We wanted to invite everyone to a reception honoring newly admitted students to Georgetown. Accepted students, waitlisted students, their families, and all Georgetown Shanghai alumni are encouraged to come and welcome the new students into our community.

It is a big accomplishment to get admission into Georgetown University, and many of the students will have several outstanding choices to consider this spring. We hope that gatherings like this will demonstrate the strength of the Georgetown community, and the warmth of the welcome they will receive in Washington DC in the fall.

Accepted Students Reception
Date: Saturday, April 24
Time: 3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Location:
Alumni Lorena Valencia has kindly volunteered to host the event.
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We look forward to seeing you there!

The Georgetown Shanghai Team

If there are any questions, please send an email to gtownchina@gmail.com.

We wanted to remind alumni and friends of Georgetown University that the Georgetown Gala will be held at March 2 at Kathleen’s 5. There will be complimentary drinks and food from 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM. Professors from Georgetown and over 100 Georgetown MBAs will be visiting from the US. This will be a great opportunity for the Georgetown community in Shanghai to meet each other and connect with Georgetown students.

Georgetown Gala

Tuesday, March 2, 6:30 PM
Drinks and food are complimentary from the Georgetown McDonough Business School.
All Georgetown alumni and friends of Georgetown are all encouraged to attend.

Kathleen’s 5 at the Shanghai Art Museum
5th Floor, Shanghai Art Museum at People’s Square
325 Nanjing Xi Lu
021 – 63272221
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This will also be an opportunity to also meet the new University Liason Director – Pei Liu (刘佩). Pei Liu has recently been appointed to the post, and she will be in charge of spearheading Georgetown’s efforts in China.

RSVP is not required, but please send an email to Laura Grainger at lug2 at georgetown.edu to help her with estimating headcount.

We think this will really be a great event. We’re looking forward to seeing you there!

The Georgetown Club of Shanghai, China

We wanted to let Georgetown Shanghai Alumni know that there is a new Georgetown Liason Office Director in Shanghai, Pei Liu (刘佩). Dr. Liu is going to be coming to Shanghai at the end of the month. She’ll be attending the March 2, Georgetown Gala at Kathleen’s 5. Please come to the event; it will also be a great opportunity to meet her, and learn more about Georgetown’s plans are in China.

Here is her bio:
Dr. Liu received her Ph.D. in Public Administration from The George Washington University, where she also worked in the Center for the Study of Globalization and taught and advised students. As part of her dissertation, in 2004, she conducted field research in China on the development of Sino-foreign collaborative educational alliances. A native of China, she earned her B.A. in Trade Economics from Wuhan University of Technology and an M.P.A. from the University of Missouri-Columbia. Dr. Liu’s academic interests are interdisciplinary, with research and publications focused on new developments in transnational education, joint educational ventures, and international quality assurance and regulation.

Prior to joining Georgetown, she managed the Educational Evaluation Services for Architects program at the National Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB) in Washington D.C., a program which provides educational credentialing for foreign architects to work in the United States.

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If you’re interested in finding out more about what Georgetown University is doing in China, you can follow this link to Office of the Provost: China and Georgetown page.

Father King

Dear Hoyas in Shanghai,
We’re publishing a letter we received from Georgetown University about Father Thomas King, S.J.

Dear Georgetown alumni club presidents,

We are writing to regretfully inform you of the passing of Father Thomas King, S.J. For those who wish to pass this information on to your constituencies, you will find more information below regarding his passing.

Father King passed away suddenly of a heart attack in his room on Tuesday, June 23rd. A native of Pittsburgh, he is survived by his brother, Fr. William King, also of the Jesuit community at Georgetown, and by his sisters, Mrs. Martha Cox of Pittsburgh, PA and Mrs. Catherine Marie Tovey of Portland, OR.

Fr. King taught theology at Georgetown for over forty years and published widely on theological and spiritual topics. He was deeply interested in the thought of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, the famous Jesuit paleontologist, and in the connections between religion and science. He was famous on campus for the impact of his “Problem of God” class and for his remarkable, late evening liturgies. http://alumni.georgetown.edu/default.aspx?page=NewsEventsFatherKing20090622.

A campus-wide memorial Mass celebrating Fr. King will be held in September after the return of students and faculty. More information about this will be available at a later date.

Georgetown University
Alumni Relations