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From the PNAA President
Rosario May Mayor,
RN, MA
Maraming salamat
na taos puso ….. sa iyong pagpapakilala sa
akin.
Magandang gabi sa
inyong lahat…… sa gabing ito ng kaligayahan para
sa inyo PNA-So California at sa PNAA. Una muna
ay nais kong batiin kayong lahat ng masaganang
bagong taon ngayon ikalabingtatlong araw ng
Enero sa taon na dalawangpung libo at pito.
Harinawa ang atin bagong taon ay maging
matiwasay at puno ng matamis na kaligayahan,
puno ng pagdiriwang sa atin mga maraming gawain
para sa ikabubuti ng ating minamahal na PNAA.
Nagagalak ako sa pagkakataon na ito na ibinigay
ninyo sa akin upang tayong lahat ay
magkasamasama at magkausap usap.
Congratulations to
Brenda Cohen and her new Executive Board being
inducted tonight at this beautiful ball room of
the Ritz Carlton Hotel here at Marina del Rey,
California. I am honored and privileged to be
here tonight with you at a special moment in
time. Elections and inductions are processes
that are put into place as a function of
governance and democracy. It is also a process
that infuses new blood, new ideas, embrace
change, and set a new leadership tome into the
chapter association. Trials and tribulations,
achievements, accomplishment, are always part
and parcel of any chapter growth and legacy to
the next generation. There are bumps and
potholes along the way of any chapter life and
there will be headaches, scars and bruises along
the way so we apply warm or cold compress, and
take Tylenol. We pick ourselves up and overcome.
We rise to the occasion and we emerge victorious
as we spar with our inner angels and devils.
Victory with our struggles is evidenced by
tonight’s wonderful occasion- your induction. My
congratulations to the PNA-SC for carrying out
its function of succession planning. Chapters
thrive and grow because we as humans learn from
each other, inherit and share wisdom and
knowledge from each other. We, you and I are
also challenged by the opportunities of new
thinking patterns and mindset.
Who does not love a
new shoes be it Prada or bought from Payless as
long as it does the job! In the “Devil Wears
Prada” Meryl Streep has shown us a breed of
leadership and management style so I say to you.
Take your pick of Donald Trump, Colin Powell,
Ken Lay of Enron infamy, George Bush, Carly
Fiorina of Hewlett Packard, Hillary Clinton,
Condoleeza Rice and Mother Teresa. We all learn
from our mistakes and triumphs.
All of us come with
our own baggage and cultural upbringing. We each
have a culture of our own driven by our own
genetics and genomics… based on our own DNA,
that helix comprised of about 20,000 genes.
Other influences too are our environment, our
schools, our parents, our siblings, relatives,
and friends. So to the new leadership this is
what PNAA has stood for.
The PNAA was
founded in April 21, 1979 in Edison, New Jersey
by a group of visionary Philippine nursing
leaders from independent local chapter PNA’s. (
PNA-So. California, PNA-NY, PNA-NJ,
PNA-Michigan, PNA-Illinois) They came together
to embrace a cause for the Philippine nurses
that needed an anchor and a soul. I’d like to
salute Clarita Miraflor, who is not here with us
tonight as the first elected president of the
PNAA. Thank you to you and other pioneers like
Phoebe Andes of NJ, Marie Couper of Illinois, PI
Lowery of NY, Remy Solarte of Michigan, and Seny
Lipat of NJ, for your perseverance in making
PNAA happen. It was not easy but they did it.
And so today, here 28 years after the PNAA is
thriving, growing, expanding, and making a
difference to the lives of so many people.
PNAA has these
beliefs for which we were founded on:
· That
PNAA is the structure by which we unite
Philippine nurses here in the USA so that in
strength there is unity. … and that is evidenced
by 35 chapters spread out across the USA from
east to west, north central to south central.
· That
PNAA provides the mechanism of communication
with other nursing organizations.. which we do
and I am proud to report to all of you that we,
PNAA is at the table with ANA, National
Institutes of Health, Academy Health, WHO where
I will be attending a nursing conference of
nursing leaders from around the world February
19-20, 2007 and our counterparts in Manila –
ADPCN and PNA and the Philippine Board of
Nursing.
We formulate
strategies for acting on issues such as the
NCLEX, the licensure exam to be administered in
Manila and is still a cause that is ongoing. …
part of our intangible work that redounds to the
benefits of nurses in the Philippines that
someday will become our members hopefully.
Because PNAA is a caring organization….
we think of those that someday will become one
of us here in the USA and we want to ease their
paths of entry here to the USA, our adopted
homeland that has been so good to us.
PNAA and PNA-SC
carry out programs that enhance the positive
image of Philippine nurses in the communities we
live in. The above are beliefs and culture that
has permeated the association since its
inception in 1979. Our founding mothers wrote
the script for all of us, a mission and a goal
that we all have stayed close to through 28
years of handoff from our elders and to us the
young ones like Mila Velasquez, our immediate
past PNAA president 2004-2006 and myself for the
year 2006-2008. We at the national as well as
chapter level have kept to that promise of those
beliefs as written in our incorporation papers
of July 3, 1981.
Thank you to Josie
De Jesus and her Executive Board for keeping the
flames burning for PNAA. I commend you for
making sure that the culture of excellence,
dedication, commitment to community, involvement
and passion is alive and well here in Southern
California.
To Brenda Cohen and
her EB, the torch of leadership is being handed
to you. Go forth and own it! You can do it.
Tonight is a day of
rejoicing as I see all of you looking so
beautiful, handsome and gorgeous carrying age
and wisdom so gracefully. I salute all of you
women and men of faith, women and men of value,
women and men working hard to make a dream come
true, women and men who enjoy life and give back
in some measures the fruits of their labors to
society, mankind and the common good, women and
men who loved and are loved, women and men of
peace and great pride.
Nurses here tonight
I salute and applaud you. You make a difference
to so many lives because of the care that you
give. Tonight is a night of affirmation to the
ideals and goals of PNA-So. California and PNAA
too.
To the Newly
inducted officers headed by Brenda, good luck
and all the best! I am with you in your
undertakings and I am looking forward with
excitement to the 28th PNAA Anaheim
2007 Convention which you are producing.
I am also lucky
that I have some of your stalwart leaders as
part of the national executive board……… and so
to Josie Villanueva, Western RLO thank you for
making my life as PNAA president a bit easier by
being there to hold the hands of ten chapters
giving them guidance and encouragement. To Maria
Gonzales, PNAA Asst Secretary and Josie DeJesus,
PNAA Board Member.. ….thank you for being a part
of my team. It is people like them that make a
difference and I am grateful for their presence
at the national level.
To all of you here
tonight…thank you for being here with us, enjoy
the night, long live, be healthy, be well, be
safe, and let us be there for each other because
we do need each other.
Mabuhay, God bless
you all. Maraming salamat na paulit ulit na ulit
ulit na uulitin!
Delivered
by Rosario-May P. Mayor
PNAA
President 2006-2008
PNA-Southern California Induction Ceremony
Saturday
January 13, 2007, Ritz Carlton Hotel, Marina Del
Rey, CA. |
March 30-April 1, 2007