Achievement Award, Jurist of the Year Award, the Liberty Bell Award from the American Bar Association, J.C. Penny Golden Rule Award and recognized as one of the top ten businesswomen in the Nation from the American Businesswomen's Association. She received Distinguished Service Award from Nevada District Judges' Association in 1997. She was Distin- guishedWomanofSouthern Nevada, 1990, 1995, 1997, 1998,and 1999. "It is our honor to invite a famous person of Justice Nancy Becker's excellent caliber whose expertise, integrity, and good personal traits will bring to this Institute with a perspective of millennium," said President Dr. Tony Lei of WBTI. "Throughout her distinguished career, she has accomplished a great deal of judicial practices together with social services and has earned a good reputation of conscientious and dedicated professionalism."
In 1985, Nancy was appointed by the Clark County Bar Association to be the president of a new program that helped people with family problems cope with the justice system. The Clark County Pro Bono Project is a nonprofit organization that provides legal assistance to people with domestic cases. She served in that capacity for ten years and during her presidency the organization helped close to 50,000 people and provided millions in free legal services.
She was elected to the Las Vegas Municipal Court in 1987. That was a history to make her the first woman to serve as a Municipal Judge. In her capacity, Nancy continued to work hard for the improvement of the justice system. While maintaining the impartiality required by the Code of Judicial Conduct, she again worked closely with the Legislature to expand the powers of local judges to combat DUI's and domestic violence.
She earned a fame for being a tough, but fair judge. Using common sense, compassion and commitment to tackle the growing caseload in the municipal court gained her the respect of law enforcement and the legal community. As a result of her efforts, Governor Robert Miller appointed her to the District Court bench in 1989. She was the first woman to be so honored. For ten years, she served with distinction as District Court Judge. She continually received high marks for her performance with a 90% approval rating. Judicial evaluations placed her as one of the top judges of that court.
Justice Becker has been very happy that she was invited by Dr. and Mrs. Tony Lei for a dinner party at the Center Stage Restaurant of Plaza Hotel in congratulating her birthday (5/23) and appointment (5/02) on May 22, 2000. The Faculty of WBTI joined President Dr. Lei to welcome Justice Becker being one of our famous fellows at PAI with the bright leadership of its Director and Fellow Dr. William Thompson who is now the chair and professor of the Department of Public Administration of UNLV. Following the appointment of a famous professor from Pepperdine University Dr. Roy Adamson as the Fellow of PAI on March 3, 2000, Justice Becker was the third person and first lady who had been honored with such a reputable prestige.
WBTI has been founded since January 8, 1996, dedicated to: (1) Inviting achieved and excellent faculty members, (2) Motivating special research projects, and (3) Encouraging good community services. Governor of Nevada Dr. Kenny Guinn is Chairman of the Advisory Board. U. S. Senator Honorable Harry Reid is Vice Chairman of the Board. U. S. Congresswoman Honorable Shelley Berkley is the Executive Director.
"Public Administration Institution (PAI) of WBTI has played the role as a private NPO (Non Profit Organization) to promote the study and reseach of public administration and strategy for social and public profit. With the effort of the Faculty and under the brilliant leadership of Dr. Tony Lei, WBTI has accomplished a valueable contribution to the academic research and community service for Nevada. We share a great deal of honor also as what Justice Becker does for her prestige as a PAI Fellow. Her participation to this Institution will enrich and enhance its academic production featured with practicality and adaptability as an efficient "intelligence Tank" through her excellent and fruitful public
administration experience and contribution," said thePresident of Seniors United Lillian Wallace.
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