Word: foundered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...soon have the $100,000 proceeds from selling his house back in the town of General Trias. A good many of the Filipinos are medical professionals, drawn by U.S. salaries and by the provision of the 1965 immigration law that gives preference to the highly skilled. Dr. Federico Quevedo, founder of L.A.'s Confederation of Philippine-United States Organizations, is an obstetrician. Ophthalmologist Lani Quevedo, his wife, is the daughter of a doctor and a pharmacist. "The new immigration laws," explains Federico Quevedo, "take connections and credentials and money...
...newer female counterpart group, made up of women from Kirkland and Eliot Houses, was founded to have "a women's club so that we can sit around and drink like men," says Kirsten Shirley '85, a charter member and original founder of LEWD...
Generating controversy is nothing new as Hudlin, whether in his filmmaking or presenting He's been profoundly influenced by one of the leaders of the independent Black film movement in this country, his older brother. Warrington Hudlin The founder of the Black Filmmaker Foundation Warrington Hudlin received national attention when as a senior at Yale, he released "Black at Yale," a documentary about minority life at that university...
...Black Filmmaker Foundation serves as an information clearinghouse and distribution service for independent filmmaker who are Black and making films about Black subjects. It is designed to give then, the break they probably won't get from Hollywood backers. Reginald Hudlin founder and director of his own project here Harvard the Harvard Black Independent Film Series an effort to bring some of these innovate Black filmmakers and their work to Harvard...
DIED. Louise Weiss, 90, author, playwright, film maker and galvanizing feminist who in recent years, as the oldest member of the European Parliament, pressed her vision of a revivified Continental consciousness; in Paris. Founder and editor of her own influential magazine, L 'Europe Nouvelle, from 1918 to 1934, she left to campaign for female suffrage, once chaining herself with friends across the Rue Royale to block traffic. In 1936 Weiss was offered a Cabinet post if she would desist; she refused. French women finally got the vote...