California-based
Gapanenses to mark Divina Pastora fiesta
California-based
Gapanenses will celebrate the fiesta of Gapan City's patron saint, the
Divina Pastora, at the Cerritos community park on May 2, 2009.
A Mass
will be concelebreted by Frs. Chito L. Beltran and Elmer Villamayor after
the potluck lunch.
[Scroll
down to view photos of last year's celebration of the Divina Pastora fiesta
at Cerritos.].
US-based
Wesleyan nursing alumni hold 2009 reunion
The
Wesleyan University-Philippines Nursing Alumni Association USA (WUP NAA
USA) , Texas Chapter held its 2009 Reunion, 3rd Annual Conference, Silver
Jubilee Celebration of Class 1984 and 7th Annual Reunion of Gurayat Nurses
Association USA last February 27 and 28 at Brady's Landing Restaurant
in Houston, Texas
Coinciding
with the event was the formal introduction of WUP NAA USA Texas Chapter's
"International Community Outreach Prevention and Education: Trauma System
and EMSystem Development in the Philippines" aimed at training local healthcare
professionals. ###
Central
Luzon State U alumnus receives Fulbright Award
Fiorello
Abenes, alumnus of Central Luzon State University and Emeritus Professor
at California State Polytechnic University, has been awarded a Fulbright
Scholarship grant to lecture and do research at Mariano Marcos State University
in Batac, Ilocos Norte.
This
was announced by the United States Department of State and the J. William
Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board.
Dr.
Abenes will conduct research on the use of carabao rumen fluid as biodegrading
agent for iomass to produce ethanol. A write up of his work was adjudged
agriculture story of the year and bagged the top prize in the 2008 Brightleaf
Agriculture Journalism Awards sponsored by Philip Morris Philippines. The
winning story was published in the May, 2008 issue of Agriculture Magazine,
a monthly publication of the Manila Bulletin. It detailed a new finding
by Abenes and Perla Florendo of the Philippine Carabao Center at CLSU that
the microorganisms from the rumen of the carabao can be used to produce
ethanol out of agricultural wastes such as rice straw, corn stover, sugarcane
bagasse, grass, wood and other biomass. Dr. Abenes, was a "balik scientist"
program awardee of the Department of Science and Technology early this
year.
Abenes
is one of approximately 1,100 U.S. faculty and professionals who will travel
abroad through the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program in 2009.
The
Fulbright Program, America’s flagship international educational exchange
program, is sponsored by the United States Department of State, Bureau
of Educational and Cultural Affairs. Since its establishment in 1946 under
legislation introduced by the late Senator J. William Fulbright of Arkansas,
the Fulbright Program has provided approximately 286,500 people – 108,160
Americans who have studied, taught or researched abroad and 178,340 students,
scholars and teachers from other countries who have engaged in similar
activities in the United States – with the opportunity to observe each
others' political, economic, educational and cultural institutions, to
exchange ideas and to embark on joint ventures of importance to the general
welfare of the world's inhabitants. The Program operates in over 155 countries
worldwide.
Recipients
of Fulbright awards are selected on the basis of academic or professional
achievement, as well as demonstrated leadership potential in their fields.
Fulbright alumni have become heads of state, judges, ambassadors, cabinet
ministers, CEO’s university presidents, journalists, artists, professors
and teachers.
Fulbright
recipients are among over 40,000 individuals participating in U.S. Department
of State exchange programs each year. For more than sixty years, the Bureau
of Educational and Cultural Affairs has supported programs that seek to
promote mutual understanding and respect between the people of the United
States and the people of other countries. The Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program
is administered in the Philippines by the Philippine American Educational
Foundation. ###
Novo
Ecijanos of Ontario
Novo Ecijanos of Ontario
during their annual picnic last July 19...
... and their grand ball
with
kababayans from Michigan and Montreal as guests.
Contributed
by Aurora Balaria
Houston-based
Ecijana nurses honored
Luzviminda
Gutierrez-Palad (second from left), Wesleyan University-Philippines
College of Nursing Class 1980 alumna, received the Philippine Nurses Association
of Metropolitan Houston (PNAMH) Outstanding Filipino Nurse (OFN) Award
- Nurse Researcher Category in award rites held last last May 3 in Houston,
Texas.
Another
Wesleyan Nursing graduate, Elenita Bautista-Malicse of Class 1980,
was given the Outstanding Filipino Nurse Award - Nurse Educator Category.
The award was received on her behalf by her co-worker, Zenaida Alabbasi
(third
from left), as she was attending an out-of-town conference at the time.
###
Gapan
Club of Los Angeles County Picnic
Some
250 Gapanenses gathered at Cerritos Park East in Cerritos, California last
May 3 to mark the feast day of Gapan City's patron saint, the Divina Pastora.
A Mass
concelebrated by a local priest and Fr. Chito Beltran -- former assistant
parish priest in the Three Kings Parish of Gapan City -- opened the affair.
The
participants then shared a potluck lunch complete with lechon and
other native delicacies.
Among
those spotted at the affair were Irene Yuson-Gamble, Ruben and Lita Liwag-Alvarez,
Norma de Guzman, Perla Nerona- Tonoff, Nena Moore, Lily Ongpauco, Rudy
Maningas, Sinia Labios-Uytingco, Flor Padiernos-Caro, Boy (Corong) de Leon,
Danny Manalastas, Elvie and Larry Camus, Conrado Liwag, Linda Punzal-de
Guzman, Josie Colcol, Rupert and Raquel Hernandez, Oscar Garcia, Letty
Parial-de Guzman, Linda Garcia-Tan, Esther Alfaro, Danny Garcia, Pete Caro,
Fred Sahagun, Rolly Ligon, Lito Alfaro, Tony Dayao, Lita Basa-Alfaro, Agnes
Morales, Rita Tinawin, Trophy Valmonte-Castillo, Veta Matias-Garcia, Gloria
Cabatuando, and Fe Dela Cruz, Teo and Randy Estrella, Rosa Estrella-Rayco
and Fanny Estrella.
The
gathering was spearheaded by the Gapan Club of Los Angeles County.
Contributed
by Teo Estrella
.
