By: Melanie Lew - Wa Sung Community Service Club

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Wa Sung Community Service
Club Newsletter
SEPTEMBER 2015
Inside this issue:
Swearing in New
Members
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9/5 A’s Baseball
Game
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9/10 Gen. Meeting
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11/04 Pasta!!!
11/07 Harmony
Fusion
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11/21 Family
Bridges
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8/01Bowl-A-Thon
Pictures
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8/15 Cleanup Day 12
8/18 Golf
14 Tournament 17
Oct Nominations
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9/27Mid-Autumn
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2015 PRESIDENTIAL MESSAGE
HOWARD LEE
As we are winding down for August, two thirds of the year has passed by us.
August was the busiest month that we’ve had. August 1st, I had a chance to
take part in our third annual Bowl-A-Thon. My wife Anna enjoyed bowling
more than I did. They gave us “the Best Effort award” for trying. But I
enjoyed it watching how others did. Overall, we had a lot of fun together. I
also took part in our Golf Tournament on the 18th. It was a learning
experience for someone who goes out there the first time in any tournament.
But I had some good partners that played well - my good friend Ted, Mr. &
Mrs. Tseng. Otherwise, they might call off the game due to darkness. People
also enjoyed the Lobster Clambake on Saturday, the 22nd. If we included the
general meeting that we had at Kapok Seafood Restaurant, We had several
successful fundraising events. And, we are also winding down the summer
with another A’s and Seattle baseball game on September 5th. It’s like let’s
do it again Sam. Let’s root for the A’s to get even with the Seattle Mariners
this time.
Family Bridges invited me to help them run as a Charity King for the concert
fundraiser coming up on November 21, at the Oakland Oracle Arena. A
popular musical group - Grasshopper will be performing this year. Being
kind hearted as I am, I could not say no. Also, Family Bridges had honored
Wa Sung Community Service Club back in June of this year and our
members can support them by either being a sponsor - they have different
sponsorship levels and individual ticket levels, place an ad in their program
and/or buying raffle tickets.
Please think
ahead of what you
want to do for the
club in the
coming year.
There are many
areas that you can
help or learn to
help. Get in touch
with the different
Chairs of our
events and sign up
to volunteer!
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New Jr. League Member
Calvin Dong sworn in at
the August General Mtg
New members Jende Huang, Austin
Lew(JL) and Sonny Louie being
sworn in at the April General Meeting
At Gourmet Seafood Restaurant
2015 OFFICERS & BOARD
OFFICERS
President:
Vice President:
Secretary:
Treasurer:
Social Director:
Newsletter Editor:
Howard Lee
Kinley Wong
Peggy Woon
Alvin Liang
Donna Chan Chu, Raymond Tang, & Gloria Gee
Deborah Pan
DIRECTORS (2015-2016)
David Chang
Cynthia Quon
Jeff Quon
Allan Wong
Genie Young
Past President:
Board Advisor:
WSCC Director:
Jr. League Rep:
DIRECTORS (2014-2015)
Karen Dea
Audrey Huie
John Lew
Melanie Lew
Annis Skousen
Alex Lock
Doreen Lew
Arnold Mew
Melanie Lew
Edgar Woo and Yvan Fung
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The Wa Sung Community Center’s 3rd Annual Bowl-A-Thon!
By: Melanie Lew
The 3rd Annual Wa Sung Community Center Bowl-A-Thon struck up the summer scene at Earl Anthony’s Dublin Bowl on Saturday, August 1, 2015. This year, we had more participants than last year,
some returning and many new! Recently inducted Junior League members, Stanley Moy and Leon Zhang,
and returning bowlers from afar, Kelley Wong from Silicon Valley and Hugo Abez from Los Angeles,
came out to support us and have some fun. This year we did “league-style” bowling, which has players
alternating lanes when bowling each turn.
