Second Open Letter To NMU Alumni Progress Report on Our Organizing Effort and Final Call for Nomination of Chairs and Presidents Dear NMU ALumni, Hope all is well with you all. Time passes fast. It has been already more than 2 weeks since we issued our first ONMUAA newsletter calling for participation and comments for the current organizing effort. Although not every alumnus(a) was able to contact us, we did receive a lot of inputs for the organizing activity from our alumni pool in various countries. At the same time, we have been making fast progress in each of the major tasks we are working on. Briefly: 1. The Bylaw: Benquan Shen, PH78, and his group members, has had the second draft of the Chinese version commented in the bylaw Group, and an English version has also been made and released through email to all Steering Committee Members for comments. It is now being forwarded to you for your review and comments. It is our hope we will be able to finalize it by incorporating your comments at this WEEKEND; The current bylaw has set forth the regulation that ONMUAA takes the Board-Executive Committee form of administration as we explained in the 1st open letter. One Chair, two Co-Chairs, of the Governing Board (GB), will be elected to lead the Board activity which has no power, but enpower the Executive Committee (EC). EC has one President and two Vice Presidents, as well as the Committee members selected by the Presidents and approved by the Board. Since the current Steering Committe Members are representative of all schools (dept.) and various school years, the Committee has made its decision to convert the current Committee into the Board and each Committee Member is therefore a Board Member. If you are interested in serving in the Board, you are welcome and please feel free to contact us anytime. Vancancies will be filled out and adjustment will be made if necessary by more than half of the votes from the Board Members in the future. 2. The Directory: Qingyi Wei, PH78, and his group members, has circulated it several times in the group for comments and a circulation among all Board Members was also made earlier for final approval. It is now close to readiness for final release. The latest version has been set up in the Official ONMUAA Homepage for release soon. If you still have updated info and suggestion to it, please forward to Qingyi (qwei@request.mda.uth.tmc.edu) by the weekend; 3. The Homepage: Fuhu Wang and Jianlong Mu, MD79, have worked very hard and efficiently to have made the web page available now. Comments are being incorporated before the final release. Stay tuned for it (SOON). Please contact Fuhu, wangf@danis.med.uottowa.edu, or Jianlong, jlm@aretha.jax.org; 4. The Registration: The place for registration will depend on the Presidents elected of the Executive Committee of our Association and their decision, as well as approval from the Board. Qianjin Liu, MD78, has made special inquiries into the procedure which might vary from State to State; 5. The Nomination and Election: The most important and pressing task now for all NMU alumni is to foster the election of both the Governing Board Chairs and Executive Committee Presidents. A preliminary nomination by the Board Members (up to this moment) has found out the following candidates: Governing Board: Ninjun Jiang, MD77, St Louis, MO; Qianjin Liu, MD78, St Louis, MO; Yongjian Liu, MD78, San Francisco, CA; Youcheng Liu, PH78, Boston, MA; Shan Lu, MD77, Worcester, MA; Liangfeng Tao, PH79, Lowell, MA; Executive Committee Presidents: Zhigang He Ninjun Jiang Ning Jin Yongjian Liu Li Lu Benquan Shen Fuhu Wang Qingyi Wei Secretories: Fuhu Wang Ning Jin Benquan Shen Summary of Justification for their Nomination Governing Board Ninjun Jiang: Earliest pioneer to co-compile the alumni directory wide connection in MDs and with Nanjing campus highest Motivation for alumni work Long term vision Qianjin Liu: Wide connection with MD78 and others highest Motivation for alumni work Group leader in Steering Committee Yongjian Liu: ONMUAA Initiator Steering Committee Coordinator Highest motivation Widest connection in MDs Excellent organizing ability and accessibility Experienced in administration with sharp vision Youcheng Liu: Helped with the coordination of the Steering Committee Highly motivated, longed for the association for long Always willing to help with alumni affairs limited time available Shan Lu: Well established career: Assistant Professor, Medical Practioner, and research leader Founder of Chinese Physicians Association in America New England Chapter Experienced organizer and leader Long term vision of ONMUAA Highest sense of responsibility Wide connection with amluni, Nanjing and others Excellent reputation Liangfeng Tao: Alumni affairs activist ONMUAA Initiator Wide connection with alumni in various depts, faculty, Nanjing campus and other Great ability to organize and lead Experienced Administrator at large coorporations Executive Committee Presidents Zhigang He: Well established career Well published in Cell and Nature Journals Excellent reputation on Nanjing Campus Highly motivated spirit and dedication Ning Jin: Highest capability of management Highest motivation and dedication to serve alumni Demonstrated alumni affairs experience Good representation of Minority depts. Li Lu: One of the earliest alumni directory compiler Original NMU alumni homepage initiator and excellent web experience Wide alumni connection Benquan Shen: Long term alumni activist First caller for formation of ONMUAA Excellent experience in alumni and students asociation Connected MDs and PHs this time to make ONMUAA possible Did all the behind-curtain organizing work this time Bylaw writer Fuhu Wang: Official ONMUAA homepage master Highly motivated work spirit Excellent sense responsibility and great capability Future homepage manager Qingyi Wei: Highly capable, responsible, dedicated to alumni Excellent connection with MDs and PHs Earliest alumni directory compiler Originator of current alumni directory Great potential for Executive Committee management Excellent Experience in Bejing for NMUAA management and CSSA management at Johns Hopkins Obviously, there are many other highly qualified potential candidates whom we still need your help to find out and nominate. After you receive this message, could you please self nominate or nominate others for the following positions with possible justification, by this Saturday: Governing Board Chair 1 Co-Chairs 2 Executive Committee President 1 Vice Presidents 2 Secretory 2 Send your nomination or vote through email to Ning Jin, NS84, njin@umich.edu, or Benquan Shen, PH78, bqshen@itsa.ucsf.edu. The Committee will conduct formal votes counting on Sunday morning and publicize the results Sunday night with the declaration of Establishment of ONMUAA, which means we are making it for 8/18/96, a GOOD LUCK symbol for our association! If you have any comments and suggestions, please let us know. Let's work hard together for the final weekend. Again, your participation is the key and will be of great value. ONMUAA Steering Committee Coordinators Yongjian Liu, MD78 San Francisco Youcheng Liu, PH78 Boston 8/16/96