Support Scholarships
We would like to thank our sponsors and attendees for supporting our annual APAA Scholarship and Awards Gala. As our main fundraiser of the year, your support allows us to continue to provide scholarships to our undergraduate and graduate students at USC as well as developing programming to engage alumni lifelong and worldwide.
To help us award scholarships to students and host worldwide programs for alumni, please consider making a gift of any size to APAA. Whatever you give will make a positive difference.
Thanks again and Fight On!
Past Honorees
APAA President’s Award
- Steven B. Sample
- Wilfred Steven Uytengsu Jr. ’83
APAA Leadership Award
- Husodo Angkosubroto ’77
- Frank Buckley ’87
- Junita Ciputra MBA ’88
- Tim Dang ’80
- Fung Der ’78, MBA ’79
- Wenda Fong ’75
- Michael Garrett ’67
- Sheree Roxas-Chua Gotuaco ’90
- Harun Hajadi MBA ’88
- Irene Hirano-Inouye ’70, MPA ’73
- Yosuke Honjo MBA ’98
- John Iino JD ’87
- Curtis C. Jung ’83
- Grant Imahara ’93
- Sabrina Kay MBA ’05
- Sidney Kanazawa JD ’78
- Young Kim ’94
- Andy Lee ’93
- Jaime L. Lee ’06, JD ’09
- Scott Lee ’81
- Kenneth Liang ’83
- Mitchell Maki ’82, MSW ’84, PHD ’93
- Baldwin W. Marchack DDC ’71
- Bryan B. Min ’86
- Glenn Osaki MA ’87
- Taryn Rose MD ’92
- Haruki Rocky Seto ’99, MPA ’01
- Jon SooHoo ’84
- Debbie Shon ’74
- Nita Song ’97
- Garrick (Rick) Wang ’88
- William Wang ’86
- Karen Wong ’83, JD ’86
- Oliver Wong ’76, MBA ’77
- Gay Yuen PhD ’95
APAA Legacy Award
- Sammy Lee MD ’47
- Yoshio C. Nakamura ’52, MFA ’53
APAA Distinguished Alumni Award
- Justice Joyce Kennard ’71, MPA/JD ’74
- Kenneth K. Miura ’54
APAA Service Award
- Julie Benniardi ’91
- Rebecca Branham MBA ’13
- Tony Choi ’81
- Bob Chong ’77, MBA ’79
- Darren Chu ’84, DDS ’85 & Sandy Chu ’85
- Frances Hashimoto ’66
- Wandy and Larry Jung PharmDs ’77
- Ysa Le PharmD ’94
- Christine C. Lee JD ’79
- Jennifer Lum ’82
- Chuck Miwa ’88, MBA ’00
- Melody Nishida ’78
- Tae-Hyun Oh ME ’83, EdD ’91
- Pranav Shah ’05
- Bong-rak Sohn MBA ’86
- The Hon. Michelle Park Steel EMBA ’10
- Ben Wong ’73, PhD ’78
- Debbie Wong ’75
- Francis Yamazaki MD ’81
APAA Young Alumni Award
- Justin Chon ’03
- Jon M. Chu ’03
- Sean Miura ’10
- Ken Ochiai ’06
- Justin Tandingan MPP ’14
APAA Corporate Leadership Award
- Union Bank of California
- Verizon
APASG* Award
- Jae Min Chang
- Edgardo de la Vega DDS ’71
- Yoshi Honkawa ’55
- David Hyun
- Mary C. Takagaki
- Carl Tamaki
- Kenjohn Wang
- The Honorable Delbert E. Wong
- Wilbur Woo
- Joselyn Geaga Yap
- Do Ngoc Yen
APASG* Founders Recognition Award
- Irene Hirano-Inouye ’70, MPA ’73
- Kenneth Kasamatsu ’68
- Alan Kumamoto
- Dennis Kunisaki
- Mary Kurushima
- Frank Kwan ’71
- Michael Matsuda ’82
- Sarah Miyahira
- Karen Wong ’83, JD ’86
APASG* Media Award
- The Chinese Daily News
- FM Seoul
- The Korea Central Daily
- The Korea Times
- Korean Television Enterprises
- KTAN
- Nguoi Viet
- The Philippine News
- Radio Korea
- The Rafu Shimpo
* Asian Pacific American Support Group (former name of the APAA)