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>> on december 28, 1912, san francisco mayor stared into a sea of 60,000 of constituents that gathered at geary. the berth of the first publicly owned transit system in the city, the san francisco municipal railway. >> so become everybody this the

may first thank you for jefferson city us for the celebration of asian pacific it's the international looibd to celebrate of the success around the world and may first, it the the state of hawaii with this we have a special, special hawaii culture and the asian panicking american heritage thank you for american ails for the hawaiian airlines thanks to hawaiian airlines. i know that ms. sue thank you. >> happy day. we're going to go around and you

know the other neighborhoods. let's go back to the business of 14rg9 the business we have is telling the truth year in the city and county of san francisco many of you know apa heritage is at the national celebration started in 1978 around the country a lot of countries celebrate by in 1995 we celebrate a special time of the year with the apa family to come together and have our own celebration and get to know each other a little bit better we are troud from 2005 on we're celebrating our tenth year. we're excited it's not easy to start a new tradition we're happy this new tradition is here to stay. i was informed and received a text message that mei was in

city hall earlier but had to rush to a medical appointment nothing serious but we're happy to have our past, present supervisor david chiu to welcome asian heritage month >> aloha. >> and happy mayday and lay day i want to thank you for coming to be part of my favorite moments when is the kickoff of apa i was talking about to comparing canning carman chiu in 2008, there was only one asian medical examiner now i'm honored to serve with 5 of us representing the diversity of our city with an asian-american

mayor we've come a long way and may is wonderful to celebrate our east ailing o to our filipino community to our asian pacific islander community we celebrate our history from one hundred and 60 years ago to this past year to the generations of immigrants and celebrate the leadership if from our developments government and private sector. thank you to someone who's been structural to our tenth anniversary ms. chang thank you for your work (clapping) and claudine thank you four doing it for another 10 years. okay. we're continually recruiting for the leadership i

also want to thank the corporate sponsors our heritage champions wells fargo and target and this academy of the art university let's give it up for our corporate sponsors those companies know that our city you are country and workforce is only as strong as our diversity leadership without further ado, i want to kick it over to claudine but my colleagues are going to say something we look forward to many parts my celebrations and implicit a much needed and much we'll say that over and over again, thank you and have a great afternoon

>> i see that supervisor tang is here. >> thank you (clapping). >> thank you, everyone and thanks i want to emotional president chiu sponsor to the corporate sponsors and, of course, claudine chang i was look at the president jimmy carter'sers proclamations issued in 1979 i read it and it brought me back to how far we've come long he said we have not unfortunately appreciated all the talent of the asian-american until your ignition a nationaltion laws were directed against and during world war ii

our jaiments were treated with superstition yet from china to korea and the philippines continue to look another american for hope and freedom and my parents saw that as well and many of your parents saw the opportunity during american so really today, i'm hoerpd eastbound here today how do you plead further we've got to go and 10 years and one hundred years from now. thank you for joining us in celebrating >> and carmen chow assessor (clapping.) thank you. good afternoon. i'm happy to be here at the ap organization kickoff again, i know that david mentioned his thanks to the organizing committee but thanks to claudine and france and rose chang who

have been part of the committee this is the tenth year to celebrate the apa heritage day at city hall if not for you all your hard work we wouldn't be as successful i want to thank all the sponsors who have sponsored countless events. this is an important event to revoke the leader that are here and the contributions of the today's leader by all up and coming it's important to know that our history is being reported everyday the actions where you're a new emerging leader you all help to create that apa heritage history we're proud of. i want to thank all the folks who support the community and all the sponsors and leaders who take n this upon users and, of

course, wherewith are we today we've got a board president who's been a president for 3 years so thank you defied for picking up that mantel (clapping). we have a wonderful mayor he'll express his regrets for not being here and, of course, katie chang who took the time to research jim write carter's work she is a great leader and i'm happy to be here to kickoff this event. thank you claudine (clapping.) thank you carmen. so for 10 years now this effort,

of course, is supported by the mayor of the city and the board of supervisors and all the agencies that are very, very supportive to we want to thank our businesses and you community sponsors we couldn't you pull off the ceremony but through the month of may look for our ad on muni buses their distinguished looking. this is the image of this this is the reflection of the day it's here for vicky watchings team it's a very special thing for our anniversary so look at the buses. we want to thank our sponsors for mcthis happen we normally go avenue by the time but since this the the tenth anniversary i want to call up first, the one

company that was here since 2005 this wasn't easy to convince someone the first year we're goor for it the community actually want to do this thank you wells fargo bank. here's our sponsors to say so few words >> good morning lots of important celebrations welcome to the apa heritage this is a celebration for all especially in the supply like san francisco that's the beacon for the nation we celebrate black history month and we celebrate this as claudine said wells fargo has been here for the last 10 years they understand the market in terms of our history and wells

fargo has been connected to the xhintd communities from the beginning whether we started one hundred and 50 years ago testifying against the china's e chiropractors - inclusivey act the asians are part of our history we want to thank claudine and our elected officials for the last ten years of work setting up a celebration so folks from my generation can live in a city we anticipate so thank you (clapping.) >> thank you wells fargo and mark. maybe we should go back toal bat out of hell bet the academy of art the president is here with

us today she was a judge for our awards last year and have done magnificent work dr. stevens (clapping.) thank you claudine and good morning it's a privilege to be here. the academy of art university is proud to extort or support the apa heritage month we've been proud supporters for the past 5 years and proud to be i realized we've supported 50 percent. so for some of you who don't know the academy the academy of the art university is a fabric of san francisco since 1929 i'm a native and my grandfather what a fine arts painter. i grew up with some of his

artists and close friends one was a famous chinese watercolor it. i remember going to honks congress and don was 85 got up everyday and painted i influenced the academy from his foundation. added various times we were renters in chinatown so we feel a strong connection with san francisco. and the asian heritage in san francisco. for over 80 years our mission and commitment to art education s has not wavered i'm third generations i've stayed true to the design. the academy provides equal access and opportunity for those

who want to achieve successful careers we've expanded to music and the academy their educating the students with the skills to be successful. we believe those creative industries will fill the innovative economic in the 21st century. the vast face pace world is driven by technology, innovation and creativity. and the hand of artists touches virtual everything we think of the clocks the cars you drive the bibles the movie you see and architecture and iphones and i tunes and web designs and game designs. accident creative market place expands the 0 globe and

asian-americans are in the forefront of that and equally true within the university. from time to time i find it hard to believe that people still say gee the academy has to some asian students i say maybe but the asian students they set the standards at our school they're the best students we're proud over 25 percent of our students identify themselves as either asian or asian-american. we like to think that you are school reflects the community i believe it does having been born her and lived here for the last probably 35 years. so it's a pleasure to be here i hope i have not spoken two long. thank you