The 19Th Issue of Our Newsletter

CIRCLE INTERNATIONAL

JANUARY 20 I I 216-27 Spencer Avenue, Queens Village, New York 11427 USA www.mekongcircl e.org

Welcome to the 19th issue of our Newsletter

Fidel Padayao (left) former President, inducts the Mekong Circle Board of Directors for 2010 - 2012 on ·September 25, 2010 during our 8th Reunion in Anahe im , California , USA. Domeng Menguito is not in the photo.

Name Home Address Telephone Email 1. Tony de los Reyes 1192 Surf Crest Drive, San Diego, California 92 154 USA 619 661 0672 Tonykano @ aol.com 2. Jojo Esteban 909 Vista Mesa Court, Duarte, California 91010 USA 626 771 209 dreamsicles [email protected] 3. Toti de Ia Paz 32 P. Torres St., Concepcion, Marikina, Manila, Philippines 011 632 941 2287 4. Sonia Ballo 926 Herrera St., Brookside Subd., Cainta, Rizal, Philippines 011 632 655 1239 Cristinmballo @ yahoo.com 5. Linda Masibay 2943 N. Nashville, Chicago, Illinois 60634 USA 773 213 0698 Lindacmasibay @ yahoo.com 6. Raul de Jesus 1638 Ontario St., Oshkosh, Wisconsin 54901 USA 920 232 8210 Raulmdejesusmd @ aol.com 7. Pete Fuentecilla 216-27 Spencer Ave., Queens Village, New York 11427 USA 347 551 7305 fuentecila @ aol.com 8. Pat Gonzales 4402 Ambrose Terrace, Los Angeles, Califomia 90027 USA 323 661 1609 p3gonzal @ att.net 9. Bik Marquez 1200 Bayhill Drive# 119, San Bruno, California 94066 USA 650 589 3522 Bikmarquez @ hotmail.com 10. Tony Sazon 745 Lancing Road, West Deptford, New Jersey 08096 USA 609 937 1747 ag.sazon @ verizon.net 11. Angie Angelo 2718 Timberview Drive, Irvine, Texas 75060 USA 972 986 6379 isangelol937@ gmail.com 12. Ciony Ljungar 3031 Marlin Road, Kempville, Ontario KOG 110 Canada 613 258 7370 self.care @ hotmail.com 13. Pinky Casher 1051 Beach Park #107, Foster City, California 94404 USA 650 245 2390 Fecasher @ ya hoo.com 14. Pol Custodio 14860 E. Stockdale St., Baldwin Park, Califomia 91706 USA 323 270 4971 arc2vacation @ yahoo.com 15. Khamsy Siharath 4459 San Joaquin St., Oceanside, California 92057 USA 760 529 5532 oceansideresthome @cox.net 16. Sam Malaythong 228 East Mission Ave. , Merced, California 95340 USA 209 726 3385 Drsmalaythong @ yahoo.com 17. Dom Menguito 20 Barcelona St., Merville, Paranaque, Manila, Philippines 011 632 776 I 006 dom _ 1136 @yahoo.com

Officers Elected For 2010 - 2012 Board Chaim1an Pete Fuentecilla President & Vice Chaim1an Pat Gonzales Treasurer Bik Marquez MEMBER NEWS

It was 102 degrees F under the shade at Twila Reid Park, for 225 members who came to our 8th reunion in Anaheim, California.

