AAUM hosts welcome dinner for Chinese students

Liang Zhang, president of the Chinese Students and Scholars Association, and Grace Suen, president of the Hong Kong Student Association, joined AAUM President and CEO Steve Grafton on October 20 to greet more than 120 new students from China and Hong Kong to AAUM’s second annual welcome event. 

The event was created after Grafton promised students he met in China in 2006 that he would help new students get acquainted with each other and learn what it will mean to be U-M alumni one day.  At the request of the student leaders, AAUM hosted a dinner rather than a lunch to allow more students to come together at the same time and also to stay longer. The meal was once again catered by TK Wu, which students report has the best Chinese food in Ann Arbor. 

Photos from the dinner

Welcome

PRC, Hong-Kong and UM

TK Wu Buffet

Signing in

Name badges

Signing up for Itunes gift

Inline for buffet

The students and Jo Rumsey

Making introductions

CSA's Carol Stepanchuk and China Initiative's Jen Zhu

Lifang Yang Vanderwill

Lifang

Lifang and Bill

Happy diners

More happy diners

Greetings from President Steve Grafton

At Alumni Center

Steve Grafton

Steve Grafton and CSSA President Liang Zhang

Steve Grafton and HKSA President Grace Suen

President Coleman from '05 China travel on DVD

Itunres Drawing

A winner!

Happy to win

ITunes Drawing with Lifang, Jane Spiess, Jo Rumsey

The 2nd Itunes gift card winner

Congratulatinos to the 3rd winner

Our 4th and final Itunes gift card drawing winner

The end of the evening with animation

The end of the evening