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Come join our first LA Chapter cultural event!  We will be having a guided tour of the Chinese American Museum in downtown Los Angeles.  A docent will be taking our group through a few of their current exhibits such as:

• Remember Angel Island: a commemorative exhibition of the 100th anniversary of the opening of Angel Immigrant Island, a portal of fascinating significance in Asian American history
• Hollywood Chinese: a groundbreaking display of movie memorabilia of Chinese Americans in film

   Saturday, Sept. 25, 2010 - 12:00pm

   Chinese American Museum

   425 N. Los Angeles Street (cross street is Arcadia)

   Los Angeles, CA 90012

   213-485-5700

   www.camla.org

Please RSVP by Sept. 6th to la@haaaa.net.

  Chris Lu, one of the highest-ranking Asian Americans in the Obama Administration, has agreed to speak at the Summit's Gala Luncheon on Saturday, Oct. 16, at Harvard's Faculty Club. Lu was a Harvard Law School classmate of Obama's, but didn't know him well until he joined the newly elected senator's staff as legislative director in 2004.

The website got a bit of a facelift, and there's also some new features.  You can now login using your Facebook account, thereby linking your fb and HAAAA accounts.  You can also view past Announcements & Newsletters, and there's listings of chapter members available to registered members.   Also, new events can display Google maps of the event location. 

We're still looking for a webmaster, though, so do email haaaa.ec@gmail.com if you're interested!

You can now create an account, and at the same time, let us know your graduation year, degree, and which chapters you'd like to join. Simple enough; it just required a bunch of back-end hacking to understand that CiviCRM and Drupal are more tightly coupled than I'd expected. Which is great. Enjoy.

Also, new members will be subject to approval by our membership committee from henceforth.

CiviCRM and Drupal, which are the bones of this website, are working out pretty well. Drupal maintains the stories and the layout you see here, and CiviCRM will allow us to keep a nice member and events database.

We are up and running!