Notes From A Hot, Hot Reunion

¥A rousing round of applause, please (and cue the drums and bugles) , and the reception room September 24 to mark Rusty Ramos' 68 th birthday, let's all stand to congratulate the organizing committee of our 8th international an offering from his wife Nemia, who won 't reveal her age. Then the band reunion September 24, 25, and 26 , 2010 in Anaheim , California. After seven played a special tune as Angie and Baby Angelo were called to dance their previous reunions, we have come to expect that organizing these momentous 24th wedding anniversary. They we re married September 24, 1966 at the events have become formulaic, on autopilot. Press button one for the baci and Chapel of Notre Dame in Vientiane. reception. Boom! Boom! They happen. Press button two for the dinner dance. Boom! Press button three for the picnic. Boom! Hah! Tell that to the ¥Legs Do Your Work: Fr. Lucien Bouchard, of the Oblates of Mary committees and to their leaders. Anaheim chief coordinator Jun llustrisimo said Immaculate, one of the Christian missionary groups in pre-1975 Laos, can it simply during the dinner dance: "We're happy. We're in the black. Everything credit his leg-cramping treks across the valleys and mountains of northern is paid for. " Yes, Jun we feel for you and whoever will lead our 2012 event. Laos to build his sturdy legs that trekked through Disneyland Anaheim and Universal Studios. For his first trip to California, Dicky Labao served as his ¥Triple-Digit Degrees: If you happened to turn on the weather forecast on TV leg-weary guide. Fr. Bouchard wrote "In the year 2010 , my first vacation for September 24, 25 and 26 , 2010 , there's the weather guy sweeping his hand was last June when I celebrated 60 years of religious vows in Teusbury, across the entire map of Los Angeles , California, color coded in various hues of Massachusetts. And my second vacation in California was spent with my red , pink and tangerine, flaring at 100 F and a record 106 F. At Twila Reid Park, friends from OB Sam Neua ! I'm afraid I am getting spoiled as I get older." site of our picnic on Sept. 26, among those felled by the heat wave were Cecile Datu and Nits Romano . Seeking refuge beneath the shade of a large tree near ¥Legs No Running: When Jojo Esteban sounded the call for games at the picnic pavilion were Gina Liwag, Geline Aberin and Linda Masibay, all seat the park, aging members with the paunchy bellies and creaky ed as immobile as stone statues to conserve precious fiuids. knees elicited a collective groan, please no running , puwede ba? No , just a lot of animal sounds- quacking , hooting, mooing- a weird contest from ¥Prime Mover : Narding Hilario who initiated our biannual shebangs in was her book of picnic games. heat-prostrate on the grass, also immobile. It was his idea to gather all the expat groups from Laos to celebrate the first Mekong Circle reunion with a din ¥Welcoming The Spirits: Chantha Sivongxay, husband of Sivilay, did ner dance in May 1995 at Baldwin Park's Marriott Hotel in Los Angeles. the chants at the baci ceremony. Have you noticed that the baci strings, traditionally white cotton , also came in red and pink? The hard-boiled egg ¥Surprise Celebrants: A large square birthday cake was wheeled into offering remained