Issue No. 1, 1996; Total Issues: 1
Tentative Editorial Board
(Subject to Approval by ONMUAA)
Editor-in-Chief: Xupei Huang, PH77, Wisconsin, USA
Executive Editors: Bei Chen, PH80, California, USA; Zhigang He, MD79, Toronto, Canada
Associate Editors: Gang Bao (MD78, USA); Bei Chen (PH80, USA); Ning Jin (NS84, USA); Guoqin Liu (GS79, Canada); Qianjin Liu (MD78, USA); Youcheng Liu (PH78, USA); Qinghua Yang (MD78, USA)
(More to be selected)
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Open Letter To NMU Overseas Alumni(ae)
Call For Organizing the Overseas Alumni Association
Dear Overseas Nanjing Medical University Alumni(ae),
We would like to have the honor to announce to you that we have recently formed a Steering Committee to guide the process of organizing the Overseas Nanjing Medical University Alumni(ae) Association (ONMUAA) and to facilitate the NMU alumni networking throughout the world. For quite a number of years, we all have been looking forward to the formation of such an association where we can have our own INTERNATIONAL HOMEPLACE outside China to communicate, discuss, exchange, express, connect, socialize, help or look for help, contribute, unify, ......, and be proud of. Now we are pleased to inform you that we have initiated the organizing process. The establishment of this Steering Committee is the first step in this endeavor.
We are here to ask you for your participation and assistance as well as to welcome your comments and suggestions. Together we will bring the association into being very soon. Here are the outlines on the Steering Committee's plan:
PURPOSE TO FORM THE STEERING COMMITTEE
1) To help making a better worldwide alumni connection;
2) To help establishing the ONMUAA.
PURPOSE TO FORM THE ONMUAA AND BENEFITS TO OUR ALUMNI
1) To satisfy the alumni's needs. Many of us have long expressed our
interest in the issue and/or strongly indicated the urgency to form our
association in order to be better connected with each other worldwide;
2) To establish a positive image of ourselves as a group in particular and
the NMU in general outside China;
3) To build up a stronger connection among alumni and families, with
NMU campus, with other Chinese university alumni associations, and with
other institutions if necessary;
4) To help each other with mutually interested issues, career
development, scientific information exchange and possibly in research
collaboration among alumni and with Nanjing campus. Currently we expect
more than two hundred NMU alumni(ae) are working or studying outside
China where a lot of us have well established ourselves in life and career.
Many have achieved a great deal academically or professionally, which has
been well recognized by the scientific community. Alumni research
results have been well published in many important national and
international scientific journals such as "CELL", "NATURE" and others.
Time has come for us to share our success and experience with those
alumni who are still in career development, and with our home--Nanjing
and China. A formal overseas alumni association will be of great help to
this international exchange of biomedical science and technology;
5) To resolve such practical issues as the alumni directory compiling and
updating, homepage setting up and maintenance, newsletter compiling and
circulation, alumni requests for Nanjing campus (such as obtaining
certificates for Board exam and transcripts), and others as relevant.
6) To facilitate the establishment of local or regional alumni
organizations which might better serve local alumni for various purposes.
All alumni who now reside outside China and once studied, worked or
associated with NMU will automatically become the member of this
association. To set up an official ONMUAA homepage for information
exchange is the number one priority of this organizing process. Alumni
information from Nanjing and other places in China will be posted here for
your reference. The newsletter will make the information exchange better.
The alumni directory will provide updated alumni addresses and telephone
numbers. In this way, we will be globally well connected.
FORMATION OF THE STEERING COMMITTEE AND ITS FUNCTIONS
The Steering Committee was recently formed by a group of alumni volunteers, in North America, from various NMU schools or departments including many school years wherever available. Most of us have been active over the years in alumni affairs, and have already done a lot of work in alumni networking. We would like to continue our contribution toward the formation of our ONMUAA.
Members of the Committee so far (welcome to join us) include the following alumni (names listed alphabetically).
MD: 77 Frank Jiang, Li Lu, Shan Lu
78 Gang Bao, Qianjin Liu, Yongjian Liu,
Weiguo Zhao, Qinghua Yang
79 Zhigang He, Jianlong Mu, Ming Zhang
80+ pending
PH: 77 Xupei Huang, Yongjia Yu
78 Jin Chen, Youcheng Liu, Benquan Shen, Qingyi Wei,
Jianping Xue
79 Liangfeng Tao, Wei Yang
80+ Bei Chen
GS: 79 Guoqin Liu
84 Zhigang He, Liangfeng Tao
85 Bei Chen
NS: 84 Ning Jin
Others Pending
The Steering Committee plans and carries the following tasks to form the association. Once the the association is formed, the Committee expires.
