Dear Alumni,
I would like to bring your attention to 3 pieces of recent news
on USTC:
1. The average score of the entrance exam for 1995 USTC freshmen
class was 4 points lower than that of Nanjing University.
2. USTC graduate school was ranked only No.10 in the nation
trailing universities such as Central China University of Tech.
3. NO one from USTC made into the list of 59 newly elected members
of the Chinese Academy of Science!
These news are sending ever increasing alarm to people who care about
the future of USTC: we have to
improve the quality of USTC freshmen class;
improve the quality of USTC graduate school;
improve the quality of USTC faculty.
These are the missions of the USTC Alumni Foundation. Please join us
if you want to contribute your share to the endeavor to bring USTC
back to the top and move ahead.
We are proud that there are still USTC Alumni in the world who care:
Thanks for the $125 donation from Jiang Chengyu, the collection
of USTC Alumni Foundation finally broke the barrier of $7,000.
It stands at *** $7,098 *** with contributions from 149 fellow USTCers.
As one USTCer passionately expressed in a recent mail:
"...if someone else set up a foundation to help USTC, I donate
my share. If someone launch any movement to help USTC,
I contribute my share too. If USTC dies eventually, I would
not blame myself any more. If USTC becomes better and better,
I would be proud of myself. I definitely do not want to see
the situation when I am old and could not find any place to
donate my money. .... "
The most impressive contributions are from the class of 771, 17 of them
donated $1,755 nearly 25% of the fund. If they can do it, why don't
everyone of us?
If you haven't done so, please take a moment, send in your contribution
to USTC Alumni Foundation to
Dr. Shangyou Zhang
901 Rahway Dr.,
Newark, DE 19711, USA.
Make your check payable to 'USTC Alumni Foundation'.
($15 for regular membership; $125 for life-time membership; however
you are encouraged to donate as much as you can, any amount is appreciated)
To join the discussion on USTC Alumni Foundation, please email to
chinese@cauchy.math.udel.edu
with subject "signon ustc.fund ".
The second(10/20/95) issue of the USTC Alumni Foundation newsletter
<<USTC Alumni News>> is available at the USTCAF WWW site:
http://www.math.udel.edu/dept/szhang/fund.html
More updated information on USTCAF could be found there.
Thank you very much for your attention.
Best Regards,
Dongzi Liu (854 & 8500)
One of Life-time Members for USTCAF