Dear Alumni,

In this post please find three items:

1) News: PKU among Top 3 Foreign Baccalaureate-Origin Institutions of US Doctorate Recipients

2) Chinese Community Tsunami Relief Event

3) Donation for a PKU alumnus

Details:

1) News: PKU among Top 3 Foreign Baccalaureate-Origin Institutions of US Doctorate Recipients

According to the latest statistics from Univ. of Chicago, Peking University is the #3 foreign university where the US Doctorate recipients were originally from. See Table 33 in http://www.norc.uchicago.edu/issues/sed-2003.pdf

PS: after adding the number of Beijing Medical Univerisity, the ranking of PKU is actually #2.

2) Chinese Community Tsunami Relief Event

This is a charity performance for the tsunami relief effort, to be held at San Gabriel Civic Auditorium on Saturday Jan. 15 at 7pm. The admission is free of charge. PUAASC members who plan to attend please send an email to performance@pku.org so we can book enough tickets for our members.

The following is the original message from the Beijing Association.

From: info@beijingusa.org [mailto:info@beijingusa.org]

Sent: Sunday, January 09, 2005 10:43 PM

Subject: Chinese Community Tsunami Relief Events

Dear Beijing Association Members,

As we were celebrating Christmas and New Year, the world was shocked by one

of the worst natural disasters. In the wake of the 9.0-magnitude earthquake

that struck Dec. 26, tens and thousands of lives were lost within hours and

millions of tsunami survivors, who were already struggling to cope with a

catastrophic disaster, were plagued by unrelenting rainfall, flash floods

and severe aftershocks.

We believe many of our members are joining the world community in the

largest disaster relief operation in history. The American Red Cross and

many US companies have provided donation channels. Now the Chinese community

in Greater Los Angeles with the support of the Eastern International Bank

provides another tax-deductible donation channel. The news is available at

Jan. 7's major Chinese newspapers. The donation form and details is

available at http://www.beijingusa.org/docs/tsunamirelief.doc . Please send

the check and form to: Beijing Association, 2720 Sunset Hill Drive, West

Covina, CA 91791.

Also a charitable performance by outstanding musicians, singers and dancers

will be presented at 7 PM on Saturday Jan. 15 at San Gabriel Civic

Auditorium. Beijing Association has tickets available for our members.

Please contact sikun@yahoo.com with your name, ticket numbers, and address

by Wednesday Jan. 12 for tickets. The tickets are free for our members and

voluntary donation at the performance is encouraged.

Beijing Association encourages our members to take advantage of above

donation channels and join other community effort in the relief. Together we

will extend our love and care to those Southern Asian people in need.

Beijing Association

3) Donation for a PKU alumnus

PUAASC just received a letter from CSSA on a tragedy happened to our PKU alumnus Dr. Gang Zhao at UCLA. Please find the original message from CSSA at http://www.pku.org/archive/2005/Jan/CSSAaboutZhaoGang.doc

PUAASC offers our deepest condolences to the relatives of Dr. Gang Zhao, and we also encourage our members to give supporting hands.