H I S T O R Y
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History traced back on how a gentleman visiting from Chicago attended the “Hello Phoenix” cultural show sponsored annually by the City of Phoenix. The Filipino Club of Arizona (FCA) and the Philippine Senior Center jointly participated in this event as a fund raiser for the Philippine Community Center. The gentleman will be known as our Club’s Guiding Lion and PDG of 21-C, Lion Harold Guerevitz. Lion Harold He met with Dr. Bienvenido Simuangco at the food fair and after several meetings, started the ground work to form a Filipino-American Lions Club. It was then in 1985 that the club was chartered and become known as the Phoenix Phil-Am Lions Club.
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