Lexi Zotomayor
She lived on Saipan, in the Northern Marianas Islands for 11 years as a full-time print journalist, PR specialist, magazine manager and advertising agency's production coordinator. She was active with Stellar Marianas, a non-profit organization that has been empowering young women in the Marianas. In 2014, she was chair of the media relations committee of the 70th Anniversary of the Battles of Saipan/Tinian. For her support of environmental causes, including the campaign for the designation of a vast swath of submerged lands and water in the Marianas as a national marine monument, she was Pew/Ocean Legacy Engaged Citizen Awardee in 2008. She has a BA degree in Asian Studies and was close to completing her MA in Asian Studies when she relocated to Saipan in 2004. She was a recipient of a scholarship grant from the Jose Rizal-Sun Yat Sen Society in 1994.
Tinian, Seabees, and the bombs
that ended WWII
In 2008, I had the privilege to accompany WWII veteran Hap Halloran and Jerry Facey to Tinian for a day...
Hornbostels in Manila, 1942-1945
It was like a bad dream. That was how former Guam resident Gertrude "Trudis Aleman" Constenoble Hornbostel described their experience...
'Big Americano who
has hair like our Virgin'
This photograph of Hans Hornbostel on the Japanese schooner Mariana Maru appeared in the Philippine Magazine in May 1936. (Philippine...
The first operational
airbase in Micronesia
The Francisco C. Ada/Saipan International Airport sits on two historic airfields: Isely Field (formerly named Conroy Field) and Aslito Airfield....
Northern Marianas under
Japanese rule, 1914-1944
With Germany's defeat in WWI, Japan took over all of its colonial possessions in the Western Pacific. On October 14,...
Germany's pro-local
colonial policies, 1899-1914
IN contrast to the oppressive rule of other colonial masters in the region, the Germans took on a different approach...
Hans Hornbostel hid
notes, maps in skulls
[Anthropologist and U.S. Army and Marine veteran Hans Hornbostel had been working for the Bernice P. Bishop Museum in Honolulu...
How Rota's geography helped
preserve Chamorro culture
Cut off from economic and political developments on Guam and Saipan at the time of the islands partition into American...
Hans Hornbostel discovers
Rota's quarry
Scholar and war veteran Hans Hornbostel had not stopped thinking about locating the ancient fort the locals called trinchera taotaomona...
A Chamorro pugilist
with a Cockney accent
A veteran of the Spanish-American War and WWI, and a scholar, Hans Hornbostel, in the early 1920s, was tasked to...