An “Honor a Colleague” effort was begun last year in memory of Suet-ling Pong via the Population Association of America (PAA). We are now more than half-way to our goal. If you have already contributed to this effort, thank you very much.
If you haven’t already done so, please consider making a contribution to the PAA Fund in Suet-ling’s memory through this program. The Honor a Colleague program is a way to personalize a contribution to the PAA Fund in honor of a colleague, friend, or mentor. When contributions reach $5,000, Suet-ling will be showcased with other PAA honorees on the PAA website with her own page and photograph, a brief essay on her accomplishments, and a list of those who contributed towards her memorial (see the current list of PAA honorees at http://www.populationassociation.org/sidebar/paa-fund-campaign/honored-…). In the blue box on the right of this page is a link to the Honor a Colleague program that provides instructions for how to make your donation.
Please feel free to share this message, as we want to contact as many of Suet-ling’s friends and colleagues as possible. Also, in case you are not aware, Suet-ling’s husband and daughter have a very touching blog that you might like to peruse (http://sites.psu.edu/pongpost/). The blog includes many family photos as well as a link to a biography of Suet-ling that briefly but powerfully describes her amazing life. There is also a nice obituary in the American Sociological Association’s Footnotes: http://www.asanet.org/sites/default/files/savvy/footnotes/septoct15/obit_0915.html#obit5.
Your contribution will be put to good use. The PAA Fund uses contributions to fund a wide range of PAA activities, including efforts to encourage diversity in the Association’s membership, congressional briefings on relevant demographic topics, activities to educate members of Congress on the importance of demographic data and research, extra pages for articles in Demography, and bringing more young international scholars from abroad to the PAA meetings each year. You do not have to be a PAA member to make a donation in memory of Suet-ling. You can either make a donation online at: http://www.populationassociation.org/sidebar/paa-fund-campaign/honor-a-colleague/; or you can mail a check to:
Population Association of America
PAA Fund
8630 Fenton Street, Suite 722
Silver Spring, MD 20910-3812
BE SURE TO PUT SUET-LING’S NAME ON THE MEMO LINE OF YOUR CHECK. PAA will send or email an acknowledgement of your contribution to you.
Questions? Email debbieblackwell@verizon.net or Lois@popassoc.org.