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Friends of the Chinatown Library

FRIENDS SCHOLARSHIP AWARDS

                                                          Scholarships and Awards June 2007

Scholarships of $1,500 were awarded to ten 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.

Jack Hom Scholarship Endowment  

             Betty Chiu           Wilson HS to UC Berkeley

             Alice Tse           Marshall HS to UC Berkeley               

                         

Dr. Richard Wong Award

                     Lena Truong                   Wilson HS to UCLA     

 Gloria Liu in Honor of her Mother

     Jennifer Tso                     Lincoln HS to UC Davis

Kong Chow Benevolent Association Award

        Wai Shan Wong              Chatsworth HS to UC Berkeley

Moytel Apartments in Memory of Nelson Moy Sr.

          Kenny Ng              Chatsworth HS to UC Irvine

           

Gold Stream Village in Memory of Nelson Moy Sr.

         Jasmine Liu            Chatsworth HS  to UC San Diego

Stanton and Grace Wong Award

  Matthew Lam           Marshall HS  to UC San Diego

Los Angeles Chinese Guardsman

            Albert Ly        Verdugo Hills HS to UCLA

Paul Inafuku in Memory of Ellen Inafuku

  Raymond Huang       Chatsworth HS to UC Berkeley

 

At the Evans Community Adult School graduation ceremony, the Friends of the Chinatown Library awarded $500 scholarships to four Chinatown Branch and Central Library users for their first year of college. The scholarships were donated by Yvonne Nishio, Dr. Pedro and Mrs. Pek Chan,     Mr. and Mrs. Winston and Becky Bowen, with a matching grant from SBC Foundation in memory of Mrs. Ricki O’Leary in honor of her many years of service to the LA Public Library docents.        Best Wishes toward their future goals.                                  

Romina Esposito            Los Angeles City College 

Nara Mora                     Los Angeles City College

Rosa Gastelum                Los Angeles City College

Grisela Castillo                Glendale Community College      

                                                     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.