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NY's 'brightest, most committed' Fil-Ams honored Nov 1st 2013, 00:47 NEW YORK—In a fitting culmination to Filipino American Heritage Month, this year's The Outstanding Filipino Americans in New York (TOFA-NY) gala was a night of re-creating, re-enacting and reconnecting with Filipino roots.   Judge Lorna Schofield of the Southern District of New York, a keynote speaker, recalled memories of her mother, Priscilla Tiongco, who as a young Filipina married a US Air Force pilot after the war and came to the US. Through the blur of fraying photographs and college transcripts, the first Filipino-American federal judge remembered affectionately her mother's distinct qualities.   "She was very strict and had a ferocious temper... Keep on reading: NY's 'brightest, most committed' Fil-Ams honored Media files: 1-class-picture.jpg (image/jpeg)

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