Chapter One 21 Years of Service to the Oregon Community Issue No. 26 October 2009

T he Legacy Lives On…,” the theme of our 20th Anniversary sympo-sium last year, continues in this

year’s event October 18 at the Portland Fil-Am Center. The program begins at 1 pm and a social hour follows. The Legacy series speakers are Julia Markley Johnson, Christian Saludo Aniciete, Ellery Famatigan Castro, and Jennifer Sagulo Winquist. The event will be emceed by Ruth Olandria. Ellery Castro was born in 1979 in Den-ver, Colorado, the youngest of three chil-dren of Plaridel and Milagros. The family moved to Portland, Oregon in June 1979. He finished elementary education at St. Cecilia Catholic School, high school at West View in Beaverton, and at Portland State University, earning a degree in Bachelor of Science in Mathematics. He also pursued a master’s degree in educa-tion at PSU. Ellery is presently working as a 7th and 8th grade mathematics teacher at Hazelbrook Middle School in Tualatin. Ellery tutored mathematics to at risk students while an undergraduate stu-dent at PSU, and was a camp counselor at the YMCA Camp Collins during summer while at PSU.

Julia Markley was born in 1974 in Port-land. She graduated valedictorian from Central Catholic High School in 1992. In

1995, she received a Bachelor's in English at Stanford University, where she met her future husband, Lance Johnson. She ran varsity track and cross-country at Stanford and was a member of the Pilipino Ameri-can Student Union. After college, she served with the Jesuit Volunteer Corps as a first grade assistant teacher in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. 1999 was a banner year for Markley - she graduated from University of Washington School of Law with high honors and married her college sweetheart. Markley was a law clerk for Oregon Supreme Court Justice R. William Riggs from 1999-2001. In 2001, Markley joined Perkins Coie LLP, an international law firm. She is a business trial lawyer

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Symposium speakers (from left); Ellery Castro, Julia Markley, Jennifer Winquist, Christian Aniciete.

The FANHS 13th National Conference will be held on July 21-24, 2010 at Seattle University. The title is “Young Filipino People’s First Far West Convention Revis-ited: Examining Our Past to Inspire the Future.” Join Fil-Am scholars, authors, filmmakers, historians, student activists and just plain folks eager to share their research, re-sources and expertise on their various life experience. Learn how to document oral history and family genealogy, and different ways to collect, preserve and use historical

records, develop an ar-chives, do journal writing, plan a photo exhibit, write proposals. These and other activities await the participants to this biennial conference, and is especially convenient for Oregon Chapter members to attend and participate. Meanwhile, papers, panels and presenta-tions are still accepted for the various workshop sessions scheduled. Deadline for

submission is March 15, 2010. Suggested topics include the Fourth Wave 1965-2010; changing Fil-Am demographics; teaching history; surviving the Great De-pression; religion, politics, business, edu-cation, the world of entertainment and sports; culture-retention activities like mu-sic arts, dance, queen contests, fiestas and self-defense; and many other ideas. For more detailed information including accommodation and transportation options, email: fanhsnational@earthlink.net or go to www.fanhs-national.org

Save the date for 2010 Seattle Conference

ARTWORK: JENNIE VUONG

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CHAPTER PRESIDENT’S REPORT Lourdes Cereno Markley lcereno@aol.com