white and the banana is still yellow. You can tie green Marriott's Crystal Ballroom strings but don't mess with the spirits' diet. ¥ Making Merit: During the dinner dance September 25, Bounthan Oudom Wilma and Fidel Padayao, Art Linchangco, Vanessa and Phaiboon who came all the way from Vientiane fluttered from table to table of Lao Thongma, Fe Casher, Becky Ciborski , Penny Flores , Fely and Fides Navera, guests and members, collecting donations for her Buddhist temple back Manding and Cecile Datu , Rey Zamora, Pete Fuentecilla. home. She was given a hearty sendoff at the park where she announced "I'll see you all in Vientiane in 2012 !" Okay, members, you have been ¥ Get Your DVDs: A set of four discs- one video disc for each of the alerted. three days and a fourth disc with hundreds of still shots - can be ordered for $30. Send your check payable to Mekong Circle International and mail to ¥ What! You Again ? They bonded for five days, reliving places and Cecile Datu , 1422 Rodney Road , West Covina, California 91792 USA. memories during their November 2008 "Return To Laos" tour. Now, here they Telephone 626 965 7582. The set, professionally videographed by Gerry are together again in Anaheim , not all the 27 travellers , but still a good Bautista and his crew, come packaged and labeled in a colorful , handsome crowd for a mini-reunion: Jun and Claire llustrisimo, Ed and Edith Pasaporte , case . Remembrances And Legacies During the last three years , a number of our colleagues have passed away. It Operation Brotherhood 1954-1957 " published in 197 4. A sequel "Filipinos In has been difficult trying to obtain the specific circumstances of their deaths. Laos" was published in 2004 and forms the first part of a 1957 - 1961 vol Past detailed obituaries can be accessed on our website. So allow us to ume. We invited him to New York for our 2002 reunion to announce the com name those we have been informed about- Fred Reyes , Emeng Alcasid, ing publication of the sequel but his superiors said his health and age ruled Danny Torres , Danny Infante. More recent deaths for which we have the out extended travel. During his younger years he had climbed Mt. details: Pol Daulo of Van Nuys, California , died Nov. 18, 201 0; Dado Manunggal in 1957, Mt. Apo in 1958, Mt. Kanlaon in 1961 and 1963 and Mt. Lumiqued of Pomona, California , died Mayan in 1963. November 11 , 201 0; Lydia Reyes of Pomona , California, died June 16, 2010. Ted Chao Sopsaisana Southakakoumar died Quarterman , husband of Vilma Valenzuela , March 15, 2009 in Cane!, France at the age passed away August 19, 2010 in Binalbagan , of 84. "Sopsai" was president of the Jaycees Negros Occidental , the Philippines. of Laos in 1959, the original sponsor in 1957 of OB-Laos. During a brilliant career with the Two notable deaths that should be mentioned : Royal Lao government, the Prince was vice Fr. Miguel A. Bernad , Jesuit teacher, histori president of the National Assembly, chairman an , author, died March 15, 2009 at the age of of the Lao Bar Association , president of the 92 in Cagayan de Oro City, Philippines. He Lao Press Association , president of the was author of that 546-page monumental his Alliance Francaise and Ambassador-desig tory "Adventure in Vietnam: The Story of nate to France.

