Dear Friends, With committed efforts to preserve Vietnamese culture and tradition through our beauty pageant during the TET Festival, we would like to extend our heartfelt appreciation, for your dedicated support by introducing more beautiful faces and diverse talents to this year's Miss Vietnam TET Pageant. Moreover, we wish you and your family prosperity and good health in the coming Lunar New Year of the Horse. We would like to take this opportunity to thank each and everyone of our sponsors for their financial support and thank the volunteers for their valuable time and contributions that make this year's event possible. Last, but not least, we want to extend our thanks and express our boundless appreciation to the contestants and their families for their dedicated efforts in the preparation of this year's wonderful pageant. Of course every contestant desires to become a new reigning Miss Vietnam, but more importantly, we hope that each contestant, will find the event to be a culturally eye-opening, and exhilarating experience of a lifetime as well. Best wishes to every one and have a wonderful and prosperous New Year. Sincerely, Miss Vietnam TET Pageant of Northern California Committee 2002