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CHAPTER DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE

QUARTERLY REPORTS, EXECUTIVE BOARD MEETING (1/17/13)

RESPECTFULLY SUBMITTED BY Estrella Besinga Sybinsky

HAPPY 2013!  Despite the hectic holiday schedule worldwide, seventeen chapters managed to respond to the call for chapter reports.  We continue to thank you for your response, though your respective chapter may not have much activity to report.

The following chapters responded: 1) Bali Chapter (Agung Muninjaya) 2) Brisbane Chapter (Iraphne Childs) 3) Chandigarh (India) Chapter (Rajesh Kumar Aggarwal) 4) Chennai Chapter (P. Subramaniyam) 5) Hawaii Chapter (Carl Hefner) 6) Kansai Chapter (Seiko Furuhashi) 7) Korea Chapter (Jeong Taik Lee)  8) Kuala Lumpur Chapter (Gan Siowck Lee) 9) Laos Chapter (Chanthavong) 10) Mumbai Chapter (Sarosh Bana) 11) Nepal Chapter (Nirendra Maske) 12) N.Y., CT, N.J. Chapter (Bill Armbruster) 13) Papua New Guinea Chapter (Solomon Kantha) 14) Singapore Chapter (Alice Seng Seok Hoon) 15) S. California Chapter (Claire Langham 16) Sri Lanka Chapter (GBA Fernando) and 17) Taiwan Chapter (Nora Chiang).
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CHAPTER DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE, EWCA QUARTERLY REPORTS FOR EXECUTIVE BOARD MEETING ON 10/20/2011 SUBMITTED BY ESTRELLA BESINGA SYBINSKY, VP FOR CHAPTER DEVELOPMENT

Aloha to all of our EWCA chapters and mahalo to the chapters that responded to the call for quarterly reports. A big mahalo also to the chapters that are supporting the EWC Foundation’s Student Scholarship fundraising goal.

Eleven Chapter Leaders reported on their chapter activities for this quarter:

1) Arizona (Tomi Johnston) 2) Brisbane and Virtual Australia (Iraphne Childs 3) Canada (Jonathan Jacobs) 4) Chennai (P. Subramaniyam for Sonna Belliappa) 5) Hyderabad (Nageswara Rao) 6) Kansai (Seiko Furuhashi) 7) Karachi  (Aziz Husain) 8 ) Myanmar (U Maung Maung) 9) Nepal (Nirendra Maske for Shankar Sharma) 10) Papua New Guinea (Solomon Kantha and 11) Singapore  (Seok-Hoon Seng).

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If you are planning to be in the Kansai area, EWCA Kansai Chapter Leader, Seiko Furuhashi (ICC 82-84 and 89, Assoc 2010), invites you to….

Come out and learn about how Sake is made!

We will have a day tour to the Kinshi Masamune Sake Brewery and the Gekkeikan Okura Sake Museum in Fushimi on November 13, 2011 (Sunday).

We will meet at 12:00 noon at the Tambabashi Station (Keihan and Kintetsu Lines) and then walk to the Kinshi Masamune Brewery to see the inside of the brewery and the brewing process (this tour will include a little Sake tasting).  After touring the brewery, we will walk to the Gekkeikan Okura Sake Museum to learn about the history of Sake making in the Fushimi area. After viewing the museum, and a little more Sake tasting, members will be free to shop at the many breweries in the neighborhood. Finally, for those who have the time, we plan to end the day with dinner at a local restaurant in the area.

For more information, please contact Seiko Furuhashi at seiko@ogu.ac.jp by Oct .22.

関西UHAA-EWCA 合同酒蔵見学ツアー：２０１１年１１月１３日 
日本酒がどのように醸造されるかを一緒に見学しませんか？

来る２０１１年１１月１３日（日）、京都伏見の「キンシ正宗」酒造と「月桂冠大倉記念館（日本酒博物館）」の見学ツアーを開催いたします。

正午に、丹波橋駅（京阪線・近鉄線）に集合した後、「キンシ正宗」で酒蔵内部と酒造りの工程を見学（最後に利き酒体験）をします。次に「月桂冠大倉記念館」まで伏見の町並みを歩き、記念館では伏見での酒造りの歴史を学びます。館内見学のあと、ここでも利き酒を体験し、記念館や近辺の酒蔵で日本酒や関連グッズのお土産を買うことができます。この付近には地酒を提供するレストランがいくつかあるので、ツアーの締めくくりとして、付近のレストランで夕食を共に楽しんでいただきます。時間のある方は、ぜひ参加してください。

詳細を知りたい方は、１０月２２日までに古橋政子までご連絡ください。　seiko@ogu.ac.jp.

CHAPTER DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE, EWCA
QUARTERLY REPORTS FOR EXECUTIVE  BOARD MEETING (7/21/2011) RESPECTFULLY SUBMITTED BY
ESTRELLA BESINGA SYBINSKY, VP FOR CHAPTER DEVELOPMENT

Aloha and mahalo to the 15 chapters that responded to the call for quarterly reports!  A big mahalo also to the chapters that enthusiastically embraced the alumni chapter collaboration suggestion and to their members, who contributed and will continue to generously support the EWC foundation’s endowment student scholarship fundraising goal in the near future.  Thank you for your very much appreciated gift.