All participants were being judged to place in one of five categories: best series score for 3 games,
best effort, creative bowling style, most first thrown gutter balls, and highest sponsorship. Leon Zhang
swept the creative bowling style category with his funky thrust throw! He had all eyes on him as he threw
the ball and slid on his knees down the lane. Howard and Anna Lee shared the best effort win with a cumulative score of 184. Newcomer, Joshua Phelps had 16 first-thrown gutter balls earning him a gift card
to In-N-Out. Returning champion, Dennis Yee, trumped the best series with a score of 604; and he and his
wife, Happy Wing, brought in the most sponsorships for a third year! Congratulations to all the winners!
Everyone’s energy showed through their sportsmanship as teammates encouraged and praised each
other. The bowling alley was full of cheer, laughter, high-fives, and memorable moments. Doreen Lew,
our photographer, captured highlights of the event. To cool off from the heat, everyone received a sweet
treat at the Dublin Yogurtland. Bowlers got creative with their mountain of froyo by adding delicious toppings and colorful syrup! For a 3rd year, Dublin Yogurtland partnered with us and donated a portion of the
proceeds back to the Wa Sung Community Center.
The WSCC would like to thank everyone who came out to participate, sponsor, and support the
event. Thank you to the many Wa Sung volunteers who helped fill the goody bags and ensure a smooth
registration check-in process, Earl Anthony’s Dublin Bowl, and Dublin Yogurtland. We appreciate all of
your support and look forward to another year on the lanes!
For More Pictures : https://www.flickr.com/gp/wasung/15FT3Z by Doreen Lew
And Cindy Quon
Registration Desk Volunteers: Jeff Quon, Melanie
Lew, Cimberly Eng-Tamura, Cindy Quon and Jeff
Lew. (1st Row) Alex Lock, Doreen Lew and Cheryl
Yukumoto (Left to Right)
Cimberly Eng-Tamura, Cindy Quon
and Doreen Lew assists Bowl-A Thon
Chair Melanie Lew (in yellow).
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(Left to Right)
Janice Woo
Brenda Ng
Dennis Yee and
wife Happy Wing
&
Darlene Hong
SUNG COMMUNITY
(L to R)
Patrick Liu
Eric Lowe
Alvin Liang
&
Leon Zhang
SERVICE
CLUB
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Stanley Moy(New JL member), Hugo Abez, Melanie Lew and Kelley Wong
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Nick Gee
Tracy Mui
Darlene Hong
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Howard Lee
John Lew
Alfred Wong
Peter Lee
&
Margaret Mar
Genie Young
Arnold Mew
Joshua Phelps
&
Matt Phelps
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With a high score of 604, Dennis yee
and Happy wing are the highest game
series winners. And, they are also
the highest sponsorship winners.
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August 15th was Oakland Cleanup day!
Donna Chan Chu and Peggy Woon go all out with Jennie Ong of
Oakland Chamber of Commerce
Aaron Lum,
newly wed spouse
of Tamiko Wong
of OACC joins
Donna Chan Chu
and Peggy Woon
80 Year old retired Oakland
Council Member—Henry Chang
(middle) and (Right)
Mayor of Oakland Chinatown
Carl Chan joins in the
Cleaning labors of our
Beloved Chinatown
P.s. Per Tere Lee:
Remember our past Beautify Chinatown Committee: Bea Wong, Denny
Suzuki, Bill Sakakura and Victor Mar
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Introducing our newest Junior League Member: Alicia Lew
Alicia Lew is the daughter of Wa Sung Members Doreen and John Lew, and
sister of Melanie Lew.
Alicia graduated in May from California State University Fullerton with a
double Major in Bachelor of Arts: Communications and
Bachelor of Arts: Radio, Television and Film
Her hobbies are social activities, cooking, dancing, and community work.
She belonged to the sorority of Chi Sigma Phi while attending CSU Fullerton.
Their Motto is Reflect, Refine, Respect.
