OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER OF THE FILIPINO AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF WISCONSIN – October 2012 T he 40th Annual FAAWIS Dinner Dance was held at the Hilton- Milwaukee City Center in September. What a celebration!! Our guests were greeted with a beautiful display of photos and biographies of our past presidents compiled by the evenings chair Sheila Plaga Jackson. It was a fitting thank you for all their years of dedicated service to FAAWIS. Our emcee, Princess Emraida Kiram, past FAAWIS president from 1990, 1998 kept our evening moving from the opening of Donald Mondano singing the Philippine national anthem, Lupang Hinirang, and Glenn Gequillana singing the Star-Spangled Banner, through the various awards ceremonies, past presidents recognition ceremony, the entertain- ing dance performances and ending with the dancing and awarding of our raffle grand prize. Each part of our evening held special memories and well deserved honors. Chad Albano was awarded the Ninette Santos Outstanding Community Service Award which was presented by 1992 FAAWIS president, Mila Lamerand. Jaime Soriano had the honor of presenting 27 of the 40 past presidents. The beautiful music during our evening was provided by Dino Capitan & Friends, a duet by Amy Sche- menauer and Leo Vitangcol and a solo by Kevin Tenorio accompanied on the guitar by his mother, Belinda Tenorio. MC Jammer provided the music for dancing. Dance perform- ances by the Dancing Medics & Friends, the PNA-WI dancers per- forming their hula, Docs Gone Wild, and a presentation that had all the guests smiling was done by the Bakal Boyz & Girlz. The high- light was >> Continued on pg. 3 The 40th Annual FAAWIS Dinner Dance by Mareta Prill Upcoming Events: HOLIDAY FOLK FAIR FOOD PREPARATION Saturday/Sunday, November 10 and 11, 2012 Marian Center HOLIDAY FOLK FAIR Nov. 16 - 18, 2012 State Fair (West Allis) LUNCH WITH SANTA Saturday, December 8, 2012 Mt. Mary College Volunteers are needed for the Holiday Folk Fair Food Preparation and Holiday Folk Fair! Call 917-945-0586 Chad Albano, Recipient of the 2012 Ninette Santos Outstanding Community Service Award By Attorney Mila Lamerand T he Ninette Santos Outstanding Community Service Award is given annually to a person or group of peo- ple who have made a significant and valuable contribution to the FAAWIS community. The ten FAAWIS Board Members selected Chad Albano, for his dedication and hard work. Chad was awarded in front of his family and friends at the FAAWIS Dinner Dance on September 8, 2012. A testimonial that was submitted describes Chad’s in- valuable contributions to FAAWIS: “If I can summarize in a few words who he is to me, it would be “A great man who not only uses his energy, moti- vation, and dedication to support and build up our Filipino community, but in doing so, does it with a BIG heart and a great BIG smile.” He served as a FAAWIS Board Member and as Vice President. Throughout his involvement with FAAWIS, he has helped out with the annual FAAWIS pic- nic, and even showed great leadership when he served as the picnic chair in 2010. In the past 3 years, he has been instrumental in getting a new design for the FAAWIS t-shirts, and has even helped market them to other non- profit organizations outside of FAAWIS to help with their fund raising efforts. He has emceed various FAAWIS events where he always added a special spark and a special smile to the event. Everything that he has been involved with in the community and with FAAWIS, he has always done it with a terrific attitude. It is appropriate to honor him for his untiring volunteerism in our community.” Congratulations to Chad on his wonderful accomplishment! FAAWIS President Jo Anne Dacudao Capitan, with recipient of the Ninette Santos Outstanding Community Service Award Chad Albano, Award Chairperson Atty. Mila Lamerand and Christine Lamerand Sharp. From L-R: Lydia Petzak, Joyce Coury, Mae Elliott, Jen Hernandez, Ann Mejias, Shirley Wilkum, Renee Mondano, Angie Mendoza, Daisy Magracia, Arlene Isip, Jo Anne Capitan
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OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER OF THE FILIPINO AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF WISCONSIN – October 2012
T he 40th Annual FAAWIS Dinner Dance was held at the Hilton-Milwaukee City Center in September. What a celebration!! Our
guests were greeted with a beautiful display of photos and biographies of our past presidents compiled by the evenings chair Sheila Plaga Jackson. It was a fitting thank you for all their years of dedicated service to FAAWIS. Our emcee, Princess Emraida Kiram, past FAAWIS president from 1990, 1998 kept our evening moving from the opening of Donald Mondano singing the Philippine national anthem, Lupang Hinirang, and Glenn Gequillana singing the Star-Spangled Banner, through the various awards ceremonies, past presidents recognition ceremony, the entertain-ing dance performances and ending with the dancing and awarding of our raffle grand prize.
