Irl Allison, is a division of the American College of Musicians. The Piano Guild, a nonprofit organization founded in 1929 by Dr. Staff writer Jamie D.The National Guild of Piano Teachers awarded certificates to 172 piano students - ages 5 to 60 and older - from 13 piano studios in Davis, during a live audition at Music Stream Center. Scott Tsang, a high school classmate, said he respected and looked up to Zhang. Minow wrote in an email to students on the day of Zhang’s death that the Law School was looking for ways to commemorate him.īoth McAlister and Yu said Zhang was a role model to many who knew him. “As someone close to the Asian and Asian American communities here at HLS, Will was always eager to help and learn more about APALSA’s efforts to help promote Asian faculty diversity.”įriends held a memorial service for Zhang in Toronto on March 26. Throughout the semester, he was part of our conference committee, a group that worked on organizing our annual conference on law and policy, and a regular attendee to our other events,” Chan and Jiang wrote in an email. “In APALSA he was an active member starting from our first orientation event of the year.
I was pleased not only for him, but for society as a whole - here was a guy that I know would uphold the highest standards of the Bar.”Īs a member of APALSA, Zhang was a frequent contributor to club activities and initiatives, according to the club’s presidents Amanda Chan and Kevin Jiang. “That was why I was so pleased to hear that he was accepted to Harvard Law. Will possessed all these qualities and more,” Yu said. “In this line of work, quite frankly, honestly, integrity, and trustworthiness are not common attributes. Yu wrote that Zhang would have been a great lawyer. If there was no space in the car, we would sit on each other's laps,” Yu wrote in an email. If you wanted to go for Vietnamese food in the middle of the night at 3am, he would be there. Simply put, Will was ‘down’ for anything. “What impressed me the most about Will is his enthusiasm. Before coming to the Law School, Zhang worked as a research analyst at the NATO Association of Canada, according to its website.īrian Yu, another of Zhang’s friends from college, remembers playing weekly poker games with Zhang and “the boys.”
As a student at the Law School, Zhang was involved in the Asian Pacific American Law Students Association, the China Law Association, and the Harvard Federalist Society. He attended Unionville High School in Markham, Ontario and graduated from the University of Toronto in 2016. He just had a really large knowledge base, but he was also one of the most fun people to be around,” McAlister said.īorn in Dalian, China, Zhang grew up in Toronto, Canada. He just could read fast, he could think fast. “He was just out of this world when it came to his mental acuity. McAlister remembers watching “Jeopardy!” with Zhang as an undergraduate at the University of Toronto’s Trinity College, where he would answer the questions before everyone else had even finished reading them. His friends and peers remember a down-to-earth student who loved the musical “Cabaret” and weekly poker meetings alike.
Will Zhang, a first-year Harvard Law Student, died March 23.
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