EWCA Discussion Board

After serving five years on the East-West Center Board of Governors, Puongpun Sananikone has been elected the new chairman of the Board. He is the first East-West Center alumnus to hold this position.

Puongpun (ISI ‘64-68) met his wife Thanh-Lo (ISI ‘64-68) while they were both students at the East-West Center. Since leaving the Center, both have been very active alumni who contribute considerably to the Center.

We would like to extend our congratulations to Puongpun and look forward to his time as chairman.

For the complete East-West Center News Release, please click here.

The EWCA Executive Board held their quarterly meeting on June 19, 2008. Among the first things to be discussed in the meeting was the recent election of the Board members.

We would like to welcome new members: Kaoru Matsuda (Japan) and Arfa Zehra (Pakistan) and welcome back the re-elected: Khaleda Rashid, Carl Hefner, Sarlito Sarwono, and Katerina Teaiwa.

We bid aloha to departing members: A. Seshan, Amanda Ellis, Seiko Furuhashi, and Shoji Nishimoto and thank them for all of their contribution during their time on the Board.

The East-West Views site has a blog post on the current art gallery exhibition featuring EWC alumnus and President of the Islamabad Chapter, Arjumand Faisel. Featured in the post are links to other media reviews of the exhibition. Click here to read the post.

EWC Alumnus Arjumand Faisel (MPH Open Grants, ‘88) is the President of the EWCA Islamabad Chapter and the current focus of the EWC Art Gallery exhibition, “Unseen Visions: Contemporary Painting in Pakistan,” running now through June 11, 2008.

Arjumand was in Honolulu for a week to open the exhibition with his daughter, whose works are also hanging in the Gallery. Continue Reading »