Economic Thais

November 14, 2005 Issue

A delegation from the Royal Thai Consulate General in New York City visited Pittsburgh last week to promote Thai trade and support the creation of the planned Thai Nationality Room in Pitt’s Cathedral of Learning. Pictured in the Cathedral’s Croghan-Schenley Room, front row, from left: E. Maxine Bruhns, director of the Nationality Rooms Program; Vipawan Nipatakusol, Royal Thai Consul General; Pitt Chancellor Mark A. Nordenberg; and Yawvaluck Kosoladolkitt, chair of the Thai Nationality Room Committee. Back row, from left: committee member Gerald Groves; Kanya Amorntheerakul, Thai Center trade director; Nor and Eileen Nareedokmai, owners of Pittsburgh’s Bangkok Balcony restaurant; and William I. Brustein, director of Pitt’s University Center for International Studies and professor of sociology, political science, and history.