大華府區北一女校友會

BEINU ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON AREA

2019 年度活動

寒冬送暖

12/19/2019

入冬最冷的第一天, 酷寒的氣溫擋不住華府北一女校友會的愛心。在12月19日中午由校友會代表馬希平, 許翠蘭, 姚昱蘋,洪小韻加上北一女之友張丹心等將收集來的三十幾大袋的冬衣,冬褲, 毛毯, 棉被等捐贈予 The National Center for Children and Families in Bethesda, MD. 那天是工作日, 許多校友們利用中午休息時間前來參加贈與，國家兒童及家庭收容中心的主任特別與校友會的代表合影留念。

北一女世界制服日

12/14/2019

為了響應北一女世界制服日, 大華府區北一女校友會在12月14日的理事們均穿著綠色制服或上衣出席會議, 並合影留念，同時慶祝北一女12/12校慶。

深秋賞楓之旅

11/2/2019

陽光, 照亮了我們的眼睛, 也打開了我們的心胸!

11月2日, 在清晨的朝霧中, 我們一行37人開了共13輛車, 浩浩蕩蕩的往馬里蘭山區開去。我們在今年日光節約的最後一天, 一定要抓住那難得的美好陽光, 享受同學間的友愛. 那是多麼棒的感覺!畢竟是北一女的女人, 所有的同學都準時抵達車站, 接受火車站貴賓式的接待及登車。在我們在獨有的車廂內盡情的歡笑歌唱! 雖然外面的楓葉所剩不多, 但似乎那些都不重要了。大家浸浴在彼此的食物及嬉笑中, 一晃就到了目的地。在Frostburg逛逛博物館,排隊買咖啡，四處走走, 看火車頭掉頭，一個鐘頭很快的就過去了。回程還是一樣, 大家都無意看外面的風景, 繼續的聊天, 回到了Cumberland。我們這一群人接著有的去Outlet購物;有的回家休息;還有難分難捨繼續餐敘。此行感謝列車長 Mr. Jim May及Mary Joe Gray對我們特別的照顧. 這次活動的精而美還加上一種無法形容的溫馨。

By Chihming

It was a gorgeous day, we left early from home to catch our car pool. It took about two hours to reach Cumberland for the train ride. The fresh air and beautiful autumn colors made the drive worthwhile. Morning sun added extra glow on the forest top, colors are so vibrant; you cannot help but praised the magical beauty of the nature. I took advantage and took a lot of photos while Sandy was driving. This is a great treat for me, a Californian, to enjoy the autumn color of the East Coast.

When the train arrived, all passengers got very excited. We were instructed to line up according to our color coded tickets.

Surprisingly, we were called to board first, as the conductor had a reserved cart for us, what a privilege and salute to our President Ma!

We couldn't wait to share our goodies, and enjoy all the good food while other passengers were still boarding. President Ma made and brought a lot of delicious 滷味 for all of us. After the goodies, singing is certainly a must. We competed with Children's songs, suddenly, we were all back to young days. It was a very exciting and fun journey.

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第25屆年會 Annual Meeting and Luncheon

9/21/2019

北一女第25屆年會圓滿順利結束。校友們對所有前會長及理事們25年來的辛勤耕耘建立校友會致敬，並一致通過修改會章期能符合現今的需要。恭喜馬西平校友榮膺2019-2020會長。感謝張潔心校友的生平短介及杏壇女俠沈葆校友的詼諧講談, 年會在一片歡笑聲中結束。

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Year-End Party

8/25/2019

Our events are just getting better and better! Look at those photos we took on 8/25 Year-End event! Food that everyone bought were just mouthwatering and delicious! We all had such a great time, eating, chatting, cooking, celebrating birthday and we also had a great informal (but serious) Board meeting. We challenged on our own plate decorations. Later Weina, Yiling, and LienChong prepared all the ingredients for the dumpling wrapping, while wrapping and cooking dumplings, it also rolled us back to high school days. While we all become cousins together during the party, 映梅表姊, 秀媚表妹 accepted to be BOD for the coming year- What a joy to have them J!!!

Party Photos 1

Party Photos 2

Party Photos 3

多校聯合野餐

6/1/2019

The Grand Picnic at Seneca Creek State Park, Nuthatch Pavilion celebrated the coming of summer, it went so successful. Good food, shaved ice, singing, dance, and games. School anthems ranged from elementary schools to colleges, and universities. Everyone was so proud, and sang so hard for their own alma mater Thank you for many of your hard work and helps to make this event possible. TsueyLan, ShiPing, Linda, Grace, Weina, you are all so wonderful. Certainly we applaud our alumnae singing the school anthem which added the climax to the event. Cheer! Yes, 北一女, 棒., 棒., 棒.!