COMMITTEE TASKS AND ASSIGNMENTS
Summary of Task Group Leaders
Coordinator: Youcheng Liu, PH78, Boston, Massachusetts
[email protected]
Overall coordination of task groups
Assistant
Coordinator: Yongjian Liu, MD78, San Francisco, California
[email protected]
Help with coordination of all assignments
Bylaw Writeup: Benquan Shen, PH78, San Francisco, California
[email protected]
Coordination of bylaw drafting and revising
Yongjia Yu, PH77, Boston, Massachusetts
[email protected]
Same task
Homepage Setup: Liangfeng Tao, PH79, Lowell, Massachusetts
[email protected]
Coordination of homepage setup and maintenance
Li Lu, MD77, Maryland, Massachusetts
[email protected]
Same task
Directory: Qingyi Wei, PH78, Houston, Texas
[email protected]
Coordination of directory compiling and
updating
Ningjun Jiang, MD78, St Louis, Missouri
[email protected]
Same task
Communication: Shan Lu, MD77, Worcester, Massachusetts
[email protected]
Coordination of communication with Nanjing
and other organizations
Zhigang He, MD79, Toronto, Canada
[email protected]
Same task
Secretories: Ning Jin, NS84, Ann Arbor, Michigan
[email protected]
Coordination of international correspondence,
Committee affairs, votes counting,
and record keeping
Benquan Shen, PH78
Same task
Newsletter: Xupei Huang, PH77, Madison, Wisconsin
[email protected]
Coordination of newsletter editing and issuing
(subject to approval by ONMUAA later)
Bei Chen, PH80, San Francisco, California
[email protected]
Same task
Registration: Qianjin Liu, MD78, St Louis, Missouri
[email protected]
Coordination of association registration
and related affairs
Jin Chen, PH78, Stanford, California
[email protected]
Same task
International Australia--pending
Leaders Europe--pending
Japan--pending
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Details of Tasks and Group Members
1) Committee discussion over the issues to resolve
Among all steering committee members;
2) ONMUAA Administrative structure Planning
To decide the name of the association, help elect the international Board
Members, facilitate regional Chapters and select international group
leaders, etc.
Discussion among all organizing members;
Approval by all organizing group leaders;
3) Bylaw writeup
Bylaw both in English and Chinese. Including purpose, administrative
structure, activity format, board members and executives length of
service, election process, source of finance, etc.;
Guoqin Liu: [email protected]
Benquan Shen: [email protected]
*Yongjian Liu: [email protected]
Youcheng Liu: [email protected]
Shan Lu: [email protected]
*Yongjia Yu: [email protected]
...... (*assumed major responsibility)
4) Registration for non-profit organization and outside affairs
At a university or in the district
Zhigang He: [email protected]
Xupei Huang: [email protected]
*Qianjin Liu: [email protected]
Gang Bao: [email protected]
Ming Zhang: [email protected]
*Jin Chen: [email protected]
Qinghua Yang: [email protected]
......
5) Alumni directory compiling and updating
All representatives including the designated persons
Help collect more names with essetial information and make the current
directory regularly updated. PLEASE KINDLY SEND ALL INFORMATION FOR
Bei Chen: [email protected]
Jin Chen: [email protected]
*Ningjun Jiang: [email protected]
Quoqing Liu: [email protected]
Liangfeng Tao: [email protected]
*Qingyi Wei: request.mda.uth.tmc.edu
Jianping Xue: [email protected]
Ming Zhang: [email protected]
Weiguo Zhao: [email protected]
6) Homepage set-up and maintenance
Jin Chen: [email protected]
Qianjin Liu: [email protected]
*Li Lu: [email protected]
Jianlong Mo: [email protected]
*Liangfeng Tao: [email protected]
Jinping Xu: [email protected]
Wei Yang: [email protected]
7) Newsletter editorial
Gang Bao: [email protected]
*Bei Chen: [email protected]
Jin Chen: [email protected]
*Zhigang He: [email protected]
*Xupei Huang: [email protected]
Ning Jin: [email protected]
Youcheng Liu: [email protected]
Qinghua Yang: [email protected]
Wei Yang: [email protected]
......
8) NMU campus Liason group
*Zhigang He: [email protected]
*Shan Lu: [email protected]
Liangfeng Tao: [email protected]
Yongjia Yu: [email protected]
Note: ------ waiting for more participants
PLAN ON ONMUAA ADMINISTRATIVE STRUCTURE
The Steering Committee, including the International Group Leaders, will
guide and facilitate the forming process of this Overseas NMU alumni
association, which will take the form of Board-President-Executives. The
Steering Committee help democratically elect the International Board of
Directors (number and nomination format subject to debating). The
Directors (Board Members) select the President from the nominated
candidates.
The President forms her/his own Executives--term administration, which
needs approval by the International Board. The President manages the
Executives and reports to the Board of Directors. The Directors evaluate
the Presidents' work and approve her/his proposals in her/his term.
See the bylaw later for details.
WHAT YOU CAN DO
Interested alumni, when you receive this letter, please do the
following:
1) Please present your suggestions on how to form the ONMUAA;
2) Take part in any above listed task groups you feel interested in;
3) Nominate 1-2 International Group leaders from/for your country or
region (non-U.S.) to join the Steering Committee (subject to Committee's
approval);
4) Nominate International Board of Directors as your school (department)
representatives from any country where you have contacts including the
country you are now studying or working in and including
yourself. Initial suggestion is every 10 to 20 alumni generate ONE
representative to form the Board, which is subject to debating;
5) Make effor to collect alumni name and information (subject to the use
of the general public) which you know, and forward to Qingyi Wei, PH78, at
above address;
6) Join the discussion on any issues related to the formation of ONMUAA,
especially the comments on the bylaw writeup;
7) Join the voting to select the final International Board members
(directors);
8) Do anything you deem relevant to this issue;
9) Please forward all your reply to the Committee Secretories who will
decide if it's necessary to forward to other Committee members; The
secretories also will count your votes and publicize the results. However,
please feel free to contact any of the above listed individual alumni
directly.
These are our preliminary agendas which are still in development. Again,
we warmly welcome your suggestions. We also encourage each country or
region to form your own NMUA Association or Chapters. Let us use our
collective intelligence and effort, and work together throught the world
as a well unified strong group, to set up the NMU image as one of the best
in China.
Your reply WITHIN ONE WEEK is greatly appreciated. Thanks for your interest and cooperation!
Please also help circulate this letter among those of our alumni and their families who do not have the internet access, or other parties who might have interest.
Looking forward to your comments and active participation.
ONMUAA
Steering Committee
7/31/96, North America
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ONMUAA Editorial Board
(This Issue Edited by Youcheng Liu, PH78, Boston, Massachusetts)
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