“Twenty-four years ago, when I was Director of the David Lam Centre for International Communication at SFU’s Harbour Centre campus, my friend Bev Nann asked me to book a room to welcome a diverse group of Asian Canadian community leaders who wanted to discuss possibilities for organizing annual events in celebration of Vancouver’s Asian cultural heritage. Of course I was happy to cooperate, and thus began the movement that culminated in the official creation and registration of the Vancouver Asian Heritage Month Society as a non-profit organization. It very quickly grew from a handful of Asian Canadian cultural events, scattered through the month of May, to become THE organizational medium for maximum exposure of cultural events planned to take place in and around the month of May by affiliated pan-Asian Canadian cultural organizations. I was delighted to maintain contact with VAHMS since its formation, and was even honored to serve a term as co-president one year. I can’t tell you how happy and proud I am to have been associated with such a talented, devoted and diverse group of Asian Canadian cultural leaders and activists, and to wish you all many more years of successful leadership.”