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Tournament a great success.
Marie Rebancos - President

Basketball Tournament - June 13, 2009
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FAAWIS PICNIC
  
July 19, 2009 - Sunday
  
Wirth Park (Brookfield)

PHILIPPINE CONSULAR OUTREACH
 in Milwaukee >>

Highlights 2009
 
FAAWIS Bowling Tournament... New
   ►FAAWIS youth dancing "Pandanggo Sa Ilaw"
  FAAWIS youth dancing Tinkling
 More FAAWIS Video Highlights >>
 PDF Bulalakaw Copies here>>

FAAWIS High School Essay Contest
By Patrick Moloney
F
AAWIS hosted an essay contest, Proud of my Filipino Heritage, for eligible high school students. The contest was announced at the annual picnic in July and deadline for submissions was December 7, 2008.  The essays were judged on content, style, grammatical accuracy and organization >>

The Benefits of Volunteering
By Anne Benthien
The FAAWIS Youth Community Service ended 2008 on a high note. What a fitting way to celebrate the joy of the Christmas season. The group sang Christmas carols at St. Anne’s Nursing Home in Milwaukee and Silvernail Community Retirement Home in Waukesha on December 20th. Mr. and Mrs. Louis Crisostomo led the >>

Holiday Folk Fair - FAAWIS Participation
By Dr. Jazmin Parcon-Sandoval
The strength of FAAWIS in its involvement with the Holiday Folk Fair comes from its numerous volunteers. For decades, Filipinos have participated in what has become an international ethnic festival. In 1983, the Holiday Folk Fair honored the Filipino group and elected Dorothy Clemente as Miss Holiday Folk Fair. Dorothy’s mother, Norma, >>

FAAWIS EVENTS

DINNER DANCE
   
Sept. 13, 2009 - Sunday
   Crowne Plaza Hotel
   (Wauwatosa)

FOLK FAIR
   Nov. 20, 21 & 22, 2009
   (West Allis)

CHRISTMAS PARTY
  
Dec. 12, 2009 - Saturday
   Mt. Mary College Dining
   Hall (Milwaukee)

 

  President's Message

Greetings to you all!

I am grateful and deeply honored to have been elected FAAWIS President for 2009.  Many of you have met me at various FAAWIS events or at other Filipino gatherings.
    I arrived in Milwaukee in 1989, shortly after finishing medical school in Manila. I came to join my family who had settled here in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Since my arrival I have been an active FAAWIS member, first becoming a member of the board of directors five years ago, and I have twice served as vice-president of the Association, in 2005 & 2007.
    I am married to Dr. Dexter Rebancos, a family physician who works at Lakeshore Medical Clinic. We have four wonderful children, Eunice, 22, who recently graduated from UW-Madison, Justin, 17, a junior at Brookfield Central HS, Clarisse, 11, a 6th grader and Arianna, 9, a 4th grader. I also belong to a big family, the Abrahams: Becky, Irma, Cris, Ferdinand, Alexander, and my mom Esperanza, who have all been supportive of me throughout the years.
I am currently a staff psychiatrist at the Aurora Behavioral Clinic, Aurora Women’s Pavilion, and at the New Life Resources Clinic in Brookfield.
    As President I will strive to keep FAAWIS as vibrant and unified as it is, and will continue to promote Filipino culture and traditions, through the organization’s various activities and events. FAAWIS has come a long way, a journey that would not have been possible without your support and participation. There are a lot of challenges ahead, but I believe we can accomplish great things if work we together. I am looking forward to another great year, meeting more Filipinos and working with a new and energetic board, and with the dedicated members of the many committees.
    I’d like to encourage all previous members to renew their support for our Association and I wholeheartedly invite, and welcome, those who have not been members before, to join the FAAWIS family.
    Thank you all for this opportunity and God bless us all!


A Buffet of Ideas
By Ruby Kumbalek

Just like our famous Filipino pot-lucks where everybody brings something to share, the first FAAWIS Meeting in 2009 was indeed a wonderful buffet of ideas! Officiated by FAAWIS President, Dr. Marie Abraham-Rebancos, the meeting on January 10th was attended by officers, board members, committee chairpersons and members, who brought >>

Folk Dancing at the 2008 Holiday Folk Fair
By Sheila Plaga-Jackson
The 22-member children’s dance group, Sampaguita, led by Becky Abraham and Dr. Marie Rebancos, performed Subli using decorative hats and coconut shells in place of the traditional bamboo castanets.  The youth group of 24 dancers, Liwayway, led by Christopher Cruz and Flor Ortiguera, performed Pandanggo Sa Ilaw where >>

 

 
     
 
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