Got A Suggestion For A Project ?

Red del Rosario reports that our lskolars Ng Mekong has been put on Survey Questionnaire hold because our Philippine-based partners "have transferred their home base from Quezon City to Tagaytay .. .as part of their refocusing efforts 1. The proposed project must target or benefit recipients in (check one): necessitated by increased financial constraints ." Launched in 2003 and steered by Red, the project helped graduate from college 16 women o The Philippines from poor and family-troubled backgrounds. During that period, Mekong o Laos Circle members donated some $10,500. "I wish to thank all who have o Mekong Circle members supported our project through these years. I am certain the beneficiaries of your generosity will be forever grateful," wrote Red. For an overview 2.The proposed project should be undertaken by of lskolars, see the November 2007 issue of our Newsletter on our web (check one): site. o Mekong Circle alone o In partnership with an existing organization, prefer In the meantime, we have let out a call to members for another ably non-governmental) whose goals are similar to project that meets our nonprofit, tax-exempt status. Some guidelines: the ours project or projects must be doable within our limited resources, prefer 3.The proposed project should emphasize (check ably in partnership with an existing, social development organization one) which meets our educational and humanitarian goals. We emailed you a o Education survey form (see right) for suggestions to submit and mail (or email o Mekong Circle History [email protected]) to Mekong Circle, 216-27 Spencer Avenue, Queens o Humanitarian work (example: medical mission) Village, New York 11427 USA. Deadline: by the end of February 2011. HISTORICAL NOTES From Laos and Bataan to after another. Shot over 25 years , the film 11 , 2009 in Luang Prabang . It won for best docu Brooklyn, New York includes deeply emotional reunions with siblings mentary. Twenty nine films from nine Southeast and other relatives left behind in Laos . "Betrayal" Asian countries were screened. Lacking theaters, After the premiere screening in late November carries the Lao subtitle translation "Nerakhoon ", a participating 2008 of "The Betrayal" in a small Manhattan the reference to America 's abandonment of an ally films were pro ater its creators went onstage to engage the audi during Laos' war with Vietnam and the Pathet jected each ence in a question-and-answer session. Then we Lao. A DVD is available from Amazon.com night on an open 1---...=g~'-r.-"'1'11 approached Thavisouk Phrasavath , the Laotian screen put up at co-director. Greeting him with the "wai " gesture Wait, There's More! More Films! the plaza that fronts the (say "Sabaidee", then clasp both hands to the At our Anaheim, California September reunion , LuANG PRABANG Hmong Market. chest in prayer fashion ), he was taken aback, the organizers hosted a mini-film festival , the first FILM FESTIVAL This was the delighted at meeting a presumed fellow Lao in the time ever since our last seven reunion events . first site that (ELEHRATING SOUTH E ST theater. No, we said , I'm a khan Filipin. Oh , he Have we suddenly gone "cinephilic" (if we maybe A~IAN CINEMA Mekong Circle said , A Filipino. I stayed some months in Bataan. allowed to invent a word} ? More likely, it's nostal members visited DECEMBER. 4-1 1. 2010 That's the refugee processing center gia. As we age gracefully, memories of our com during their WWI\'. 1 PFILM FF ST . ORG near Morang where Indochinese able to escape mon Lao roots and experience are fading. So why November 2008 the wars in Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia, were not indulge in some Lao-related documentaries to "Return To Laos" five-day tour. "Adela", the taken by the United Nations High Commissioner revive memories. Two of the three documentaries, Philippine entry, is the title character played by for Refugees as their final stop before their per released in 2009 , have not been shown in the Anita Linda (remember her? Now in her 80s and manent settlement in other nations. Opened in USA yet. Mekong Circle received permission from the idol of our grade school years). Adela plays a 1980 to hold 18,000 refugees , it provided ameni their producers to premier them at our private ties that contrasted with the harsh conditions at reunion events. German-produced 'The Most widow, deserted by her children , lives in a shack, camps in Thailand and Malaysia where they were Secret Place On Earth" allowed a film crew sells soup noodles to residents of a Manila dump site. It's no Disney-feel-good film , for sure. forcibly kept. Most Morang refugees had been access to Long Tieng , the Hmong and American accepted to resettle in the West and while their CIA mountain base in northern Vientiane papers were processed there, they were oriented province. In the 1960s it was described as the OMG! Yet More About Films ! on the living conditions of the countries that busiest Asian airbase in the "secret war" against As its contribution to celebrating Vientiane's 450th accepted them . We met several of them at Lao North Vietnam . There are fascinating glimpses of anniversary founding , the Philippine Embassy in parties and conferences. At Morang, they said , what the town and the deserted airfields look like Laos presented to the government a documentary they had a hospital, libraries, restaurants, mar today. Travel to the site is still tightly restricted by film put together by the Embassy and the Lao kets, and houses of worship. The Lao refugees the government.t. Watch a trailer at Department of Cinema . For the project, a Manila built a replica of the That Luang . They described www.reelissor.com/project/id_449 . based film editor Chuck Reyes worked with his their stay at Thai refugee camps as depressing, In "Today Is Better Than Two Lao counterparts in Vientiane and conducted film treated as virtual prisoners . Tomorrows", produced by the Irish Film Board , a production techniques. The film was shown on Little wonder then that Thavisouk looked boy leaves his village to become a novice monk in Lao television during the third week of November at us with gratitude as though we, via Morang, Luang Prabang. We see the rituals of a passage as part of the city's multi-day anniversary festivi had a hand in his final journey to America . His to life to be spent for perhaps the next 10 ties. Copies were distributed to Lao overseas. documentary film (in English}, co-directed with an years ... if he can make it that long. Interestingly, Ambassador Marilyn Alarilla is shipping our own American cinematographer Ellen Kuras, describes scenes of village life as we knew it some 40 years copy. Her predecessor hosted a garden reception his arrival, together with his mother and most of ago remain tenderly intact. See a trailer for our "Return To Laos" tour group on the his sisters and brothers, to the US. Settled in a twww.todayisbetterthantwotomorrows .com. The grounds of the Embassy. See photos and details gang-ridden section of Brooklyn , the comfortable documentary was the opening full feature of the of the tour on our website life they had expected was beset by one crisis first film festival in Laos that ran from Dec. 4 to www.mekongcircle.org .

