University of San Francisco-Yuchengco
Philippine Studies Program Book Launch

November 16,2004
5:45-7 p.m.
USF Lone Mountain Campus, Room 100
2800 Turk Blvd. at Parker
San Francisco, California

THE UNIVERSITY of San Francisco-Yuchengco Philippine Studies Program and the USF Center for the Pacific Rim will hold a book launch and book signing for "...SO HELP US GOD: The Presidents of the Philippines and Their Inaugural Addresses" (Anvil Publishing, Inc., 2004) on Nov. 16, featuring co-author J. Eduardo Malaya of the Philippine Consul in San Francisco.

"Illuminating, instructive, and brilliant in conception, this book of Ed and Jonathan Malaya should be read by every concerned Filipino and every student of our turbulent and glorious history," says statesman and former President of the Philippine Senate Jovito R. Salonga.

Malaya, who has the rank of Career Minister in the Philippine Foreign Service, worked for four years in the Office of the Philippine President. He assisted in drafting foreign policy statements and papers for President Fidel Ramos from 1995 to 1998 as deputy to the presidential adviser for foreign affairs, and briefly assisted the succeeding president, Joseph Estrada. Malaya was previously assigned in New York, Brussels and Chicago. He holds a law degree and a BA in economics from the University of the Philippines.

Patrick Lloyd Hatcher, a Kiriyama Distinguished Fellow at the Center for the Pacific Rim and author of "Suicide of an Elite: American Internationalists and Vietnam," will moderate the program.

The program is free and open to the public. Reservations recommended. Please call the USF Center for the Pacific
Rim at +415 4226357.

The co-sponsors of the event are the Philippine Consulate General in San Francisco, FILIPINAS Magazine, the Filipino-American Center of the San Francisco Public Library, and the Fromm Institute for Lifelong Learning.