Contemporary Guam Era

Laura T. Souder

In the late 1950s a very young Laura Souder spent Saturdays with her father, Paul, at the Guam Museum at its Garden House location in

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Governor Joseph Ada and Lieutenant Governor Frank Blas Jr. served the island of Guam from 1987 through 1994. Ada stewarded Guam’s economic expansion and pushed, successfully, for return of land held by the US military.
Civic Society

Lt. Governor Frank F. Blas

Lt. Governor of Guam 1987-1995. Frank Flores Blas, Sr. (1941-2016) was a Chamorro politician, businessman and member of the Republican Party of Guam. Blas served

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Civic Society

Herminia Duenas Dierking

First Chamorro Woman to Preside over Association of Pacific Island Legislatures. Herminia Duenas Dierking (1939 – 2008) was a senator in the Guam Legislature, a

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Art, Architecture, Body Adornment, Music and Food

Carmen Romualdez Dela Cruz

First Woman to Establish a Music and Arts School on Guam. Carmen “Meling” Romualdez Dela Cruz (1910-1995), a life long musician, is the first woman

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Pascual Artero y Saez. Joseph Cameron collection.
Business Pioneers: Economics

Pascual Artero y Saez

Businessman, rancher, patriarch. Don Pascual Artero y Saez (1875 – 1956) was a prominent Spanish businessman, rancher and patriarch of the Artero family in Guam.

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