Message from CCC President, July 1st 2010

As you read this article, the 2009-2010 executive team has finished our term of service and the new team has been inaugurated. This is an excellent time to congratulate the new leaders, and appreciate what you have done to help us make our community bigger, better, and stronger.

                First, on behalf of the outgoing CCC executive team, Ｉwould like to congratulate president-elect Mr. James Yang and his wonderful team of community servants. James is a proven community leader and an unparalleledcommunity volunteer. In the past year, James passionately reached out to numerous businesses, government agencies, and other community organizations to promote Chinese culture andtheCCC. As a result, he successfully recruited many new sponsors to support our community and our activities. In addition, James also utilized his professional skills in information technology and led a team of dedicated volunteers and did a complete update of our ever-increasingly important www.cccalbany.orgwebsite. This new website enablesus to communicate more effectively, timely, and accurately within ourselves and between us and the outside world. Since its launch, we constantly received all sorts of requests, invitations, and opportunities from the people and perspectives that we had never seen before. I am so glad to see that this website is welcomed by our members and is truly becoming a virtual home for all of us. In a few days, James will serve as a new leader of expanding community, and I am confident that with your full support and the wonderful assistance from his team members, he is ready for new challenges and bigger achievements.
                Second, as our team is saying goodbye to a memorable year of service, I would like to take this opportunity to thank all of our team members for their work and dedication. They include VP David Dai, themastermind whopresented a fabulous show of the 2010 Chinese new year celebration with director Chunyuan Zhang; VP Ting Yu who had been a CCC representative and contact at GE and worked hard to make sure the correspondences to you are done properly and timely; VP Ming Huang who brought us several pleasant picnics, seminars, and gatherings before leaving the capital region for the west coast due to job change; treasurer Xiaowu Jiang who spent numerous hours of hard work on complicated and exhausting checks, bills, and payments in addition to her very busy professional schedule; secretary Roger Cao who maintained and updated our previous infoline communication channel and the membership directory; Secretary Renge Li who talented presented us a incredible table tennis tournament and a mid-autumn festival celebration. A special appreciation shall be dedicated to James Yang, whose efforts infiltrated in almost all the CCC activities in the past year.
                Certainly, none of above would be possible without your continuous support. Thank you all and thank you indeed! Your participation and help made our job not only doable but also meaningful! At this time of leaving, I am proud to see wehavekept our promise and enjoyed a year of meaningful work and unforgettable happiness and priceless friendship! Best wishes to the new team and I sincerely hope they will bring our organization to a new level.
 
社长 贺荔宁