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NAME: JOSE MARIA HORSTMAN OMILA (IN GERMANY - DOUBLE M)
NICKNAME : JOEY, JOPITZ, KUYA JOEY
A Gemini, Joey was born in Cotabato City to Faustino Redulla Omila of Bohol and Lucy Horstmann of Iloilo. A German-American-Pilipino mixture, Joey is number five in a family of ten. Joey received his Bachelor of Fine Arts (major in advertising) Degree from University of Santo Tomas, Manila (Class 1970). Since 1989, Joey is self employed as part owner and Executive Vice-President and General Manager of Passport Travel Management Group, Inc., a wholesale company specializing in travels to Asia. He is also the Manager of the Travel Club a department of Passport Travel, and Publisher of the Travel Club Newsletter, an informative travel newsleter circulate to Filipinos in Florida and beyond. Since the opening of the Bayanihan Arts Center in September 2001, Joey runs the day-to-day management and operation of the Bayanihan Arts Center as its Executive Director. Gifted as an artist since birth. Joey as an artist since birth, Joey once created personalized hand-painted stationaries with matching envelopes and sold them to his classmates in school. With the proceeds of sales, Joey bought gifts, clothes, and toys for the homeless squatters in Manila. Joey was eventually featured in the Philippine publications as "Santa Claus" of the Year. After college, Joey joined different local productions and performed in various local Broadway plays. He then joined the world famous Bayanihan Philippine National Dance Company and, later the Karilagan International and the Fiesta Filipina Fashion and Dance Company of famous designer Aureo Alonzo.
After touring the world several times with different dance and fashion companies, Joey was employed as General Aide de Camp of Baron Arndt Alexander Krupp Von Bohlen und Halback of Germany, a multi-billionaire also knowns as the Steel Baron. After 11 years of loyal and invaluable help to the Baron and his wife HSH Princess Henriette Auersperg of Austria, Joey was promoted to Lord Chamberlain. Knowing that his employer was one of the wealthiest man in the world, Joey introduced the Baron to the world of Philanthropy. Joey arranged the Baron's Philanthropic visists to the slums in the Philippines, helping thousands of needy families and children, including building schools and playgrounds.
Joey introduced the Baron to Catholicism who, in 1983 was baptized by Jaime Cardinal Sin in a private ceremony in Manila. Joey has worked hand-to-hand with Their Majesties, the
King and Queen of Thailand, in helping the Unwanted Children of Thailand, Home of the Aged, Crippled Children and teh Slums of Klongtuey in Bangkok.
In 1984, in a private ceremony at Castle Blunhbach, Austria, one of the many castles of the Krupp family, Joey, together with the Baron, his wife, and the Head Administrator of the office, was bestowed the order of the Holy Cross of Jerusalem by His Holiness Patriarch Mscimus V of the Orthodox Catholic Church. The order was for the philantropic works Joey and his employer had done in helping the needy of the Third World countries. The ceremony was attended by thousands of invited Austrians and Germans of the elite noble families. In 1985, Merito Navali Pour La Merit, an elite organization in Austria similar to the Noble Peace Prize, awarded Joey with its Order for the same Philanthropic work.
After the Baron's death in 1986 due to cancer, Joey settled in Tampa, Florida. In 1987, Joey voluntered for the Pilipino American Association of Tampa (PAAT) to produce, direct and choreograph "Folklorico Filipiniana" the first-ever Philippine cultural show presented at the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center (TBPAC). Since then, Joey has been invited as guest choreographer by difference groups in the US and Canada, such as the Folklorico
Filipino of Toronto, Canada, and the PACAS of Washington, D.C. In 1991, Joey founded the Philippine Performing Arts Company (PPAC), a nonprofit cultural group in Tampa, Florida whose aim is to preserve and cultivate the beautiful cultures and traditions of the Philippines through folk music, songs, dances and the arts.
In 1993, Joey succeeded to getting the City of Tampa to lease a building to PPAC now known as the PPAC Building, for a place to practice dances and to store costumes and props, and in 1997 to eventually donate the property to PPAC.
In 1993, Joey was elected President of the Philippine Cultural Center and Title Holding Corporation whose purpose was to build a Cultural Center and Library for the entire Pilipino-American community. Toward this goal Joey's PPAC presented a benefit cultural show at the TBPAC and donated the $10,000 proceeds to the project, the first $10,000 donation to the project and the inspiration of subsequent donations. So a tax-exempt organization may be created, the Title Holding Corporation, Incorporated, the Philippine Cultural Corporation,Inc. dissolved itself. Since the Foundation's Annual Philippine Festival (PhilFest) was started in 1996. Joey has been incharge of the cultural shows and entertainment, including the Tawag ng Tanghalan contest. Joey is a permanent member of the Foundation's Board of Director, Executive Director of PPAC, a member of PAAT, Ilocano USA, the Pilipino-American Political Aggregation, and the Asian-American Coalition of Florida.
In recognition of his cash donations to the Foundation for its Arts Center and the Enrichment Complex, Joey's name appears on the Stepping Stone of the Arts Center's Donation Tree.
At present, Joey has retired due to health problems but he still continues to help in the PhilFest and other activities in the Bayanihan Arts Center and continues his travel business at home.
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Joey's Ate Joan Omila-Luison
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