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Lunar New Year Dinner 1

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Nearly 100 students, faculty, friends, and host family members gathered in Detchon Hall Sunday night as the College's International Students Association celebrated the Lunar New Year—one of the most important traditional holidays in China, Vietnam, Korea, Malaysia, and throughout much of East and Southeast Asia. A promotional video for the event had welcomed guests in seven different languages, and Sunday's celebration brought similar variety in stories, songs, talks, demonstrations, and delicious food.  In his email invitation, ISA Secretary Anh Le invited guests "to participate in this humble celebration of ours and help us recreate the feeling of happiness, cheerfulness and contentment we get while celebrating it back home." The program began with a story—according to legend, the beginning of Chinese New Year started with the fight with the monster Nian (that's Long Pham ’14 behind the mask).    

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Ky Tran ’14, in costume as the god of prosperity, welcomed guests with a gift at the door and offered his best wishes for this, the Year of the Rabbit.

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ISA Secretary and event co-organizer Anh Le ’13 goes over the guest list before the presentations.

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Weijie Shi ’14 played guitar and sang both a modern and traditional song.

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 Dongxu Yan ’12 sang the song "Smile Forever" accompanied by Weijie Shi ’14.

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Tim Nguyen ’14 showed guests in words and pictures how the Lunar New Year is celebrated in Vietnam. 

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Malaysian student and martial arts expert Ian Low ’13 treated the crowd to a demonstration of his skills.  

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Low and event co-organizer Tommy Le share a lighter moment following Ian's presentation. 

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 Huong Dong ’13 joined other ISA members to sing for the guests.

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Sue and Brad Mullendore ’69 have long supported Wabash international students through the Community Friends program. Here Sue congratulates Long Pham on his presentation. 

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Barbara Penney and bookstore tradebook manager Judy Wynne were among those enjoying the food at Sunday's Lunar New Year celebration. 


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