Banquet Plans

The chapter has planned the annual banquet for May 12 at Song Yen Restaurant.
We need folks willing to help with our annual fund-raising event, during which the chapter will award scholarship money in memory of chapter co-founder Stanford Chen and $500 that PGE has generously given us to fund another scholarship.
E-mail Joann Ng if you would like to help.

DIM SUM (Tasty morsels about the Portland chapter and its players)

Former Portland AAJA member Anh Phan is now a D.C.-based lobbyist for a highway-safety nonprofit in the Northeast and New England states.
She moved there over the new year and started her new job on Jan. 10.
She said she is doing a lot traveling (three states in a recent week). And she is a little homesick for Northwestern friendliness and coffee prices (she recently paid $4.50 for a latte in D.C.).
But she says she has wanted to work and live out East, and it's an ideal time in her life to do it.
To contact her send e-mails.

Kudos to Emily Tsao, chapter vice president and scholarship chairwoman, who reports she has sent scholarship-application packets out to about 125 high schools, colleges and community organizations in Oregon and Vancouver, Wash.
That's a lot of hard work, and it should bring us some excellent candidates for our chapter's Stanford Chen Memorial Scholarship. This year we'll also be giving away second scholarship, thanks to $500 in funding from PGE.
Please let young journalism students know about our scholarship effort. Click here, for more information about the scholarships given out at the national and local levels.

Students interested in applying for the Portland scholarship(s) need to send two copies of the national application (they need to send three to national if they want to compete for those funds); please have them send the completed applications to Emily Tsao, AAJA, c/o 15495 SW Sequoia Pkwy, Ste 190, Portland, OR 97224.

Joann Ng
Chapter president

Chapter members gather at a celebration of Stanford Chen's life at the Heathman Hotel in Portland on March 20 after his memorial service.

In memory of Stanford Chen, Portland Chapter founder and former AAJA National Officer

Friends & colleagues, especially those of you who have made donations to the Asian American Journalists Association's Stanford Chen Internship Fund:

As you may recall, when AAJA launched the internship in August 1998, it set a goal of $65,000, which it hoped to raise by this summer's national convention. As of Jan. 3, 2000, a total of $63,572 in pledges and donations had been received. AAJA's national director expects to make it to $65,000 by the end of this month.

This is a tremendous tribute to Stan, and I'm grateful to each of you who have contributed to this internship. It is my hope that it will help perpetuate Stan's vision for journalism as a place where diverse voices are able to speak.

Thank you very, very much.
Beth Erickson


Photos of Stan needed for Slide Show Tribute

 
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