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Kansas City 2014 Chinese New Year Celebration

by KCCAA Contributor2014 Events December 27, 2013January 16, 2014No Comments

Sunday Jan 19th, 2014, Yardley Hall, JCCC
12345 College Blvd., OP, KS 66210

Ticket/Membership Sale: Online ticket sale ($10 member ticket and $18 non-member)

$20 ticket Jan. 19th Box Office

Ticket/Membership Pick-Up: 4 pm – 6:30 pm Carlsen Center Lobby

2014 KCCAA Community Service Awards winners

First Place: Cindy Wang

Second Place: Charles Li, Elaine Zhu, Mulan Jiang

Third Place: Lucy Li, Michael Chu, Austin Tang, Amanda Li, April Ma, Eric Zhao, Anna Tang, Rachel Li, Henry Wang.

Proudly presented by

Kansas City Chinese American Association (KCCAA)
University of Kansas Confucius Institute
Edgar Snow Memorial Foundation
The Midwest US China Chamber of Commerce

Program Details:

9 am – 12 pm KC Chinese Speech Competition
Polsky Theater (Free)

3 pm – 6 pm Chinese Culture Fair, Children Activities, Chinese Paper Cute, Calligraphy, Culture Booths, and Pizza (for sale)…
JCCC Carlsen Center lobby (Free)

3 pm – 6 pm Kansas State Honor Piano and Violin Recital
JCCC Polsky Theater (Free)

4 pm – 7 pm New Year Gala Ticket & Membership Card Pick Up
Yardley Hall, Carlsen Center, JCCC

Option 1, Purchase Chinese New Year Gala Ticket plus KCCAA Membership

Option 2, Purchase Standard/Non-Membership Tickets Only

Standard Price $18/ea (non-member, all ages)

(no maximum – $15 ea before Jan 10 – $18 ea after Jan 10)

Option 3, Purchase/Renew KCCAA Membership Only

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The Fourth KCCAA Community Service Award winners

by KCCAA Contributor2013 events December 18, 2013January 15, 2014No Comments

First Place: Cindy Wang

Second Place: Charles Li, Elaine Zhu, Mulan Jiang

Third Place: Lucy Li, Michael Chu, Austin Tang, Amanda Li, April Ma, Eric Zhao, Anna Tang

In 2010, the Kansas City Chinese American Association (KCCAA) established an annual KCCAA Community Service Award to encourage primary and secondary school students in the greater Kansas City area to develop stronger awareness of public service and to participate actively in community service. In the past four years we have seen an increasing number of young students involving in volunteer works, particularly under the leadership of KCCAA Youth Hope Fund. This year will be the fourth year we give out awards, and the three categories will be as follows: first place award: $300; second place award $200; third place award: $100.

This award may be offered to any primary or secondary school student in the greater Kansas City area and any qualified student may apply.

An applicant must:

Be an elementary or secondary school student (grades 1 through 12).
Have participated in some form of voluntary work or community service (without compensation) during the past year.
Submit an application letter no more than one page (letter size or A4). The application statement should include the student’s name, school, and contact information for school; a description of the community service experience; the student’s reflections on lessons learned from that experience; name and contact information for the supervisor of the community service experience.

Applications must be received by January 10th, 2014. The Education Committee of the Kansas City Chinese American Association will review the applications and determine the final list of awardees. The awards will be presented in a ceremony to be held during the KCCAA Chinese New Year Gala on January 19th, 2014 at JCCC Yardley Hall.

The Kansas City Chinese Association is grateful to Waddell & Reed Financials and Ivy Funds for generously providing funding for this award.

Please submit applications to kccaa.award@gmail.com by January 10th, 2014.

第四届KCCAA社区服务奖公告

为鼓励大堪城地区中小学生培养公共服务意识，积极参加社区服务，堪城中美联合会于2010年特别设立年度KCCAA社区服务奖。在过去四年中我们高兴地看到在KCCAA Youth Hope Fund带领下，越来越多的年轻学生投入到义务服务。今年是我们第四次颁发社区服务奖励，本年度一等奖奖金300元；二等奖奖金每人200元；三等奖奖金每人100元。

该奖金面向所有大堪城地区中、小学生，符合条件者均可申请。

一、申请人是在校中、小学生（1-12年级）；

二、在过去一年中参加过任何形式的义工和社区服务（无报酬）；

三、递交一份不超过一页A4纸的申请信，讲述自己所作的工作和心得体会，并提供所做工作负责人或联系人姓名和联系方式。同时请在申请信头列明申请人姓名，年龄，电话和email地址。

申请截止日期是2014年1月10日。申请信将由KCCAA教育委员会审阅，经集体讨论决定本年度获奖名单。颁奖仪式将安排在2014年1月19日KCCAA春节晚会期间。

KCCAA社区服务奖金由Waddell & Reed Financials暨Ivy Funds提供赞助，在此一并感谢。

请在2014年1月10日前将申请信发到 kccaa.award@gmail.com

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In Memory of Dr. E. Grey Dimond

by KCCAA ContributorUncategorized December 3, 2013No Comments

Dr. E. Grey Dimond, founder of the University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC) School of Medicine passed away November 3, 2013. His life was devoted to the practice of medicine, to medical education and, for the latter half of his life, to promoting friendship between his country and China.