Each part of our evening held special memories and well deserved honors. Chad Albano was awarded the Ninette Santos Outstanding Community Service Award which was presented by 1992 FAAWIS president, Mila Lamerand. Jaime Soriano had the honor of presenting 27 of the 40 past presidents. The beautiful music during our evening was provided by Dino Capitan & Friends, a duet by Amy Sche-menauer and Leo Vitangcol and a solo by Kevin Tenorio accompanied on the guitar by his mother, Belinda Tenorio. MC Jammer provided the music for dancing. Dance perform-ances by the Dancing Medics & Friends, the PNA-WI dancers per-forming their hula, Docs Gone Wild, and a presentation that had all the guests smiling was done by the Bakal Boyz & Girlz. The high-
light was >> Continued on pg. 3
The 40th Annual FAAWIS Dinner Dance by Mareta Prill
Upcoming Events: HOLIDAY FOLK FAIR
FOOD PREPARATION
Saturday/Sunday, November 10 and 11, 2012 Marian Center HOLIDAY FOLK FAIR Nov. 16 - 18, 2012 State Fair (West Allis) LUNCH WITH SANTA
Saturday, December 8, 2012 Mt. Mary College
Volunteers are needed for the Holiday Folk Fair
Food Preparation and Holiday Folk Fair!
Call 917-945-0586
Chad Albano, Recipient of the
2012 Ninette Santos Outstanding
Community Service Award By Attorney Mila Lamerand
T he Ninette Santos Outstanding Community Service Award is given annually to a person or group of peo-
ple who have made a significant and valuable contribution to the FAAWIS community. The ten FAAWIS Board Members selected Chad Albano, for his dedication and hard work. Chad was awarded in front of his family and friends at the FAAWIS Dinner Dance on September 8, 2012. A testimonial that was submitted describes Chad’s in-valuable contributions to FAAWIS: “If I can summarize in a few words who he is to me, it would be “A great man who not only uses his energy, moti-vation, and dedication to support and build up our Filipino community, but in doing so, does it with a BIG heart and a great BIG smile.” He served as a FAAWIS Board Member and as Vice President. Throughout his involvement with FAAWIS, he has helped out with the annual FAAWIS pic-nic, and even showed great leadership when he served as the picnic chair in 2010. In the past 3 years, he has been instrumental in getting a new design for the FAAWIS t-shirts, and has even helped market them to other non-profit organizations outside of FAAWIS to help with their fund raising efforts. He has emceed various FAAWIS events where he always added a special spark and a special smile to the event. Everything that he has been involved with in the community and with FAAWIS, he has always done it with a terrific attitude. It is appropriate to honor him for his untiring volunteerism in our community.”
Congratulations to Chad on his wonderful accomplishment!
FAAWIS President Jo Anne Dacudao Capitan, with recipient of
the Ninette Santos Outstanding Community Service Award Chad
Albano, Award Chairperson Atty. Mila Lamerand and Christine
Lamerand Sharp.
From L-R: Lydia Petzak, Joyce Coury, Mae Elliott, Jen Hernandez, Ann
ing after-wards, it was defi-nitely an evening that will be talked about for years to come! Thank you and congratulations to our hard-working Dinner Dance Committee led by Sheila Jackson and Mareta Prill. Thank you to the many spon-sors and donors who made it a successful event!! Next in our calendar is the Holiday Folk Fair on Nov. 16-18 at the State Fair Grounds. We have the Youth Dance Troupe and the Munting Tinig as performers this year. We have story-tellers featuring Philip-pine folklore and literature at our cultural booth, and Philippine acces-sories at the Bazaar. And of course, our favorite Filipino dishes at the food booth. Check out the interactive booth by FANHS too! Thank you to all who have signed up as volunteers both during the fair itself and the Food Prep on Nov. 10-11 at the Marian Center. On Dec. 8, Saturday, is our Christmas Party "Lunch with Santa" at Mt. Mary College. Mark your calendars! A New Year's Eve ball is being planned by the PNA so watch out for the announcement. I cannot thank you enough for the support that you have given FAAWIS this year! It is heartwarming to see people care so passion-ately about each event, and volunteer their precious time and energy. It is through your commitment and dedication that FAAWIS continues to thrive and grow. God bless you all !!
