From: Zhang, Fan

E-Mail: zhang@broadbase.com

Subject: Helping Hands

 Helping Hands
 
 The following is just personal opinion.
 
 From time to time we have experienced these sad and difficult situations such as sickness of Luo Guobao and pass away of Prof. Huang, and I am sure we’ll see more and more of these happening in front of us. We are not kids anymore and it’s getting harder to ignore these events. We, especially 777x’s, should get closer each time we see this kind of tragedy happens. It could happen to any one of us soon or later. I recommend that we donate money to Luo GuoBao’s family and Prof. Huang’s family to express our concerns and support. Someone/ones who know these people best should organize/collect the donations. If you are the one, please let me know. Setting up some kind of fund for each of such event is not realistic.
 
 I don’t know Prof. Huang very much, and I am not especially encouraging yang people follow my footstep either. I’ll skip the donation to Prof. Huang’s academic achievement fund or the scholarship.
 
 Many of us had difficult times financially here in the US. Some are still struggling either in pursuing a degree, finding jobs, changing careers, or others. We may want to create some kind of fund/donation to help these people (777x’s).
 
 Again, this is just personal opinion.
 
 Zhang Fan