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Cristeta Pasia Comerford (née Gomez Pasia; born October 27, 1962) is a Filipino-American chef who served as the White House executive chef from 2005 until her retirement in 2024. She is the first woman and first person of Asian origin to hold the post.
On March 10, 1901, with the Philippine-American war drawing to a conclusion, Elwell S. Otis, as Military Governor, created the Department of Public Instruction. [3] Instruction in English language, and American history, Education was expected to lead to forming of a national identity and Filipino nationalism. [4]
About 200 Filipino "pensionados" are brought to the U.S. to get an American education. [60] 1907, Benito Legarda and Pablo Ocampo, become the first Resident Commissioners from the Philippines, in the United States House of Representatives. [61] 1910, First Filipino, Vicente Lim, attends West Point. [62] [63]
Kenneth White Munden (1943). Los Pensionados: The Story of the Education of Philippine Government Students in the United States 1903-1943. National Archives. Teodoro, Noel V. (1 March 1999). "Pensionados and Workers: The Filipinos in the United States, 1903–1956". Asian and Pacific Migration Journal. 8 (1): 157– 178. doi:10.1177 ...
For their contribution to Philippine education, the Thomasites Centennial Project was established in cooperation with American Studies associations in the Philippines, the Philippine-American Educational Foundation, the US Embassy in Manila, and other leading cultural and educational institutions in the Philippines. [9] [15]
Filipino-American World War II veterans at the White House in 2003. Many Filipino veterans traveled to the United States to lobby Congress for these benefits. [283] Since 1993, numerous bills have been introduced in Congress to pay the benefits, but all died in committee. [284] As recently as 2018, these bills have received bipartisan support ...
Filipino American National Historical Society (FANHS) was founded on 26 November 1982 in Seattle, Washington, by Dorothy Laigo Cordova and her husband Fred Cordova. The organization states that its mission is “to promote understanding, education, enlightenment, appreciation, and enrichment through the identification, gathering, preservation ...
The American colonization of the Philippines imposed a universal formal education system, which helped increase the number of Filipinos working in business, educational, and governmental sectors. This system was mostly taught in English, and often had Americans as teachers. [12] Another lasting impact was on sanitation.