DANCING MEDICS & FRIENDS
encounters between March and August 2012. The medical services including medications and laboratory testing during that same time period amounted to $144,440.00 worth of services. Records dating from the clinic’s October 2000 opening through August 2012 are even more impressive. The clinic has offered free care to a total of 2,832 patients and rendered $1,589,780.00 of services during it’s twelve year
history. Doctors, nurses and lay volunteers are essential to the clinic’s success. Interested volunteers may contact Dr. Violeta Singson for details. Lastly, the annual scholarship program is supported by this event. Interested students may contact Dr. Jaz-min Parcon for details. Continuing now with the dinner dance, the evening began with a complimentary photo session courtesy of Mr. Joel Singson. Guests visited the exhibit area where twelve pharmaceutical company representa-tives were available to answer questions about their displays.
Children helped distribute raffle prizes during dinner to ten lucky winners. Enter-tainment began with the Dancing Medics and
Friends’ delightful presen-tation of “Rigodon de Honor” followed by “Atin Cu Pung Singsing”. Docs
Gone Wild danced a lively cha-cha to “International Love” by Pitbull. The evening continued with dancing to music by Chase Five Studio. PMA-W President Dr. Juanito Singson expressed his gratitude to all of the guests, sponsors, exhibitors, patrons and donors for their support.
The Officers and Board Members of FAAWIS 2012
Message from the President by Jo Anne Dacudao Capitan
With the cold air blowing in and the golden leaves of autumn reminding us that another year is passing by so quickly, we look back at 2012 and all that FAAWIS has done. So far, I must say, what a wonderful and memorable year it has been !! Our picnic last June was well-attended and showcased our new home at Zablocki Park. Kudos to our Picnic Committee led by Leo Vi-tangcol and Ferdie Ramos, and our hard-
working committee members. Also, a big thank you to the different organizations who supported us - PCCCF, PNA-WI, UPAAW, USTAAW, PMA-W, FANHS, PAMANA and the Milwaukee County Parks Management. It's always wonderful to see everyone come to-gether and have fun at the same time. Last month was our 40th Annual Dinner Dance and it was absolutely a night to remember! From the fitting tribute to the past presidents, to the musical numbers, to the danc-
PMA-W 2012 Dinner Dance by Linda Ravelo
T he Philippine Medical Association of Wisconsin held its annual fund-raiser on Saturday, May 12 at Westmoor Country Club in
Brookfield, Wisconsin. The Rizal MacArthur Memorial Founda-tion/PMA-W Medical Mission in the Philippines and the Free Medical Clinic at Zablocki Park in Greenfield, Wisconsin will receive most of the proceeds. A brief history of this year’s mission trip shows the vital work made possible by this fund-raiser. The humanitarian medical missions served a hospital in Urbiztondo, Pangasinan and a medical clinic in Lubas, Pangasinan by providing medical, surgical, dental and eye care. The surgical team spent a week in Leyte where they p e r f o r m e d surgeries at the Tacloban City Hospital. A smaller group spent two days in Kalibo, Aklan where they did nine major cases. The 2012 trip included 40 additional nurses, volunteers and members of the Association of Philippine Physi-cians in America under the leadership of Dr. Jeremias Vinluan. The APPA served a week in Payatas, the greater Manila garbage dumpsite, and in Angat, Bulacan before joining the Wisconsin RMMF team. Al-though U.S. pharmaceutical companies donate supplies, most of the medications are currently being bought in the Philippines. It has also become increasingly difficult for the mission delegation to clear their supplies through customs. The Free Medical Clinic also receives financial support from this annual event. Moving from the downtown location in March 2012 to its permanent site in the Zablocki Park Pavilion has not deterred the patient clientele from continuing to seek medical care. There were 620 patient
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performed once again a Hawaiian hula dance. It was a rewarding and wonderful experience for all of us. PNA-WI also maintains alliances with local nursing organizations. Our president Maria Yumang, has been involved in diversity meetings with the Black Nurses Association of Milwaukee and the Association of Hispanic Nurses of Milwaukee. We took part in the 1st Annual Di-versity Nurses Summit of Greater Milwaukee on May 19, 2012. We are all working together to foster cultural diversity in nursing and promote the welfare of ethnic nurses. We continue to do our community outreach mainly our volunteer work at the PCCF free medical clinic every 2nd and 4th Saturday of the month. As of this time, our casino fundraising event is postponed for
next year. We are in partnership with FAAWIS to sponsor the New Year’s Eve party with venue and more details to be posted soon. With edu-cation as one of our goals, our chapter awards scholarship grants to deserving members annually in
the month of December. The Annual General Assembly and Member-ship Drive is coming up on October 6, 2012 from 10 am to 12 pm at the PCCF building, Zablocki Pavilion. I’m extending an invitation to all prospective members, to all nurses, active, inactive, retired or student nurses to attend this affair and learn about our organization. This is a great networking opportunity. For more info, you may go to www.mypnaa.org.
