North American Telugu Association(NATA) hosted a Pre-Conference Dinner on March 10, 2012 at Royal Albert’sPalace, New Jersey. This event was organized to promote Houston Conference andraise funds for the conference. With the help of all NATA community leaders, NATA raised $201,000. NATA sincerelythanks all the donors for their generosity.
Event started with dance performances by localkids and songs from Baba Sontyana. President AVN Reddy thanked New Jersey teamfor organizing such a big event like and attracting large number of Telugucommunity and explained the reason for fund raising. Conference Convener JithenderReddy grabbed the attention of all participants with his great speech in Teluguand assured that he will work hard to make Houston Conference a memorable eventfor everybody. BOD Mahender Musuku was the MC for this event and promoted thefundraising.
Our special thanks andappreciation to our Regional Coordinator Sarath Reddy Mandapati who is our sponsor.NATA is fortunate to have this kind of sponsor.
Local leaders Anand Paluri and Damu Gedelawere present and provided their support. Thanks to Hero Varun Sandesh for visiting us.
NATA thanked our RC Sridhar ReddyThikkavarapu, who took pictures for the event and also another RC Baba Sontyanafor entertaining the audience.
Thank you all our convention team members Dr.Prem Nandiwada, Anna Reddy, Ramana Reddy Devulapalli, Vikram Jangam and VijayaBhaskar Reddy Battula for their help. Community Services Chair SrinivasGanagoni and his team members Arun, Krishna and Vamsi were a great help forthis event. Thanks to BOD Mohan Talamati and Conference Committee member Srinivas Arikatla for theirgenerosity.
NATA Conference Finance CommitteeChair Dr. Raghava Reddy Ghosala and Co-Chair Rami Reddy Alla have been coordinatingthe fundraising events all over USA and participants really appreciated theirefforts.
This event was attended by 600 NATA membersfrom New Jersey and Pennsylvania. NATA President A.V.N Reddy, Advisory CouncilDr. Malla Reddy, President-elect Dr. Sanjeeva Reddy, Executive Vice PresidentRajeshwar Reddy Gangasani, Conference Convener Jithender Reddy, TreasurerRamsurya Reddy, Secretary Pradeep Samala, Jt. Treasurer Chinna Babu Reddy, BODsMahender Musuku, Mohan Patalolla, Hari Velkur, Suresh Reddy, Venkat Vaddadi, PhaniBhushan Tadepally, RVPs Ramesh Chandra, Rami Reddy Alla, Babu Rao Samala, SuryaBezawada, Standing committee Chairs Sekhar Konala, Janani Krishna, MaheshBigala, Regional Coordinators Shiva Meka,Anjan Karnati, Bhaskar Bupathi, Mohammed Mujahid Murtiza, Murali (Babji)Tenepalle, Nageshwar Reddy Mukkamanla, Ramakrishnaje, Sahadeva Reddy, SanthoshReddy Patur, Sarath Reddy Mandapati, Sarath Veta, Satish Reddy Gopidi, SatishReddy Indupuru, Suresh Chatakundo, Vamsi Koppuravuri, Vasantha Gadamshetty,Vishali Bandi, Baba Sontyana, Sridhar Reddy Thikkavarapu, Ravi Hajeebu, VikramJangam, K. Suresh Reddy, Narasimha Reddy, Linga Reddy, Satya Nemana werepresent at event.
