David L. Halter has for the past 20 years been the active business owner of Halter's Cycles and Fitness in
  South Brunswick, NJ. Prior to being a local business entrepreneur he worked in the international shipping
industry, representing United States shipping lines, The Tong Group, Hong Kong
and K lines, Japan.

  George Hicks served as Board President of the Manalapan Battleground Symphony Orchestra for 7 years and
  was the Orchestra’s principle clarinetist. In earlier years when that Orchestra was sponsored by the Battleground
Arts Council, he served as the orchestra’s treasurer. He also plays with several orchestra
members in small chamber ensembles for private and community venues. An advocate
for the Arts, George lives in Freehold and worked at Lucent Technologies for more than
27 years managing a software development team. He is now retired and dedicates time
to raising awareness and enhancing collaboration with wide ranging community organizations
and associations for a broad spectrum of the Arts.

  Margaret Koo graduated from Ming Chuan University in Taiwan, where she majored in Accounting and Statistics.
  She came to the United States in 1963 as a graduate student attending the University of Massachusetts at
Amherst, after which she settled in the Metropolitan New York City area. After working for
a major airline as a senior accountant until 1984, Margaret moved back to Taipei as an entrepreneur in the fashion business. She returned to the States in 1990 to help a Taiwan
garment company establish a branch office in New York City.

Today Mrs. Koo is fully devoted to doing community service, an interest she has actively
pursued for decades. As early as 1978, she served as the president of Princeton Chinese
Language School, then as the president of CJCAA (Central Jersey Chinese American
Association) and Woman’s Club. In 1995, she co-founded DCSI East of USA (DCSIE) and
  served as its president for two years. In 2004, she was appointed by the Governor of the State of New Jersey to
  the Board of Trustees of New Jersey State Museum and continues to dedicate time to the Museum today.
  Simultaneously, Margaret has been serving as the advisor for the American Cancer Society of NJ Chinese Unit
  and as the president of DCSI’s USA Chapter for 2005, 2006 and 2007. She is currently serving, in 2008, as the
  President of Distinguished Citizens Society International, an international organization presently representing a
  dozen countries.

  Jennifer Lin: Ms. Lin has over 15 years of experience promoting cultural diversity, education, and a sense of
  community through musical performances. She has participated in choir groups performing in theaters,
libraries, Churches, temples, schools, and senior citizen housing facilities in the region
including the Chin Yun Chorus, China Institute Choir, Univoice Choir, and NJ Buddha’s
Light Chorus.

Jennifer Lin’s charitable work also includes international organizations for disaster relief
and finding ways for music and cultural exchanges to encourage peace and compassion
for others. She has helped organize numerous multicultural programs including events at
the Fidelity Chinese School, Monmouth County Library Headquarters Chinese New Year
  celebration, Manalapan Asian Heritage Month celebration, and Marlboro New Year Parade.

  Sylvie Webb studied piano in France. Winner of a Gold Medal in Performance from the Conservatoire National
  de St Germain-en -Laye (France), she also received a Prix d'Excellence from the Paris Regional School of Music
as well as a First Prize from the Union des Conservatoires des Hauts-de-Seine. Besides
being an elementary school teacher, she was the appointed accompanist of a Music
Conservatory near Paris. She moved to the United States in 1986 with her family and
pursued her musical career in Connecticut and New Jersey, giving solo and chamber
music recitals in the Tri-State Area.

Mrs. Webb performed as soloist with symphony orchestras such as the Manalapan
Battleground Symphony, the Princeton Symphony Orchestra and the Westminster
Community Orchestra in Princeton.

  In the summer of 2007, Mrs.Webb performed as a soloist in the Shanghai Grand Theater as a performing faculty
  member of the Northeastern American Art Troupe. She was also awarded as an honorary faculty of the Strauss
  Music School in Shanghai, China.

  While most of her time is devoted primarily to teaching students of all ages, Mrs. Webb is often involved in
  coaching chamber music. She is a frequent adjudicator for prestigious organizations that include NJMTA, the   Steinway Society of Princeton and the Cecilian Club of Music. She has been on the faculty of Westminster
  Conservatory of Rider University of New Jersey since 1993, and maintains a private piano studio in her Princeton   home.

  Dr. Chiu-Ling Lin, is a committed educator and active performer who received her Doctor and Master of Music
  degrees from Indiana University and Bachelor of Music from New England Conservatory of Music. Her 30 years
of college teaching experience include positions as Chair of the Music
Department and Professor of Piano at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa
and Artist-in-Residence at Indiana University. She served as United States
Information Agency’s Artist Ambassador to Argentina, Brazil and Peru in
1990-91 and gave extensive recitals in those countries. Dr. Lin has soloed
with fourteen orchestras, including the Atlanta Symphony, the Chicago Civic
Orchestra, the Singapore Symphony, and the Des Moines Symphony, where
she currently serves as the Principal Keyboard Player. Appearances in New
  York, Boston, Chicago, England, Canada and throughout the Far East have featured Dr. Lin's unique mix of
  music by Chinese and Western composers. Her virtuosity is showcased in her CD, "Portraits of China."

  Sandra Lippman is an education consultant with a successful record as a change agent in K12 urban school
  reform and professional development, following a successful business career with General Electric. She has lived
and traveled extensively in South America, Europe, and the Pacific Rim, which contributes
to having a broad based school-to-career perspective and deep understanding of the skills
students need to succeed in life and the global workplace.