G reetings to you all. We hope you had a wonderful and enjoyable summer. Our community participation this year: In February, we participated in the Fil-Am Portland 50th Anniver-sary, held at the Fil-Am Center on SE 82nd and Stark, displaying our historical information exhibit panels. Last May 9th, at Portland State University, we were invited by the Kaibigan student group to display our historical panels. On June 26-27, we were at the World Beat Festival, of which Marisa Newnam was the overall coordinator. Before these events, we had a workshop in my house to re-glue some of the photo-graphs, to help make protection covers and make an inventory of the panels. Projects down the road: We plan to put up a historical marker at NW St. Helens Road and Luzon Avenue in Portland, to commemorate the site of the World’s Fair in Oregon in 1904… Author Dr. Concordia Borja-Mamaril donated $2,000 from the sale of her book Filipino Americans: Pioneers to the Present. We are thinking of either reprinting this book, or editing it for a book series by a California publisher. Wish List: Our digitizing committee, Dolly Specht, Ronnie Lim & Anselmo Villanueva, is looking for an efficient way to preserve all our historical pictures and artifacts. We probably need a computer workshop in the future. We hope to have a website for our FANHS chapter. Ruth Olandria is our membership chairperson. Please renew your membership and join our different commit-tees. We need your updated emails too. All of the offi-cers are in this committee too. We ask for your help especially recruiting from the youth. We still need to record and collect your personal his-torical Filipino American story for our Chapter Ar-chives. Please save any item from newspapers, maga-zines, bulletins, pictures, historical documents and articles. Many thanks for helping our Chapter and preserving our history. Whenever you are in Seattle, please visit our national office. The address is 810 18th Avenue Suite 200.

and also practices appellate law. Markley co-founded the Ore-gon Asian Pacific American Bar Association and was elected found-ing president in July. Markley lives in southwest Portland with Lance and their two children, Gus Howard (age 5) and Zorina (15 months). Born in Manila, Philippines, Chris-tian Aniciete moved to the United States when he was 10 years old. Living in a bicultural home with his American stepfather and Filipino mother, Christian takes pride in being a product of both cultures. Christian attended Century High School in Hillsboro where he graduated with honors and was named “Boy of the Year” in 2005. Christian is working towards a BA in Business Marketing and Adver-tising at Portland State and will graduate in June 2010. He is the current president of Kaibigan: Fili-pino American Student Associa-tion, concurrently ASPSU student government Communications Di-rector, American Marketing Asso-ciation VP of Finance, and works as

SALP Events Coordinator. For his contributions, he has been recog-nized by the PSU University Presi-dent with two university awards. Christian enjoys being with his family, friends, and girlfriend, play-ing tennis, watching movies, pho-tography, listening to music, travel-ing, and living his life to the fullest. Two of his fundamental beliefs as a leader are: any one person can make a difference and that every-one has endless potential. Jennifer Carol Sagulo Winquist was born in Portland in 1981 and has been a school counselor at Aloha High School for 6 years. She received her B.A. in Sociology in 2003 from Azusa Pacific University Southern California, and she re-ceived her M.Ed. in School Coun-seling in 2005 from Lewis & Clark College. Jennifer is single and lives with two roommates in the condo she owns in Beaverton. Three years ago, she was selected to be the counseling department chair, the youngest member of the counseling team.

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Wil Olandria lands movie role Wil Olandria Jr., son of Willy and Ruth Olandria, is in the movie Brown Soup Thing, written, di-rected and produced by Edward J. Mallillin. The movie is showing at the Filipino International Film Fes-tival in Los Angeles, and will have its West Coast premiere on Oct. 17. The movie follows the story of a young girl working on an elemen-tary school video project about “What it means to be Filipino.” Lita’s extended family includes a who’s who of notable Filipinos including boxing champion Manny Pacquiao, YouTube star Christine Gambito, and actors Abe Pagtama, Bernardo Bernardo, and many oth-ers all make cameos as Lita’s inter-

view subjects in her “movie within a movie.” But the real action unfolds behind the scenes in the grownup world, where Lita’s adult siblings pursue their own individuality, while struggling with issues of cultural identity and family. The film has also been an Official Selection of the Chicago Filipino American Film Festival. Details: http://www.brownsoupthing.com. General Admission Price - $10

