La Salle Philippines Alumni Association

2011-12-11 LSPAA Christmas Party and Election
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We started the afternoon with a mass to bless our day. And indeed we
were truly blessed. Elected during our Christmas party this year, a
powerhouse team of new board members took the helm of our chapter. On
the cover photo, elected are Secretary Rolly Saldana, Treasurer Aurora
Arellano, President Mike Agunod, Vice President Bing Crisologo and PRO
Manny Santiago. Now it is our turn to bless our new officers with our
participation! Animo La Salle!

2011-05-14 LSPAA Maki1daan Celebration
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The La Salle Philippines Alumni Association hosted a gala to celebrate
the 100th Anniversary of La Salle Education in the Philppines. It was
held at the Marriott Tysons Corner with a spirited dinner dance
attended by alumni, friends and family.
‘This once-in-a-lifetime celebration, dubbed Maki1Daan Dinner Dance,
epitomized the camaraderie and social responsibility of La Salle
graduates as they came together to renew their friendship, the Animo
spirit and values. Proceeds of the event will benefit scholarships in
the Philippines and the Tondo Millinium Challenge. ‘ - Maurice Owens
(Philippine American Foundation for Charities)
We thank all sponsors, raffle ticket buyers, guests and volunteers who
helped make this a very fun evening

2010-12-12 La Salle Christmas Party
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New members, lots of food, great comaraderie, looking forward to a
great 100th year celeb… these are a few of the comments heard during
the party. We closed the year with great achievements. We thank
everyone who took time to prepare the great food. We thank Tony and
Andrea for letting us use their restaurant.

2010-06-05 La Salle Ateneo Picnic
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La Salle picnics are always fun.  But who would have thought that Ateneans can be fun to be with too!    Maybe part of the reason was winning the last event of the sportsfest.  The TUG-o-WAR!  Almost 60 people attended the picnic to celebrate the completion of the first Ateneo La Salle DC Sportsfest.  We look forward to bigger support and stronger teams next year! 

2010-06-05 La Salle Ateneo Basketball Game
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I must tell you.  You had to be there.  And that is all.  We had an awesome team.  Kudos to our players and to our coordinator Ricky Magallanes for helping us make this event a reality.  Everyone is talking about doing this again.  Thank you Johnny Roque for manning the scoreboard for La Salle.  And thank you to those on the bleachers for helping me cheer our team.  You see that blue padding on the wall under the ring?  That was our drums.  It was fun and happy but in the end we lost by a few points.  It was still fun and happy because we have found new friends and members.  We look forward to a better outcome next year.

2010-05-29 La Salle Ateneo Golf Tournament
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Ateneo won by 5 strokes marking the first Ateneo win in the tournament.  3 foursomes tee’ed off at 9:00am.   The photographer was wondering why at 8:30am, nobody was there.  Well, he went to the wrong golf course.  That is why.

2010-05-28 DLSAA President Henry Atayde presents 2011 World Congress
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Henry shared the vision of DLSAA and invited everyone to come and join the 8th DLSAA World Congress in October 2011.  A 5 day event that will show the world the wonderfull new facilities around Manila.  Lots of cool things planned for the Alumni.  Start planning to be there!  Come on! Sige na! Sali Na! 

2010-05-22 La Salle Ateneo Tennis Match
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Photography gone wild!  Lots of practice taking sport shots from our players exhibiting good form.  Camera buffs can have a good time taking pictures here.  It was a fun day spent with our friends from Ateneo Alumni.   We of course won the trophy for the day.  We lost our hard fought doubles match with a tiebreaker, but we won the 2 singles matches for the day.  Animo La Salle!

2010-05-15 La Salle vs Ateneo Bowling Tournament
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We won!  A very close match!  Not bad for a 3 game scratch tournament.  After the first game La salle was ahead by 2 points.  Next Ateneo won by 11 points to lead by 9 pins.  In the end, La Salle won by 3 points!  Congratulations to players, Robin, Norie, Manny, Tony, Rod and playing coach Obet!  And thank you to all those who were there to cheer with us!  Kudos to bowling coordinator Obet Virata, President Eileen Nadal and Ateneo counterparts for making this event a success. 

2010-04-01 A La Salle Evening with Lani Misalucha
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It was a riot!  LSPAA friends and family expeirence up close the wonderful Lani Misalucha and her family!  We are so happy to share with you these pictures of our new found friend.  Thank you Joey and Mayette for hosting the evening.  Kudos to our President Eileen Nadal for yet another successful event!  Enjoy!

