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2004-05 Currents (Excerpts; to receive a complete hard copy by mail, sign up here.)

 

Board Veterans Honored

Three longtime members of the Center and Ricci Institute’s Executive Advisory Board were honored for their outstanding service on May 3, 2006 at a year-end dinner to fête and thank the Board for their many contributions throughout the year.



Jennifer Turpin, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, presented the USF President’s Medal on behalf of President Stephen A. Privett, S.J. to a founder of both the Center for the Pacific Rim and the Ricci Institute, Donald F. Reid, in grateful recognition of his 22 years of exemplary volunteer service and philanthropy to USF. A former board chair and treasurer, current chair of the Board development committee, and president of AML Specialists, Inc., Reid is only the sixth recipient of this prestigious award in USF’s history.

Ambassador James D. Rosenthal, distinguished foreign service diplomat, former executive director of the Commonwealth Club of California, former Center board chair and current co-chair of the Center’s capital campaign committee, and benefactor was presented with a 2006 Asia Pacific Leadership Award by executive director Barbara Bundy in recognition of his outstanding service for over a decade. Roderick A. McLeod, prominent Bay Area attorney and partner at Jones Day, also received a 2006 Asia Pacific Leadership Award presented by Ricci director Xiaoxin Wu in recognition of McLeod’s outstanding service for over a decade as former board chair, benefactor, chair of strategic planning, and currently co-chair with Rosenthal of the Center’s capital campaign committee.


Capital Campaign Moves into Home Stretch

With a year to go, the Campaign for USF has raised $157 million towards its $175 million goal as of June 2006. The Center for the Pacific Rim and Its Ricci Institute—one of only three academic programs and centers targeted for special fundraising in the campaign—have raised over $2 million to date. “Our top priorities are to raise funds to name and endow the Center and to endow a permanent research scholar position at the Ricci Institute, said Rod McLeod, board member and co-chair of the Center’s capital campaign committee.

McLeod also noted that the funds are essential to growing the 19 year-old Center and its 23 year-old research institute to the next level of achievement and influence as prominent Pacific Rim resources for USF, the Bay Area, and higher education. The Center raised $155,000 for its general endowment and the Ricci Institute $100,000 for its research scholar endowment this year.

In fall 2007 the Center will be moving to a new home and prominent location on the main USF campus. A groundbreaking ceremony in December marked the beginning of a $30 million reconstruction of historic Campion Hall (now renamed Kalmanowitz Hall) to transform it into the new headquarters for the College of Arts and Sciences humanities and social science programs. The Center for the Pacific Rim will join 45 academic programs and four other centers and institutes in new and larger quarters.

For information on how to make a gift to the Center and Ricci Institute phone (415) 422-2590.

150th Anniversary Gala Celebrates Silicon Valley Leaders

A gala evening it was! Celebrating USFs 150th Anniversary, the Center for the Pacific Rim and Ricci Institute paid tribute to three remarkable community leaders and entrepreneurs from Silicon Valley at their annual awards Gala at The Four Seasons Hotel in San Francisco on April 4, 2006.

Trumpeting the theme “Legacy and Promise: Bridging the Pacific,” the Gala honored Diosdado “Dado” Banatao, John T. Chambers, and David K. Chao with 2006 Asia Pacific Leadership Awards in recognition of their outstanding contributions to mutual understanding and cooperation among the countries and people of the Pacific Rim.

Media celebrity Jan Yanehiro emceed the event attended by 350 Bay Are civic, business, and academic leaders and friends and benefactors of the USF Center. Chancellor John LoSchiavo, S.J., who established the Center as president of USF in 1988, presented the awards to Dado Banatao and Cisco Executive Vice President Keith Goodwin, who accepted the award on John Chambers’ behalf. Dixon Doll, a USF trustee and co-founder and general managing partner of DCM-Doll Capital Management with David Chao, presented the Centers award to Chao.

Dado Banatao, managing partner of Tallwood Venture Capital, was honored in recognition of his pioneering vision and stellar accomplishments as engineer, entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and philanthropist in building bridges between the US and Asia, especially with the Philippines and among Filipino-Americans. With his wife Maria, he has raised public awareness of the many contributions made by Filipinos and Filipino culture to the world.

John Chambers, president and chief executive officer of Cisco Systems, Inc., were honored with the Centers Asia Pacific Corporate Leadership Award for extraordinary vision and leadership in furthering international understanding and cooperation among the US, Asia, and Latin America through technology and establishing the unique Cisco Networking Academy worldwide to help shrink the digital divide between those who can use the new technology effectively and those who cannot.

Co-founder and managing general partner of DCM-Doll Capital management, David K. Chao, was honored with an Asia Pacific Leadership Award for his vision, leadership, and phenomenal success as one of the most visible and innovative venture capitalists in Silicon Valley who has invested successfully in new and younger technology companies in Asia, especially in Greater China and Japan.

Major sponsors of the evening included “Emerald” sponsors Dado and Maria Banatao, Bettye P. Ferguson, Leo K. W. Lum, Cisco Systems, Inc., IBM, The Koret Foundation, and WI Harper Group, and Pearl sponsors Fenwick & West, LLP, G. Paul and Deborah Matthews, Jack and Susy Wadsworth, Diane B. Wilsey, Blum Capital, Connell Bros., Kochis Fitz, and Piper Jaffray.

The 150th Anniversary Gala, co-chaired by Center board members Pam Chun, Nick Driver, and Celeste Ellett-Woo, exceeded its goal in raising funds to support student scholarships, Pacific Rim public programs, and research and publications at the Center and its Ricci Institute. A silent auction, chaired by Center board member Andrea K. Hayes, raised funds to support scholarships for expanding Asian Studies programs at USF. The auction committee included the late Al Alessandri, Phyllis Bonocore, Joyce Millet, Bill Traverso, and Celeste Ellett-Woo.
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