February 1, 2020

My dear friends,

Welcome. On behalf of my committee, I have great pleasure in releasing the new website of our Mangalorean Catholic Association of Washington DC, Maryland and Virginia. As you can witness by browsing through the new website, this has been possible due to the hard work of our innovative webmaster and committee member Reynel Castellino, who has once again produced a masterpiece to remember.

I cannot believe we have already completed one year with huge success. Overall, I think we had a great year of 2019, that stated with a nice outdoor ‘Telematch’ Picnic in June, followed by Monthi Fest combined with the Musical Extravaganza event in September where you have witnessed the superb performance of four Mangalorean musicians from India, Middle East and Canada on the stage, that was a feast for the eyes to watch. Later in October, we tried to experiment running the Halloween Fashion Show event to feel the pulse of the people and were successful. Finally, to top it all, in December, we delivered successfully the grand celebration of 30^th (Pearl) Anniversary of our Association combined with the Christmas event. Our long-sought objective of bringing all the past Presidents of the Association together for the first time in history of the Association was fulfilled at this event.

As much as myself and my committee members and families have enjoyed these events, I believe you have too and are looking forward for similar great things to happen in the New Year 2020. As a matter of fact, our committee is already planning for some very special events for your families this year as I am writing this message.

Lastly, we all know that in community organizations such as ours, people come and people go, but what makes us to remember people is when they do some great deeds and leave a legacy behind by bringing a positive change in our community lives. My committee and myself promise to make that change so that you not only remember and appreciate what we have done for the community during our span of time, but also get motivated to come forward to take up the challenge to lead the association in the future. I want to thank you all for your support, cooperation and participation in all the regular, special and experimental events that we carried out in the year 2019 to make those events highly successful and memorable.

Once again, on behalf of the Mangalorean Catholic Association Committee, it is my pleasure to wish your families a Very Happy and Prosperous New Year 2020.

Be happy, make others happy ..!!

V James Dante

President