Message from the President

Fellow TAMAns, I am deeply honored and humbled to accept the presidency of this great association. With God’s blessings, my wife, Fe and I offer our family’s wholehearted commitment to serve in the next two years. Along with the new officers, we are counting on your support in moving forward to attain our organization’s goals and objectives.

Together, we will further the guidelines embedded in our constitution to promote close solidarity and caring among TAMAns and their families. We have accumulated a wealth of wisdom, bountiful blessings and notable life experiences which we hope to pass as legacy to our new and younger members. We will continue our scholarship and scientific calculator programs to the needy students of our institution. We will also continue to offer technical programs to our members, and utilize job networking opportunities to our fellow engineers. Foremost, we will emphasize rendering of excellent engineering services to the companies and/or constituents we serve. Finally, we will increase our roster of membership as the influx of Mapua alumni increase in greater Houston and neighboring areas.

We are extremely proud and privileged to be the sponsoring organization of the Grand MapúaWorld 2009, an international gathering of Mapúans in March of next year. The goal of this event is to provide an opportunity to build a closer and beneficial relationship among Mapúa Alumni around the world.

To our TAMA friends and to the Houston Filipino-American community we pledge our exemplary involvement as we pool our resources for community services like we all did in the Katrina disaster and many more humanitarian and scholarship projects here and back home. We will stay pro-active to the extent our constitution allows and will promote harmonious relationship with other professional and civic organizations. These will be the thrust of my administration.

Sincerely,
Roberto ‘Bert’ Vicerra, CE '66
TAMA President 2008-2009