TRAVELS (and more) WITH CECILIA BRAINARD: Philippines: Visit with Maryknoll College Friends

Tuesday, November 29, 2016

Philippines: Visit with Maryknoll College Friends

Maria Ciocon, Ollie Yujuico, and I drove to Palm Desert to visit "snowbirds" Tina and Andy Heiter who are visiting from Switzerland. The four of us women went to Maryknoll College and it was great fun to update one another of our lives and our friends' goings-on. We also admired the coffee table book that Andy Heiter made of some of Tina's art work, which were recently featured in a gallery in Switzerland.

The group picture above shows l-r: Maria Ciocon, Tina Heiter, Cecilia Brainard, and Ollie Yujuico.

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Tags: Maryknoll College, Philippines, Quezon City, College 1968, Maryknollers, Miriam, convent school, private collage

This is all for now,
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.