Ms. Lippman has participated in numerous pilot and grant-funded projects including museum
educational programs, The New York Times Learning Network Affiliates, National Center for
Teaching Thinking international consortium, the Association of the Bar of the City of NY’s
law-in-education program for middle schools, the NYC Chancellor’s Leadership Team
  initiative, and the NYC Center for Charter School Excellence design and development grant teams. Ms. Lippman
  conducts PreK20 seminars and teacher training in the Tri-State Area, is a member of Phi Delta Kappa International
  and an Education Advocate with the Association of Supervision and Curriculum Development(ASCD).

  She specializes in customized community-to-school programs in which all stakeholders bring respective strengths
  to collaborative projects, promising outcomes that are more significant and longer-term than would otherwise be
  possible. Her work includes coaching and mentoring teachers and administrators in four states and dozens of
  school districts, building literacy and thinking skills across content areas and bridging differences in diverse ability
  levels and backgrounds. She is presently the Director of Education at the Snug Harbor Cultural Center and
  Botanical Garden in Staten Island, NY.

  Myrna Reiter's career in the pharmaceutical industry spans over thirty years managing hospital accounts in the
  Greater New York Area for a Fortune 100 firm. Her background in volunteering is extensive and includes working
with a broad mix of special needs adult and student populations. Post-retirement, she
continues to work with young people as a substitute teacher in the Freehold Regional High
School system and as a partner-coach for the Arc of Monmouth golf athletes who participate
in Special Olympics New Jersey festival of sports events. Myrna Reiter also brings broad
board member experience from her positions as president of the Knob Hill Golf and Country
Club Community Association and treasurer for the Legends at Knob Hill Condominium
Association. She additionally works in fundraising events to the benefit of Florida’s Bay Point
  schools, which offers educational opportunities for success to students and families who need alternative routes.

  Dr.Robert Kaita is a principal research physicist at Princeton University, where he has leadership   responsibilities on major fusion energy research projects. He has been at Princeton for thirty years, and his work
has been described in over 300 publications in nuclear and plasma physics. In addition,
Dr. Kaita has supervised the research of nearly two dozen Princeton University graduate
students. He was elected a fellow of the American Physics Society, and is an executive
committee member and past president of the Princeton Chapter of Sigma Xi, the Scientific
Research Honor Society.

Dr. Kaita has also published essays on science and faith in several journals and books,
including “Science: Christian Perspectives for the New Millenium” and “The Two Tasks of
  the Christian Scholar.” He is on the Faculty Ministries Advisory Council of the Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship
  (IVCF), and advises the IVCF Chapter at the Princeton Graduate College. In 2006, Dr. Kaita received the Erick
  Nilson Award of Campus Crusade for Christ for his Christian leadership at Princeton University and other
  campuses across the U. S. and around the world.

  Dr. Kaita is experienced in both choral and orchestral performance as well. He has sung bass in numerous
  oratorios, including Handel’s Messiah, Haydn’s Seven Last Words of Christ, Mendelsohn’s Christus, Pergolesi’s
  Magnificat, and Rutter’s Requiem. He is a clarinetist with the Bravura Philharmonic Orchestra.

  Yi Yangis a world-renowned master musician with over 20 years of concert performances who has reached
  the highest possible level of teaching guzheng both in and out of China; she significantly increased public
awareness of guzheng music as well as making it accessible to a broad range of
audiences in the US through recitals, concerts, lectures and competitions.

  Wendy Wu began her piano training in Taiwan. She graduated as one of the top 5 students from Shih-Chen
  University and was selected to play at a multitude of graduation performances in many cities. She was then
certified as a Yamaha Company piano teacher after passing the highly competitive
Performance/Theory Grade 3 exam. Following certification, Ms. Wu was promoted to the
Dean's assistant and was appointed to organize many of the company's events. Other than
teaching the advanced music classes, she was also a columnist for the company, publishing
many music related articles in Yamaha monthly magazine, Chinese World Journal News
Paper and CoastSide Magazine.

  Tomoko Harada , has performed extensively in the United States, Japan and France. She received degrees from
  the Mannes College of Music, New York City under the tutelage of Nina Svetlanova as a scholarship recipient. Ms.
Harada further received the highest rank of Le Diplome Superieur D’Execution Concertiste from
L’Ecole Normale de Music de Cortot de Paris, France under the tutelage of France Clidat.
Her teachers also include Adolph Baller from Stanford University and Jean-Marie Darre in France.
Ms. Harada was awarded the First Prize of the Los Angeles Young Musicians Competition and
Peninsula Music Competition, performing as a soloist with the Japanese Philharmonic Orchestra
under the late Maestro Takashi Asahina and the Palo Alto Chamber Orchestra. Her live
performances were broadcast on radio in Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York City.

  In addition to being a recitalist and a chamber musician, Ms Harada is in demand as a teacher. She is Nationally
  Certified Teacher of Music in Piano from Music Teachers National Association and from the Piano Teachers
  Society of America. She has also received numerous pedagogy awards in recognition of students’ preparation to
  international and national competitions. In addition, Ms. Harada has been invited to serve as a jury at competitions
  and auditions of numerous music organizations. Currently she is a faculty member at Seton Hall University in
  South Orange, New Jersey as well as maintaining a private studio in Basking Ridge, New Jersey.