2010-03-10 Ayala Foundation Business Forum
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LSPAA was tapped by Ayala Foundation to coordinate their first business forum in the DC area.  La Salle Alumni in cooperation with Ateneo and UP alumni groups hosted a very successful event entitled “Entrepreneurship and Philantrophy: Filipino-American Profiles of successful entrepreneurs”.  Guest speakers included (L-R) Dani Canubas, Winston Damarillo, Ambasador Willy Gaa, Sheila Lirio Marcelo, Denny Roja and Dado Banatao.  Meeting chairs were LSPAA President Eileen Nadal and Fernando Manibog.  Ayala Foundation USA was represented by Rene Encarnacion.

2009-11-08 La Salle General Meeting at Luciano’s
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The team got together to review recent projects and recent fundraising efforts.  Went on to discuss the Jose Rizal Foundation, the Christmas Party, attracting new members, the election process revisions, the world congress plans and a few other concerns. It was a very good meeting with new faces and a few rare appearances.  There was a long meeting after the meeting that ensued until we wll had to leave.  Many thanks again to Tony and Andrea Zulueta for letting us use a good size chunk of their restaurant on a weekend!  And mmmmm free calamari with mozzarella and zucchini sticks!

2009-09-27 Pasiklaban in NJ
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LSPAA president Eileen Nadal was invited by La Salle NY Metro area chapter President Tess Canlas to watch a classic La Salle Ateneo match up.  Our green archers beat Ateneo in the volleybal games but we got out shined in the basketball game after leading most of the first half.  It was a very successful event with new and younger alumni practicing for several weeks before the event.  It was followed afterwards with an after game party at former President Poch Perez de Tagle’s home in Jersey City.  Concert producers Mon and Ching Legarda (Mon is also a former President) were there.  Also helping out was former president Ed Lago but he had to go before we got there.  Familar faces included Ron and Avie ‘#1 Fan’ Cabral were here too!

2009-09-27 Book Mobile Packing day at Lobaton Residence
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After picking up the last batch of books from Pablito Alarcon of PAFC, LSPAA volunteers packed 21 boxes of books destined for Bro. Mawel’s Mobile Libary project in Manila.  Several folks contributed time and resources to make this thing possible.  Special thanks to Butch Lobaton for offering his home for packing and for preparing a very delicious sit down dinner for the team after all boxes are tucked in.  Packing photo’s courtesy of Nats Esteban.

2009-09-25 Meeting on Knowledge Channel with Rina Bautista
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LSPAA hosted fellow alumni Ms. Rina Lopez Bautista for a dinner meeting at the Luciano’s Restaurant in Tyson’s Corner.  She shared with us the various activities they do at the Knowledge Channel.  She gave us a CD that contains various information about their work.  Also on hand was special guest Philantrophist Dr. Bambi Lorica MD from Potomac, MD.  It was a very informative evening and we were glad to meet a new friend. Thank you Tony Luciano for hosting the meeting with us. 

2009-09-22 Social Mixer at McCormick & Schmick
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LSPAA celebrated the birthday of our Treasurer Joey Velilla.  Joey, the natural fashionista of the group, offered a fashion tip of the day for us during the event.   Van Heusen shirts are out, Armani is in!  I think I’m going to stick with Pacsun.

2009-09-10 Pulong ng Bayan at the Philippine Embassy
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LSPAA was at the embassy to welcome alumni Secretary of National Defense Gilberto Teodoro. He gave us a good assessment of he current security situation in the Philippines. We were able to also give him our T-shirt as souvenir. LSPAA VP Ted Aspillera was there to represent the board.

2009-10-13 Misa ng Bayan with Lea Salonga
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The La Salle Alumni team volunteered to usher the Misa ng Bayan, a fund raising effort by the Feed the Hungry and the Philippine Embassy aimed at generating donations for the Typhoon Ondoy victims in Manila.  Lea Salonga was present to grace the occasion.  Lea was wearing a pink top and black pants but did not have the pink shoes to match.  Ambassador Gaa was also there to appreciate Lea’s volunteer efforts to rally the Fil-ams.  They both shared that a lot of help was received but a lot more will be needed.  We hope and pray our motherland endures the hard times ahead.

2009-08-01 Reston Asian Festival
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These are a few scenes from the recently held Asian Festival at Reston VA.  This year the host was India.  Next year it will be the Philippines!!! We also won recognition as the best booth.  Our booth featured fruit carvings by skilled carvers originally from Paete.  We also had Tinikling demo and a sayaw sa banko presentation on stage.   We hope to see you there next year!  Thank you to a core group of dedicated volunteers who set this up until late in the evening and coming in early in the morning.  Thank you to the Embassy staff for supporting this event.