Symposium 08: Legacy Lives On A successful 20th anniversary symposium was held October last year at the Fil Am Center, 8917 S. E. Stark with the following speakers: Dr. Gideon Alegado, Julie MacFarlane, Mina Tahayeri and Dr. Anselmo Villanueva… I had asked PSU Kaibigan mem-bers to help transport and set up the display panels. I treated them to a brunch at the MacClub where I belong as a reward… The program started and ended promptly. We had a good audience and we served a light snack. Special thanks to all volunteers, em-cee Marisa Newnam, Willie and Ruth Olandria as timekeepers, and Ferdie Sacdalan and Ronnie Lim for typing, preparing and printing the professional looking symposium program… Program and socials were over at 6pm and with 1 hour clean up time, the building lights were off at 7 pm.—Lourdes Markley Membership Update Membership chair Ruth Olandria reports: Life-time members – 7; active and paid – 20; Ten year – 4; inactive and expired membership – 15; an-nual members – 10. The National Board has ap-proved a slightly revised schedule of membership fees for all chapters. For individuals, annual membership is $30; ten years $200, and lifetime $500. For fami-lies (spouses and children living at home), annual is $45, ten years $250, lifetime $600. Students and seniors pay $15, renew-able every year.

Treasurer’s Report Simeon Mamaril, our treasurer, reports our treas-ury’s ending balance as of August 1, 2009: $5,101.52. Donations to FANHS-OC are claimable in your 1040 tax returns. (Membership fees are not, however.) Fill out form on page 7 to donate an addi-tional amount to FANHS.

New FANHS Oregon book mulled FANHS-OC Secretary Dolly Specht and videogra-pher Ronnie Lim are in discussions with Arcadia Publishing to publish a book “Filipinos in the Wil-lamette Valley” as part of the bookmaker’s Images of America series. Target publication date is 2010. Several FANHS chapters have had their stories included in the book series, and Dolly, with the approval of the Chapter leadership, initiated the

negotiation with Sarah Higginbotham, Pacific Northwest coordi-nator for the publishing company. Need better archive collection system The Chapter’s own Archives collection are currently scattered in several members’ basements. Original archivist Fernando Sacdalan has several boxes on mounted photos and taped inter-viewed on Oregon pioneers of the 30s and 40s; Marisa Newnam has another several boxes full of photos and videotapes. OC president Lourdes Markley currently takes care of the display panels and photos being loaned to Fil-Am associations. Long-

time OC president Sim Mamaril and current National Trustee Concordia Borja-Mamaril have practically their whole house as a repository of FANHS archival materials built up over the years taking photographs and serving as chapter president and PRO, respectively. It is the common hope that all these materials can someday be gathered in one location for easier access to researchers. More-over, the chapter’s digitizing committee has initiated the cata-loguing and inventory of the archived materials with the ultimate goals of putting the entire inventory on the internet through one of the big search engines (like Yahoo or Google). Milestones Accepted for Chapter One Chapter One will start pub-lishing per-sonal mile-stones among our readers (members or not). What are they? Birth of a child. Baptism. First year of school. Scholastic awards. Graduation. New job or career. Getting married. Relocating. Going on a big travel. Being hospi-talized. Winning a million bucks. And the most important — a death in the family. Provide all the pertinent details, to help put on public record a personal milestone in one’s life. Send to the editor: ronnielim99@yahoo.com. Advertise in our newsletter In order to defray the cost of printing and mailing Chapter One, we are offering advertisement space to our members and the pub-lic. Business card size (landscape layout) will be $10 per issue. We will print our newsletter at least 4 times a year, with a printed circulation of about 150 (and an infinite number of copies circu-lated online through email). Would you like to advertise your business card in our newsletter? Contact the editor by email.

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NEWS from the Membership and the Community At Large

Dr. Anselmo Villanueva takes to the podium in last year’s Sym-posium, as Dr. Gideon Alegado and Mrs. Julie MacFarlane listen. The fourth speaker was Mrs. Fermina Tahayeri.

