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| Recent Development News (June 2003)
2003 Membership
Drive
Museum Profiles: Peg Palmer Mrs. Palmer, whose interest in Asian art began in childhood, has spent a lifetime devoted to the promotion of global understanding through cross-cultural interaction and exchange. She relates a pivotal moment in the development of her commitment, “During the post World War II period many people were obsessed with building bomb shelters and air raid drills were a common practice. One day my five-year-old son asked me if he would live long enough to grow up. I was stunned but then remembered a vow I had made after the birth of our first child who was born at an army camp in North Carolina while Everett (Mr. Everett A. Palmer, Jr.) was away on war maneuvers. I felt war was a waste of life and wanted to do something that would contribute to a more peaceful world.” It was with this newfound conviction that she was led to a book, The Meeting of the East and West, Peace Through World Understanding. Greatly inspired, Mrs. Palmer decided to work towards what she believed to be a better outcome, a world where cultures could borrow and combine the best elements from each other and create a brighter future for all. Mrs. Palmer’s sentiments are eloquently expressed in the Museum’s mission of Furthering Intercultural Understanding Through the Arts. Pacific Asia Museum is indeed fortunate to have Peg Palmer as our founder, visionary, loyal supporter and friend. The 8th annual
Jacqueline Burns Award The Service
Council Recognition Ceremony and Dinner Annual Holiday
Bazaar Festival of
the Autumn Moon
The Festival of the Autumn Moon is less than four months away! Save Saturday, October 4, 2003 for a night of magic and splendor as Pacific Asia Museum celebrates Asian art and culture at the Pasadena Conference Center. If you have art objects, sports memorabilia, antiques, jewelry, tickets to performances or a vacation home where you could offer a one-week stay, please consider donating to the Live or Silent Auction. The Museum depends on the interest and involvement of its members to make the Festival a success. We look forward to seeing you there! Thank
You Pacific Asia Museum would like to thank the following foundations for their support in the months of March and April:
Murder at
the Museum: The Usual Suspects
Pacific Asia
Museum continuing Give the
Gift of Membership Help support
Pacific Asia Museum
To donate, please contact the Development Department at extension 37 or 12. Please remember that your in-kind donations are fully tax-deductible!
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Chances
are that if you’ve ever attended an event at Pacific Asia
Museum, you’ve met Peg Palmer. Her influences can be found
in nearly every corner of the Museum. Not only is she a current
member of the Board of Trustees, Mrs. Palmer is also the Founding
Board President, having been an primary force behind the establishment
of the Pacificulture Foundation – which became Pacific Asia
Museum in 1971.
Pacific
Asia Museum is pleased to announce programs sponsored by the National
Endowment for the Arts (NEA). With support from this prestigious
federal government agency, the Museum has launched the Chinese Community
Initiative, a coordinated series of educational and community programs
aimed at serving the growing Chinese community in the San Gabriel
Valley. Planned programs include Treasures from China,
a series of docent-led Mandarin language tours of the Museum’s
galleries which began in March 2003, Chinese language brochures
about the Museum, a Chinese Cultural Traveling Trunk for
classroom use, the Chinese Calligraphy Showcase in June,
2003, and the Chinese Film Festival in October, 2003. 
