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“But we are here also to celebrate you,” he added. “By supporting A Tribute to Caring and WesternU as a
whole, you help ensure our University continues to produce highly skilled healers, biomedical researchers,
and community servants, all in a tradition of compassion and care and our ethos of humanistic science.
Your support helps light the way for generations of caregivers – and care – to come. For this we thank you
profusely.”
International entrepreneur and philanthropist Leo Chu received WesternU’s Global Health Education
Ambassador Award. Chu was born in Shanghai and raised in Hong Kong. He immigrated to the U.S. in
1975 and started a successful clothing company, then went into the casino business, becoming the first
Asian American to own casinos in California.
Chu has served as a board member for the Special Olympics for 24 years, and is chairman of the Morning
Light Foundation, which builds schools in poor and remote areas of China and provides 400 scholarships
every year. Education and health care are most important in life, he said. Health care improves people’s
lives, and the U.S. attracts the best people in the world with education.
“Eighty to 90 percent of them stay here and become American citizens. Immigrants make this country, still
today,” Chu said. “We make the world a better place to live by educating other people, not just ourselves.”
WesternU Vice President for University Advancement Diane M. Abraham, PhD, CFRE, welcomed guests to
ATC and served as master of ceremonies along with student scholarship recipients representing all of
WesternU’s nine colleges. Supporting scholarships makes dreams come true, said College of Health
Sciences student Randee Lynn Palmer, a first-generation college graduate.
“Without the finances, no matter how smart you are, you can’t accomplish what you want to accomplish,”
said Palmer, who is in the Master of Science in Health Sciences program. “I couldn’t have done it without
financial help from others. Every generation is changed (by scholarships). Now my children go to college
because people helped me be the first person to go to college.”
Left to right: Diane M. Abraham, PhD, CFRE; Richard A. Bond, DO, FAAFP, DrPH;
Leo Chu; and Daniel R. Wilson, MD, PhD.
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whole, you help ensure our University continues to produce highly skilled healers, biomedical researchers,
and community servants, all in a tradition of compassion and care and our ethos of humanistic science.
Your support helps light the way for generations of caregivers – and care – to come. For this we thank you
profusely.”
International entrepreneur and philanthropist Leo Chu received WesternU’s Global Health Education
Ambassador Award. Chu was born in Shanghai and raised in Hong Kong. He immigrated to the U.S. in
1975 and started a successful clothing company, then went into the casino business, becoming the first
Asian American to own casinos in California.
Chu has served as a board member for the Special Olympics for 24 years, and is chairman of the Morning
Light Foundation, which builds schools in poor and remote areas of China and provides 400 scholarships
every year. Education and health care are most important in life, he said. Health care improves people’s
lives, and the U.S. attracts the best people in the world with education.
“Eighty to 90 percent of them stay here and become American citizens. Immigrants make this country, still
today,” Chu said. “We make the world a better place to live by educating other people, not just ourselves.”
WesternU Vice President for University Advancement Diane M. Abraham, PhD, CFRE, welcomed guests to
ATC and served as master of ceremonies along with student scholarship recipients representing all of
WesternU’s nine colleges. Supporting scholarships makes dreams come true, said College of Health
Sciences student Randee Lynn Palmer, a first-generation college graduate.
“Without the finances, no matter how smart you are, you can’t accomplish what you want to accomplish,”
said Palmer, who is in the Master of Science in Health Sciences program. “I couldn’t have done it without
financial help from others. Every generation is changed (by scholarships). Now my children go to college
because people helped me be the first person to go to college.”
Left to right: Diane M. Abraham, PhD, CFRE; Richard A. Bond, DO, FAAFP, DrPH;
Leo Chu; and Daniel R. Wilson, MD, PhD.
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