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Events:
2009
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Save the Date!
Crane House Lunar New Year Celebration
Year of the Ox
Dinner & Auction
Saturday,
January 24, 2009
Download RSVP Form
Honorary Chair
The Honorable Elaine Chao
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JumpStart
CHINESE LANGUAGE INSTITUTE
Crane House is very excited and pleased to open a weekly follow-up program for Startalk students from September 28 through November 30, 2008. The aim of the program is to help students review and apply what they learned during the Crane House three-week intensive Chinese Language Institute in July, 2008 to their daily lives while furthering their knowledge of Chinese language and culture. These goals will allow students to apply their knowledge into real world settings.
The follow-up program runs for one hour each Sunday for 10 weeks plus two sessions of discussion with guest speakers at Crane House. The course consists of 2 levels, with 2 classes per level: novice-low and novice-mid. As with the summer STARTALK program, there is no fee for attending this program. Interested Startalk students please contact Dr. Helen Pan, Startalk Program Director at startalk@insightbb.com or (502)228-8246/ (502)635-2240.
Jump Start is a StarTalk national language
project. Administered by the National Foreign Language Center, University of
Maryland, in conjunction with the Federal Initiative for Critical Need Languages,
and in partnership with Jefferson County Public Schools, University of Louisville
Chinese Studies, and Crane House, in Louisville Kentucky.
Click here for information.
Click here for a listing of other StarTalk Chinese language programs around the nation.
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Helen Lew Lang – A Profile
b. 1926 Seattle, Washington
The daughter of Chinese immigrants from Canton, Helen Lang has always taken a keen interest in her heritage. She received her B.A. in Far Eastern Studies and Political Science at the University of Washington after taking a short break to serve as secretary to the Chief Chinese delegate to the United Nations in 1946. Her dream of developing a Chinese cultural center, inspired by visits to New York City's China Institute, culminated in the founding of Crane House, The Asia Institute, Inc. in 1987.
Calvin and Helen Lang moved to Louisville In 1959 [when Calvin Lang joined the University of Louisville Medical School faculty] with their four children - Beverly, Kathy, David and Paul. When her children were in elementary school, Helen began showing Chinese artifacts and talking about traditions to their classes. She also began teaching Chinese cooking in her home and later served as a consultant to Louisville's chefs and culinary editors.
Helen served as President of the Crane House Board of Directors and Executive Director from 1987 until 1994. Since 1995 Helen has been Chairman of the Board. Though she is no longer involved in the daily operations, her enthusiasm for educating others about Asian culture is undimmed; her most recent achievement is to help initiate a Mandarin language program for preschoolers.