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ALC Executive Board
2010 - 2012
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Yosiana Weiss
President
Yosie has been a member of ALC since 7 years. She is our current Webmaster and has served as ALC Vice President–Membership from 2006-08. She has also organized various activities for ALC and donated one of her paintings as one of the Grand Prizes at the 2008 ALC Christmas Party.
She enjoys being a member of ALC, which gave her a chance to practice her computer skills and be acquainted and make friends with Asian ladies living in Switzerland. She is grateful for all that ALC had given to her and looks forward to make a more effective contribution to the role of ALC President and promote more interaction among the members. She feels that her past Board experience and position as VP in ALC, varied interests and energy will be a positive contribution to the ALC Board 2010-2012.
Yosie was born and grew up in Makassar, South Sulawesi, Indonesia. She first moved to Switzerland in 2001 and has lived here since. She’s married to her German husband, Thomas, and they have 3 boys.
After earning a degree in Commerce-Computer Science from Bandung, West Java, she worked at an Indonesian 5-Star Hotel. Her hobbies are painting and drawing, which she learned at a painting school for many years. She also likes skiing, gardening, cooking and singing. As a child, the Indonesian TV had granted her prizes, both in drawing/painting and singing contests.
In her free time, Yosie participates in community service, among others, the “Kochtag” for the “Kindergarten” of her village. She is also a member of the Women’s Sports Club in her village and “Hosanna”, an Indonesian mixed choir.
As a token of thanks to ALC and the wish for our club’s continuity, she would like to contribute her time and efforts and serve the club as its President. She is convinced that, together with the other ALC Board, she could uphold and continue the work that had been done by the ALC Executive Board of the past 21 years, especially ALC’s aim of friendship, culture understanding and members’ joy.
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Bong Caragay - Kunz
Vice President Membership
Bong Kunz hails from Quezon City, Philippines and is a graduate of the University of the Philippines (Diliman) with a B.S. Clothing Technology degree. She worked in the fashion industry for almost 15 years with different multinational companies and ‘retired’ in 1996 to start a family.
In June 2000, after living in Singapore for 6 years, together with her Swiss husband and their 2 sons, she moved to Zurich to set up their roots. In 2001, they welcomed their only daughter to complete their family.
Bong enjoys playing tennis, is a fan of Roger Federer, likes to travel, loves eating Asian foods and meeting up with old and new friends but her family remains her top priority.
Shortly after joining ALC in April 2010, she accepted a nomination to the position of VP Membership and was duly elected to the Board in May 2010. This is a 2-year term which will end in May 2012 when the new Board takes over the helm of ALC.
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Edna Calumaya Brogle
(job-sharing with Pamela Gotangco-Hupp)
Vice President Event & Activities
Edna agreed to run for VP- Events & Activities to support ALC; that is, to complete the quorum of 3 board members with voting rights, without which, ALC would not be able to exist.
Edna is originally from Manila, Philippines. Having been a member since the founding of the Asian Ladies Club, Edna considers it a great honor and her pleasure to be able to return and be an active member again.
During her active years in ALC, she assisted in organizing and preparing some of its events.
She attended the Philippine Women's University and the Karilagan Finishing School in Manila. She came to Zurich and enrolled at the Dolmetscherschule and resided in this fair city for four years, after which she moved to the U.S, and did further studies in Political Science at the Laramie College in Cheyenne, Wyoming. She then came back to Zurich, got married, raised two lovely children, and Zurich has been her home for the past 35 years.
Her favorite hobbies include travelling, reading, cooking. She enjoys participating in sports, particularly cross-country snow hiking, biking and walking. These activities have furthered her interest in meeting other people, learning about them and their cultures, and interacting constructively with them. Now that her two young ones are fully grown, she feels that she has more energy to spend and that her past experience will be a positive contribution to the ALC Board 2010-2012.
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Pamela Gotangco-Hupp
(job-sharing with Edna Brogle)
Vice President Event & Activities
Pamela Gotangco-Hupp was born in the Philippines and moved to Switzerland in August of 2009, after living in major cities like New York, Manila, Hong Kong and Abu Dhabi.
She grew up in a rural area in the northern Philippines and treasures her earliest memories of playing in the rice fields, climbing trees and chasing dragonflies in the meadows, before moving to the capital city of Manila as a student and obtaining a Bachelor of Arts in Communications degree from Maryknoll College.
Pamela will bring to the club her experience gained in her careers in four very different industries, including cabin service management in commercial aviation, IT security and networks, lifestyle publishing and event management.
Pamela lives in Horgen with her husband, her 19 year-old daughter and 11 year old son. She has a very positive outlook on life, an outgoing personality and a creative mind. In her new Swiss surroundings, She has reinvented herself as an aspiring artist and enjoys painting using vibrant colors, fun and whimsical abstraction that focuses on the manifestation of beauty as the subject of her art.
Pamela is an avid scuba diver and recent skier and has taken up surfing and kiteboarding, hoping to share more outdoor activities with other members. She joined the ALC in July of 2010, and by her own testimony, becoming a member of the club made her Swiss experience even more beautiful than it already was.
