A Brief Report on USTCAF by the Preparatory Committee

The idea of a USTC alumni foundation is not new. In early 1993, a group of 774 alumni had already discussed this issue. We believe other alumni may also have thought about this. This time, we have a simple and immediate goal -- helping outstanding high school students to attend USTC. This effort will also help USTC maintain its competitive edge as a first class university in China.

An e-mail list, ustc.fund@cauchy.math.udel.edu, was therefore set up in May 1995 and 21 people^* signed up in two weeks. They formed a "preparatory" committee to discuss issues regarding the setup of the foundation. The committee has made the following decisions:

1. The name of the foundation will be "USTC Alumni Foundation" and abbreviated as USTCAF. It will be independent of USTC and other USTC alumni associations.
2. All members work for USTCAF voluntarily and will not be paid.
3. The primary goal of the foundation is to raise funds to establish a scholarship that will pay tuition and other costs for outstanding high school graduates to attend USTC. A qualified student must be ranked in the top one hundred in his/her province in the National Entrance Examination for High-Education and must have USTC as his/her first choice.
4. Some fund may be used in the future to assist best scholars to work in USTC for long or short terms, such as teaching summer courses. This plan may be more important to USTC, as pointed out by many alumni and discussed by the committee. However, the commiittee believes that this plan requires more work and thorough studies before being implemented. Therefore, the committee decides to focus on the scholarship at this time.
5. After a sufficient number of alumni join USTCAF, an election will be held at the end of 1995 to set up a Board of Trustees. All members are qualified to be elected.
6. A draft of Bylaws of USTCAF was passed and more revisions will be added.

After these preparations, the campaign was launched on June 20, 1995.

Dear friends, please donate as much as you can. Any amount will be appreciated. If you could not contribute more than the membership fee now, you are still welcome to join USTCAF as an affiliate member. With your support, USTCAF will be successful.

Reported by the Preparatory Committee

 1 Zhang,  Shangyou:   Delaware              (East    of USA)
 2 Liu,    Dongzi:     Chicago, Illinois     (Midwest of USA)
 3 Yu,     Haibo:      Chicago, Illinois     (Midwest of USA)
 4 Xuan,   Changneng:  Austin,  Texas        (South   of USA)
 5 Zhou,   Zheng Zheng Houston, Texas        (South   of USA)
 6 Zhang,  Feng        Minneapolis, Minnesota(Midwest of USA)
 7 Liu,    Chengjie    Madison, Wisconsin    (Midwest of USA)
 8 Shi,    Feng        Cambridge             (United Kingdom)
 9 Zhang,  Yang        Champaign, Illinois   (Midwest of USA)
10 Wang,   Zheng       Chicago, Illinois     (Midwest of USA)
11 LU,     Bo          Houston, Texas        (South   of USA)
12 WANG,   WEI         Colorado              (Middle  of USA)
13 Zhao,   Xinmin      Philadelphia, PA      (East    of USA)
14 Tong,   Guanshan    Chicago, Illinois     (Midwest of USA)
15 Yao,    Wenbin      Connecticut           (East    of USA) 
16 Zhu,    Yong        Madison, Wisconsin    (Midwest of USA)
17 Wen,    Pingshan    Illinois              (Midwest of USA)
18 Jing,   Ning        ( JINGN@ngmhk.wan.gs.com ? )
19 Ren,    Yuhui       Champaign, Illinois   (Midwest of USA)
20 Xu,     Wenrong     Boston, Massachusetts (East    of USA) 
21 Bai,    Dawei       Princeton, PA         (East    of USA)
  

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** The order is by the time each person signed up the email list.