Home

Names in “Breaking the Bamboo Ceiling“

Details: Written by: Bernard Punzalan; Published: 04 December 2024

Names in “Breaking the Bamboo Ceiling: Conversations with Madeleine Bordallo,” 2024, Påle Eric Forbes, OFM CAP

LNAME	FNAME	MI
(Bordallo?)	Tomas
Ada	Rosanne
Ada	Joseph (Joe)	F
Ada	Ben
Ada	Thomas (Tom)	C
Aguon	John	P
Arriola	Joaquin	C
Arriola	Belle
Bamba	Cecilia
Bamba	Vicente	B
Barrett	Concepcion (Chong)
Blas	Frank
Blaz	Ben
Blaz	Vicente (Ben)	G
Bordallo	Fred
Bordallo	Ricardo (Ricky)	J
Bordallo	Norma
Bordallo	Baltazar (BJ)	J
Bordallo	Deborah (Debbie)	Josephine
Bordallo	Paul
Bordallo	Arlene
Bordallo	Josefina
Brooks	Doris	F

2024 CHamoru Symposium Video Recordings

Details: Written by: Bernard Punzalan; Published: 15 November 2024

Unfortunately we experienced several challenges on audio video recording. I ran the livestream through Zoom to FaceBook live. Apparently, Facebook has a maximum recording time of eight hours. Many lessons learned so I hope the next symposiums will be much more successful.

Day 1: September 20, 2024

Malia Angelica Ramirez: CHamoru Genealogist & Historian

Details: Written by: Bernard Punzalan; Published: 26 October 2024

Malia Angelica Ramirez (1951-2024)
The first time I met Malia in person was at the 2016 Festival of Pacific Arts on Guåhan. Prior to that I only knew of her writings on the CHamoru family clan names/nicknames and her published series of articles in the Guam Tribune Panorama specials.

Opening day of 2016 FestPac on Guåhan at the Canoe Ceremonies

Malia was a very hard person to contact via email. It took me a while to contact to her when I first asked her to be a guest speaker at one of my genealogy workshops for FestPac in 2016. I was so elated when she agreed. After all, she really did not know me so I’m pretty certain about me she had her reservations. But when it comes to CHamoru genealogy she would never refuse!