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Chan Tra Wehrli
Secretary
Chan Tra agreed to run for ALC secretary upon request of several members although she joined the club only 4 years ago. Through ALC, she got to meet and know very interesting persons. The application for a board position is a thank you to the club for good past experiences and future wonderful moments to come. Her hope is to wake up the club and that in two years time candidates for the new board will pop up like mushrooms.
From Chinese origin, Chan Tra grew up in France where she achieved a marketing diploma in telecommunication field. Then she work as competitive intelligence analyst on business market for France Telecom for 2 years. Afterwards she moved to AT&T EMEA as International Service Manager covering some Europe and Africa countries. She got married with a Swiss citizen in 2000 and moved to Switzerland the same year with her job within AT&T. On 2006, she start as account manager (80% job) for a Swiss IT resellers for who she manages firms in French speaking part of Switzerland as primary commercial contact.
Mother of 3 young kids (7, 5 and 2 years old), she has decreased her job to 40% in 2009. Her hobbies are cooking, reading, gardening and traveling. On a local social level, she is part of the « Damen Turnen Verein » of her community, gives a hand to help “ Bonstetten-Wettswil Kleider Börse » or Kindegarten « Z’nüni Action » where parents provide in turns healthy Z’nüni for the kids.
She likes giving her time and feel people enjoy themselves being together.
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Aurorita Hunziker
Treasurer
Aurorita is the ALC Treasurer. She is also in-charge of its Project Development. She is one of the ALC Founding Members as its first Secretary and established its first newsletter as its Editor. She had been a faithful ALC member and supporter through the years and has served as its Adviser & Promoter, Advertising Solicitor, columnist & “Filler Editor”. During ALC’s membership to WCI – Welcome Clubs International, ALC’s umbrella club, she served as ALC’s International Liaison. She also prepared, in cooperation with Susan Narita Law, the last ALC Bylaws revision of 2004.
Aurorita is now a full-time “club worker”, active in various non-profit organizations, whose focus is either on helping women to connect and grow personally and professionally or to promote international friendship, expanding viewpoints by bridging cultures or both. Being active in these clubs and organizations, allowed her to meet interesting, brilliant, friendly and kind-hearted women and to learn from their expertise, qualities and culture and most important of all, the opportunity of gaining life-long friends.
She supports charities launched by her clubs, friends and church, either administratively or hands-on. She ran the Food Court for the latest International Community and Parenting Fair. She had worked for various voluntary organizations as events manager and/or council member. For WCI- Welcome Clubs International, up until ALC resigned its membership, she served 4 years on its Executive Board, first as Director Public Relations and then Director Project Development & Maintenance. Observers had called WCI members as “citizen diplomats”. She tries, in a humble way, through her actions and attitude, to be worthy as such for her country of origin: the Philippines. For ZIWA – Zurich International Women’s Association, the club from which ALC was born, she established its commercial advertising, wrote its Policies, Procedures & Practices booklet, had been Webmaster and chaired various Interest Groups, as well as Past President 2002-04.
Previous jobs were Head of Check Clearing Section of a Manila Bank, Chief Accountant in an export/import company in Vancouver. In Zurich, she moved through several sections in the Finance Department and absorbed various cadre-training courses. She got involved in automatization projects then became Manager of the Revenue Accounting Operational Management, with subordinates inside and outside Switzerland. Her latest responsibility was outsourcing jobs to other countries, with the opportunity of changing/improving systems, office procedures, and encountering different cultures. Many of those whom she formerly trained or worked with, requested to be coached further after changing their jobs. Presently, she is in the process of starting and running a home-based business.
Aurorita met and married her Swiss husband in Vancouver, Canada and they came to Switzerland with the intention of having a small family.
Siblings in far away places, friends and extended family are very important to Aurorita. She parties a lot with friends and travels also a lot for pleasure. The people in her life are her treasure and their thoughtfulness constantly convince her that time devoted to people is never wasted, because ”people forget what you did but they never forget how you made them feel”.
By contributing and sharing her know-how and experience to ALC’s further development, she hopes that her efforts could make ALC members gain more friends, believe and realize how valuable they are and be joyful in their sisterhood.
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Beverly Müller
Special Adviser
Beverly was born as Beverly Mary Bayani in Cebu City, Philippines. She studied in St. Theresa’s College which was run by very strict Belgian nuns and University of San Carlos to round up the academic degrees.
She worked with Filipinas Orient Airways, then with Philippine Airlines until she met and married Werner. In Zürich she worked with an American Tax consultant and later part-timed with an expat real estate agency.
They have 2 grown-up children, Michèle, an Interior Designer and Alex who is still studying Architecture at the ETH Zürich. In different years, she used to be a past President, Vice-President and Secretary of the club back in the last century when it was still known as Asian Ladies Club.
she also served on the board of the Zürich Intl. Women’s Association (ZIWA) for 2 years as Director for Monthly Meetings.
She has a motto which has kept her sane all these years: Love what you are doing even if it’s so boring, it’s the ATTITUDE that counts.
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