[Congressional Record Volume 153, Number 117 (Friday, July 20, 2007)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E1583-E1584]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                  RECOGNIZING ANTONIO MANIBUSAN PALOMO

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                       HON. MADELEINE Z. BORDALLO

                                of guam

                    in the house of representatives

                        Thursday, July 19, 2007

  Ms. BORDALLO. Madam Speaker, I rise today to recognize Mr. Antonio 
Manibusan Palomo for a lifetime of service to our community, and for 
his efforts to preserve Guam's history and culture. Mr. Palomo, a 
prolific writer and long-time reporter for Guam media, and a former 
Guam lawmaker, recently retired as the administrator of the Guam Museum 
on June 13, 2007.
  Tony was born in 1931 in Hagatna, the eldest of the nine children of 
the late Vicente Gogo Palomo and Dolores Lydia Mendiola Manibusan. He 
attended Guam's prewar Padre Palomo and Agana Elementary Schools and 
graduated from George Washington High School. He also attended Belmont 
Abby Preparatory School in Belmont, North Carolina, and Marquette 
University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, graduating from Marquette's College 
of Journalism in 1954. He worked full-time as a copy boy for the 
Milwaukee Sentinel while in school. Upon his return to Guam, Tony 
applied his skills as a proofreader, a general assignment reporter, a 
sports editor, and an assistant managing editor for the Guam Daily 
News, forerunner of the Pacific Daily News. He also served as a 
correspondent for the Associated Press and as a stringer for the 
Pacific Stars and Stripes.
  During his long career as a journalist, Tony served as editor of the 
Pacific Journal, a daily newspaper; as publisher-editor of Pacific 
Profile, a monthly magazine; and editor of the Pacifican, a weekly 
newspaper.
  He then served as a special assistant to Guam's first elected 
Governor, Carlos G. Camacho, and as administrative director and records 
manager for the Eighth Guam Legislature before being elected to the 
legislature himself. Tony served in the 12th, 14th, and 15th Guam 
Legislatures. As a lawmaker, Tony chaired the legislature's Committee 
on Rules and the Committee on Territorial and Federal Affairs, which 
spearheaded the movement for a change in Guam's political status. He 
served as president of Guam's first Constitutional Convention in 1969 
and was a member of Guam's first Commission on Self-Determination. He 
served briefly as general manager of the Guam Tourist Commission, 
predecessor of

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the Guam Visitors Bureau, and as Guam's delegate to the South Pacific 
Conference in Noumea, New Caledonia, in 1969, and as adviser to the 
U.S. delegation to the South Pacific Commission.
  In 1982, Tony served as special assistant to the assistant secretary 
of the U.S. Department of Interior. He later served as desk officer for 
American Samoa and the U.S. Virgin Islands and as DOl's field 
representative in Guam from 1986 until 1994. He also served as acting 
assistant secretary of the Interior for Territorial and International 
Affairs.
  He served as chairman of Guam's Political Status Education 
Coordinating Commission, which produced and published the ``Haleta'' 
(``roots'') series of history textbooks for Guam's public schools. He 
is a member of the Chamorro Historic Society, the Guam Humanities 
Council, the Chamorro Heritage Institute Planning Group, the Manenggon 
Memorial Foundation, the Fena Memorial Committee, the Guam Preservation 
Trust, the Council on Cultural Tourism, and GVB's subcommittee on 
Community Development, and is the corporate secretary of the Latte of 
Freedom Foundation.
  Tony still makes time to teach History of Guam courses at the 
University of Guam and the Guam Community College today. He continues 
his long membership in the Knights of Columbus, having served as grand 
knight, deputy grand knight, recorder, and trustee; as well as in the 
Young Men's League of Guam, for which he as held the positions of 
director, historian, and chairman of the Council of Elders. He is a 
past member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the 
Rotary Club of Tumon, and served on the governor's Vision 2001 and 
Vision 2005 committees on Family Values and Education and Culture.
  Mr. Antonio Manibusan Palomo's many contributions to the history, 
language and culture of Guam are significant, and today we commend him 
for his lifetime of service to our community.

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