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2010 TACAS Scholarship Award Announcement
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2010
TACAS Youth Leadership Scholarship Award Announcement
September
30, 2010, Triangle Area Chinese American Society, Raleigh
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The
Advisory Board of the Triangle Area Chinese American Society, TACAS, is
pleased to announce that Jasmin Huang and Gloria Lai are the
recipients of the inaugural 2010 TACAS Youth Leadership Scholarship
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Ms.
Jasmin
Huang |
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Ms.
Gloria
Lai |
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Jasmin
Huang is a
senior at William G. Enloe High School. She is an active youth leader
of Raleigh Chinese Language School (RCLS), TACAS Youth Group, and the
local Chinese American community.
At
age
five,
Jasmin
started
performing
at
the
International
Festival,
TACAS
Chinese
New
Year
celebration,
and
various
cultural
events.
She
has
mastered
not
only
Chinese
folk
dances,
Lion
dance,
and
Dragon
dance
but
also
various
music
instruments.
Jasmin
is
now
the
President
of
the
TACAS
Youth
Symphony.
Besides
performing
art,
Jasmin
enjoys volunteering for the local Chinese American community as an
RCLS teacher assistant, Family of Chinese Children (FCC) dance teacher,
and as a youth
volunteering organizer
for
last year's Chinese New Yer Festival. Jasmin
finds it rewarding through these services to enrich the cultural lives
of others. Outside of TACAS, Jasmin is an International
Baccalaureate senior Diploma
candidate, the President of Enloe's Medical Bio-Science Academy, and
holds many student government and school club positions. She
strives for academic excellence with shadowing doctors, and research
internship at NCSU, NC Museum of
Life and Science, and NC
Summer Ventures in Science and Mathematics.
Jasmin is the daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Yen-Min & Yun
Huang, 黃炎民，王昀，members of TACAS.
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Gloria
Lai is a Leesville Road High school senior. Many
school activities and
groups have influenced and transformed Gloria as she grew up.
Art has made a huge impact throughout her
life. To Gloria, art is a way of self expression and independence, it
is a
whole new dimension, a place where there are no limits and no rules. Not only has art been prominent in Gloria's
life,
but so has TACAS, Triangle Area Chinese American Society. As a
member of TACAS, Gloria has
participated in
countless volunteer activities and events. From
Mothers
day picnics, to
International festival and Chinese New
Year. Throughout the years in
TACAS and as an Youth Group officer for three years, Gloria has gained
so much
experience. Her social, management and
leader ship skills have benefited from planning and organizing a
variety of events. One of the things Gloria loves about TACAS is the
chance to work with TACAS Youth Group. It has encouraged her and
allowed her to meet people from different backgrounds, and those
not only of Chinese descent. TACAS is so
diverse and united, not only do they spread Chinese culture but also
gives
the second generation the chance to
learn more about Chinese traditions and backgrounds.
Gloria is the daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Fuyung & Chung-Jung Lee
Lai, 賴福勇，李仲蓉，members of TACAS.
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The TACAS Youth
Scholarship Program is designed to
motivate high school students of TACAS members to develop leadership
skills for future
advancement in college while pursuing academic, athletic, and artistic
excellence. The award recipients are selected by an independent
Scholarship Committee. Administration of the
scholarship program is by the TACAS Advisory Board (AB).
In making the Committee selection, Prof. Yuan-Shin Lee, Committee
Chair, wrote:
The Scholarships Committee has evaluated and arrived at her
conclusions on
the 2010 TACAS
Scholarships recommendation.
Based on the
evaluation and recommendations from all six committee
members, following is
the conclusion by the Committee on the selection of
the 2010 TACAS Youth
Scholarships:
I. SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENT IN ACADEMIC - Ms.
Jasmine Huang
II. SCHOLARSHIP
RECIPIENT IN ARTISTIC - Ms. Gloria Lai
The Committee feels
the selected candidates have very good credential and
are very deserving
the honor and encouragement from TACAS. It is suggested
that TACAS confers
such honor to the above-mentioned individual
candidates.
Yuan-Shin Lee
TACAS Scholarships
Committee
Commenting
on the TACAS Youth Leadership Scholarship award, Prof. Jason
Shih, Charter Member and the 4th President of TACAS, has this to say:
Dear TACAS President, Scholarship Commiittee Chair and all
Committee Members:
Please accept my
congratulations on your great job accomplished and
the celebration of
the birth of the first TACAS Young Scholars.
Personally, I have
been waiting for this to happen when TACAS was
first established. It
is a small step to take from us, but great
encouragement to
offer for our future generations.
Best Wishes,
Jason Shih
Agnes Kuo, Scholarship Committee member, added:
Prof. Shih said better than what I can express. Thank you
Jason, and thank to all who has a hand in this process. May this
shcolarship program continues to grow.
Best regards,
Agnes Kuo Rehquate
Gloria Feung, Scholarship Committee member, also added:
Dear
TACAS
Advisory Board chairman, TACAS President, Scholarship Committee Chair
and all Committee Members:
Thanks to TACAS Advisory Board and TACAS President for initiating an
unprecedented scholarship project. As the old Chinese proverb
goes, "A thousand-Li journey is started by taking the first step"
(千里之行，始于足下）.
It's my pleasure to be on this committee.
Gloria Feung
Yuang-Sheng
Kao, Chairman of TACAS AB 2008 ~
2010, thanked the TACAS Youth Leadership Schlorshop Committee on behalf
of AB:
Dear Professor Lee,
On behalf of TACAS
Advisory Board of 2009, I would like to thank you and all committee
members for your dedication and hard work. As some of you pointed out,
this is just a beginning, we will continue and make this as an
important yearly event within TACAS and our community.
Based on your
recommendation, we will find a proper time and place to make the
announcement to the entire TACAS members and present the awards.
Thanks again.
Regards,
Yuang-Sheng Kao
TACAS Advisory Board
of 2009
Please join
us in congratulating Jasmin and Gloria, and also Mr. & Mrs.
Yen-Min & Yun Huang, Mr. & Mrs. Fuyung & Chung-Jung Lee
Lai.
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