Saturday Talk in Connection with Filipino-American History Month Celebration Here at THD

My talk this morning (Saturday, Oct 14),  I believe was an educational success based on comments from my audience after my talk. The Lumpia Shanghai served during the talk authenticated my description that Filipino Food is indeed a Gastronomic delight.  My talk was advertised well in advance. As a result the Cinema was full with one or two standing at the back ( Jenny and Dinah). 

Happy Hour Photo on Friday- I was Advertising the 3 Days Celebration of Filipino-History Month Here at THD with Dinner, Talk and Movies for Thursday and Saturday Night at our Cinema 

Here's the introduction of my talk this morning delivered by Joseph Woo. Thank you Joseph for the slides. It added visual clarity during my talk.  

" David Balleza Katague was born in the Philippines. He came to the US in 1960 for graduate study at the University of Illinois in Chicago. After getting his Ph.D. degree in Pharmaceutical Chemistry in 1964, he worked for three private companies in the field of pesticides residues analytical methods development. In 1990 David and with wife Macrine (63 years-RIP) and 4 children moved to Maryland when he got a new job as a Review Chemist in the Division of New Drugs, Anti-Infectives Drug Products, FDA. In 1992 he was promoted to GS-14 Expert on Anti-Malarial and Anti-Fungal Drug Products. In 1997 he was promoted to Chemistry Team Leader supervising the work of 5 Ph. Chemist in charge of all the Chemistry, Manufacturing and Control Requirements for the approval of new anti-infective drugs products including antibiotics in the Center of New Drugs. He maintained this position until his retirement in 2002.  David loves to play bridge, asian mahjong and has been a prolific blogger since 2009. David moved to THD in June 1, from Fair Oaks, Ca( suburb of Sacramento). David is very very proud of his Filipino heritage. The David B Katague  Family became US citizens in 1972 but has a retirement beach house in the Philippines, named Chateau Du Mer. David blogs are in http://chateaudumer.blogspot.com  

Here are some photos during the talk-Photo Credits,Jenny Shively. Thanks, Jenny for these photos.

I decided to wear my lime green Barong instead of the Classic/traditonal/formal white barong, because I want the atmosphere during talk to be very informal and this was a success. 

Here are some more photos taken by Dinah during my talk, Dinah these photos really capture the various moods and atmosphere during my talk. Thanks for coming and helped served the Shanghai Lumpia also. In this photo series is the butterfly sleeves worn by my grand daughter Alix Katague Quinn. There were several questions regarding the butterfly sleeves during my talk. Thus a picture is worth more than thousand words-here's the photo of the butterfly sleeve.  

Grand Daughter Alix Katague Quinn in her butterfly sleeves-Photo Credit: Dinah Katague

Pensive

Happy

Map of the Philippines

Showy and asking Questions

Filipino Food and Cuisine

Que sera, sera! Just a Joke!!!

Calm, Relax and Attentive

Introspective!

Meanwhile Here's SUMMARY of my Talk for Your File if you want to save it.        

https://chateaudumer.blogspot.com/2023/10/my-talkresident-spotlight-for-october.html

Thank You, THD Management and Staff, specifically to Karen K( organizer), Joseph Woo ( (slides. and introduction), to Chef Agustin Gutierrez for the Filipino Dinner, and to Jenny and Barbara for their personal support during these 3 days of celebration to commemorate Filipino-American History Month here in the US.