TRAVELS (and more) WITH CECILIA BRAINARD: Lunch with Maryknoll College friends, Tina Hieter and Lucy McGinley

Monday, March 25, 2013

Lunch with Maryknoll College friends, Tina Hieter and Lucy McGinley

Lunch with Maryknoll College friends

Andy and Tina Heiter (nee Tina Borja), and Patrick and Lucy McGinley (nee Lucy Adao) had brunch in our Santa Monica home today. Tina, Lucy, and I attended Maryknoll College in Quezon City.

Tina and Andy are "Snow Birds" leaving their home in Switzerland in the winter to enjoy the warm weather in their Palm Dessert home. Tina, by the way, is an accomplished artist who exhibits regularly in Zurich.

Here is her website:

http://theheitergallery.webs.com/exhibits

Here are other links about Tina's work:

http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/276604/pinoyabroad/pinoyachievers/pinay-artist-tina-heiter-holds-art-exhibit-in-z-uuml-rich

http://www.morobloggers.com/category/tina-heiter/

Here are pictures of the group:

Photos:
Top, seated l-r: Patrick McGinley, Lauren Brainard; standing, l-r: Tina Reiter, Andy Heiter, Lucy McGinley
Next: Standing l-r: Cecilia Brainard, Tina Heiter, Lucy McGinley; seated - it's still Patrick and Lauren
Next: Standing l-r: Cecilia Brainard, Tina Heiter, Lucy McGinley
Well, by now you know who's who...
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tags: friends, Maryknoll College, Tina Heiter, Cecilia Brainard

Cecilia Manguerra Brainard

Cecilia Manguerra Brainard's official website is ceciliabrainarddotcom. She is the award-winning author and editor of 22 books, including When the Rainbow Goddess Wept, The Newspaper Widow, Magdalena, Selected Stories, Vigan and Other Stories, and more. She edited Growing Up Filipino 1, 2, & 3, Fiction by Filipinos in America, Contemporary Fiction by Filipinos in America, and other books.. Her work has been translated into Finnish and Turkish; and many of her stories and articles have been widely anthologized. Cecilia has received many awards, including a California Arts Council Fellowship in Fiction, a Brody Arts Fund Award, a Special Recognition Award for her work dealing with Asian American youths, as well as a Certificate of Recognition from the California State Senate, 21st District, and the Outstanding Individual Award from her birth city, Cebu, Philippines. She has lectured and performed at UCLA, USC, University of Connecticut, University of the Philippines, PEN, Shakespeare & Company in Paris, and many others. She has served in the Board of literary arts groups such as PEN, PAWWA (Pacific Asian American Writers West), among others.