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the Sexy Prexys Presidents dance which was choreographed by Dr. Fe Visaya. Twenty past presidents participated in this “first ever” endeavor. As in any function presented by our Filipino community there are so many do-nors and volunteers who make the evening special. This event was no different. Thank you donors for everything you did to make the evening a success. Thanks also go out to the bakers for the great late evening des-serts, Daisy Magracia, Ann Mejias, Amy Schemenauer, Isabel Piana, Jylian and Sheila Jackson, Zen Edralin, Rose Ricks, and Precy Griffin. Thank you to Rose Paro-lanan for the flowers for the presidents, to Sheila Jackson, Jimmy & Yvette Soriano, and Mila Lamerand for the presidential gifts and certificates and to 2012 FAAWIS President, Jo Anne Capitan and Mae Elliott for the centerpieces. To Mina Vitangcol, Remy Lanzaderas and Cream Pepito for the Registration team, to Rowena Punzalan, Amy Schemenauer, Renee Mondano for the small raffle drive. To our grand prize raffle sponsors, Mrs. Roseneni Perez and Mrs. Virgie Vinluan – Dr. Margery Howard thanks you for her new iPad. Mario Ballesteros designed a beautiful keepsake program
with Mareta Prill coordinating the ads placements.
PNA-WI Happenings by Gem Cubos
I t was an eventful summer for the PNA-WI with plenty of happenings that we’re happy to share. We’ve been very mobile and visible this
year in keeping with the success of our PNA Gala event last April. At the annual FAAWIS picnic, we hosted our signature blood pressure screening at our tent as well as a successful siopao fundraising. It was a great time for nurses, and despite the rain, our volleyball team had garnered second place at the tourna-ment. Also at that time, our fundrais-ing for the PNAA/PNAAF 5k run/walk wellness challenge which bene-fits scholarships and health education
was underway as we took t-shirt orders and donations for the cause. PNA-WI along with other chapters of the North Cen-tral Region had raised a total of $7,785.00 for the event that culminated at the national convention on July 14, 2012 at San Antonio, Texas. It was an opportunity for nurses and their families to challenge their physical fitness. On August 18, we kicked off our annual family picnic at the Whitnall Park. It was a time to unwind and enjoy each other’s company. All attendees took part in another fundraising, this time to sup-port the flood victims of the NCR in the Philippines as part of our outreach initiatives with the KEPF ( Kababayan Emer-gency Preparedness Fund) of the Philippine Nurses Associa-tion of America. “Dancing nurses” has also been linked to PNA-WI recently. And with the events we participated into, you can say that nurses know a thing or two about fun. We had been invited at the APPA Welcome Night themed Hawaiian on July 26 at the Hyatt Regency Milwaukee. Our colorful and exotic performance helped put on a show for the host, PMA Wisconsin. Then at the FAAWIS dinner dance, September 8, we
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Free Medical Volunteer,
Bryan Beaumont, will be honored
at the upcoming “Doc Roc” event to be held in November at the Grace Center in Mil-waukee. “Doc Roc” is a fund raising event sponsored by the Free & Community Clinic Collaborative which we refer to as FC3. The PCCCF’s Free Medical Clinic is a part of this collaborative and our center has been host to several of their monthly meetings. Bryan was selected as the VOLUN-TEER representative for the event based on
his submitted essay. He will be highlighted in the evenings program on the big screen via a filmed presentation. Bryan has been a volunteer at FMC for over a year. He serves a major role in registering our patients, recording our medication distri-bution and assisting the patient traffic flow on clinic days. He also worked on the demolition crew at Zablocki. Bryan is currently apply-ing for admission to medical school. Congratulations Bryan, we are proud of the fact that you will be representing PCCCF’s Free Medical Clinic at this upcoming event. Submitted by Mareta Prill
Bryan Beaumont
University of Santo Tomas Alumni Association of Wisconsin
(USTAAW)
2012 Annual
La Naval de Manila You are cordially invited to attend the celebration of La Naval de Manila.