2009-07-29 La Salle Attends Reception Dinner for President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
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Current LSPAA President Eileen Nadal and immediate past president were invited by FILUSA and Philippine Embassy to a dinner reception for Head of State Gloria Macapagal Arroyo at the Willard Hotel, Washington DC.  We met new member and legislators from La Salle.  This was a great honor for our chapter to be included in the guest list.

2009-07-25 LSPAA Annual Picnic
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Our annual picnic was held at the home of our treasurer Joey Velilla.  46 members, 3 guests and 6 kids were in attendance.  The great food, gracious hosts and wonderful camaraderie helped make this another successful event.

2009-07-04  LSPAA supports  DLSAA Lipa’s Book Mobile & Literacy Program http://share.escrip.shutterfly.com/action/welcome?sid= 8CZNnDFm3aND4
We hosted the visit of DLSAA Lipa President Brother Manuel Pajarillo at the home of VP Ted Aspillera.   LSPAA also officially launched the support of the Book Mobile Program thru a ceremonial handshake and turnover of a children’s book to Brother Mawel.  This program will help Filipinos have access to a transportable library and guided reading program

2009-06-23  June Social Mixer in VA
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Our June Social Mixer was held at Coastal Flats in Virginia.  This was a lot of fun with new faces attending.  We had members from the 70’s, 80, 90, and 2000’s who attended.  We also each had a take home box of pizza from Tony & Andrea Zulueta, owners of Luciano’s Italian Restaurant.  We celebrated June birthdays with cake!

2009-05-26 Farewell Party for LSPAA Member Myla & Consul Rico Fos http://share.escrip.shutterfly.com/action/welcome?sid=8CZNnDFm3aNBS
Our chapter hosted a despedida for Consul Rico and Myla Fos at Luciano’s, owned by fellow alumni member Tony Zulueta.  This was an event also attended by other Fil-Am community leaders and representatives.It was sad to bid the Fos’ farewell, but everyone had a great time.

2009-05-22 LSPAA Participates in 7^th World Congress LA, California
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The 7^th World Congress was hosted by the Southern California Chapter held in Los Angeles, CA.  Our chapter received a Special Citation Honor Chapter Award for our creative monthly activities that promoted a sense of fellowship, participation, camaraderie and a balance of fun, social responsibility and community awareness.
The Congress was a great mix of work, fun and creativity.  The plenary session gave me a greater understanding of the One La Salle concept, history of La Salle and the Lasallian brothers.  This was a very well-organized event. 

2009-04-11 Potomac River Cherry Blossom Cruise
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Being a business owner has some perks. For our April event, Alumni members and their friends chartered a magnificent 64 foot luxury yacht for fun, dinner and fireworks along the Potomac River. This is some serious fun for a very reasonable price.

2009-02-14 Valentines Party
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Lots of good food and lots of casino fun too! To introduce variety to our events, we experimented on a casino type theme. This proved to be fun and participants have requested a repeat.

2008-12-13 La Salle Christmas Party
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This was a very well organized and well participated event. We have never seen little kids for a long time and we have started to see them again as younger alumni started to participate in our activities. We would hope that the next set of officers will be from a younger generation to encourage more new green blood!

2008-10-12 Bro. Gus and Bro. Ricky visits DC
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Before they proceeded to Baltimore we were able to invite Bro Gus and Bro Ricky for lunch at Rolly Saldana’s residence. It was a good time to meet and plan out new activities for 2009.

2008-09-13 Reception for Sonny Ungco and Ed Lago
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Sonny was a recipient of the 2008 Twenty Outstanding Filipinos Abroad (TOFA). He and Ed was able to spend some good sharing time with us before the gala. Lots of mainstays attended. During the event, we also met another fellow alumni. Bob Dacanay was also a TOFA awardee. He owns a consulting firm.

2008-08-09 First La Salle Mixer in DC
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This event kicked off a series of monthly events to celebrate birthdays and meet new friends. Each month a new event is organized to encourage members to meet others. Each event is well attended and invitation is open to all, not just La Salle alumni. This allowed us to get greater visibility, greater impact to community and a very organized group in the DC area.

2008-07-26 La Salle Annual Picnic and Election of new Board
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We elected a new set of officers: President – Eileen Nadal, Vice President - Ted Aspillera, Treasurer – Joey Veilila, Secretary – Kite Estipular, and PRO Alex Araque. Another well attended event with lots of new members in attendance.

