Taking Mount Union College to Asia: Tracking President Giese's Trip
Dr. Richard Giese and his wife Sandra and Dr. William Coleman, assistant to the president for diversity affairs, and his wife Ruth as well as Scott Slabaugh, director of international student services, have embarked on a trip to bolster Mount Union College’s Asia Initiative. Their visits will include trips to sister colleges and universities to encourage exchanges as well as visiting Mount Union alumni who live overseas. |
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Hong Kong area alumni dinner hosted by President and Mrs. Giese
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| President Giese and Dr. Coleman visited the Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM), Penang and were hosted by Mount Union alumnus Dr. Jason Tye, Associate Dean. They held meetings to establish student and faculty exchanges. |
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President Giese and Dr. Tye agree to continue to seek out ways in which their two
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| Penang, Malaysia area alumni dinner hosted by President and Mrs. Giese |
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| Mount Union Alumni Marcus Smith ’88, Senior Vice President and Director of Asian Research for MFS Investment Management, and his wife Celina (Holmes) Smith ’86 who now reside in Singapore joined President and Mrs. Giese for dinner. |
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Luncheon hosted by Dean Zhang in honor of President Giese’s visit
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President Giese was shown a typical residence hall room where exchange students stay and the beautiful view from their veranda
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University students joined in on the campus tour and chatted with President Giese giving
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Dean Zhang joins President Giese on a tour of the grounds of his University
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President Giese and Dean Zhang shake hands on an agreement in principle for student exchanges with a formal agreement to be signed at a later date. Plans for faculty exchange were also sketched out with details to be finalized at a later date. These exchange agreements will be the first of their kind with any foreign institution for the Department of Humanities at
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President Giese discusses the opportunity for a formal exchange of students and faculty between Mount Union and the Shanghai University of Economics and Finance
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President Giese and Dr. Coleman with Dean Xiong Zhang and his staff of the Department of Humanities at the Shanghai University of Economics and Finance
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President and Mrs. Giese arrive into Shanghai and pose for a picture in front of the
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President and Mrs. Giese with Mrs. Coleman and former Spanish Teaching Assistant Estie. Dr. and Mrs. Coleman were Estie’s community friend when she was at the College and they have kept contact over these past few years
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Mount Union’s delegation joined President and Mrs. Giese for a group photo with Mayor Akiba
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President Giese presents the “Thousand Paper Cranes of Peace” which were made by Mount Union’s Association of International Students as a sign of the College’s commitment to Peace. The cranes will be on display at the Sadako Monument in the Hiroshima Peace Park
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President Giese with Hiroshima City Mayor, Akiba. The President and the Mount Union delegation were given a private meeting with Mayor Akiba. In this meeting, the Mayor expressed his gratitude to Mount Union for hosting the Hiroshima Peace Forum in October 2007. Mount Union was the first stop on a circuit of Peace Forum events in the U.S. and it was reported to Mayor Akiba
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President and Mrs. Giese were honored as special guests at a dinner hosted by members of the Hiroshima Women's High School and Universty. Talks were held to promote continued cooperation with Jogakuin High School and the possibility of extending programs to the Unversity as well
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Hiroshima Jogakuen Chancellor Kurose, President and Mrs. Giese, Mrs. Coleman,
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Mount Union delegation attended a special chapel service at Hiroshima Jogakuin University
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President and Mrs.Giese with the Osaka area alumni group comprised of fomer |
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Mrs. Coleman with students at the Osaka alumni gathering
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Dr. Coleman had a chance to catch up with several of his former students
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President and Mrs. Giese had a chance to chat with former students and tell them of
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Mrs. Giese, Dr. and Mrs. Coleman with Kyomi Matsubata and her mother. Kyomi is wearing a traditional Japanese Kimono
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Hiroshima area alumni group at the runion dinner hosted by President and Mrs. Giese. |
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Suminao Murakami, younger brother of Yoshino Murakami ('56) and his nephew represent the Murakami family at the Hiroshima alimni reunion. Mount Union College and Hiroshima Jogakuin Girl's High School are celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Murakami Scholarship. Yoshino Murakami is a 1956 Mount Union graduate who passed away in 1966 due to health complications related to the Hiroshima atomic bomb blast. Mount Union went on to establish the Murakami Scholarship in her name for graduates of the Hiroshima Jogakuin Girls High School. |
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Dr. and Mrs. Coleman with Murakami scholar Number 7 Noriko (Kobayashi) Suzuki
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Muramaki Scholar Number 10, Keiko Miyahara, and her mother Junko with Mrs. Coleman |
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New student and Murakami Scholar Number 11, Kyoko Niiyama, and her parents
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President and Mrs. Giese were asked on the street by these students on |
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Mrs. Giese along with Dr. and Mrs. Coleman talking with a few of the many students
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President Giese poses with a group of sixth grade students at the Hiroshima Peace Park
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President Giese and Dr. Coleman with Baika University World Champion cheerleading squad - the Raiders. Baika's cheerleaders took their name from Mount Union due to their 30 year long sister school relationship.
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President Giese and Dr. Coleman with the Baika faculty of the Global English Department
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President Giese with the President of Baika Women's University
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President Giese shows pictures of the Mount Union College campus to two new students
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Dinner hosted by Kansai Gaidai University in honor of the visit of President and Mrs. Giese
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President and Mrs. Giese chat with an art student at Kansai Gaidai University
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President and Mrs. Giese along with Dr. Coleman visit Japanese exchange partner
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Dr. Giese and his wife, Sandra, in front of the Ginza, Tokyo Kabuki Theater. Kabuki is a traditional Japanese theatre in which all actors are male and portray all parts.
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Tomo Naka and his family
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The Colemans and Gieses at a Japanese coffee shop after a long Sunday morning walk
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Mrs. Giese talking with former student Shiori Akagi at the alumni luncheon for Tokyo area alumni
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Tokyo area alumni group at luncheon hosted by Dr. and Mrs. Giese |