Summer
2009 Report:
The
World
Yee Family Association 4th International Convention
Yee
Chung-sheung Ancestor Hall Rehabilitation Ceremony
23rd
National Yee Fung Toy Family Association Convention
Reports
from Yee Fung Toy Chapters
Making a
Difference in 2009!
23rd National Yee Fung Toy Family
Association Convention
Please mark your Calenders. 23rd National Yee Fung Toy
Family Association Convention will be held in New York on August
8-11.
New York YFT Chapter welcomes all
attendees to our city.
Click here
for Headquarter's Announcement in Chinese.
Click here
for 1st Notice from Convention Committee.
Click here
for 2nd Notice from Convention Committee.
Click here
for 3rd Notice from Convention Committee.
Click here
for Registration Form and instructions.
Host city contact info:
NY Yee Fong Toy Association
81 Bayard Street, 2nd fl
New York, NY 10013
212-962-1835
The Yee Fung Toy
Society of Ontario 38th Annual Party Dinner
Our Ontario Chapter's 38th Annual
party dinner will be held on
Date:
Saturday, June 27, 2009.
Time: 7 pm
Place: Yiu Wah
restaurant, 耀華酒樓
421 Dundas Street. West Toronto, M5T 2W4, Ontario.
Tel: (416) 979-8833
For further information on our
38th Annual Party Dinner, please contact us at
Tel: (416) 977-4378
Wayne Yee, Ontario
Remembering Our
Parents - Celebrating Parents Day
Parents love their children and
children respect their parents are worldwide value. Our New England
Branch, over the past several years, has been celebrating Parents Day.
We select a day between the traditional Mother's and Father's Day for
this honorable event. This year it was held on Sunday May 17th at the
Association Hall.
At 12 noon our general membership
gathered for this festive event. At the recommendation of our Women's
Group Co-Chair, Mei Hau and Karin, who worked hard to make this a very
successful event, many members cooked up numerous delicious items for a
pot luck luncheon. A sheet cake was also ordered from a local bakery
for dessert. Some 30 plus members quickly gathered around the food
table for a group picture to remember the occasion.
Following the luncheon was some
general social time. This was followed by group activities of Kareoke,
group line dancing, and performing the Tai Chi Sword Form by various
members throughout the afternoon. To conclude the day, several members
displayed their cooking ability as a great dinner was prepared from our
kitchen for a feast to complete the day. At around 7:30 pm everyone bid
their good-byes and started to depart and head home.
Winston Yee, New England
Official Site
For
The Cleveland Yee Fung Toy Association is now Launched
Welcome to the official site of
The Cleveland Yee Fung Toy Association, part of the 13 YFT Associations
located in the U.S. with headquarter located in San Francisco, CA.
Link: http://yftcleveland.shutterfly.com/
Chapter Address: 3222
Superior Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio 44114
Phone
Number: (216) 687-0625
Henry Yee, Cleveland, Ohio
YFT Web
Project History
In August of 1997, a resolution
from Grand Advisor (West Coast) James Yee of Seattle to fund a website
development project was passed at the U.S. National Yee Fung Toy
Association in Boston. An ad hoc committee (Committee) was formed
to set up a detailed project plan and initial website activities.
The Fung Toy Quarterly Magazine
from Phoenix, AZ ceased publication in 1998. However, the "Fung Toy
Monthly" continued
to publish on a quarterly basis from Toisan, China. The table of
contents of one of The Fung Toy Quarterly Magazine last issues can be
viewed here.
The new Yee Fung Toy Association websites would hopefully continue to
provide communications and information amongst the Yee Family members.
The "yeefungtoy.org"
website domain name was purchased in May, 1998, and was good for 2
years. After which there
was an annual domain name renewal fee of $50. The owner of this
Internet Domain
Name Record is
Steven D. Yee of Seattle.
The host site for yeefungtoy.org
was chosen in July 1998. The Committee began moving relevant web pages
to this new host site. The host site, www.yeefungtoy.org
became fully
operational and available on September 20, 1998.
Information about the Canadian
YFT anniversary celebration was added on June 26, 1999.
On September 4, 1999, www.yeefungtoy.org
hosting renewal was sent to eskimo.com,
with new
updates which included moving old news to a separate web page.
On February 23, 2000, domain
names of yeefungtoy.com & yeefungtoy.net were purchased, and
were
linked to www.yeefungtoy.org.
Steven D. Yee is also the owner of record for those two domain names.
The Yee Fung Toy Web Project
Team consisted of the following people:
Pictured from left: James Yee
(Seattle), Jim Yee (Vancouver), Gordy Yee (Seattle), Fred Yee
(Seattle), Steven Yee (Seattle), James Yu (Vancouver). Steven D. Yee
(not shown), Eugene Yu (not shown)
From Seattle
- Fred Yee。
- Gordy Yee。(deceased)
- James Yee。
- Steven D. Yee (Sunnyvale CA USA)。
- Steven (Chun-Yeung) Yee。
From Vancouver,
British Columbia
From
New
York
Other historical note of
interest was that the Yee Fung Toy Web Project Team at that time put a
lot of effort into crafting the first
general web policy and guidelines
for use and published that on the original form of
the website. For guidelines in Chinese, please click here.
Special thanks to Steven D. Yee for providing us some of the above
historical informations.
Steven D. Yee renewed the
yeefungtoy.org Domain Name for 20 more years on November, 2008.
He’ll be renewing yeefungtoy.com and yeefungtoy.net versions as they
expire.
Fred Yee, Seattle
Dragon Boat
Festival and Senior Citizens Day Celebrations
Over 220 members gathered at the
Association office, paid homage to our ancestors and had a buffet
lunch on May 24, 2009.
Dragon Boat Festival was
celebrated with about 20 tables at the Rice Bowl Restaurant in
Sacramento.
There were 85 senior citizens over 75 years old who received a lucky
money envelope.
Melinda Yee, Sacramento
