He was asked to pose on a makeshift stage in front of their small handicraft shop in Baguio City, as tourists passed by and snapped pictures of him.

He finished BS Architecture on June 1969 at St. Louis University, Baguio City.

In 1971, he migrated to the United States on the behest of his parents. He is now married to Lilia and blessed with three children: Jade III, Zahn & Zerina. They reside on Mercer Island, Washington.

He worked for various engineering firms in San Francisco, California, Seattle, Washington and Anchorage, Alaska as a designer and finally the developmental graphic designer of the North End Development Project for the Third Runway Project at SeaTac International Airport, Washington, until the Twin Towers were bombed on September 11, 2001.

On February 14, 2003 he was laid off for two years. While displaced, he found a transitional job as a Security Officer at the US Coast Guard in Seattle, Washington which he currently holds to this day.

Dale recalls the highlights of a difficult yet fulfilling career:

I first came to the USA as part of the Bayanihan Dancers on tour in 1964.

After the tour, I went home to the Philippines. But my parents (in particular my mom) wanted me to try living in the States even for just a few years.
Like a dutiful son, I dropped everything and flew back to America in 1971. A year later, Marcos declared martial law in the land of my birth.

I think it was a bad time when I arrived in the US. Boeing lost its bid for the Supersonic Concord Jet, and Seattle was still a ghost town. I was unemployed for a whole year, so I decided to go to San Francisco.

In SF I got married to the woman who was my sweetheart of eight years. In my 35 years in America, I was unemployed for about 14 years cumulatively.

When I was in SF, an old friend, Ms. Willie Santa Maria, hooked up with me because she needed help for her Harana Philippine Dance Company which was going nowhere. I helped train her dancers and choreographed her show.

After three months, her bookings picked up, KRON TV scheduled a shoot for a Christmas and a festival scene and she was invited to play backup for the ReyCard Duet Show.

Then I moved to Seattle in 1978. I met Mila Paz a beauty queen who wanted to form her own dance company. We formed one and called it the Kaisahan Philippine Dance Company. I designed all the costumes and props, despite not having colored stage lights.

We performed the first full two-hour shows on stage in the State of Washington, and soon became the model dance company.

On February 1, 2003, the Bayanihan USA Alumni President Ms Jojie De Leon invited me to create an artwork of a Filipino costume for exhibition in a show called “An Evening with Bayanihan USA” at La Mirada, California.

With a few antique collections, a shoestring budget and a computer with very limited memory, I began my art documentary work “Hands of the Philippines.” It was about Philippine master artisans, in which I painstakingly documented and transformed their actual craftwork into intricately detailed prints and colors.

I scavenged and recycled printouts from office dumps as my work sheets. Between frustrating computer crashes, I was able to create 10 prints which took me about 2,000 grueling hours of sleepless nights, a few light meals, a nap on my chair and little or no communication with my family or the outside world in order to make it to the launching date, September 20, 2003.

On June 4, 2005, I launched Tribes of the Philippines, a dance and music documentary at the Tacoma Community College.

DEL A. Bermudez II was born on November 11, 1942, In Echague, Isabela.