When: Sunday, October 14, 2012
at 3:00pm (Gathering, Mass, followed by Pro-cession) Fellowship to follow in the Church basement Where: St. Dominic Parish Church 18255 W. Capitol Drive Brookfield, WI 53045 Please bring your family and friends and a dish to share.
Any questions, call: Letty Cueto, MD 262-781-1989 Rica Del Rosario 407-730-9559 Josefina Gardinier 262-786-2391 Mila Salceda 414-327-2804 Jimmy Soriano 414-758-0423 Mina Vitangcol, MD 262-415-5022
Bubble Gum Guy By Cody Tilistyak
There once was a bubble gum guy.
He fell off a cliff that was high.
So what did he do?
He used the gum goo,
And blew a bubble that would fly.
The Bubble Gum Guy Poem written by Cody Tilistyak, son of Maria Tilistyak. Cody wrote this poem in May 2012 when he was in the 6th grade at Dyer Elemen-tary School in Burlington. He is 11 years old. It was one of the poem's selected for publishing.
The Filipino-American Financial Cooperative is having
its 5th Annual General Members Meeting on Saturday, November 10th, 2012 at 1:00 p.m. at the Philippine Center, Zablocki Park, 3717 W. How-ard Avenue, Greenfield. Meeting is open to non-FAFC members in the Fil-Am community. Highlights: FAFC's 5th Year Anniversary Celebration. Potluck. Elec-tion of Board Members. Raffles. Submitted by Margie Bruce
"The Heart of Halsey."
Newest title by
Margie Tayone Bruce
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by Tuesday, November 6th. Submitted by Isabel Piana
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FAAWIS Officers
PRESIDENT Jo Anne Dacudao Capitan
VICE-PRESIDENT Zen Edralin
PRESIDENT-ELECT Zen Edralin
SECRETARY Rebecca Abraham
TREASURER Donald Mondano
AUDITOR Tessie Santos PROPERTY
CUSTODIANS Roger Mendoza Alvin Jackson EX-OFFICIO
Christine Lamerand Sharp
Board Members 2012-2013 Gem Cubos Zen Edralin Ellen Gresen
Rowena Punzalan Maria Tilystyak
2011-2012 Jo Anne Capitan
Isabel Piana Mareta Prill
Heather Rubio Mario David Uy
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FAAWIS PICNIC
Picnic Committee
Leo Vitangcol (co-chair)
Ferdie Ramos (co-chair)
Zen Edralin (Food)
Sheila Jackson/Noel
Mendoza (Entertainment)
Patrick Moloney/Chad
Albano (Sports)
Arlene Isip/Angie Men-
doza (Games)
Jo Anne Capitan
Ellen Gresen
Donald Mondano
Zeny Edralin
Gem Cubos
Maria Tilistyak
Rowena Punzalan
Heather Rubio
Isabel Piana
David Uy
Mareta Prill
Marie Abraham
Amy Schemenauer
Our annual picnic on June 16 at Zablocki park was a huge success with a good turnout despite a brief rain shower. There was lots of food, (including the very popular free popcorn and cotton candy!) Everyone enjoyed the talent show with performances from our adorable chil-dren's choir, to youth performers, to the more seasoned per-formers in our community and neighboring Chicago. Miss Teen Wisconsin 2012 Briana Yamat who is from Milwau-kee, graced our picnic and said a few inspiring words. Thank you to everyone who came and most especially, a big THANK YOU to everyone who helped make it happen!
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