Asia Foundation in SF Mynamar Archaeology

Pleased to discover Asia Foundation.  Met Judy Wilbur, Asia Foundation Trustee. Fellowship honors her late husband.  She says they travelled for business to SE Asia and continue to do so, for import export business.  We walked out together and talked briefly.  We  heard an archaeologist from Mynamar, who obtained his Masters degree at University of Pennsylvania, and was here under a grant for research to authenticate the objects in the Asian Art Museum from Mynamar.  Gentle-man and thorough and meticulous in his  clerical research on the temples in Puyi, I Burma and their counterpart, Dvaravati in Thailand....Puyi is a candidate for World Heritage monuments.   Nyunt Han, had received the Brayton Wilbur, Jr. fellowship in Asian Art. He has been affiliated with the Ministry of Culture for more than 30 years, and visited the US in 2011 to view Burmese art at the Northern Illinois University.   

Was cordially greeted by  Gerry Martin, Director of the Asian American Exchange,  a former colleague of Sheldon's in Ulaan Baatar, who brought over the first Mongolians in the American Asian Educational Exchange.  I took the chance to meet  Forrest McGill, Senior Curator at the Asian Art Museum, in SE Asia.   Seated next to me was Claudia Brose, a cultural heritage manager.  Program Officer,  Julia Chen, welcomed me.   A very productive meeting...where I might have lingered longer, but for the reception had I not committed to stop by the World Affairs Council Christmas party but it was disappointing but perhaps it grew more lively later.  

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