Reaching Out From Morong, Bataan Edited excerpts from a letter received September 23, 201 0 by Cecile Datu: "Do you remember me? Doctor Primo (Guevara), Mr. Jovita (Naranjo) and Mr. Gani (Bautista) knew me very well. I was working for the Commission For Rural Affairs with Mr. Keo Viphakone from 1959 to 1969 in Vientiane. After the Communists took over on December 2, 1975 I escaped on August 8, 1981 by crossing the Mekong to Thailand. I was detained at Refugee Camp Bane Napho in Nakornpanom. Then I was moved to the Philippine Refugee Processing Center in Morang, Bataan for eight months where I was taught English. I arrived in Houston, Texas on April 26, 1984. At Khongsedone, I met Dr. Basilio (Ledesma) of the OB Team there. In this picture are from left, Mr. Makham Maokhamphiou, Dr. Basilio (eyes closed), me, and Mr Prasong, head of USAID in Khongsedone. I am now retired and living in Houston, Texas. Please let me have contact information for Dr. Basilio. Thank you for remembering." Khin Thayravanh Editor's note: Khin was given Bas' address in Michigan Lao Health History: OB's Role A historical review of the origins of Laos' health conference July 14 to 16, 2010 at Khon Kaen production , training and community development. system portrayed the significant role that University in northeast Thailand. Over 300 partici In 2005, Mekong Circle attended the Operation Brotherhood played during the years it pants from various countries attended. Ms . Sweet first Lao international conference at Northern served there. was formerly a senior program manager at the Illinois University in DeKalb , Illinois. It presented At the Third Development the findings of a survey "Lessons in Refugee International Conference Cooperation Section of Survival " describing the experiences of OB's Lao on Lao Studies held in the Australian Embassy nurses who fted to the USA after the Pathet Lao Khon Kaen , Thailand, an in Vientiane. She is takeover. During the 2007 conference at Arizona Australian development now a doctoral candi State University in Tempe , Arizona, Mekong Circle consultant presented an date at the University of gave the background on its two books - "Filipinos outline draft of her doctor Singapore's In Laos" and "Goodbye Vientiane ." al dissertation on how Department of Ms . Sweet's dissertation will ftesh out Laos' health system Sociology. this short history which , in an email message, she evolved during two eras - In describing the "feels very 'draft'. I want to rewrite it, from an from the French colonial U.S. government's sub angle of universal access and equity and asking period up to 1949, fol stantial public health the question of who is serving the (health) system lowed by the years to aid programs beginning or not serving during any period and why. " On that 1975 when the Royal Lao in 1957, she said that note , she requests for comments from OB health Government ruled the country before the takeover "by far the most influential organization in the care workers. Being that Mekong Circle members of the Pathet Lao . health sector during the RLG years was lived part of that Lao history during their 18 years Kathryn Sweet's presentation was one Operation Brotherhood." She cited OB's numer there , your perspectives are welcome . Kathryn of over 140 research papers during the three-day ous clinics and hospitals spread across the coun can be reached at [email protected] . try as well as its health promotion projects in food Two Books From Our Members "God's Love: Inspirational Poems and Life Stories" by Linda Masibay "The Philippine Jeepney: A Filipino Family Metaphor" by Penelope (XIibris , Philadephia , PA, USA 2007 , 48 pages). Linda , a former OB nutri Flores with Araceli Resus (Philippine Writers and Artists -PAWA, San tionist who retired from her job as an associate with Dietary Consulting Francisco , CA, USA 2008,144 pages). Penny, a former OB social worker Group in Chicago , Illinois, now devotes her time to several hobbies, among and a recently retired professor at the San Francisco State University, and them photography, taking videos, gardening, cooking and needlecrafts. And her co-author have written a textbook for teacher candidates at SFSU. They writing poems. She has published her first collection . "All my poems have use the jeepney to help teachers understand Filipino students in California tints of spirituality and sense of caring," she says . "I love to write poems , and the cultural baggage they carry with them from the Philippines. The inspire myself and share with others. " You can order a copy of "God's Love" jeepney is a "remnant of Philippine colonization, a symbol of Filipino from www.xlibris .com. Hardcover is $20 ; softcover $10 plus shipping and colonial way of thinking , Filipino ingenuity ... " representing "indigenous handling. Filipino characteristics ." It Must Be The Weather or The Lao-lao or Whatever When Dr. Orlando "Bingbing" Alagar tied the mar were marriages officiated by the OB nurse; Dado Lumigued and riage "baci" knots with Lao princess Somprasong local Chaomuong (provincial Sally Ramos , OB nutritionist; Jess in 1961 in Paksong , Champassak province (see Governors) that the parties pre Ramos OB med tech and Connie , photo) , it was among the first nuptials in Laos ferred to keep quiet. As a result, OB secretary. between a Filipino and a Lao. Such pairings were this list is incomplete. Your help is Corrections: Angelita Datu of rare among the couplings that Penny Flores solicited in updating it. OICC did not get married in Laos. recorded in her "Marriage Grid ", published in her For example , include Mario Morales USAID accountant "Goodbye Vientiane" anthology. (Have you bought Enrique Labao OB nurse who mar married Carmen Dannang not your copy yet? Contact her at [email protected]). ried Cely Isidro, OB med tech ; Pol Carmen Domingo. George More numerous were marriages between Daulo OB agriculturist and Lina Villanueva is an OB nurse, not Filipinos, celebrated on Lao soil or somewhere Mangabat OB nurse; Tony Liwag , employed with USAID. Any more else . Penny charts them in alphabetical order, OB artist and Gina Perlada OB updates, email between and among members of OB , USAID , Air nurse; Philip Cruz OB accountant [email protected]. She is putting America, ECCOIL, Continental Air Services, the and Jessie Yap, OB nurse; Rod together a second edition of Canadian International Control Commission . We Reyes, USAID technician and "Goodbye Vientiane. " reproduce here the full tables on the next Lydia Philippine School ; Joe pages- 82 couples in all. We are told that there Palisoc OB doctor and Ning Yumul THE MARRIAGE GRID

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