| Ernesto "Ernie" B. Manuel Jersey City, New Jersey Dynamic and Outstanding Filipino-American Community Leader |
An active community leader, businessman and incumbent Over-
all Chairman of the Philippine-American Friendship Committee,
Inc. (PAFCOM), Ernesto B. Manuel was the founding president of
Tarlaquenos, USA Foundation, Inc. He has initiated charitable,
educational, cultural and social projects that earned for this
organization a “SIANGTALA” award from the Federation of
Philippine Societies in New Jersey. Most notable of his projects
are: scholarship grant both in the Philippines and the USA; local
achievement award in the elementary and high school levels;
incentive awards to blind students; gift-distribution to patients in
nursing homes; and socio-cultural activities showcasing the
Filipino culture. Benefiting from the projects initiated by Mr.
Manuel are indigent highschool graduates in the Philippines
granted scholarships who have since graduated form college,
including one registered nurse, two college instructors, one
accountant, and two high school and elementary teachers. Other
recipients are still pursuing their respective studies.
Four (4) multi-handicapped students from Jersey City’s St.
Joseph School for the Blind were also recipients of incentive
awards from projects initiated by him. Likewise, he initiated the
giving of financial aid to a blind boy from Tarlac Province in the
all Chairman of the Philippine-American Friendship Committee,
Inc. (PAFCOM), Ernesto B. Manuel was the founding president of
Tarlaquenos, USA Foundation, Inc. He has initiated charitable,
educational, cultural and social projects that earned for this
organization a “SIANGTALA” award from the Federation of
Philippine Societies in New Jersey. Most notable of his projects
are: scholarship grant both in the Philippines and the USA; local
achievement award in the elementary and high school levels;
incentive awards to blind students; gift-distribution to patients in
nursing homes; and socio-cultural activities showcasing the
Filipino culture. Benefiting from the projects initiated by Mr.
Manuel are indigent highschool graduates in the Philippines
granted scholarships who have since graduated form college,
including one registered nurse, two college instructors, one
accountant, and two high school and elementary teachers. Other
recipients are still pursuing their respective studies.
Four (4) multi-handicapped students from Jersey City’s St.
Joseph School for the Blind were also recipients of incentive
awards from projects initiated by him. Likewise, he initiated the
giving of financial aid to a blind boy from Tarlac Province in the
Philippines, who needed an eye operation in the United States.
Despite the demands of his business, Ernie gets seriously involved in community and church activities.
While Jersey City is home to many Filipino-Americans, Ernie has been the only Filipino so far who has served
as Vice President of the t. Joseph Parish Council in Jersey City, where he also serves as a Eucharistic
Minister. He was Chairman of the St. Joseph Parish’s Christian Service Committee for two years. The
committee is responsible for distributing gifts to the poor, sick and elderly on Thanksgiving Day, Christmas
and Easter. Besides being Overall Chairman of the Philippine-American Friendship Day Committee, Inc., and
an Adviser and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Tarlaquenos, USA Foundation, Inc., Mr. Manuel is
Director of the Garden State Filipino-American in New jersey and the United Asian Lions Club of Staten Island
in New York, and Adviser of the Performing Arts, Philippines, Inc. in Jersey City. With assistance from his wife,
Louisiana, who is herself an active community leader, Ernie secured tax-exemptions for both the PAFCOM
and the Tarlaquenos, Foundation, Inc. For his exemplary services, he has been a recipient of special awards
from these two non-profit organizations, among others.
A Bachelor of Laws graduate of the MLQ University in the Philippines, he got his orientation on politics from
the late Senator Jose J. Roy, in his post as Executive Assistant for several years after his graduation from
college. Thereafter, he served as Personnel Officer of the then Emergency Employment Administration (EEA),
and as Sales Supervisor of the Rice and Corn Administration (RCA) before assuming responsibilities for
legal documentation and capital inventory management as Property Officer of the Metropolitan Waterworks
and Sewerage Authority (MWSS) in the Philippines. Ernie has always drawn moral and technical support from
his wife, Louisiana, better known as Baby, who was Vice-President of the National Home Mortgage Finance
Corporation (a Philippine Government home financing institution) before settling in the United States in late
1984 and who is now an Audit Manager in New York City. Joining his wife in the United States in December
1984, Ernie initially got a feel for corporate America by joining the New York Life Insurance Corporation as an
underwriter, and later, the Office of Fiscal Affairs of the St. Michael’s Medical Center in Newark, New Jersey. It
did not take long, however, before Ernie’s entrepreneurial acumen prompted him to set up his own business,
in collaboration with some close relatives and friends. He has been president of the Nightingale Services
(USA), Inc. since its inception in 1989 and has done much in terms of helping fill the void in nursing and
general health service delivery in the United States, particularly in the New York and New Jersey areas. His
association and business dealings with a good number of doctors, nurses and other health professionals
has enabled him, though the organizations he has headed, to sponsor medical missions for three
consecutive years during the annual celebration of Philippine-American Friendship in Jersey City n 1993,
1994, and 1995. Ever a trooper, Ernie expects to pursue further in business, community and church
involvements.
