Daily Dose & Announcements: 11/06/09
November 6, 2009
>>Wells Fargo Awards Grants to over 90 SF Schools
>>Special Aircraft Tour with Cathay Pacific Airways
>>JCCNC: California Nisei College Diploma Project Seeks Honorees
>>Assemblymember Warren Furutani Schedules Press Conference for AB 37
>>Special Screening: “You Don’t Know Jack: The Jack Soo Story”
Compiled by Melissa He
BAY/CAL
Wells Fargo Awards Grants to over 90 SF Schools
As local schools face budget shortfalls, Wells Fargo is stepping up to contribute $90,000 to schools in San Francisco as part of a larger effort to help local schools in need. Wells Fargo is hosting a special grant-giving presentation on Thursday at Everett Middle School (450 Church St.)
In addition, in partnership with three local nonprofits, Wells Fargo will award three students with $1,000 scholarships for their academic and extracurricular achievements. Stephanie Lee and Emily Tam are two of the three students who were selected to receive the $1,000 scholarship.
Special Aircraft Tour with Cathay Pacific Airways
20 members from Boys & Girls Club of San Francisco enjoyed a special afternoon with 5 cabin crew onboard a 747 at SFO on Thursday, 11/5. The SF-based cabin crew from the award-winning airline treated the kids to an afternoon of activities and special aircraft tours that introduced them to the career of flying. It was a successful mini career day.
Headquartered in Hong Kong, Cathay Pacific Airways was named “Airline of the Year 2009″ by the Skytrax World Airline Awards. From North America, Cathay Pacific offers daily nonstop service to Hong Kong from Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, Toronto and Vancouver. For more info, visit www.cathaypacific.com/us.
JCCNC: California Nisei College Diploma Project Seeks Honorees
San Francisco - The Japanese Cultural and Community Center of Northern California (JCCCNC) will implement the California Nisei College Diploma Project (CA Nisei Project), to provide support of Assembly Bill 37, authored by Assembly Member Warren Furutani, that bestows Honorary degrees to Japanese American citizens, living or deceased, who were forced to leave their college studies and incarcerated in America’s concentration camps during WWII.
Effective October 11, 2009, AB 37 requires that Trustees of the California State University and the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges grant honorary degrees to all people whose education was interrupted because of their incarceration during WWII.
The CA Nisei College Diploma Project seeks to identify Japanese Americans, or family representatives, who are eligible to benefit from Assembly Bill 37. If you know someone who may be eligible to receive and honorary degree or to find out if any efforts have begun in your region, please contact the Project Coordinator, Aya Ino, at (415) 567-5505 or by email at caniseiproject@jcccnc.org.
For more info, please visit www.jcccnc.org.
EVENT: Assemblymember Warren Furutani Schedules Press Conference for AB 37
DESCRIPTION: 2 press conferences are to be held by Assemblymember Warren Furutani next Thursday in San Francisco and next Friday in Los Angeles regarding AB 37, effective October 11, 2009.
DETAILS: Thurs. 11/12. 11:30-12:30PM. JCCCNC, Conference Room A & B, 1840 Sutter St. San Francisco, CA; Fri. 11/13. 12-1PM. JACCC, Garden Room, 244 South Sa Pedro St (at 2nd & 3rd Streets), Los Angeles, CA.
CONTACT: http://www.jcccnc.org/about/contact.htm#driving
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“You Don’t Know Jack: The Jack Soo Story”
San Francisco — The Asian Pacific Democratic Club and Public Defender Jeff Adachi invite you to an exclusive preview presentation of “You Don’t Know Jack: The Jack Soo Story.” You Don’t Know Jack is a new one-hour documentary film by filmmaker and our city’s Public Defender Jeff Adachi premiered at the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival in March 2009.
The film tells the fascinating story of a pioneering American entertainer Jack Soo, an Oakland native who became the first Asian American to be cast in the lead role in a regular television series Valentine’s Day (1963), and later starred in the popular comedy show Barney Miller (1975-1978, laying the groundwork for a new generation of Asian American actors and comedians.
The film features rare footage and interviews with Soo’s co-stars and friends, including actors George Takei, Nancy Kwan and Max Gail, comedians Steve Landesberg and Gary Austin, and producer Hal Kanter, tracing Jack’s early beginnings as a nightclub singer and comedian, to his breakthrough role as Sammy Fong in Rogers and Hammerstein’s Broadway play and film version of The Flower Drum Song. The film also explores why Soo, a former internee who was actually born Goro Suzuki,was forced to change his name in the post WWII era, in order to perform in clubs in the mid-west. Because of his experiences, throughout his career in films and television, Soo refused to play roles that were demeaning to Asian Americans and often spoke out against negative ethnic portrayals.
When: Monday, 11/9. 6:30PM refreshments; 7PM movie; 8PM Q&A.
Where: Dolby Laboratories, 100 Potrero Ave, San Francisco, CA.
RSVP: apdcsf@gmail.com or leave a message at (415) 333-4338.
For more information, please visit www.jacksoo.com.
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