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By Concordia Borja-Mamaril FANHS National Trustee

G oing to Stock-ton, California to attend the

National Trustees’ meeting was my first long ride on an Am-trak train from Port-land to Sacramento. A connecting bus brought Simeon, my guest and escort, and me to Stockton, about an hour’s drive. Saturday, July 25 was spent mostly on socializing. The meeting was hosted by the Stockton Chapter assisted by the Sac-ramento Delta, Sonoma, and Central Val-ley Chapters, and by Little Manila Foun-dation. Lunch was provided by the Stock-ton Chapter. After lunch Dawn Mabalon, Ph..D. gave a talk on the history of Stockton in rela-tion to Filipino agricultural workers in the 1920s and 1930s. She discussed the struggle to save “Little Manila.” Mel Lagasca of the Stockton Chapter gave a history of the Filipino Center, now called Filipino Plaza, in downtown Stockton, whose sponsor is the Associated Filipino Organizations of San Joaquin County. It is also partly subsidized by the federal government. The Plaza consists of a ten-story residential building, with a social hall where the Trustees’ meeting was held. The video that was shown is on “Little Manila: Filipinos in California Heart-land.” Some of the trustees and guests joined Dawn Malabon to the Adobo Fes-tival and some stayed at the Social Hall because of the 100F temperature outside. The main meeting was on Sunday, July 26. It started with a welcome address by Joanne Cordova, National President, fol-lowed by a distribution of printed materi-als from the national secretary, Ron Bue-naventura. The Treasurer’s report was provided by FANHS Executive Director,

Dr. Dorothy Cordova. It reported that there was a big deficit in 2007, about $8,680 and again in 2008, about $918. In the first half of 2009, there is a gain of about $2,500. Mel Lagasca, volunteer project director of the Filipino American National Mu-seum (on-going project) cited the sug-gested location of the museum to be in Little Manila area. To buy the building (Rizal Social Club) and its land would cost $400,000 and $940,000 for renova-tion. As of July 2009, $85,000 is in the account of the museum. A report was given by Dr. Fred Cordova about the National Pinoy Archives, which was organized in 1986. He said that about 1000 individuals and 700 organizations are on file. There is also a growing collection of books donated by individuals and so a FANHS National Library was proposed for cataloging the books. Mel Orpilla of the Vallejo Chapter re-ported on legislation #48 introduced by Senator Roland Yee of California, re-garding October as Filipino American History Month. It was suggested that other chapters in other states should emu-late the California effort. As of the first week of October, Al Newnam of the Ore-gon Chapter has drafted a resolution to be presented by a legislator of the Oregon Legislature, making every October the Filipino American History Month, FANHS Executive Director Dr. Dorothy Cordova focused on Padiriwang 2009 with the Igorot Village as the feature event. She presented her book “Filipinos in Puget Sound” Oregon Chapter is planning to put out a book on Filipinos in the Willamette Val-ley”. Dorothy also distributed pertinent papers on the next national conference in 2010 in Seattle, Washington.

Chapter reports followed. It started with the Oregon Chapter, being the first chap-ter of FANHS, and with Lourdes Markley (OR Chapter President and ex-officio member of the Board of Trustees)

