Who Are the people connected with FAME,
(Filipino American Memorial Endowment)?
These names came from this FAME webpage:
filipino-americanmemorials.org/board-of-trustees/Board of Trustees 2017 – 2018
Honorary Chairman US Ambassador Sung Y. Kim
President Lt. Col. Artemio Matibag
Vice President Robert L. Hudson
Treasurer Robert M. Sears
Trustees Leslie Ann Murray
Dan Larson
Ricardo Jose
Richard McGonegal
Corporate Secretary Atty. Jacqueline R. Laurel
Some of these Ladies and Gentlemen, I know or have met, some I met just very briefly.
Za312. US Ambassador Sung Y. Kim
US Ambassador Sung Y. Kim is relative new to the Philippines and of course; he represents our country here in the Philippines. This picture was shot on Corregidor during the 75th Anniversary Commemoration of the surrender of Corregidor
Za313. Lt. Col. Artemio Matibag
Col. Artemio Matibag is also the Executive Director and Trustee of the Corregidor Foundation Inc. I have met him many times on my many visits to Corregidor. He has run the affairs of Corregidor for many years.
Helpful to visitors to Corregidor must be his motto; that has been my personal experience with him when approaching him.
What was news to me that his CFI maintenance crews actually construct the Death March Markers and placed them into their locations.
This picture was also shot on Corregidor during the 75th Anniversary Commemoration of the surrender of Corregidor. Lt. Col. Artemio Matibag is the middle person of the three gentlemen in white shirts.
This is the CFI web page:
www.tourism.gov.ph/Pages/Corregidor.aspx Za314. Leslie Ann Murray Managing Editor of the AMCHAM
Leslie Ann Murray is right in this picture and Marcia Kwiecinski is the left in the picture. This picture came from a blog page of Steve and Marcia Kwiecinski, in their Thank You Page when departing Corregidor after staying and doing research work on Corregidor for 6 ½ years. They said this about Leslie:
We've known Leslie Murray since before we moved to the Philippines in 2008. Leslie made our life easier by always being available to direct us to whatever or whomever we needed. She was a child POW interned at Santo Tomas University with her parents. We stayed often with Leslie and her late husband Brian before Brian became ill. Leslie is very important to the Filipino American Memorial Endowment (FAME).
This is the BLOG Page URL:
steveandmarciaontherock.blogspot.com/2015/05/The Filipino-American Memorial Endowment, Inc. is an Affiliate of the American Chamber of Commerce of the Philippines, Inc. and I have the feeling that Leslie is doing much of the doing and shaking in her office.
Za215. Bob Hudson descended of a Death March Survivor.
This is Bob Hudson and his lovely wife Rosalie at Death March Marker #24 in Limay Bataan which he had moved and reset because it had been put at a bad location.
Bob Hudson is the son of Tech. Sgt Richard C. Hudson who worked at the Quartermaster Depot, Post of Manila at the start of WWII. Bob maintains this Blog page about his father and his sister he never seen. It is tragic Story:
bataanson.blogspot.com/Bob has been active in the history of the Veterans of WWII in the Philippines because of his father. He has collected tons of list of the WWII POWs etc. Much of it is published at different websites like this forum.
He is a very active participant in the Facebook Page of the Bataan Museum WWII Museum in Balanga; this is the URL:
www.facebook.com/Bataan-World-War-II-Museum-269513549889414/Most important he wanted to get involved with the maintenance of the Death March Markers. When he contacted FAME he found out that they don’t have employees or money, they are totally dependent on donations and there is never enough.
So he asked FAME if he does the work can they provide paint. And that is what is happening right now. His wife Rosalie and he have just about cleaned and repainted all of the Death March Markers and repaired a few of damaged sponsor plaques on them.
They elected him to be the Vice President of Fame but what they really need is money.
He is most knowledgeable about the POWs from the Philippine Theater of War II and sometime speaks to community groups about the history of the Filipino and US POWs from the Philippines.