F.Y. Chang Foundation & US-China Education Trust Double Anniversary Gala Dinner Tuesday, January 15 th, 2013
Diplomatic Guest of Honor His Excellency Zhang Yesui Ambassador of The People s Republic of China Invited Advisory Council Ambassador Nicholas Platt, Chairman Martin DePorres Cargas Chang An Tien Marlene Johnson Robert A. Kapp David Michael Lampton Susan V. Lawrence Henry Levine James McGregor Peter McPherson Torkel Patterson Ambassador Thomas Pickering Ko-Yung Tung Susan Weld
Ambassador Julia Chang Bloch, President of USCET Double Anniversary cordially invites you to Gala the Dinner The Fifteenth Anniversary of the US-China Education Trust and the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of the F.Y. Chang Foundation Tuesday, January 15 th, 2013 Reception 6 PM; Dinner 6:45 PM followed by Music and Dessert The Mandarin Oriental Hotel 1330 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, DC, 20024 Business Attire or National Dress Reply card enclosed; RSVP before January 8 th
Special Guests Senate Republican Leader The Honorable Mitch McConnell Mitch McConnell is the Senate Republican Leader, a position he has held since 2006. He is also a senior member of the Appropriations, Agriculture and Rules Committees. Senator McConnell previously served as the Republican Leader in the 110th and 111th Congresses and the Majority Whip in the 108th and 109th Congresses. He was first elected to the Senate in 1984. Before his election to the U.S. Senate, McConnell worked on Capitol Hill for Senators John Sherman Cooper and Marlow Cook; as deputy assistant attorney general to President Gerald Ford; and as judge-executive of Jefferson County, Kentucky, from 1978 to 1985. Senator McConnell graduated with honors from the University of Louisville College of Arts and Sciences and is a graduate of the University of Kentucky College of Law. He is married to Elaine L. Chao, 24th Secretary of Labor. 24th Secretary of Labor The Honorable Elaine L. Chao Elaine Chao served as the 24th Secretary of Labor from 2001 to 2009. The first American woman of Asian descent to be appointed to a presidential cabinet, she was also the longest-tenured Secretary of Labor since World War II. Her distinguished career spans the public, private and nonprofit sectors. Under her tenure, the Department of Labor achieved record results in protecting the health, safety, wage, and retirement security of America s workforce. She was President and CEO of United Way of America, Director of Peace Corps, Deputy Secretary of the Department of Transportation. She also worked as Vice President of Bank of America and Citicorp. Elaine has an economics degree from Mount Holyoke College, a MBA from Harvard Business School, and has been recognized with numerous awards for her public service, including 34 honorary degrees. She serves on a number of public and nonprofit boards. She is married to the Republican Leader of the U.S. Senate, Mitch McConnell.
Dinner Leadership (in formation) UNDERWRITER VAN ECK GLOBAL DINNER CO-CHAIRS GOVERNOR BILL RICHARDSON & AMBASSADOR TOM C. KOROLOGOS PATRON ARDA ANGELA A. CHAO CHEVRON MICHAEL R. KLEIN & JOAN I. FABRY PRUDENTIAL ULLICO SPONSOR ACCUME PARTNERS NANCY & RICHARD BLOCH EVA CHANG FAMILY CONGRESSIONAL BANK FRANK J. FAHRENKOFF, JR. ROBERT FEINSTEIN JOANNE & THOMAS FLEETER HVAC PRECISION SERVICE CAROLYN & WILLIAM INGERSOLL DR. J. KEITH MELANCON PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS HERBERT & MICHELLE ROSENFELD TINY JEWEL BOX THE REV. DR. WESLEY S. WILLIAMS JR. & MRS. KAREN HASTIE WILLIAMS CURTIS J. WILSON SUPPORTER PENN MUTUAL LORNA THOMAS, M.D., P.C & THE HONORABLE BUZZ THOMAS
The 21st-century US-China bilateral relationship is the most important in the world, says Ambassador Julia Chang Bloch, who founded and expanded the US-China Education Trust from a single Peking University seminar in 1998 to a network of 53 American Studies and 38 Media Education partnerships across China. To promote mutual understanding, USCET gives future Chinese and American leaders greater knowledge of each others society and culture through faculty and student exchanges, scholarships and innovative program collaborations between Chinese and US government, academic, corporate and individual partners. Under USCET auspices, two American Cultural Centers are now open at Beijing Foreign Studies University and Northeast Normal University in Changchun, respectively. In 1988, to honor her father Chang Fu-Yun, the first Chinese graduate of Harvard Law School, Ambassador Chang Bloch and her husband Stuart Marshall Bloch created the F.Y. Chang Foundation to support China s next generation Harvard Law graduates. Today, over 60 Harvard F.Y. Chang Legal Scholars are reshaping China and the world through legal education and the rule of law. US-CHINA EDUCATION TRUST 2101 K STREET, NW SECOND FLOOR WASHINGTON, DC 20037 PHONE: 202-223-6070 WWW.USCET.ORG