Under the morning’s slow glow, Gloria Ragasa crossed through the heart of San Joaquin Delta College, following winding footpaths in search of the campus’s forum plaza.
Ragasa, accompanied by her husband, Eugenio, arrived just minutes before the start of last weekend’s portrait dedication – a ceremony honoring activist and Filipina American historian Dawn Bohulano Mabalon, who died in 2018 just before her 46th birthday.
Ragasa first knew Mabalon as her mathematics student at Edison High…