2008-06-01 Philippine Independence Day Parade
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In a very successful (lots of new members!) coming out to the community activity, we participated in the Independence Day Parade. Our highly visible green shirts were able to attract ‘lost’ alumni during the event. We had a huge presence and our Bikers also brought their bikes with them. We were able to invite our newest members to our Picnic.

2008-05-24 Overnight Campout at Shenandoah
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Five families with kids from 2 to 18 braved the chilly mountain air to sleep on tents in the beautiful Shenandoah mountain top. We hiked, we cooked, we ate, we played games, pitched tents, snored, breakfast, and went canoeing with lunch along the river bank. This was our first and will have another in 2009. Our very industrious Eileen Nadal, then a PRO and now the President organized this event that will prove to be a draw for 2009.

2008-03-01 Forever Verde was a blast!
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Yes, it was a blast. I hope everyone was just as excited too!  I don’t remember drinking as much beer since we graduated .. I guess the key there is ‘remember’…  Being there with your classmates is really the best! You see everybody with a big wide smile on their face. Suddenly you are  young again. You were there. Life was easy!  We saw old faces … some are hard to recall … some did not  change … an a few still look really hot!  The touchy feely part was when we went to the second floor of the engineering building. My engbatch (’83) is the last batch with mounted pictures on the wall. We each took a pose pointing to our own picture on the wall. This is something you would not want to miss.  Next time you have a chance to visit, make sure you look for your picture!  Congratulations to the planning committee and DLSAA-Manila for organizing a very successful homecoming.   Entertainers for the evening included Cynthia Patag and Randy Santiago.  Both from Batch ‘83.  Also our member Ron Diokno was tapped to help by the planning committee!

2008-01-05 Sinigang Night - Launching of Operation Alkansiya
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When Bro. Gus spoke to us in 2007 to discuss the One La Salle Scholarship fund, we were inspired by the far reaching and long term impact of the program. But we were faced with rising cost of fundraising events and the inherent lack of efficiency. Too much money was being spent on venue and services. Also after a very busy 2007, folks were not so interested in another major fund raising event. Economically, lots of members are not able to afford to participate in events that ‘costs’ hard earned money. During our 2007 ‘Tinola Night’, Operation Alkansiya was proposed and approved. It is a good way for almost 100% of money collected, make its way to One La Salle. We also created an ‘installment’ giving process that allowed members to contribute a small amount on a monthly basis and still make a big tax deductible impact at the end of the year.

2007-12-02 Christmas Party
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One of the problems we had in our chapter was the lack of new members. We used the invite to our ‘Free’ Christmas Party to spread the word. We received new members and also invited other friends. This event changed how we measure the success of our activities. We started measuring success by the number of new alumni we would meet.

2007-11-10 Tinola Night
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A great fun evening enjoying Adjo’s attempt to cook tinola.  It was a great time to be with great company.  We also had a very productive work session where the board shared the activities planned for 2008.  Thank you to all those who brought food and drinks and for sharing fun time with us.

2007-10-20 Ateneo Blue Ball
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LSPAA supported our friends from Ateneo Alumni Association by attending their fundraiser.  It was a successful event with close around 300 people attending.  Kudos to our friends for a job well done!

2007-10-07 Br. Gus Visits LSPAA
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We were fortunate to have Br. Gus break bread with us at the residence of alumni member Max Jalandoni with help of his wife Nadine.  He gave us an in depth profile of Bahay Pagasa and the One La Salle scholarship program.  My best take away from the meeting was his reassuring words that the brothers are constantly praying for the health and well being of each and every La Salle Alumni!  Animo La Salle!

2007-09-23 Baltimore Sto Nino Installation
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Cardinal Keeler has approved installation a statue of the Santo Niño in the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary.  Fellow alumni and member Hector Velloso and led the celebrations.  He is a former Grand Knight of the Knights of Columbus is Baltimore.  He invited our chapter to attend and also treated us to a delicious Chinese dinner after the event.  Feel free to visit the shrine when you can!

2007-07-21 4th Annual Asian Festival - Reston VA.
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We got invited to attend the Asian Festival in Reston VA. For the first time the Philippines was represented. We had an interactive booth and presented a Tinikling number. You would have been proud to be a Pinoy if you were there. The kids had the liveliest number and got the loudest applause from the crowd. Thank you Migrant Heritage Commission(www.migrantheritage.org) for getting all the logistics in place very quickly. We also got invited to a VIP reception together with the Philippine Association for Charities(www.pafc-inc.org) team. Good food and free beer! I also thank the special friends of LSPAA who attended with us. For future events please check www.asianfestivaldc.com.

