Washington Business and Technology Institute - P.A.J. Forum 2 (Public Administration & Judicial Forum)

A Special Tribute to U.S. Senator Harry Reid
By Tiffany Chang

Leaders of the Asian Ameirican community has the following designed event and dinner party for our distinguished member of the U.S. Senate Honorable Harry Reid: The date will be on Friday, August 24, 2001 at 6:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. The Function is for A spicial Tibute to US Senator Harry Reid. The location is at the Asia Palace Chinese Restaurant on 5485 W. Sahara Ave., Las Vegas, NV 89148. It is on the cross streets of Sahara and Lindell. Its phone number is (702) 364-5559.
The Keynote Speaker is U.S. Senator Harry Reid. Guests of Honor will be U.S. Senator John Ensign, U.S. Representatives Shelley Berkley, Jim Gibbons, Nevada Attorney General Frankie Sue Del Papa, and Las Vegas City Mayor Oscar Goodman.
Special Guests will be: Dr. Roy Adamson, Emeritus Professor of Pepperdine University; Nancy Becker, Justice of the Nevada Supreme Court; Denis Brodsky, Las Vegas School Board of Trustees; Lisa Brown, Family Court Judge; Terry Care, Nevada State Senator and Mrs. Terry Care; C.Y. Chen, Representative, Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in the United States; Radha Chanderraj, Commissioner, Nevada Gaming Commission; Elaine Chao, Secretary, U.S. Department of Labor (The Event and Dinner Party for a Special Tribute to U.S. Secretary of Department of Labor Honorable Elaine Chao is in our planning now.); Dr. Sue Fawn Chung, Professor of History, UNLV; Bud Cranor, Southern Nevada Director, Governor Kenny Guinn's Office; Mark Denton, District Court Judge; Robert Gronauer, Constable, Las Vega Township; Nadia Jurani, Commissioner, Las Vegas Equal Right Commission; Jason C. Hu, Past Representative, Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in the United States; Sonia Joya, State Director, U.S. Senator John Ensign's Office in Nevada; Jerry Keller, Sheriff, Las Vegas Metropolitan Policy; Erin Kenny, Commissioner, Clark County; Cedreic Kerns, Las Vegas Municipal Court Judge; Mary Kincaid, Commissioner, Clark County; Betsy Kolkoski, Las Vegas Municipal Court Judge; Myron Leavitt, Justice of the Nevada Supreme Court; Michelle Leavitt-Fitzpatrick, Las Vegas Municipal Judge; Theresa Malone, Member, Nevada Board of Education; William Maupin, Justice of the Nevada Supreme Court; Lynette Boggs McDonald, Las Vegas City Councilwoman; Cheryl Moss, Family Court Judg; Jerry Reynoldeson, Director, Senator Harry Reid's Nevada Office; Nancy Saitta, District Court Judge; Tod Story, District Director, Congresswoman Shelley Berkley's Office; Dr. William Thompson, UNLV Professor of Public Administration; Vicotor C. Y. Tseng, Director General, Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in San Francisco; Natalie Tyrrell, North Las Vegas Justice Court Judge; Virginia Valentine, City Manager of Las Vegas; Valorie Vega, District Court Judge; Dr. Kang-pei Wang, President, Tunghai University; Jessie Walsh, Las Vegas Municipal Court Judge; Steve Wark, Chairman, Nevada Republican Party; Myrna Williams, Commissioner , Clark County; Ching-mi Wu, Chairman of Board, Tunghai University; Dr. Linda Young, Chairperson, Las Vegas Ethics Committee; Ann Zimmerman, Las Vegas Municipal Court Judge.
Chairpersons of the Event and Dinner party are: Tony Lei, EdD; President, WBTI and Chairman, Chinese American Academic Association of Nevada; R. D. Prabhu, MD, Chairperson, CAN-DO; Raj Chanderraj, MD, Founder, Friends of India, and Rita Vaswani, Executive Staff, CAN-DO.
The following invited hosts has been announced by Dr. Peter Lok with a fax to all the same of his list of people for the event in Las Vegas: Kewin Butts, Manager as Representative, Golden Nugget Casino and Hotel; Raj Chanderraj, Founder, Friends of India; Sapatra Chemprachum, Chairperson, Thai Cultural Arts Association of Las Vegas; Albert Chang, Publisher, Las Vegas Chinese Yellow Pages; Yen Wen Cheng, Past Las Vegas Director, (Chinese) New Asian Weekly; Cathy Chin, Vice President, H. F. Entreprises Co.; Andres Costas, MD, Chairperson, Anesthesia Dept., UMC; Dolly De Leon, Past President , Philippine Chamber of Commerce; Jeny Del Rosario, Past President, Philippine Chamber of Commerce; Mark Dunkeson, General Manager, Texas Station Casino & Hotel; Cathy Endy, Special Coordinator, Southern Nevada Chinese Weekly; Larry Espenqiua Larry Espinueva, Vice President, Great Ilocano Association; Jakie Gaugham, Owner, Plaza Hotel & Casino; Sonny Ho, QME, Perpetual Chiropractic Physicians, Inc.; Oscar Jomacion, President and Publisher, Nevada Examiner; Bob Jose, Editor-in-Chief, Las Vegas Star Magazine; Steve Kwon, Founder, Asian Chamber of Commerce; Benson Lee, Esq., Benson Lee Attorney at Law; Tony Lei, EdD, Chairman, Chinese American Academic Association of Nevada; Jose Lim, Realtor, Country Wide Realty Group Inc.; Anthony Lu, Publisher, Southern Nevada Chinese Weekly; Ann Melton, President, Thai Association of Las Vegas Cora Murillo, DC, Chiropractic Nevada. R. D. Prabhu, MD, Chairperson, CAN-DO; Kate Recto, President , Philippine Chamber of Commerce of Southern Nevada; David Risdon, General Manager of Marketing, Horseshoe Casino & Hotel; Judy Rock, President, Chinese American Association of Las Vegas; Francisco Sanchez, MD, President, Heritage Medical Serve; Tonie Sison, Chairperson, Philippine Chamber of Commerce of Southern Nevada; Edward Swindle, CEO, Investment Bankers Industrialists; I-yu Teng, CEO, TEFA; Secretary of Board, Tunghai University; Yuan Chuan Tsai, Chairman, 62 Sewing Tsai Co.; Joey Villaflor, MD, Member, Board of Health, State of Nevada; Rita Vaswani, Executive Staff, CAN-DO; Lillian Wallace, President, Seniors United; Yale Wang, Chairperson, Yale Funds, Management & Research Co.; and Roddy Wong, DC, President, CAN- DO.
The Coordinator of this Event is Dr. Peter Lok, Chairperson, Coordinating Committee, WBTI. Guests are scheduled to be 250 at the present time, but they will probably be increased because enthusiastical business and community leader are participating as chairmen and hosts increasingly. Attire for the event is business. If you are also interested to be a chairperson or host for this event, please call Dr. Peter Lok at 732-0178 on or before Friday, August 10, 2001.