PALCUS Announces the National 2013 Leadership Award Recipients
Saturday, July 27, 2013 at 5:15PMWe are delighted to announce 2013 awardees for the 17th Annual PALCUS Leadership Awards:
* Founder's Award - Joe da Rosa, PALCUS Founding Member
* Artistic Achievement - João de Brito, Painter and Sculptor
* Business/Entrepreneurship - Cidalia Luis Akbar & Natalia Luis, M. Luis Construction Co.
* Community Service - John C. Pinheiro, Azorean Heritage Maritime Society, Inc.
* Corporate Community Service - TAP Portugal Airlines
* Young Portuguese-American "Promesa" - Nathalie Pires Cardoso, Fadista
* Special Community Recognition - Cabrillo Festival Committee of San Diego
Join us at the Gala to congratulate the 2013 awardees who have contributed so much to our community!
Past awardees have included, among many others:
John G. Rebelo, PALCUS Founder & Council of 100
Mary Alice Rosa Gonsalves, PALCUS Founder & Vice Chair, Balboa Travel
Albert S. Dutra, President, Portuguese Heritage Society of California
Ana Moura, Portuguese Fadista
Meredith Vieira, The Today Show & Who Wants to be a Millionaire
Mel Ramos, Artist / Retired Professor from Cal State Hayward
LALS/LAEF/LAFF/PCU, National Portuguese Fraternal Organization
Dr. Elmano Costa, Professor of Portuguese, California State University, Stanislaus
Dr. Nathan Oliveira, Artist Professor of Meritus at Stanford University California
Portuguese-American Citizen Project
Nelly Furtado, Canadian Singer
Ticha Penicheiro, Basketball player for Sacramento Monarch
Carlos Cesar, Presidente of the Acores
Dra. Berta Cabral, International Leadership Award
Frank X. Gaspar, Literature Leadership Ward
M. Teresa paiva-Weed, Public Service Leadership Award
Katherine Vaz, Literature Leadership Ward
Joaquim Almeida - Actor, Artistic Achievement Award
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