Scholarships and Awards June 2009

Scholarships of $1,500 were awarded to eight college-bound seniors who are Chinatown Branch Library users, academically accomplished, and good citizens who serve their schools and communities.  Best Wishes in their future endeavors!

At the Evans Community Adult School graduation ceremony, the Friends of the Chinatown Library awarded $500 scholarships to six accomplished students continuing to their first year of college. The scholarships were donated by Yvonne Nishio, Susan Shum and Tommy Lieu, in memory of their parents Fat Lung Lieu and Kam Ore Ng Lieu, Lane and Marilyn Hauck in memory of their parents Edwin and Ahlin Luke, Mr. and Mrs. Winston and Becky Bowen, with a matching grant from SBC/AT&T Foundation, in memory of Mrs. Ricki O’Leary in honor of her many years of service to the LA Public Library docents.  Best Wishes!                                     

                                                     Congratulations to All!

                                       Former Scholarship Winner's Success Story

In the early 1990's, Frances Hui, was a student who won a Friends' Scholarship.  She is currently a Reference Librarian at Las Positas College in Livermore, California.  She writes the following:

"Right now, I am working in Livermore at Las Positas College, which is a community college serving approximately 8,000 students.  The students are wonderful and motivated, but the best part are my fellow librarians and library staff.  We have a very supportive team environment in the LPC Library.  At LPC, librarians have faculty status and I got tenure last year. . . .

Prior to LPC, I worked at the Oakland Public Library where I served as the children's librarian . . .

When I first graduated from UCLA in the spring of 1993, I returned to the Bay Area to start my job search.  There were very few openings then so I volunteered at the San Leandro Public Library and worked part-time at Holy Names College in Oakland.  The HNC job soon expanded into a full-time position and when the director retired I became the director of the library services. . . .

One of the first positive things to happen to me as a budding librarian was to receive the Mr. Jack Hom Scholarship.  What an honor and thrill that was!  Not only did the scholarship help fund my education, it was a great boost to my confidence to know that the . . . scholarship committee believed in my potential.  So thank you again to Mr. Hom, the scholarship committee, and the Friends of the Chinatown Library. . . ."

The Friends would like to thank Frances Hui for sharing her success story with us.