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You are Invited to Attend
Our Chinese New Year Celebration
To Welcome
The Year of the Dragon
Sunday, January 15, 2012
5:30 to 9:00 pm
InterContinental Hotel on the Country Club Plaza,
Kansas City, Missouri
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| 5:30 |
Registration
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| 5:40 - 6:40 |
Complimentary Wine Reception with Hors d’oeuvres - Sponsored by Access Advertising LLC
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Silent Auction - All proceeds benefit to our Scholarship funds
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Harp by Michael Oshiver
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| 6:40 |
Drum Rollers welcome the 60’ Dragon entrance
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| 6:45 |
MC Susan (Xiaodan) Song introduce Society Vice president John Phillips
Welcome by John Phillips, New Year's Event Chairman
Acknowledgments
Even sponsored by Michael Newburger Foundation
Banquet sponsored by Husch Blackwell Sanders LLP
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| 7:00 |
Ten Course Chinese Dinner (see menu below)
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| 7:10 |
Children’s Dance by Zhang Li School of Dance
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Live Auction by Larry Moore
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| 8:00 |
Award Ceremonies
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Key Note Speaker, Sheree Willis, University of Kansas Confucius Institute
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| 8:25 |
Culture Performances
Drum Rollers
Silk Road Dance Academy
Zhang Li School of Dance
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$80 per person ($50 tax deductible)
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$750 table of ten people ($450 tax deductible)
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$1,000 table of ten people plus 2012 Dragon Boat team sponsorship ($700 tax deductible)
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| Chinese Dinner Menu |
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1. Bamboo shoots 冬笋
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2. Wine Chicken 醉鸡
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3. Pickled vegetable 泡菜
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4. Seafood rolls 海鲜卷
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5. Marinated Beef 腌牛肉
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6. Chinese Mushrooms 冬菇
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1. Lettuce warp 鸡松
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2. Orange Beef 鸡松
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3. Fried Rice & Steam Rice 炒饭和白饭
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4. Eggplant with bean curd 茄子豆腐
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5. Shrimp 去皮干烧大虾
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6. Green beans 四季豆
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7. Asparagus Chicken 芦笋鸡片
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8. Combination Lo Mein 什锦捞面
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1. Sesame seeds ball 芝麻球
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2. Fruits 水果
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Come to celebrate The Year of the Dragon with us and
WIN
One night’s stay in
the InterContinental Presidential Suite!
InterContinental Hotel on the Country Club Plaza
EXPERIENCE the different at InterContinental Hotel, one of Kansas City's best.
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To enter the drawing, you can buy tickets online or buy them when you check in at our new year banquet. We will limit total number of tickets to 100. The winner will be announced at the new year banquet(1/15/2012).
DON'T WAIT UNTIL IT'S TOO LATE!
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$25 for one ticket
$50 for three tickets
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The Society for Friendship with China, Inc.
And Kansas City-Xi’an Sister City Committee
Presents
Teaching Program in Shaanxi Province
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English language is a major course in Chinese schools. For a long time English has been taught as knowledge, not as a communication tool. More attention is now paid to listening and speaking, but it is difficult to create an English culture environment. To meet the developing situation American teachers are needed in more and more Chinese schools authorized to employ foreign teachers.
Some schools in Xi’an (Baoji, Ankang and Yan’an areas) have contacted us for teachers. Since most of the secondary schools are not authorized to employ foreign teachers, we design most of our teaching programs as short-term positions. For more information, click here.
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Our pledges to you - 义
The heart of our organization's purpose is to share cultural mindsets to enrich people of our nations and through that find mutual benefit -- through trade, etc.
With that in mind, I would like to share a little bit of the Chinese tradition that infuses many aspects of Chinese business and personal life. It is how I feel about our sponsors and those who support our Society, and perhaps you will find meaning and value in it too for your endeavors, especially during these domestic and global economic times.
In China, people -- whether they be businesses, friends or family -- find peace and meaning in their work when they...
Yi is a virtue of loyalty, of friendship. It is an honest pledge from one to another. A pledge of shared purpose and goals, of common understanding between people, between organizations, that you have a sincere interest in the betterment of the other.
These times are a good time for me to bring up the concept of Yi, because it is something we all naturally seek. Someone to offer resources, to help, to encourage, on our side in challenging times and in good ones too.
In these times, when organizations struggle, it is most fitting for me to say thank you to our sponsors who are more than sponsors of a single event. When you are a sponsor, you show your gift of Yi to our organization. Without your financial support, we could not enrich our collective community. What your financial support really says to us is your intention of a shared interest in and a shared belief that together everyone achieves more.
Your support in any way is about a bigger purpose. Our loyalty -- our Yi -- extends to you in gratitude far beyond the direct benefits of any one event. As our sponsor, our benefactor, we accept your gift as an intention of shared mindset in the greater good of everyone. And we return our Yi to you in ways that show we share the intention of your greater good -- of business and personal prosperity. Yi has no time limit, it is not transactional. Your intention with funding opens a bridge that lasts, a bridge to friendship whose benefits arise in ways that are unexpected and ongoing.
This is really what our Society is about. It is a friendship society. Your sponsorship, your time, your efforts, your actions are Yi. This value is immeasurable and for it Yi is returned to you. It is a law of nature, it is what makes our lives meaningful and prosperous if we live by it. To you, our sponsors, we extend our greatest gift, our Yi. It is the triple win and with it, an abundant, fulfilling 2011.
Advisory Board Member
Tammy Breitenbach
President
Catalyst Partners, Inc.
Ph. (816) 726-0579
Fax (866) 929-7170
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