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uh huh Commander , Fleet Activities .

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Sasebo Filipino American Association

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recently held the officer induction

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ball . It was a night filled with lots

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of food and music welcoming the new

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phylum officers . We elected our new

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officers and then we induct them into

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office and this is what we , how we do

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it by doing a formal Indacction

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ceremony with more than 20 new officers

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in the Phylum Association . The Phylum

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has high hopes for the future . The

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association is planning many community

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relations projects and fundraisers in

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the coming months . I think they're so

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excited . We have planned this since

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february and uh , we actually had

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our election in december . We start

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planning our first fundraising in

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february so that we could plan for this

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induction ball after the induction ball ,

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The newly founded officers of the

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association will take on a more serious

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role with the outside community and the

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Bass population . They do community

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relations , they support other

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organization is a term of financial

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donation . They donate to scholarship

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programs . They also part of their

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mission is to retain the culture that's

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embedded in the Philippines . Members

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of the fill and we're not the only

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persons present at the ceremony .

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Members of the japanese and american

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communities participated as well . As I

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always say , you know , everyone's

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welcome and we're still encouraging

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people to join our membership Because

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the more , the better Prieto went on to

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say that she hopes to see a bigger

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number of personnel in the phylum .

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Next year . This year the phylum was

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able to double itself in size with the

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amount of people to join in 2008

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Stephen Travis , Mendoza , Sasebo Japan .