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Music to My Ears
by table TALK by Rosalinda L. Orosa - June 2, 2002 - 12:00am
Ambassador Herbert D. Jess is taking his role as "impresario" with considerable enthusiasm and earnestness. With paintings of German landscapes by Manuel D. Baldemor still hanging in Mr. Jess’s living...
Music Lovers–All
by table TALK by Rosalinda L. Orosa - May 26, 2002 - 12:00am
Italian Ambassador Umberto Colesanti and his vivacious wife Clara being avid music lovers–both are passionate about opera (what Italian isn’t?), and Clara in fact is a singer by avocation–they heartily...
A Very Focused Lady
by table TALK by Rosalinda L. Orosa - May 19, 2002 - 12:00am
Israel’s 54th Independence Day last month was celebrated at the CCP Little Theater lobby with Ambassador Irit Ben-Abba hosting a well-attended reception. This, quite uniquely, was followed by the incomparable...
Surprises
by table TALK by Rosalinda L. Orosa - March 3, 2002 - 12:00am
After having attended a series of Narda Camacho’s bienvenidas-despedidas for just arrived and soon-to-depart ambassadors’ wives, one expects surprises. At her last hail-farewell social, in the Manila Polo...
Focus on the Spanish Envoy
by table TALK by Rosalinda L. Orosa - February 3, 2002 - 12:00am
With Spain assuming the presidency of the European Union Council, Spanish Ambassador Tomas Rodriguez Pantoja hosted a reception at the embassy residence for European ambassadors. Señor Pantoja will be representing...
Music and Diplomacy
by table TALK by Rosalinda L. Orosa - November 11, 2001 - 12:00am
As the visit of the famed Suk Chamber Orchestra wonderfully coincided with the celebration of the Czech National Day, it inevitably performed for Ambassador and Mrs. Stanislav Slavicky and their guests at the embassy...
The Thomasites Remembered
by table TALK by Rosalinda L. Orosa - September 16, 2001 - 12:00am
On Aug. 21, 1901, five hundred forty American teachers from all over the US, with varying educational backgrounds, arrived in the Philippines on board the US Army Transport Thomas, from which ship the teachers derived...
Rachy’s Rarities
by table TALK by Rosalinda L. Orosa - September 2, 2001 - 12:00am
Rachy Z. Cuna, who is variously described as "Manila’s icon of style," "creative stylist," "floral architect," "design vanguard" might also be called a "collector"....
They came in pairs
by table TALK by Rosalinda L. Orosa - August 26, 2001 - 12:00am
With so many comings and goings, bienvenidas and despedidas filled the calendar. Dutch Ambassador Theo and Kessara Arnold hosted a farewell dinner for Dutch Counsellor Elsa da Costa and her husband Dr. Anibal da...
Here and Abroad
by table TALK by Rosalinda L. Orosa - August 12, 2001 - 12:00am
The reception which Venezuelan Ambassador Milena Santana Ramirez hosted was a reflection of her own sparkling personality, so noted the guests at Inter-Con’s Skytop as they joined the celebration of Bolivia’s...
A Wet and Windy July 4th
by table TALK by Rosalinda L. Orosa - July 22, 2001 - 12:00am
It was wet, windy and cold outside as Typhoon Feria was doing its worst–Signal No. 2 was up in Manila–but inside the US Embassy ballroom and chancery it was warm, literally and figuratively. Charge d’...
Artists & art lovers
by table TALK by Rosalinda L. Orosa - July 16, 2001 - 12:00am
A flurry of cocktail receptions and buffet dinners called to mind the song "June Is Bursting Out All Over". That was because the third "French Spring" "burst out" in June, bringing...
Diplomatic coups
by table TALK by Rosalinda L. Orosa - July 13, 2001 - 12:00am
"Very well-attended by friends," noted a leading Chilean newspaper of the 103rd anniversary celebration of Philippine independence which Ambassador Ma. Consuelo Puyat-Reyes hosted at the Hyatt Regency in...
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