Picnic Photos

Picnic Videos

A Day with Elders at 家園老人中心

5/18/2019

When BOD許翠蘭 told me that she needs some financial support from our Association’s to reach out to elders, and she told me the work was like勞軍團; I had no clue of the magnitude of this activity, but I made sure it becomes an activity event for our alumnae. Many of our alumnae had donated boxes of face tissues, clothing, and other stuff earlier this year. Before the event day, 翠蘭 purchased and bagged enough bottles of liquid hand soap.. On 5/18 morning, 翠蘭 carried all those stuff, big bags and small, together with some board members and alumnae, we went to the家園老人中心. We the armatures were immediately called and trained by guitarist Yuan-Lung Chen and formed a BeinuAADC Choir in 5 minutes! Besides the choir, we, BeinuAADC brought our best singer, best dancers, and the dream host to offer our Beinu’s excellent talents to the elders. I was deeply moved with the warm welcome, and the joy we received and offered. It was amazing to see the involvement and interactions between our group members with the elder audiences. Those elders joined us in singing and dancing on stage, there was not a second of dull moment. You have to be there to feel the excitement.

I sincerely appreciate all our alumnae who donated goods for this meaningful event, and I encourage you to attend this event next year to feel and to sense the joy, the happiness, and the excitement. It’s our blessing! Please see some photos here.

And more photos from姚昱蘋 on the Facebook.

Around the World Embassy Tour

5/4/2019

EU Embassy Open House and Outing with Principal Chen

5/11/2019

5/4/2019

This once a year open house is a rare opportunity in DC for us to enjoy the culture and food of different countries. Most embassies offered free food, and also held performances outside the embassy yard, we could enjoy some events without waiting in the lines. I greeted some alumnae at the Indonesia Embassy, gradually we all took off at our own pace, and then found alumnae here and there at various locations. It’s quite fun. I visited Haiti Embassy which locates at the same building that our Taiwan Embassy resided long time ago.

Click here to see the photos.

5/11/2019

Share a good time with 陳富贵校長while attending Tour of European Union Embassies Open House before the Mother’s day.

陳富贵校長1999-2005 and 北一女第一屆儀隊隊員, 南加州北一女第一屆校友儀隊隊長梁蘭蓁(Linda)校友 visited DC for a week. I have been acquainted with them while I was President of Southern California Alumni Association and was engaging on welcoming小綠綠 attending the Rose Parade in 2005. I was lucky and also honored to host the two VIPs and share the joy with them day in and day out during the week of their visit.

We visited the open house of four European Union Embassies, enjoyed the company of 30ish alumnae and friends.

The free shuttle bus almost became our private tour bus! We sampled tasty food, beers and drinks; appreciated the opportunities to learn cultures and heritages of other countries. It was a fun outing day on May 11.

We celebrated mother's day with children and grandchildren, visited African American National Museum, adored animals' fun and unbelievably lovely naughty behaviors at the National Zoo, bathed by the fresh air of the Klingle Valley National Park and Rock Creek National Park, we enjoyed the happy hour, soul food, and the taste of DC; and most pleasantly, we got to know more alumnae and friends. Please see the link for our good time photos. Do you recognize some of us in the pictures?

Principal Chen's good time

EU Embassy Tour

African American National Museum

Outing to Washington National Cathedral for International Floral Display and Bishop Garden Outing

5/3/2019

This once a year Flower Mart event held at the Cathedral was quite exciting both indoor and outdoor. Once we entered the Cathedral, we were greeted by Ecuador Embassy staff with beautiful roses. Taiwan TECRO Ambassador Kao offered an island map of Taiwan decorated by beautiful butterfly orchids. Hong Kong’s theme is fragrant Hong Kong, British embassy made an exquisite floral display by using flowers from the garden of its embassy. The USA’s display was a miniature version of the Bishop Garden. We took time to appreciate each arrangements, sampled food from many of the booths, and visit the Bishop garden. The unique collection of Itoh peonies were blooming on its peak days. I took some of my neighbors to there again on the next Monday and took more photos.

You can visit the garden anytime for free. Drop-in volunteers are welcomed every Tuesday from 9:30 am to 11:30 am.

