Installation and Dinner Event for Filipino Women's Club at the Deer Park Lodge

Installation and dinner for the Filipino Community Women's Club of Watsonville held at the Deer Park Lodge. From left to right: Rosita Tabasa, Rita Castro, Rosario "Nena" Nieva Alminiana, Julia Castro, Mary Ragsac, Opal Marshall, Virginia Sulay, Connie Ramiriez, Grace Silga, Louella Carrillo, and Esther Tabancay.

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May 19, 1957

Juanita Sulay Wilson

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For more information on the Filipino Women's Club:

Dawn Bohulano Mabalon. Little Manila Is in the Heart : The Making of the Filipina/o American Community in Stockton, California. Durham: Duke University Press (2013).

Rudy P. Guevarra. Becoming Mexipino : Multiethnic Identities and Communities in San Diego. New Brunswick, N.J: Rutgers University Press (2012).

Karis Lee, "The Filipino Women's Club of Washington D.C.," Boundary Stones, 2020. https://boundarystones.weta.org/2020/03/20/filipino-womens-club-washington-dc

8.25 x 10 inches

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SUL.2021.85

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