APEX EVENTS...

05/01: White Rock 'N' Roll Run (PACEsetters) - for Runners and Volunteers
05/08: 14th Annual Asian Festival presented by the GDAACC in collaboration with the Crow Collection of Asian Art
05/22: CIE LAMP Seminar - "Leadership Assessment and Mentoring Program" sponsored by Raytheon

COMMUNITY EVENTS...

05/01: CIE Professional Seminar - "Entrepreneurship and Investment Program"
05/01: Plano Candidates Forum sponsored by DFW AACC
05/08: Volunteer Opportunity: Asian Festival Bone Marrow Registry Drive
05/08: Table Tennis Tournament
05/10: Volunteer Opportunity: GDAACC Education Committee
05/20: AXA Advisors Women's Business Forum sponsored by GDAACC - "View From The Top"
05/25: Dallas Summer Musicals: Miss Saigon
00/00: Dallas Summer Musicals: Special Ticket Prices Save 50% all summer!

APEX EVENTS...
05/01: White Rock 'N' Roll Run (PACEsetters) - for Runners and Volunteers

Date: Saturday, May 1
Time: 7:00am (volunteers), 8:00am (runners)
Location: Winfrey Point, White Rock Lake
Coordinator(s): Lily Qian (Run Captain) lily@apexdallas.org, Angela Lang (Aid Station Volunteers) angela@apexdallas.org

Be among the first to see Winfrey Point's new face lift and at the same time help improve White Rock Lake. All proceeds goes towards increasing security lighting around the lake. There will be live bands at each mile, incredible race packet goodies, and REAL food at the finish line.

Coordinator: Lily Qian (Run Captain)
The race starts at 8:00 AM, which means that APEX runners will should arrive at 7:30 AM. It is highly recommended that runners/volunteers car pool to reduce traffic congestion around the lake. Individuals will pay their own entry fees. Hopefully, we can register runners in bulk and therefore have Lily or another run captain pick up the race packets (April 28 - April 30 @ Luke's Locker Dallas) for everyone.

Angela Lang (Aid Station Volunteers)
We are looking for 10-15 volunteers to help at the White Rock n Roll Run. Volunteers are needed to monitor the courses and to help at the water stops. This will allow us the opportunity to do some service while cheering on our APEX runners.

APEX EVENTS...
05/08: The 14th Annual Asian Festival

Date: Saturday, May 8
Time: 11am - 6pm
Location: Annette Strauss Artist Square
(adjacent to the Meyerson Symphony Hall, in the Arts District area of downtown Dallas)
Contact: to volunteer, please contact James Song, james@apexdallas.org or Lily Qian, lily@apexdallas.org

Volunteers are needed for this event. For more information on volunteering as well as a volunteer form, please click here.

The Greater Dallas Asian American Chamber of Commerce in collaboration with the Crow Collection of Asian Art presents you with the opportunity to be a part of the largest ethnic celebration in the Metroplex. The 14th Annual Asian Festival will be held on Saturday, May 8, 2004, from 11am-6pm. The Festival will take place at the Annette Strauss Artist Square, adjacent to the Meyerson Symphony Hall, in the Arts District area of downtown Dallas. As a part of the festival The Dallas Koi Kichi organization will present a Koi Show and Competition. This show will feature many award winning Kois, involving judges from California and Oklahoma.

If you have any questions regarding the event, please contact Irma Kusuma at 972 241 8250 or email events@gdaacc.com.

For an event flyer, please click here.

APEX EVENTS...
05/22: CIE LAMP Seminar - "Leadership Assessment and Mentoring Program"

Date: Saturday, May 22
Time: 9:00 am - 12:30 pm (Sign in and breakfast starts at 8:00 am)
Location: UTD Green Hall GR 4.428 (for a UTD campus map, please visit http://www.utdallas.edu/utdgeneral/utmaps/)
2601 N. Floyd Road
Richardson, TX 75083
Contact: My-Linh Ha, My-Linh_Ha@Raytheon.com or Hsin Ying Lin, Hsin-Ying.Lin@hp.com
Cost: $2 for APEX Dallas members and APEX Toastmasters members, $10 for non-members

To register, please go to: http://www.cie-dfw.org

Sponsored by: Raytheon, Co-sponsored by: AACC, DACACAC, NTUAA, and Toastmaster Club Texas Dragon

For more information about the sponsors and the complete program agenda, please click here.

The Leadership Assessment and Mentoring Program of CIE/USA DFW chapter cordially invites you to be part of yet another wonderful networking and learning experience on May 22, 2004 at UTD's Green Hall.

This year LAMP features a half-day of lecture sessions. This leadership symposium will focus primarily on sharpening your communication skills and techniques vital to your path to success. We have invited three outstanding lecturers for the program, Mr. Dean Lindsay, Ms. JoAnn Georgostathis, and Ms. Pauline Shirley.