Swearing in of New Junior League Members Alicia Lew and Stanley Moy by
President Howard Lee at the June General Meeting held at PIER 29 Restaurant
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2015 Wa Sung Golf Tournament
By: Clayton Yukumoto
Monarch Bay Golf Course in San Leandro was the site for this
year’s golf tournament, the old Tony Lima Golf Course –
remodeled and stretched to challenge our golfers! The
weatherman cooperated with great golfing weather, sunny but
with a cooling breeze to keep the golfers from overheating. The
past 3 days were hot with days over 100 degrees; the cool down
could not have come at a better time! The golf course was
challenging with rolling hills, large sand bunkers and small
greens. Adding to the challenge to keep the scores down we had
ducks of all sizes and kinds, several coyotes were checking out
our carts so we watched their movements as we moved about the
fairways and greens always watching to make sure they did not take off with our snacks or
water from the carts. Steady breezes on the back 9 kept all the golfers pressing to keep their
shots low and long not wanting their shots to get stuck in the winds and losing control.
We want to thank the volunteers for the outstanding job they did at the beginning of the
tournament by staffing the tables; we had Cindy Quon, Donna Chan-Chu signing up the
golfers. Selling the mulligans and magic string was Laura Chan. Making sure all the golfers
received their lunches was Doreen Lew, Cheryl Yukumoto and Genie Young; also assisting
were Edgar Woo and Malynda Norstadt.
We had a total of 34 golfers who came to play and judging from the scores they were geared
to play and score well. Our winning foursome with the low net score of 64 was Ben Wong,
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Rob Conrad, Peter Ho and Jing Zhou; great job guys! Coming in with the low gross score of
65 was the team of Gerry Wong, Scott Wallace and Gilbert Cardenas; wow that’s playing as a
team!
Winning the longest drive on hole #12 was Jing Zhou. When I got to the tee box I could not
see the marker. It was so far down the fairway! On the closest to the pin the winners were: Ben
Wong #7, Tim Chu #10-also the Dixon Challenge and on #17 Frank Chiang and Ching Ou our
only women golfer! Just awesome drives and a great way to score on those tough par 3’s!
Unfortunately we did not have a winner for #4; it was our money hole where the player closest
to the pin would win money, a 50/50 sharing of the money collected from all golfers wishing to
participate in the jackpot for that hole. The money collected will be carried over to next year
and will make the money hole for 2016 huge! Monitoring the money hole were volunteers
Edgar Woo, measuring, Genie Young taking pictures and Doreen Lew collecting the jackpot
money – many thanks for
being out at the green for all
4 hours of the tournament
and taking all the great
pictures of the golfers as they
came to the 4th hole!
During dinner we auctioned a
Round of Golf for 4 at
Sequoyah Country Club
donated by Wa Sung member
Guy Dilling and 4 Box Seat
tickets to the Oakland A’s
baseball game in 2016
Volunteers Eugenie Young, Laura Chan, Donna Chan Chu
donated by another Wa Sung
,Doreen Lew and Cheryl Yukumoto
member – Kinley Wong. Many
thanks for the generous donations by Guy Dilling and Kinley Wong! Also during dinner we
had a few door prizes which were awarded by raffle tickets distributed to all golfers attending
the dinner! Some of the prizes awarded were gift cards to Starbucks, rounds of golf at Roddy
Ranch, golf balls, bottles of wine and Clambake tickets! We want to thank all the sponsors; Dr.
Lawrence Ng, Arnold Mew, Annis Skousen, Jeff and Cindy Quon, Cheryl Wong, Clayton and
Cheryl Yukumoto, Deborah Pan, Pete’s ACE Hardware and Melanie Lew for their generous
donations to the tournament.
During the dinner Tim Chu surprised us and gave Wa Sung a $500 donation for trophy’s for
the 2016 Golf Tournament! WOW we are off to a great start on the 2016 Golf Tournament
which will be our 10th Annual Golf Tournament!! Thank You Tim Chu for your generous
donation!
We want to thank all the golfers who gave of their time and energy to participate in our golf
tournament, the Co-Chairs and the volunteers who made the event work smoothly and go
without a hitch, and the sponsors who were very generous in their donations to the tournament!
