TRAVELS (and more) WITH CECILIA BRAINARD: Maryknoll Reunion in Las Vegas

Sunday, April 12, 2015

Maryknoll Reunion in Las Vegas - College Quezon City

A group of Maryknoll graduates from the college class of 1968 met in Las Vegas, Nevada.
The picture above shows l-r: Lina Flor Dimayuga, Baby Navarro Ciocon, Becky Marfil, Tina Borja Heiter, Boots Besa Browne, Cecilia Manguerra Brainard, and Marissa Munda Tay. Lucy McGinley is expected to join the group.

l-r: Becky Marfil, Andy and Tina Heiter

Lina Flor Dimayuga and her husband flew in from Canada. Boots Browne and Becky Marfil live in Las Vegas. The rest drove from the Inland Empire and the Greater Los Angeles area.

The group spent Sunday bonding. Monday, there are more activities planned, including visiting Carol Valencia, another classmate who lives in the Las Vegas area.

More pictures forthcoming, folks, so stay tuned.

Dinner at Baja Miguel at the South Point

Andy and Tina Heiter dressed to go to the Cirque Du Soleil Show

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Tags: Maryknoll, Maryknollers, college, 1968, Quezon City, school, convent school

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Cecilia

Cecilia Manguerra Brainard

Cecilia Manguerra Brainard's official website is ceciliabrainarddotcom. She is the award-winning author and editor of 22 books, including When the Rainbow Goddess Wept, The Newspaper Widow, Magdalena, Selected Stories, Vigan and Other Stories, and more. She edited Growing Up Filipino 1, 2, & 3, Fiction by Filipinos in America, Contemporary Fiction by Filipinos in America, and other books.. Her work has been translated into Finnish and Turkish; and many of her stories and articles have been widely anthologized. Cecilia has received many awards, including a California Arts Council Fellowship in Fiction, a Brody Arts Fund Award, a Special Recognition Award for her work dealing with Asian American youths, as well as a Certificate of Recognition from the California State Senate, 21st District, and the Outstanding Individual Award from her birth city, Cebu, Philippines. She has lectured and performed at UCLA, USC, University of Connecticut, University of the Philippines, PEN, Shakespeare & Company in Paris, and many others. She has served in the Board of literary arts groups such as PEN, PAWWA (Pacific Asian American Writers West), among others.