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Aug. 2, 2008
COMINGS
AND GOINGS
Yukiko Shirahara, a curator at Seattle Art Museum for six years,
is leaving SAM in October to be chief curator at the Nezu Institute
of Fine Arts in Tokyo. In a release, SAM Director Mimi Gates said that
Shirahara “is
totally dedicated to advancing knowledge about Japanese and Korean art.” In
a sense, Shirahara’s career has gone full circle. She served at the
Nezu Institute as a librarian and curatorial assistant from 1991 to 2000,
while working toward her doctorate.
COMINGS AND GOINGS
Frances Youn is the new program analyst for The Port of Seattle Office of
Social Responsibility. Youn comes from Sen. Patty Murray’s office,
where she most recently served as King County director and previously served
as a legislative aide to Councilmember Richard McIver.
COMPETITION
Leanne Hwa, 11, has received an invitation to represent Washington state
at the fifth annual Susan Polgar National Invitational for Girls, the most
prestigious all-girls national chess championship in the United States.
She will be one of the youngest players in a field of 50 strong competitors.
A newcomer to the chess world, Hwa learned the game in fourth grade through
her school’s chess club.
COMINGS AND GOINGS
Adrian Loh Sin Loy and Rani Yamuna are two science teachers from Singapore
spending the summer honing their teaching skills in the laboratories of
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. The program encourages teachers
to sharpen their critical thinking, questioning and problem-solving skills.
In short: to teach outside the box.
HISTORY REVISiTED
The Historical Interpretation of Chinese Sites in Hells Canyon was a remembrance
event held in Lewiston, Idaho, June 26 to 27, to bring some kind of healing
and reconciliation to a tragedy in the Pacific Northwest’s history.
In May of 1887, 34 Chinese miners were massacred at the mouth of Deep Creek
in Hells Canyon. Their bodies were thrown into the Snake River as the killers
fled with the miners’ gold. As part of the event, Dr. Priscilla Wegars,
a Chinese scholar and historian, conducted a traditional Chinese remembering
by burning money that was intended to go to the spirits of the victims.
This was the first public recognition of the tragedy and the first attempt
to bring about some kind of healing at the site.
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