Chapter Newsletter
FANHS Stockton
PO Box 4616
Stockton CA 95204
StocktonFANHS@aol.com
(209) 462-3489
(209) 956-1728
© FANHS Stockton 2001
FANHS Stockton Chapter Newsletter
Stockton Chapter #12
PO BOX 4616, Stockton, CA 95204, (209) 462-3489
e-mail: StocktonFANHS@aol.com
Our chapter distributes a quarterly newsletter every January, April, July, and October. It includes a message from our president, membership information, articles written by our members, notices of upcoming events, obituaries and advertising from our supporters. We invite our members to contribute articles and photographs pertaining to Filipino American history -- past, present, and future!
Issues are provided free to our members (as part of their membership) and extras are handed out at various functions. If you are interested in obtaining a copy of our latest newsletter or back issues (if available), please contact us. There will be a charge for postage and possibly for Xeroxing.
If you are interested in advertising in our newsletters, we offer a business card space for $10 an issue ($40/year). Our circulation is approximately 200. Please contact us!
Below are the "President's Message" from this years' issues.
[Click here to see President's Messages from 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001]
April 2009
PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE
By Anita Navalta Bautista
The Stockton FANHS chapter is currently busy with plans for the annual forth-coming golf tournament and family picnic to be held May 9, at the Micke Grove golf course and park. This event is very important because our chapter uses this event to fund our National FANHS Museum, slated to be built here in Stockton. We will need lots of help to make this a success.
January: Little Manila Foundation and FANHS members Mel LaGasca, Rossi Chin and myself, along with other Stockton Filipino dignitaries, hosted Senator Leland Lee at the Filipino Plaza. Mel gave a presentation about our concerns for the Filipino community and FANHS in general. Also, as a community member, I took part as a judge in the Edison High School student debates. This is to get FANHS out in the community and to gain recognition for our chapter and our local Filipino American history.
February events included the monthly Central Valley Asian American Chamber of Commerce Mixer. Our chapter is a member of this valuable organization. They have allowed us to promote FANHS Stockton Chapter Filipino American history by allowing us to sell our books and the calendar at their meetings. It has allowed FANHS members to talk about our history to other members of this group. The highlight of February was our chapter’s participation in the Sacramento Kings Arco Area Filipino Heritage Night. Our chapter furnished an exhibit “Filipino Americans in the U.S. Military.” This was the only Filipino American historical exhibit present and brought a lot of attention to our chapter. The Fighting Filipino poster was the hit of the evening. People took photos of it and took photos with the poster. We -- Bobby Roy. Our Sac-Delta FANHS partner and I -- were interviewed by Regina E. Reyes, News Bureau Chief of ABS-CBN (TV) out of Hayward, CA, for their 11:00 p.m. TV news report. I was also able to present this exhibit at the U.C. Davis Pilipino Empowerment Conference at the invitation of Bobby Roy. Student questions were answered about our men and women in the U.S. Military.
March was filled with planning for the P.L.A.Y. (Play, Love And You) Multi-cultural Village for May 9 at the Stockton Waterfront. Although we will be having the FANHS golf and picnic on the same day, I felt that we could not miss P.L.A.Y.’s first significant event. Lorenzo Romano (from Little Manila Foundation) will man the Filipino Tent and we will be included (by our displays) along with Joy Neas who will be doing her parol-making demonstration. P.L.A.Y. is expected to draw a crowd of 15,000 from Stockton and other areas. This is our opportunity to make FANHS Stockton known and to tell about our Stockton Filipino American history. On March 21st, FANHS Stockton members Mel and Gail LaGasca, Rossi Chin, Fran Estoista, Virginia Navarro and Dawn Mabalon and others, supported Little Manila Foundation’s Wine tasting at the Delicato Winery. I was also able to attend Senator Lois Wolk Fifth District’s Woman of the Year 2009 tribute and recognition of Elena Mangahas’ contributions to our community. And lastly, on March 22nd, FANHS Stockton chapter hosted, along with Little Manila Foundation, 52 students from UCLA and U.C. Davis at the Daguhoy Lodge. The students’ visits have been a continuing event for several years. The interest in Stockton as the first Filipino Urban community and the legacy it left behind continues to bring more and more students to Stockton. Thank you to our panel: Al Juanitas, Violet Dutra, Terri Torres, Rossi Munar Chin, Addie Suguitan, Tony Somera and Dawn Mabalon.JANUARY 2009
PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE
By Anita Navalta Bautista
A Happy New Year to you all. Yes, another year has passed for our FANHS Stockton chapter. This year has been a very busy one. New friends have been made; many organizations have been made aware of our FANHS Chapter and more projects have been completed.
We expect to do more exhibits at our local libraries and at different venues in Stockton and the surrounding area. Also, we are hoping to involve local students in recording our history. One such project will be the recording of the graves sites of our Filipinos who served in World War I and the First and Second Filipino Infantry in World War II. We hope to record something about their military history. These graves are located in the Veterans section of our local cemeteries.
Also, fund raising projects have to be produced to raise much-needed funds for our National FANHS museum, if we are to see this come to fruition in our lifetime. Please we need your help with this project.
We encourage those of you who have a personal historical Filipino American story to tell your story. We have to record these stories. If you need help, call on me, I will be very happy to help you with your article.
I know that times are economically tough right now, but if you are able, please keep up your membership. If you will look at the upper right hand corner of your newsletter-mailing label you will find the expiration date and renew if need be.
Thank you all for helping FANHS Stockton Chapter with saving our Filipino American history.
© FANHS Stockton 2001