doing the report. Other Chapters followed in the order of becoming Chapters and with attending Presidents or representa-tives presenting the reports. They were Sacramento, Delta, East Bay, Vallejo, Midwest, Stockton, Wisconsin, Missouri, Los Angeles, Alaska, San Diego, Central Valley, Rio Grande, Michigan, and So-noma County. Lunch was provided by FANHS National. In the late afternoon, we had a historic tour of Little Manila. We visited the Hi-lario Moncado House which stores his memorabilia and books. He was a lawyer, activist and leader of Filipino workers for higher wages and better living conditions. He organized the Filipino Agricultural Workers. We also visited the future site of the Filipino American National Mu-seum. Dinner was at Emerald Restaurant with a Chinese menu. The Trustees formed three committees: fund-raising, membership and archives. I joined the fundraising committee along with Christine Marasigan of Alaska, Dely Alcantara of Rio Grande, Patricia Espiritu Halagao of Hawaii and Fran Womack of Midwest Chapter. A goal of $40,000 was proposed with the Chapters to do fund raising. The membership committee recom-mended the following dues effective January 2010. (See page 7 for the new rates.) Lourdes Markley joined the Archives Committee. Chapters and individuals are encouraged to visit the museum. So on September 20, Oregon chapter members, arranged by Lourdes, visited the Archives. According to archivist Fred Cordova, the Oregon Chapter was the first chapter with its members visiting as a group. July in Oregon was unusually hot and when Simeon and I stepped out of the train, we were welcomed back with a 105 degree temperature. That was a big sud-den change of temperature from about 70 degree F in the train to 105 degree F that made us feel very uncomfortable.

Trustees’ Meeting / Stockton, CA / July 25-27

Board tackles issues for the future of FANHS

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FANHS Oregon Chapter members make…

A day trip to the Archives Seven members of the Chapter packed up a minivan and traveled on Sunday, Sept. 20, to the cramped FANHS national office and the National Pinoy Ar-chives (NPA), housed at the Immaculate Conception Church community center, 810 18th Ave. in Seattle. The travelers were led by chapter president Lourdes Markley and national trustee Con-cordia Borja-Mamaril. They are the first tour-ing group from FANHS visiting the NPA, according to Fred Cordova. Occupying two rooms in the main floor and a huge room in the base-ment, the FANHS na-tional offices are a rich repository of historical records, some dating back to pre-WWI, to document the Filipino American experience. Collected are docu-ments on individuals, groups, organizations, institutions, facilities, periodicals and publi-cations. Vintage photographs, records, tapes and arti-facts are displayed on the walls and every counter space avail-able. For a much-better un-derstanding of the work and needs of the NPA, go: www.fanhs-national.org/Archives.html

L-R from top: Dea-con Fred Cordova walks out at the end of mass at Immacu-late Conception Church; a sign to the NPA archives; Myrna Perkins, Concordia Borja-Mamaril and Lourdes Markley with Fred; Ciony Arroyo checks her records; Concordia browses through old records; the big room downstairs is for individuals’ folders; Fonjie Lim and Bill Perkins reach for a box of records; Lourdes Markley and Doro-thy Cordova; Fred explains the con-tents of each of the filing cabinets in the Archives; a group shot with Deacon Fred Cordova.

By Romy Y. Agudelo

C ebuano is the second most widely used Philippine language next to Tagalog. Originally, Cebuano was

spoken in the islands of Cebu, Siquijor, Bohol and several provinces in northern Mindanao. Cebu being the second largest metropolitan area and a gateway to the Visayas and Mindanao, Cebuano is con-sidered the native language of the south-ern Philippines. It is spoken by more than 18 million people, accounting for 20% of the total Philippine population. Cebuano is a dynamic language com-monly known as Visayan, which is the name of the middle region of the country. In this area, there are more than 30 lan-guages spoken. It was recorded in 1521 when Ferdinand Magellan came to the Philippines, as written down by his chronicler Pigafetta. When catechism was introduced by the Spaniards, they trans-lated the words into Cebuano after the first Spanish colonization in 1564. The dictionaries and catechisms of Cebuano have greatly changed over the centuries, and many of the verb forms cited in ear-lier dictionaries are no longer in use, while many new words are absent or un-available from the present normal conver-sation or speech. This is further changed with the present modification of language whenever it is spoken. The three-century rule of the Spaniards in our country greatly influenced the Ce-buano language. Spanish terms spread widely and Cebuano had borrowed sev-eral words. From 1898 to 1946, English was taught in all schools, and again Ce-buano borrowed several words. In those years, Cebuano was used among low-status groups, people with little education and had little access to English, while in official settings or functions English was used. CSO existence Sometime in June 1988, a countable num-ber of Cebuano-speaking individuals formed themselves as a clique group at a summer picnic at Blue Lake Park, spear-