The following Chapter Leaders reported on their chapter activities for this quarter:

1) APLP (Caitlin Wyndham), 2) Arizona (Michelle Marion), 3) ASDP (Jessica Sheetz-Nguyen), 4) Brisbane (Karen Nunan/Iraphne Childs), 5) Chennai (P. Subramaniyam), 6) Hawai’i (Carl Hefner), 7) Kansai (Seiko Furuhashi), 8_) Korea (Jeong Taik Lee), 9) Laos (Chanthavong Saignasith), 10) Malaysia (Gan Siowck Lee), 11) Myanmar (U Maung Maung), 12) Nepal (Nirendra Maske), 13) Singapore (Alice Seng-Seok Hoon), 14) Sri Lanka (G.B.A Fernando/W.A. Siriwardena), 15) Tokyo (Shigeo Tonoike).

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CHAPTER DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE, EWCA
QUARTERLY REPORTS FOR EXECUTIVE  BOARD MEETING (4/21/2011) RESPECTFULLY SUBMITTED, ESTRELLA BESINGA SYBINSKY, VP for Chapters

Mahalo to all the chapters that responded to the call for quarterly reports. We received twelve reports from our chapters.

Mahalo also to those chapters that shared their views on the issue pertaining to 1) a cooperative Student Fundraising Permanent Endowment Fund Project for 2011 with all the chapters collectively participating and 2) to the Chapter proposal raised earlier that Chapter Reports be changed from the current quarterly to a twice a year reporting.

The following Chapter Leaders reported on their chapter activities:

1) Anthony Pennings (New York Chapter), 2) Caitlin Wyndham (APLP Chapter), 3) Michelle Marion (Arizona Chapter), 4) Karen Nunan/Iraphne Childs (Brisbane, Australia Chapter), 5) P. Subramaniyam (Chennai, India Chapter), 6) Carl Hefner (Hawaii Chapter), 7) Nageswara Rao (Hyderabad, India Chapter), 8.) Seiko Furuhashi (Kansai, Japan Chapter), 9) Chantavong Saignasith (Laos-Vientiane Chapter), 10) Jonathan Jacobs (Ontario, Canada Chapter), 11) Aziz Husain (Karachi, Pakistan Chapter), and 12) Seng Seok Hoon (Singapore Chapter).

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This is a message from Seiko Furuhashi (ICC 82-84, 89), EWCA Kansai Chapter Leader.

Dear EWCA Alumni and Friends,

I would like to let you know that I was in Hawaii when the horrible earthquake and tsunami attacked North Eastern Japan on March 11, 2011. I am sending this report as many friends have asked me to keep them up-to-date with what is happening in Japan.

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CHAPTER DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE, EWCAA
QUARTERLY REPORTS FOR EXECUTIVE  BOARD MEETING (1/20-21/2011) RESPECTFULLY SUBMITTED, ESTRELLA BESINGA SYBINSKY

I am pleased to announce that the number of chapters responding to the call for quarterly reports almost tripled for our January 20-21/ 2011 Executive Board meeting.  Whereas eight  (8) chapters responded back in October 2010, currently twenty chapters sent in their reports.

The following chapters submitted their quarterly reports: 1) Arizona (Michelle Marion), 2) ASDP (David Jones), 3) Brisbane (Karen Nunan), 4) Chennai (P. Subramaniyam), 5) Chicago (Pam Drymiller),  6) Hawaii (Carl Hefner), 7) Hyderabad (E. Nageswara Rao), 8 ) Jakarta (Nasti Reksadiputro), 9) Kathmandu (Nirendra Maske), 10) Kansai (Seiko Furuhashi), 11) Karachi (Aziz Husain), 12) Korea (Jeong Taik Lee), 13) Lahore (Arfa Zehra), 14) Malaysia (Gan Siowck Lee), 15) Mumbai (Sarosh Bana), 16) Ontario (Jonathan Jacobs), 17) Singapore (Seok Hoon Seng), 18) Sri Lanka (W.A. Siriwardena/GBA Fernando), 19) Taiwan (Tien-en Kao) 20) Washington DC Capital Region Chapter (Mary Jo Furgal).

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On December 9th 2010, a group of nine UH-alumni in Kansai area gathered at Osaka Gakuin University to organize a UHAA Kansai Chapter.

Front,- Left to Right: Curtis Kelly (Kansai University), Raymond Tait III (Swissotel Nankai Osaka), Daryl Arakaki (OGU), Seiko Furuhashi (OGU).
Top-Lest to Right: Motoyasu Shirai (OGU), Russel Sumitomo (OGU), Greg Nakajo (OGU), Scot Matsuo (OGU). Continue Reading »

CHAPTER DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE
QUARTERLY REPORTS   October 12, 2010  Revised
RESPECTFULLY SUBMITTED, ESTRELLA BESINGA SYBINSKY

On September 23, 2010 an email was sent to all the Chapter Leaders for the following purpose:

1)  informing the chapters that the Executive Board will meet on October 13, 2010 and that the quarterly reports from the chapters are needed for that meeting and

2) briefly mentioning the suggested idea regarding a chapter collaborative student fundraising legacy project and soliciting initial input and suggestions from the chapters.

A follow up reminder email that the quarterly reports are due by no later than October 9^th was sent by the Alumni office.

The following chapters submitted their quarterly reports:

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