2007-07-07 LSPAA Picnic
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Nice cool weather.  Lots of food.  Good music.  Good company and nice covered shelter.  Put them all together and what have you got?  Another LSPAA Annual Picnic!!!

2007-07-04 Fourth of July Parade in Washington DC
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It was of great honor to be invited to participate in a very important national event.  The very lively and very colorful Philippine contingent was put together by Grace Valera of the Migrant Heritage Commission (www.migrantheritage.org).  Me and my kids, Joey Gonzalez (the handsome escort to one of the beauty queens) and Isabela Gonzalez (proud to twirl the colorful banner as part of the vinta display).  I held the banner in front.  We had barongs and ternos all over.  We had ati-atihan costumes, we had flag waving line dancers, and a very colorful vinta display at the end.

2007-06-24  LSPAA Biker Club
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A group of alumni headed by Rolly Saldana (rsaldana@gmu.org) regularly plans bike treks all year round.  If you want to join, please contact Rolly to get in to his email distro for the next planned trip.

2007-05-24 Toronto World Congress
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Shortly after our gala, we were off to Toronto! Members of our chapter attended and I was able to share our goals during the plenary session. As a Christian school we want to foster camaraderie and friendship among our members, through our three main thrusts, Faith, Health and Wealth were well received. We want activities that glorify the name of God through prayer groups, active participation and organization of the monthly Filipino Mass and retreats. We also want to ensure that our membership is conscious of their health through Health Awareness Seminars and through the formation of our Biker and Hikers club. And finally wealth opportunities were always on our mind. We would like to encourage business ownership to be explored by our members who mostly have a salary based income.

2007-05-19 Atlantic City Bus Trip
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LSPAA regularly sponsors bus trips to Atlantic City.  Funds are once again used to support our annual donation to Bahay Pagasa in Bacolod (www.bahaypagasa.org).   This was not exactly one of the more successful ones but hey .. we still had fun.  I won $55!!

2007-04-12 PACC Happy Hour
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LSPAA attended a Happy hour hosted by the Philippine American Chamber of Commerce (www.pacc-dc.org).   PACC is a membership organization that promotes entrepreneurship in the Filipino American Community. We were invited by PACC President Mitzi Picard.

2007-03-24 Green in March
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This was a very successful fundraising event. Various leaders from different area organizations were in attendance including our friends from the Ateneo Alumni Association. La Salle chapters from the East Coast and Toronto were also represented. Lots of volunteer time was donated by mainstay members and a few new members we met. We were able to reach out to a lot of people. We were able to show that in our own limited way we are able to raise serious cash in very creative ways!

2007-03-17 LSPAA attends PAFAI Gala
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A week before our gala, we attended and promoted our event during the gala hosted by the Progressive Alliance of Filipinos and Americans, INC (www.pafai.org). PAFAI is a not for profit, cultural, charitable, civic and social organization based in Washington DC Metro area.

2007-02-03 General Meeting
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This is our photoshoot session for the Green in March Gala souvenir program.  Ron Diokno was our artistic director.  Eric Lorenzana and Adjo Gonzalez were our photographers. Rolly Saldana took charge of overall packaging.  Our host for the meeting was Johnny and Evelyn Roque.  They sold the most tickets for the event!

2007-01-03 VP Noli De Castro visit at the Embassy
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The Philippine Embassy staff hosted a reception for the Vice President of the Philippines. He stopped by for a short but inspiring speech about the state of the affairs in our homeland. He was here in the US to represent our country in the burial ceremonies of the late former US President Gerald Ford.

2006-12-16 Bantay Bata Fundraising
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The board members attended the Bantay Bata fundraising event at JW Marriott hotel in Washington DC.  VIPs were all over the place!  Other schools represented there were UP and Ateneo. Good food, lots of dancing and good company!

2006-12-09 Party at Bing and Nanette Crisologo’s home
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Happy Birthday Bing!

2006-08-19 LSPAA Sponsors Pinoy Mass at St. Bernadette
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Through the efforts of our members who are also part of the Filipino Ministry of Northern Virginia, we sponsored one of the Saturday evening Pinoy Mass.

2006-06-24 LSPAA Picnic and Elections
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It was held in Burke Lake Park VA.  It turned out to be a very nice day with pleasant temperatures.  The new officers for the 2006-2008 term are Adjo Gonzalez (President), Mike Mayo (Vice President), Joey Velilla (Treasurer), Eileen Nadal (PRO), Paulo Castro (Asst PRO), Vanna Martinez (Secretary).