Welcome Dinner for the delegate led by Dean Fan Mingwen

cai 贴于2000/04/11 16:45 （武汉大学校友论坛）

Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 16:56:18 -0400 (EDT)
From: SHUI QING YE <syq @ mail . jhmi . edu>
Subject: The Welcome Dinner

Welcome Dinner for the delegate led by Dean Fan Mingwen

At 8pm on April 6, 2000, outside the Dongdu Restaurant on the outskirts of
Washington DC, Spring breeze caressed one's face, and the land was enveloped
in a quiet curtain of darkness. Inside the Restaurant, jubilant twelve sitting
around the long table just turned night into daytime. They were happily
gathering under the same roof. It was the event that several representatives
of Hubei Medical University Overseas Alumni Association were entertaining the
delegate led by Dean and Professor Fan Mingwen and Vice Dean and Professor
Bian Zhuan, College and Hospital of Stomatology, Hubei Medical University,
Wuhan, China. The other members of the Delegate included Prof. Long Xin,
Associate Chairman in The Dept. of Oral Surgery, Dr. Chen Zhi, Director of
Dental Research, Dr. Zhang Ping, Assistant to the Dean and Dr. Guoqiang Wei,
the former Director of Oral Research Institute and the current visiting
Scholar in University of Illinois at Chicago. The Alumni representatives from
Washington-Baltimore area were Drs Zhi-Ming Zheng, Huaxian Chen, Shen Zhong,
Ke Ren, Jiancheng Tu and Shui Qing Ye .

Dr. Shui Qing Ye, current president of the Alumni Association, first delivered
a brief greeting address to welcome the delegate to attend the meeting of
International Association of Dental Research (IADR) and to visit Washington
D.C., and to inform the delegate the aims of the Alumni Association to
facilitate the communication among the alumni, to serve as a bridge between
the alumni and the Alma Mater, to help promoting the development of our Alma
Mater.

Then Dean Fan Mingwen, who himself had studied in Canada for two and half
year, and later another half year in France, told his personal crusade to lead
the College and Hospital of Stomatology to the national front with respect to
the Stomatological education, research and treatment and usher her to catch up
with the international trends in the field of Stomatology in the future. A
genial remark by Dean Fan Mingwen's successor apparent, Vice Dean Bian Zhuan,
ensued. Dr. Chen Zhi and Prof. Long Xin gave an outline of past, present and
future of the College and Hospital of Stomatology via power-point
presentation. One of the highlights was that last year, they successfully
hosted The International Symposium on Stomatology Facing the Challenge of 21st
Century in Wuhan. This time from April 3 to 9, 2000 in Washington D.C.,
Professors Fan and Bian have cohosted the prestigious meeting of International
Association of Dental Research (IADR) and all other accompanying members have
given oral presentations in the meeting. The attended alumni were very proud
of and deeply impressed with the progress of the College and Hospital of
Stomatology. We are all appreciative to Dean Fan Mingwen for his intelligence,
wisdom, leadership and stalwart driving force behind the magnificent
development in The College of Stomatology for our Alma Mater. Prof. Fan also
dropped an anecdote of how he pushed a unification between Hubei Medical
University and Wuhan University three years ago by talking to the Governor in
Hubei province. Dr. Fan's effort may be realized soon. Dr. Zhi-Ming Zheng, a
former Director of Virus Research Institute and current tenure-track
investigator in NCI applauded the action, so did Dr. Ke Ren, a former student
in the College of Stomatology and current associate professor in College of
Stomatology, University of Maryland. In fact, both of them on behalf of our
alumni association pushed the idea of the unification in various occasions
when each of them served as president for the alumni association. Dr.
Jiancheng Tu, President-elect for our overseas alumni association, and Dr.
Huaxian Chen, a researcher in NIH, mingled well with the delegate. The other
delegate members, Dr. Zhang Ping and Dr. Wei Quoqiang, also had their light
moments in the party. Dr. Shen Zhong, the former DDS in the College and
Hospital of Stomatology and now a computer guru in Stanley Foundation,
initiated the activity. He is an able councilman for the current alumni
association. We are indebted to his time and energy to communicate between the
alumni and the delegate and service to the delegate. We apologize for failing
to inform everybody who may be interested at this activity in advance owing to
the uncertain and tight schedule of the delegate.

Approaching 10 pm, the night was drawing deep, everybody in the party was
still in high spirit, but restaurant had to close. The delegate and the alumni
reluctantly shook the hands and left the spot. Every attendees concurred that
it was a wonderful evening and a fruitful gathering.

Shui Qing Ye

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Corrected: Welcome Dinner for the delegate led by Dean Fan Mingwen --- cai 2000/04/17 10:27 (5310 bytes)

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