He was a very early president, 1961-1962, of the American College of Cardiology and, at his death, the oldest surviving president.

During his military service in Japan, Dimond was sent to Shanghai to examine Americans who had been imprisoned there by the Japanese. From that experience, he made himself knowledgeable about China. In 1971, his friend, journalist Edgar Snow, arranged for Dimond and his teacher, Paul Dudley White, to visit China. The two men were the first American physicians in China in twenty-two years. Dimond made the re-establishment of friendly relations between the two countries a prime duty. In his life, he made forty trips to Asia, hosted numerous American groups on visits to China, brought many students from China to UMKC, and, capping all this, he and his wife adopted a Chinese daughter in 1980.

The prominent international correspondent for the New York Times, Harrison Salisbury, wrote in 1988, 'Grey Dimond's energy, imagination and dedication to public and professional welfare are unique in my experience. No one whom I know has done as much single-handed for the betterment of Chinese-American relations and that is only one of his many preoccupations.'

Dr. Dimond's father was from a prominent Mississippi family. The couple was visiting and Christmas shopping in St. Louis, his mother's home city, when she went into labor. Grey was born on his mother's birthday, December 8, 1918, and the family returned to Terre Haute, Indiana five days after his birth. During testimony in Jefferson City, Missouri, attempting to get funding for the new medical school, one of the legislators challenged Dimond as to why a Mississippi native was asking for Missouri money. The reply: "I was born in St. Louis and my mother's family came to Missouri in 1815, before it became a State. When did your family come?" The legislator choked, then recovered with a laugh, and said, 'You win! My father came here from Italy!' Dimond did not volunteer that he had lived in St. Louis only the first five days of his life.

As a youth, Dimond enjoyed sports, lettered in high school in football and track …

Kansas City Chinese Speech Contest For Youth, University Students, and Adults

by KCCAA Contributor2013 events December 2, 2013No Comments

Kansas City Chinese Speech Contest

For Youth, University Students, and Adults

Information and Registration Form

Sponsored by the Confucius Institute of the University of Kansas, the Center for East Asian Studies of the University of Kansas

and the Kansas City Chinese American Association

Preliminary Competition by Video Submission Due Friday, January 10, 2014

Final Competition January 19, 2014

9am to 12pm, Awards Ceremony at 12:30pm

Johnson County Community College (exact times to be confirmed)

Eligibility: Students currently enrolled in a Chinese program in any K12 school, university, or Chinese weekend school (or homeschool Chinese program), and adult learners are eligible. All contestants must be recommended by their respective Chinese language teacher (can be parent/homeschool teacher).

Please email the form below (can be in the body of an email) as instructed. Contestants should then submit a video entry by uploading it onto YouTube using the “Unlisted” privacy setting, then email the link to your video to ciku@ku.edu.

Here is a link to the YouTube help page on Unlisted videos: http://preview.tinyurl.com/bgp6cqt

In your email with the link, please include the following text:

By emailing the link to my “Unlisted” YouTube video, I hereby give permission for Kansas City Chinese Speech Contest judges to view and judge my speech competition entry.

The top contestants in each division will be invited to compete in the finals at Johnson County Community College on January 19, 2014.

Technical requirements:

Please record your video in MPEG-4

Do not add background music or other sound effects; Do not use PowerPoint, props, or other visual aids; Outdoor or indoor backgrounds are acceptable.

A quiet environment, with as little ambient noise as possible, is recommended

Videocamera angle should show the speaker’s head and shoulders (or from the waist up).

All speeches should be memorized and delivered in Mandarin Chinese without notes, printed materials, or Powerpoint. The contestant should compose his or her original speech. Speeches may quote other authors’ works but the majority of the work should be original. The contestant’s teacher may check the accuracy of the speech and suggest edits consistent with the student’s level of training.

The speech time limits and themes for each division are listed below.

It is the responsibility of the contestant’s teacher to place each student in the most appropriate category commensurate with the student’s training. The organizing committee, however, reserves …

斯诺研讨会肯珀分享中国见闻

by KCCAA ContributorUncategorized November 25, 2013August 1, 2021Comments are Disabled

密苏里大学堪城分校（UMKC）埃德加‧斯诺基金会（Edgar Snow，简称ESMF）日前在堪萨斯市具歷史性的旧火车站举行年会，应邀担任主讲人的密州堪城市立图书馆馆长肯珀（Crosby Kemper III）在会上和大家分享他在中国教学一年的见闻。年会约有300多人参加。

当晚，首先由ESMF名誉主席密州堪萨斯市市长夫人柯利夫顿-詹姆斯（Licia Clifton-James）及UMKC校长夫人莫顿（Yvette Morton）致欢迎词。主持晚会的ESMF执行长南茜‧希尔（Nancy Hill）介绍斯诺纪念基金会的宗旨，为通过中美人民之间的文化、经济和教育合作，致力培养双方更深刻和持久的友谊关系。斯诺被认为是第一个参访中共领导人毛泽东的西方记者，著有「西行漫记」，纪录从中共创建至1930年期间的中国共产主义运动。她也指出，斯诺研讨会每隔一年分别轮流在北京和堪城召开，明年在堪城召开的第16届斯诺研讨会，主题为「斯诺的堪萨斯城：艺术和创业相交的地方」。