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