Lovers of Art, Feng Shui and Korean Cuisine in Glendale
Scholarship Fundraising Event!
Date: Sunday, October 4, 1 pm
Hosts: Jeff '72 and Hea-Sook Hyman and Hsiao-Ching Chen PhD '96 and Philip Peng
Donation: $50 per person
Limit: 15 guests
Escape from honking horns and screaming humanity.
Dare to walk up 42 stairs (8 landings break the ascent) and relax in a treetop retreat overlooking Spanish-tiled rooftops, the Oakmont Country Club golf course and the magnificent San Gabriel Mountains.
Gaze across at Mount Lukens, the highest peak in Los Angeles.
Enjoy the hilltop breeze while discussing art with internationally-known Korean artist Hea-Sook Yoo, whose studio is on the street level.
Sample a variety of Korean dishes, along with barbecued chicken hot off the grill.
Jeff Hyman graduated from Cornell as a writing major, worked as a flamenco guitarist for singers and dancers in Boston, New York and Spain, then returned to Boston to start a toy company with his patented Bloogle Musical Tube and copyrighted instruction booklet (millions sold). In 1984, he began a career in photography which led to jobs photographing celebrities and traveling the world as a photographer for Club Med Advertising.
By 1994, he was writing magazine travel features and celebrity profiles along with his photos but then got a real job in 1997 in credit card processing, got married in 2002 and now lives the artist's life vicariously through his wife.
Hsiao-Ching Chen never thought she would settle down in Los Angeles.
A city planner by training, she believes LA could be transformed just by great coffee and food and people taking Pilates lessons. Cornell legend has it that if a couple walks all the way around Beebe Lake holding hands, they will get engaged. That was how she and her husband Philip Peng sealed their fate (and Phil later proposed by the lake on her graduation day.) They have three