Volume 35 Issue 4
April 2015
OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE ALPHA PHI OMEGA GREATER LOS ANGELES
THE APO-GLA 2015 WORKSHOP-SYMPOSIUM Our Association‌ Our Responsibility Close to 35 years ago, in 1980, a group of brothers got together and decided to put up an Alumni Association, the first of its kind outside of the Philippines. Little did they know that what they had initiated would snowball into a movement all across the United States and Canada. Some 10 years later, brethren from the East Coast, Northern and Southern California met and created the Alpha Phi Omega (Philippines) Alumni Council of North America, or simply ACNA. To date, there are twenty six (26) Alumni Associations in US and Canada with 2 new probationary members, the APO-GLAA (Great Lakes Alumni Association) and the APO-FYI (FresnoYosemite International). The reason this is being mentioned is that over the years, the various Associations in North America have grown and prospered through the efforts of their respective leaders. Each
Association has their own unique way of running things. APO-GLA, for its part, continues to find ways and means to expand its reaches within the community and to propagate our mission and vision through our cardinal principles of Leadership, Friendship and Service. To this end, the 2015 Board of Directors, through the leadership of the Chairman of the Board, Bro. Roehl Reyes, voted to hold a Workshop-Symposium as an educational platform for its officers and members on a variety of subject matters considered essential in the growth and maturity of our Association. The Workshop-Symposium will be held on April 25-26, 2015 at the Days Inn in Glendale and hopes to achieve significant results in providing the attendees a good working knowledge into the workings of the Association. This will be a good training ground for both current and future [See Sympsium,on pg 4]