"The Asian Economy" Subject of Speech for U. N. Luncheon
Board meeting - February 26, 2000
PPSEAWA Workshop: "Children: Our Window to the 21st Century"
Printed Bulletin
(528K PDF File)
Just to let You Know
New Jersey:
Medicine for the Soul : Doctors Truong Thin and Le Hung visited New Jersey recently to share their unique combination of Oriental and Western medical practices. PPSEAWA member, Libby Zinman Schwartz, sponsored the visit of the Vietnamese doctors to the area. The doctors use music and other creative arts as part of the treatment for drug addiction and chronic pain. Le Hung and Truong Thin demonstrate techniques for acupuncture, massage, meditation, music and art and are showing American health care workers how they can incorporate some of these practices, together with Western medical practices, into their work with patients in the US.
Chicago:
Chicago hosted Pam Logan, author of the book "Among Warriors," who gave a lecture/slide presentation on women in Tibet. Pam is a member of PPSEAWA-LA and heads a group which is restoring frescos in one of the temples in Tibet. The lecture was held jointly by the International women's Association of Chicago and the local PPSEAWA chapter.
Royal Buscombe, chapter president, enjoyed an extended visit from her daughter Eve Buscombe - a member of PPSEAWA-Australia. While here, Eve attended the Chicago chapter meeting.
Northern California:
We were greatly saddened to hear that a long time PSEAWA member Cisco Kihara, passed away in June, 1999.
New York:
On another sad note, Fran Todd, president of the NY chapter lost her mother and best friend in late December, 1999.
 Toledo meeting attendees from the Chicago chapter: Gloria Baez; Teresa Hintzke, President USA; Betty Lou Girardi, International President; Bimala Prasad; Royal Buscombe, Chicago President; Ada Kolmodin |
Featured in the Toledo Blade recently was a story about Ella P. Steward, a Toledo pharmacist and civil rights activist,who was a PPSEAWA member. Mrs. Steward, who died in 1987 at age 94 spent more than half her life in a segregated society yet never relinquished her insistence on equality between the races. She was vice-chairperson of PPSEAWA's American Committee and also president of the highly political National Association of Colored Women. She was selected as a delegate to the International Council of Women of the World in Greece, and, in 1954, the US State Department asked her to serve as goodwill ambassador and to study social conditions in Asia. She travailed to India, Pakistan, Indonesia, and the Philippines.
