2023 PHCS Officers
Susan B. Stirewalt, President email: ladodgergirl3@yahoo.com
Terri White, Vice President email: tiwhite62@sbcglobal.net
Guilhermina Sequeira, Secretary (916) 456-4222
Ralph R. Nevis, Jr., Treasurer (916) 421-7161 email: rrnjr@sbcglobal.net
2023 PHCS Directors
Lynette Bell
Flavia Andrade Carbone
Jeremiah Duarte Bills
Joseph Ferreira
Kristine B. Lochridge
Mary Ann Marshall editor, O Progresso,
email: cakemom102@aol.com
Bob Simas
Monica Souza
Marilia Coquim Wiget
Advisory
Aileen Alves Gage
Dolores Silva Greenslate
Olivia Lage
Larry Valim
2015 Board Installation Dinner
O Progresso Editor: Mary Ann Marshall Phone: 530-662-8246 Email: cakemom102@aol.com
The original committee members were organized from those who indicated a specific interest in the project and who had familial ties to the area. These charter members included:
Joe D’Alessandro (president), Lorraine Perry D’Alessandro (Joe’s mother), Evelyn Nordeste (Lorraine’s sister), together with Tony Dutra, Dolores Silva Greenslate, Lionel Rocha Holmes, Clarence Nevis (all descendants of Pocket pioneer families), Aileen Alves Gage (a Placer County area Portuguese descendant), Clarence Machado (Portuguese settlers of the downtown Sacramento area), Grace Rose (a descendant of Portuguese who settled in Clarksburg. Yolo County), and Gregg Campbell (a professor at CSU-Sacramento who had collaborated with Mr. D’Alessandro on a documentary film about the Portuguese-Japanese connection in the Pocket).
Members in Action
New Lisbon School honoree, Mary Silva Dutra,
a student at both Upper and Lower Lisbon schools.
Portuguese Community Medal of Merit presented to Aileen Alves Gage, 9/12/97 by Portuguese Consul Carvalho de Fairo for outstanding service to the Portuguese community.
Portuguese Community Medal of Merit presented to Lionel Rocha Holmes, 7/12/97 by Portuguese Consul General Dr. Jose Ferreira da Fonseca for outstanding service to the Portuguese community.
PHCS 20th anniversary, 1999. Planting Portuguese Laurel at Portuguese Community Park ( L to R ) Councilman, Robbie Waters
Former PHCS president, Herb Perry
Founding PHCS president, Joe D’Alessandro
Former PHCS president, Lionel Holmes
PHCS 20th anniversary, 1999.
Time capsule designer, Norman Greenslate
Annual PHCS Bean & Linguica dinner
Cooks, Dolores Greenslate and Gui Sequeira
Dia de Portugal, 2000 , Turlock, CA
PHCS president Marilia Wiget
Visiting Mayor Claúdio Lopes, Lajes do Pico, Azores
SPHSS Festa/Parade, 2001
PHCS secretary, Gui Sequeira
” Distribution of sweet bread to elderly and children “