headed by Willie and Ruth Olandria, Mr. Chris Mugot, and other interested indi-viduals. With the strong desire to speak and spread the Cebuano language and use it during social and recreational functions, particularly Filipino women married to Caucasians, they felt comfortable speak-ing to their “kababayans.” By speaking the language, they feel at home and are able to communicate easily in their native tongue. Hence, the organization was founded with the goals and objectives to continuously maintain speaking the Ce-buano language and spread it through assimilation; develop friendship, good-will, camaraderie and esprit de corps through socialization and recreation; and to extend a helping hand to our Cebuano brothers and sisters in dire need of help or assistance. Thus, the Cebuano Speaking Organization. The organization is based in Portland, and members are from the counties of Mult-nomah, Linn, Benton, Marion, Lincoln, Clark, Skamania, Cowlitz and in other parts of Oregon and Washington. In the 90's, as it held the Annual Picnic and Christmas Celebration, the membership grew in greater proportion. The organiza-tion indirectly financed and supported the Filipino American National Historical

Society Oregon Chapter with its exhibit “Filipino-Americans: Pioneers to the Pre-sent,” held in Portland. In June 2006, the organization presented the “Sinulog Festi-val,” a dance ritual of the Cebuanos based on Malay, Javanese and Indian culture assimilation similar to the Mardi Gras, held at the Our Lady of Sorrows Catholic Church, Portland, which somehow gave a reminiscence of the past. Apart from this, the organization participated in the annual 4th of July Celebration, in Blue Lake, Ore-gon. It continuously held social and rec-reational functions through picnics and Christmas parties to maintain the Cebuano spirit and to speak the unforgotten lan-guage. In 1997, in an isolated case, the organization provided an overnight hous-ing to a homeless pregnant Filipino woman from Vancouver, Washington, and for a referral for pregnancy care. Last Christmas party, CSO celebrated its 20th anniversary at Fowler’s Auditorium in Tigard. It was attended by more than 340 guests and members coming from Central and Coastal Oregon, and by other Fil-Am organizations like Aguman Ka-pampangan, PACCO, FAHNS, and FAAV, Inc. On this day, CSO presented the Order of Lapu-Lapu Award. The

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Community Profile:

The Cebuano Speaking Organization

The happy faces of the Cebuano Speaking Organization in Oregon & SW Washington.

awardees were: Willie and Ruth Olandria, Jhun Mel Comoda, Ben Laurente, Chris Mugot, Danny Acantilado, Flora Stanisich, Letty Kort and Carlita Cropper. The awards were given to members who had distinguishably and valu-ably contributed to the existence of the organization. The Order of Lapu-Lapu Award was conceptu-alized by a group Officers who remained anonymous in the early spring of 2008 in honor of Lapu-Lapu, a great leader and a Ce-buano war-hero who defended the island of Mactan, Cebu in 1521 against aggression by the Span-iards led by Ferdinand Magellan. For this year 2009, CSO formally filed its existence for registration as an incorporated organization, and is now duly registered. Last July 4, its members and officers participated an organized celebra-tion in commemorating Independ-ence Day coinciding with the Fili-pino-American Friendship Day. This event was aimed to develop the spirit of unity, friendship and camaraderie. Again on August 8, 2009, CSO initiated a socialized annual picnic held at Rooster Rock, Oregon, for the Cebuanos and “friends of the organization.” Today, CSO is one of the biggest organizations in the Northwest. Its membership expands beyond Sa-lem, the coast, and in southwest Washington as Filipino immi-grants continuously grow. In these challenging times, the organiza-tion solidifies, broadens and ex-pands its goals and objectives, and adopts a program of activities to meet the ever-changing needs of the Filipino American community, with the overall goal: human bet-terment. Further, it has a vision of extending a helping hand to the needy “higala,” particularly chil-dren and youth who are deprived of basic education. We Cebuanos believe that education is the key to human development.

