Thank Yous & Shout-Outs from Michelle Yuen, UPAAN-LA

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Dear UPAAN-LAers & friends,

Thank you so much to those who joined us Friday night at Pink Taco in Century City. It was REALLY awesome for me to hang with the old friends and meet new ones. Just the perfect dose of what I needed.


A BIG THANK YOU to Wesley Nakamura (C'06), my (now retired) partner in crime here on the UPAAN-LA board. It has been a wonderful time working with you the last 3 years. It was meant-to-be that o'glorious day we met at PAACH during your senior year... while you were napping on that couch.  ;)  Best of luck with your endeavors the next few years, Mr. Cycling Extraordinaire. (Please be our cameraman at future UPAAN-LA events!)


I would also like to take this opportunity to formally welcome Gloria Lee (C'97, GPU'98, WG'07) to UPAAN-LA as one of our Los Angeles representatives. If you didn't get a chance to meet her last night, here are the top 3 reasons why she rocks:

(1) Without her presence and student leadership during her undergraduate tenure, my experience (and anyone around my time and behind me) at Penn would have been vastly different. She is one of the founders of APSC (Penn's Asian Pacific Student Coalition). As an alum, she is one of the OG trailblazers that founded UPAAN and established this alumni group as officially-recognized by the university's alumni office;

(2) Her leadership here in Los Angeles is an inspiration. She is organized, ambitious, and gets things done. Not only is she busy with her day job at Fox Cable Networks devising clever strategies to sell more cable content, she still manages to find the time to organize mixers for *several* different groups, run half marathons, and be a friend to others;

and last but not least..

(3) My friends ...she has THREE (3) Penn degrees.


Now, moving forward, please save-the-date for our next Quarterly Mixer on Saturday, February 6, 2010. It will be our 3rd Annual Lunar New Year Dim Sum Brunch celebration. Mark your calendars.

The UPAAN-LA Quarterly Mixer Kickoff award for "Favorite Traveler in the Los Angeles Basin" goes to Dong Soo Lee (W'96) and his wife, Jisun Han, for driving all the way from Carlsbad (near San Diego) to attend our event. Thank you Dong Soo for your enthusiastic presence and energy!

Thank you all again & look forward to seeing you next.
Cheers,
michelle

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University of Pennsylvania Asian Alumni Network (UPAAN)
Los Angeles Chapter

::LA Reps::
Gloria Lee C'97, GPU'98, WG'07
Michelle Yuen C'02


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