“Ernie Manuel is a good role model and an inspiration to the Filipino community,” declared Dr. Letty de Castro,
a 1994 TOFA awardee and an active national Fil-Am community leader, who spearheaded the nomination of
Mr. Manuel as one of the 1995 TOFA awardees. “Ernie deserves to be initiated to the “Circle of Leaders.”
A proven community leader with superior organizational and management skills, Ernie’s loyalty and love for
his native land, the Philippines and his adopted country, America, is evident in his accomplishments. His
favorite saying is: “My loyalty to my party ends when my loyalty to my country begins.”
A full blooded Tarlaqueno, Ernie is one of six children of Eugenio Manuel and formerly Rufina Bermudez, both
from the Province of Tarlac in the Philippines, home province of martyred Ninoy Aquino, and a good two and a
half hours pleasant drive from Metro Manila. #
Despite the demands of his business, Ernie gets seriously involved in community and church activities.
While Jersey City is home to many Filipino-Americans, Ernie has been the only Filipino so far who has served
as Vice President of the t. Joseph Parish Council in Jersey City, where he also serves as a Eucharistic
Minister. He was Chairman of the St. Joseph Parish’s Christian Service Committee for two years. The
committee is responsible for distributing gifts to the poor, sick and elderly on Thanksgiving Day, Christmas
and Easter. Besides being Overall Chairman of the Philippine-American Friendship Day Committee, Inc., and
an Adviser and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Tarlaquenos, USA Foundation, Inc., Mr. Manuel is
Director of the Garden State Filipino-American in New jersey and the United Asian Lions Club of Staten Island
in New York, and Adviser of the Performing Arts, Philippines, Inc. in Jersey City. With assistance from his wife,
Louisiana, who is herself an active community leader, Ernie secured tax-exemptions for both the PAFCOM
and the Tarlaquenos, Foundation, Inc. For his exemplary services, he has been a recipient of special awards
from these two non-profit organizations, among others.
A Bachelor of Laws graduate of the MLQ University in the Philippines, he got his orientation on politics from
the late Senator Jose J. Roy, in his post as Executive Assistant for several years after his graduation from
college. Thereafter, he served as Personnel Officer of the then Emergency Employment Administration (EEA),
and as Sales Supervisor of the Rice and Corn Administration (RCA) before assuming responsibilities for
legal documentation and capital inventory management as Property Officer of the Metropolitan Waterworks
and Sewerage Authority (MWSS) in the Philippines. Ernie has always drawn moral and technical support from
his wife, Louisiana, better known as Baby, who was Vice-President of the National Home Mortgage Finance
Corporation (a Philippine Government home financing institution) before settling in the United States in late
1984 and who is now an Audit Manager in New York City. Joining his wife in the United States in December
1984, Ernie initially got a feel for corporate America by joining the New York Life Insurance Corporation as an
underwriter, and later, the Office of Fiscal Affairs of the St. Michael’s Medical Center in Newark, New Jersey. It
did not take long, however, before Ernie’s entrepreneurial acumen prompted him to set up his own business,
in collaboration with some close relatives and friends. He has been president of the Nightingale Services
(USA), Inc. since its inception in 1989 and has done much in terms of helping fill the void in nursing and
general health service delivery in the United States, particularly in the New York and New Jersey areas. His
association and business dealings with a good number of doctors, nurses and other health professionals
has enabled him, though the organizations he has headed, to sponsor medical missions for three
consecutive years during the annual celebration of Philippine-American Friendship in Jersey City n 1993,
1994, and 1995. Ever a trooper, Ernie expects to pursue further in business, community and church
involvements.
“Ernie Manuel is a good role model and an inspiration to the Filipino community,” declared Dr. Letty de Castro,
a 1994 TOFA awardee and an active national Fil-Am community leader, who spearheaded the nomination of
Mr. Manuel as one of the 1995 TOFA awardees. “Ernie deserves to be initiated to the “Circle of Leaders.”
A proven community leader with superior organizational and management skills, Ernie’s loyalty and love for
his native land, the Philippines and his adopted country, America, is evident in his accomplishments. His
favorite saying is: “My loyalty to my party ends when my loyalty to my country begins.”
A full blooded Tarlaqueno, Ernie is one of six children of Eugenio Manuel and formerly Rufina Bermudez, both
from the Province of Tarlac in the Philippines, home province of martyred Ninoy Aquino, and a good two and a
half hours pleasant drive from Metro Manila. #
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