Congratulations to the Philippine Nurses Association of Illinois (PNAI), which recently celebrated its 56th Anniversary. This event was the cover story for the April, 2013 issue of VIA Times Newsmagazine. In fact if you click on the appropriate link on this blog's home page you will immediately see the attractive cover of this issue with the pictures of the newly elected officers of PNAI. Check it out.
PNAI began back in 1957. I had thought that the arrival of Filipino nurses in this country started later. As I learned from Home Bound, a book about Filipino immigration, Filipino medical professionals began arriving after 1986. Indeed that was the year in which the U.S. made it easier for Filipinos, particularly doctors and nurses, to immigrate to address the shortage of the home-grown variety of such professionals. That means that the members of PNAI back in 1957 probably had to be doubly good and/or doubly determined to immigrate to this country.
Here's wishing the PNAIs a Happy 56th! Yay!
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