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Cebuano...

FANHS OREGON CHAPTER MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION & RENEWAL Membership Rates: (check one) Individual / Annual $30

Individual / 10 Year $200 Individual / Lifetime $500 Family / Annual $45 Family / 10 Year $250 Family / Lifetime $600

Student/Senior / Annual $15 Name: __________________________________________________________________ (If Family, please include children’s names & ages) Address: ________________________________________________________________ Email address: _______________________________ Tel. ________________________ Fields of Interest/Expertise: ___Archival/Record Collection ___Photography ___Writing/Newsletter ___Oral/Written History ___Videography ___Research/Lectures ___Planning Committee ___Symposium Series ___Workshops ___Other (please specify) __________________________________________________ Extra Donation for FANHS-OC Here is an additional donation to support FANHS-OC endeavors, in the amount of $_________________. I wish to donate the funds as a memorial to or in honor of ______________________________________________. (Donations are tax-deductible.) Mail to: FANHS-OC Treasurer, 6020 SW Corbett., Portland, OR 97201

Make checks payable to: FANHS Oregon Chapter. Thank you.

Why I Joined FANHS Please send us a short essay on why you de-cided to become a FANHS Oregon Chapter member. We will let the other members read your essay in the next issue of Chapter One. FANHS-OC Projects FANHS Oregon Chapter’s ongoing project is to document the activities and achievements of Filipino American pioneers and leaders in Oregon, and assist the various Filipino Ameri-can organizations in their education and re-search activities. To achieve this, we plan to begin the task of collecting oral histories and

archival data from our pioneers, as well as the officers of the various Filipino associations in Oregon. We will continue our assistance in education by having our display panels avail-able for loan to any association. Our members will assist groups in organizing and holding forums on Filipino American history and cul-ture. The mission objective of FANHS, as enunci-ated by FANHS founder Dr. Fred Cordova, is “to promote understanding, education, enlightenment, appreciation and enrichment through the identification, gathering, preser-vation and dissemination of the history and culture of Filipino Americans in the United States.”

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The purpose of Chapter One is to inform, update, and disseminate information relevant to FANHS, both locally and nationally, and to the Filipino American experience. You may already have an article ready with regard to this. Please submit your ideas, comments, and/or suggestions to the FANHS newsletter. Contact Ronnie Lim, newsletter editor, by email at: ronnielim99@yahoo.com, or any of the officers or members of FANHS Oregon Chapter.

FANHS Oregon Chapter 2426 NE 31st Avenue Portland, OR 97212

FILIPINO AMERICAN NATIONAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY

OREGON CHAPTER

Lourdes Cereno Markley, President lcereno@aol.com

Anselmo K. Villanueva, Vice President

anselmo.villanueva@gmail.com

Dolly Pangan Specht, Secretary dollyspecht@aol.com

Simeon D. Mamaril, Treasurer

sidama@juno.com

Dr. Concordia Borja-Mamaril, National Trustee sidama@juno.com

FANHS-Oregon is a nonprofit, tax-exempt organization operating under the constitution and bylaws of the Filipino American National Historical

Society, Incorporated.

FANHS-OR Board of Advisors (Past Presidents)

Fernando F. Sacdalan 1988-1991 Wilfredo L. Olandria 1991-1993 Albert H. Newnam 1993-1994 Simeon D. Mamaril 1994-2001 Danilo E. del Rosario 2001-2002 Ligaya S. Humbert 2002-2004 Adoracion O. Lim 2004-2007

Ronnie Lim, Newsletter Editor ronnielim99@yahoo.com

Our Mission is to Promote Understanding, Education, Enlightenment, Appreciation and Enrichment through the Identification, Gathering, Preservation and Dissemination

of the History and Culture of Filipino Americans in the United States.