For upcoming events:
Thai Night and our Annual Picnic, see the Events page.
Annual Meeting Wrap Up:
We had our annual meeting on Saturday, 22 February 2009.Thanks to all who attended and sent in votes.
The biggest news is we elected a new board:
Thai-American Association of Milwaukee Board from 2009-2010
President: Manit Auvuchanon
Vice-President: Phenjun "Phen" Mida
Secretary: Lakanawan "Tik" Macioce
Treasurer: Boonphen "Phen" Melrose
Manit has served before and has been with the group
since the very beginning 30 years ago!
It's great to have him involved.
Phenjun has been a great help behind the scenes for years,
including assisting with treasurer duties the past two years.
Now, she will continue her great service as Vice-President.
Lakanawan is relatively new to our group,
having only been in Milwaukee for a little over a year.
During that time she has assisted with secretarial duties
and danced with our performance group.
Boonphen served the past two years as vice-president.
With a little arm twisting we were able to convince her to continue
her service as treasurer. We value her experience with the Association.
The whole Association thanks the previous board:
Apinya "Nong" Jordan
Boonphen "Phen" Melrose
Sirirut "Jeab" Jaikongla
Pongtip "Tip" Gillette
2009 Events
We've
already gotten started with 2009 events.
Our dance troupe performed at the
St. Sava's Serbian School fundraiser on Valentine's Day.
Thank you ladies for helping the greater Milwaukee community.
Also...
Congrats to Ed N. for a great presentation
about Thailand
at the St. Luke's School Folk Fair & Open House.
More info.
2008 Wrap Up
We had a very busy year.
In April, we visited Marquette University and danced as part of an
evening learning about Marquette's unique collection of Thai art.
Our annual Thai Night was a big success in May. We even managed
to get some videos on YouTube.
Two dance performances in June...
One in Chicago for Thailand Festival,
and one in Madison as part of an Olbrich Gardens
fundraiser.
July, we rested.
Then in August we had great turn out for our annual picnic.
And the big one, in November, we had another very successful Holiday
Folk Fair International.
More news about our Folk Fair participation on ThaiTownUSA (in Thai): ThaiTown