Outing Photos

Facebook and High Tech workshop

4/27/2019

Our Board member姚昱蘋 held a Facebook and High Tech workshop. We enjoyed learning new skills not only of joining and using Facebook group, but also the convention of setting security codes, login id; how to converting files, photos from one mobile device to another; and speeding up mobile or computer devices, and many things more…

It was a wonderful experience of sharing and exchanging knowledge of modern day’s needs. Never too old to learn anything. And better to ask our alumnae than ask your children ! If you are not in our Beinu DC Facebook group, we welcome you to join us and learn our activities and announcement in first hand.

Zoo Outing 動物園踏青

3/30/2019

It was a perfect day after a few very cold days, a beautiful sunny 70ish degree temperature for outing. With little breeze, new greens were peeking out, daffodils nodded on the hill, magnolia trees bloomed showily as many giant umbrellas covered in the air. Beinu alumnae and friends from other alumni associations went for a leisure walk at the zoo on such a beautiful day.

Our zoo friends were friendly to us also, besides the usual American Bison, elephants, zebra, and cheetahs we saw; we saw Beibei panda napping on the tree top, 4 Orangutans including the baby Redd and mother Batung walking on the O-Line in the sky. We saw the great Bee mural and giant hermit crabs. We saw sea lions showed off in front of audiences. Even the rarely seen tree climbing bear came out to play. We then visited the Rain Forest of the amazing Amazonia where we saw giant fishes, stingrays, horn billed flamingo-like birds, beautiful but poisonous frogs, and electrical eels powered lights on. It was a fun outing.

Some photos have been posted on the facebook. More photos and videos, please click here .

蕭雅文博士聽力學演講

3/28/2019

Our own alumna 蕭雅文博士Dr. Wendy Shiau gave an informative seminar to our alumnae and guests. She lectured in details of our physiological structure and function of our ears/audiological system, and symptoms, diseases and prevention that relate to our audiological system. Dr. Shiau gave wise advises on protecting our audio system and preventing the further loss of hearing, and on how to choose proper hearing aids. The lecture was well received, and numerous questions were raised by enthusiastic audiences, I was most impressed with Dr. Shiau’s soft spoken voice all through the lecture, it was very pleasing to our ears.

北一女圍爐小聚

3/23/2019

What a joyful gathering! With singing, dancing, delicious food, and spacious stage, we had a jolly good time

三校開春聯歡晚會

3/9/2019

What a wonderful night we had on 3/9三校開春聯歡晚會, 97人參加 including 薛美瑜公使. I am deeply moved by your support and enthusiasms to the Alumnae Association. It demonstrates our unity and our team spirit to the outsiders.

Our four selected invitees高淑惠,潘志中,楊修微, 連城璧to represent Beinu for singing. 他們的歌聲婉轉甜美,有神采奕揚，又有優柔婉轉，真是好聽。神態優雅賢淑寧靜，舉止端莊，溫文儒雅, 神采飄逸, 為我們北一女的氣質，做了最好的典範與宣傳. And the three dance teams brought up beautiful surprises for their performance, ，《聞歌起舞》老婦變美女 life is hopeful! 《綠園花開》,《蒙古舞》,美麗動人活潑的舞蹈，神韻飄釆的舞衣，真是清麗脫俗,優美醉人. 薛公使對我多次讚美校友的才華.萬分感謝他們為校友會這麽賣力的服務.

Special thanks to many alumnae who donated gifts for drawing. We estimated the value exceeds $350.

Deepest appreciation to all Board Members, especially to Weina Koo, Linda Lin and TsueyLan Hsu for their great spirits and efforts in cooperating with the other two schools.

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三校開春聯歡晚會錄影

Our Facebook "大華府地區北一女校友會" /BEINU DC/ Beinu2000dc@gmail.com is on: If you receive invitation to join in by our Board member 姚昱蘋, or BEINUDC , I encourage you to join in. You will be able to post reasonable announcements or requests to the group, it will not be shared to the outsider.

台灣留學生學聯會新春聯歡晚會

2/2/2019

新年晚會是每年華府地區台灣留學生間的最大盛會，還記得當年我們做留學生之時,每逢年節倍思親。北一女校友和理事們同建中,中山校友會會長理事們參加這新年晚會，陪新來的留學生們一同吃個早年夜飯，特别是给台灣來的小同學們瞭解在異鄉，有學長校友的親情與關愛，仍能感受過年的熱鬧歡慶氣氛.

北一女校友會 brought two big bags of care packages as drawing prizes for students. Both care packages contained many wonderful and delicious goodies donated by the love and kindness of all our Beinu alumnae.