Dear Friends,

With indescribable sadnesss, we are bringing to you this heartbreaking news,

that our classmate and dear friend Yi Bing and his wife Weiwei Li were brutally

attacked at their home on Friday April 17th. Weiwei was killed and Bing was

seriously injured in the event. Luckily to our comfort, their two lovely children,

aged 6 and 10, were unharmed and are with friends safely now. For more info,

please goto http://cbs5.com/local/Cupertino.woman.dead.2.987723.html

Yi Bing was a graduate of Univ of Science and Technology of China (USTC,

class 856) who later attended graduate school of Peking University in1990 (PKU,

class 90 EE). While saddened by this tragedy, Bing’s friends from USTC856, with

the gracious help of USTC Alumni Foundation (USTCAF) and Peking University

Alumni Association of Northern California (PKUAANC), quickly set up a fund to

help his family. This fund is meant to cover expenses such as Weiwei’s memorial

service, temporal child care and travel expenses for his families coming from

China. Any remaining fund will be used for Bing’s Children’s education.

Many friends have eagerly expressed desire to help out. We hope that with the

warm hearts and great help from everyone, we can help Bing and his family

recover from this tragedy sooner.

Here is how to donate:

1. Visit USTCAF web site at http://www.ustcaf.org/d//donation/-- If you have

difficulty reading, set encoding to “Simplified Chinese”.

2. Enter your name, donation amount and payment method(check, or credit card

or paypal or bank wiring for RenMinBi). Make sure you select subfund name:

856YiBing

The maximum donation is $1000 per the USTCAF guidelines. If you would like to

donate more, please contact the fund manager. You can check the fund balance

and activities at http://ustcaf.org/c/fmake sure you type in the subfund

856YiBing to show only the activities within this subfund. USTCAF is a reputable

high efficiency high transparency non-profit organization with 501(c)(3) status in

the US. Your donation is tax deductible and may be matched by your employers.

Thank you very much for your generosity and kindness. Please also help spread

the word to help a family recovering from this unimaginable tragedy.

Any questions, please contact: Hongrong Qing hqing2001@yahoo.com or

Jianhui He hejianh@gmail.com.

Sincerely,

The 856YiBing Fund committee