>From: kren@umaryland.edu
>Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2000 22:27:41 +0000
>Subject: Year 2000 Gathering


Seasons greetings from the east coast.  Lucky to be a Chinese, our
holiday season is just the begining.  I wish everybody a wonderful New
Year.  As I am badly ill-informed, I probably missed a lot of good news
about our alumni so we didn't have a chance to share it.  Pardon me.
However, I have to pass this one to our friend.  Zhiming Zheng is going
to assume a tenure-track position at NIH starting from the Chinese New
Year.  What a good time to start up a wonderful independent career.
Congratulations!  Also, Xiang-Jin Meng at Virginia Tech and James
Jianming Hu at Boston have been doing very well as a University
faculty.  They all got funded to do their research.  Congratulations!
Dr. Ye Shuiqing visited our alma mater before the end of last year.  He
was informed that our University has been ranked very high among Medical
Schools in China.  One source have given us as high as No. 16 out of
over 150 Medical Schools in China.  Congratulations again for their hard
work.  I encourage everybody to share their good news with us.

We are planing a holiday gathering now to celebrate the Chinese New Year
and the return of Macao to our motherland.  I have set a tentative date
on January 29, 2000 (Saturday).  I'll let you know the exact time and
location as soon as it becomes available.  Please mark your calendar and
plan to be there.  It will be lots of fun when old friends are all in
one place.

Here I also want to solicit nomination for our next President Elect.
Please be prepared to serve for our Association.

K. Ren