Internationally renowned business development strategist and professional speaker, Dean Lindsay is the founder of The Progress Agents, an idea studio dedicated to empowering progress in sales, service and employee motivation. He is a contributor to the national audio publication, Selling Power Live and writes for various business publications. Dean Lindsay's talk will focus on innovative ways to strengthening commitment towards organizational goals and find progress in change.

JoAnn is Senior Training and Development Specialist of Raytheon Learning Institute. She provides training for the Strategic Leadership Program (SLP) and the Leading for Value Program (LfV) for Team Leaders throughout Raytheon. JoAnn explores vital keys to help those who partake to not just exist in a position, but fulfill their destiny.

Pauline, Executive Solutions Unlimited President and 1994-1995 Toastmasters International President, has an international track record of building leaders. Pauline demonstrates the art of delegating effectively.

Please join us for a day of sharing, networking and learning.

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED to register potential bone marrow and stem cell donors at the Asian Festival on May 8. Volunteers should try to arrive at 10am for training, and do not need to stay the entire day. Please come out and help! Volunteers will be handing out brochures, and asking people to register as donors.

Over 30,000 children and adults each year, just in the U.S., are diagnosed with life-threatening diseases such as lymphoma or leukemia. In many of these cases, their only hope for survival is a bone marrow or blood stem cell transplant. There is national registry of potential bone marrow donors, where patients can search for a suitable match, however there is a great shortage of potential donors from ethnic minorities. Patients searching for a match outside their immediate family are more likely to find a match from someone in their same ethnicity or race. As of July 2003, there were only 300,000 donors of Asian descent registered in the entire United States. The number of potential Caucasian donors is over 10 times that number.

Also take into consideration the fact that the US National Bone Marrow Donor Program is the largest and most diverse in the world. There are only 100,000 registered donors in all of China, less in other countries in Asia. The chance of Asian patients finding a match outside their immediate family is incredibly low with the number of donors available.

Please help increase the numbers of potential donors and improve the odds! We should do all that we can to help register potential donors. Donor registry is free for minorities and only requires a small blood sample (less than two tablespoons) and consent to be in the registry. Consent to be in the registry is not consent to be a donor. If a match is made, potential donors need to go through more tests and they may change their minds at any time.

COMMUNITY/CULTURAL EVENTS...
05/08: Table Tennis Tournament presented by the Multi-Cultural Outreach Roundtable (MCOR)

Date: Saturday, May 8
Time: starts at 9:00am and will last throughout the afternoon
Location: Carpenter Recreation Center @ Coit Road
Contact: Thomas Tsang

As Chair of the Recreation/Facilities subcommittee of the Multi-cultural Outreach Roundtable(MCOR) of the City of Plano, I would like to invite you and your organization to participate in the above referenced event. The event will take place @ Carpenter Recreation Center @ Coit Road. It will start @ 9:00 a.m. with Mayor Pat Evans's introductory speech and, depends on the competition, will probably last thru. the afternoon. It will be divided into the following groups:

A - rating of 1800 & above, entry fee $10-15, award - price money
B - rating of 1500 & above, entry fee $5, award - trophy
C - age 16 & up, entry fee $5, award - trophy
D - age 14 & up, entry fee $5, award - trophy
E - age 12 & up, entry fee $5, award - trophy
F - general, no limit on age & rating, entry fee $5, award - trophy
G - Team competition, made up of 3 players., entry fee $20-25, award - trophy

One of the purposes of this tournament is to reach out to different ethnic groups in Plano, via sports.(in this case - table tennis) The City of Plano is sponsoring this event.

COMMUNITY/CULTURAL EVENTS...
05/10: Volunteer Opportunity: GDAACC Education Committee

Date: Monday, May 10
Time: 6:00 pm
Location: GDAACC Office
11171 Harry Hines
Dallas, TX
Contact: Gal Jumao-as or Karen Liu at 972-241-8250

The education committee of the Greater Dallas Asian American Chamber of Commerce is seeking volunteers for its education banquet event that is to be held on June 16.

Please send a representative or recruit from your organization/community individuals who may have the passion for community involvement or community service.

Agenda items:

1. Excellence in Education – June 16, 2004
2. Project Sponsorships
3. Creation of sub-Committees

COMMUNITY/CULTURAL EVENTS...
05/25: Dallas Summer Musicals: Miss Saigon

Date: May 25 - June 6
Time: Performances are Tuesdays through Sunday 8 PM with matinees on Saturdays and Sunday at 2 PM first week
and Tuesday through Saturday 8 PM with matinees on Thursday, Saturday and Sunday second week.
Location: The Music Hall at Fair Park

From the writers of Les Misérables, Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg, the return of one of the most popular musicals of all time; originally produced by Cameron Mackintosh at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane in London, this newly conceived touring production is produced by Big League Theatricals.

This epic love story of our time of two young lovers torn apart by the fortunes of destiny and held together by a burning passion and the fate of a small child, Miss Saigon has been a triumphant worldwide success, seen by over 28 million people in 13 countries and 8 languages.

Please visit http://www.dallassummermusicals.org/2004saigon.htm for more information.

For a complete information about Broadway's Classic Love Story, Miss Saigon, please click here.