The idea of grouping alumni from Beijing Tsinghua in the Silicon Valley
can be traced as early as 1994. Led by Hong Dong, the very first Spring
Picnic was held on a sunny spring day in 1994. A small group of Beijing
Tsinghua alumi with their friends and family gathered in Bayland Park
started the fire that has united the alumni of Beijing Tsinghua University
every since. The next year (1995), more than 150 Beijing Tsinghua
Alumni and their families showed up at the spring picnic. The event
was organized by more volunteers, among them there were
Jay Deng, Yu Liu, Lifeng Wu, Xusheng Zhang, Liansheng Xie, Datong
Chen, Yu Guan, Ying Chen, Jian Li, Don Zhao, Xingping He, Kewei Yang
and Li Gong. Witnessed the success of the event, organizers decided
to make the spring picnic a tradition for the Tsinghua alumni in the
Bay Area. Held every year in the early May, around the same time of
the anniversary celebration of our Alma Mater, Tsinghua University
in Beijing. The spring picnic has since become a tradition for alumni
in the Silicon Valley to reunite with friends from the school days
and to make connections with new ones. It’s a day of sunshine, friendship
and delicious food.
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