We hope to see everyone back in 2016 for our 10 th annual golf tournament which from all
indications will be the best! Stay tuned for more details!
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Roland Hui® and Friends
John Lew(L) Arnold Mew
(red shirt) and Friends
WA
Howard Lee and Ted
David Chang(L) Jeff Quon (M)
And Friend
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Everything You Need to Know About Nominations*
by Roland Hui
Every year at the October general meeting, we will nominate candidates for Officers and Directors for the
following year. Election will then take place at the November general meeting.
The Officers consist of the President, Vice-President, Secretary, Newsletter Editor, Treasurer and the Social
Director. Since they each serve one-year terms, all officers will need to be nominated and elected each
year. There are also eleven Directors serving two-year terms on a staggered basis. Either five or six Directors need to be nominated and elected each year. This year, we need to elect six Directors to serve in
2016.
According to the By-laws, here are the duties of the Officers and Directors:
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The President shall preside at all meetings of the membership and the Executive Board as Chief Executive Officer. The president shall appoint all standing and ad hoc committees. The President
shall act as the ex-officio member of all committees except the Nominations Committee and the
Perpetual Scholarship Fund Committee. The President shall oversee all events and activities of the
Club. The Board may assign other duties to the President.
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The Vice-President shall perform duties of the President in the absence of the President. The VicePresident shall coordinate development of the community service projects, fund-raisers, charities,
and membership activities. In addition, the Vice-President shall serve as an ex-officio Trustee of
the Perpetual Scholarship Fund Committee, during the term of office. The Vice-President shall prepare the budget for the Administration Fund and Charity Fund. The Board may assign other duties
to the Vice-President.
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The Secretary shall keep all records, except financial records, record the minutes of all Board
meetings, maintain a list of all standing and ad hoc committees, and write all external correspondence. At the end of each calendar year, the Secretary shall prepare and cause to be permanently
bound Corporate records for the preceding year.
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The Newsletter Editor shall edit the monthly newsletter for membership, including announcements
and General Meeting notices. The Newsletter shall also maintain the Club’s mailing list and membership roster.
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The Treasurer shall receive all monies and keep all financial records. The Treasurer shall provide
quarterly financial reports at the Board Meetings and prepare an annual financial statement.
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The Social Director shall coordinate the development of the social activities of the membership at
General Meetings.
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The Directors shall provide leadership to the membership and give direction on policies and procedures of the Club. The President will assign tasks, including committee chairs, to Directors.
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A two-member Nomination Committee is tasked with seeking qualified candidates to run for Officers and
Directors. This Committee is appointed by the President and approved by the Board. For 2015, the Nomination Committee is TBA(To Be Announced).
The Nomination Committee will nominate one or more candidates for each vacant office and present them
at the October general meeting ("Nomination Night"). All members present at that meeting can also nominate additional candidates or self-nominate for each office.
After nominations are completed, the Nomination Committee will confirm with each nominee regarding
his or her intent and availability to run. This step is important because often times a member is nominated
for multiple offices but the By-laws limit each candidate to run for only one office. After this step is completed, an official ballot will be prepared for election at the November general meeting ("Election Night").
Note that nomination is not a pre-requisite for running for office because the ballot will have space for
write-in candidates for each office.
Who is eligible to run for office? Basically all Life Members and members in good standing who have been
a member for at least a year and have helped out at one of our functions are eligible. Because the Junior
League is a pilot under our 2010-2015 5-Year Plan and has not been codified into our By-laws, its members
are not eligible to run for office. However, a Junior Leaguer interested in running can always adjust his or
her status to become a regular member.
So there you have it. Now that you know the ins and outs of nominations, would you do the Club a favor by
suggesting names of some good people to lead the Club next year? Better yet, step up to the plate! The
year 2016 is particularly important because the current 5-Year Plan is scheduled to expire and most likely a
new 5-Year Plan will be formulated. Won't you want to be
part of this history-making
process?
See you at the Nomination
Night!
*Before Deciding to Run
Member John Tam’s July 4rth Bar-B-Que
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