Golf Tournament Set

Class 1978 Hosts 2003 Annual Homecoming

Bar 8 0

Bowling Tournament Winners

Homecoming Update

Loida T. Hilario, Ph. D.

PCS HS Starts PAASCU Accreditation

PCSAA General Assembly Elects New Board

Fr. Godo Street Signature Campaign

Ex-CICM Priests Form New Congregation

Class 1981 Elects New Officers

Garcia [1968] Wins Fr. Godo Cup 2002, Msgr. Cirilos is Class “B” 2nd Runner-up

Justo Cascante, PCSAA Founding President Dies at 72

Medical Mission 2001

Alumni.NET Web Site for PCSAA
Class Reunions

Reunions

Memorabilia

The Second Fr. Godofredo Aldenhuijsen Open Golf Tournament  will be held on March 15, 2003 at the Club Intramuros Golf Course, Manila.   Tee off time is at 6:00 a. m.  This tournament is open to all golf enthusiasts, alumni and non-alumni, male or female.  For details, please contact the PCS Alumni Center at 563-2574 or 338-7084.  You can also send e-mail to paconian@edsamail.com.ph. (December 2002)

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Class 1978 Hosts 2003 Annual Homecoming
Class 1978 will host the grand alumni homecoming on 6 December  2002.  Details will be announced later via this web site, newspapers and radio and TV networks. (December 2002)

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Bar 8 0

Class 1980 opens new bar at 610 Julio Nakpil Street in Malate, Manila.  It is known as Bar 8 0 (pronounced as eight—zero).  (December 2002)

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Bowling Tournament Winners

The PCSAA hosted its first ever bowling friendship games last 12 October 2002 at the Bowling Inn in Taft Avenue, Manila. The overall winners are the members of Class 1978.  Class 1981 took the first place followed by Class 1982 and Class 1986.  A total of 7 teams participated that included a delegation from the grade school faculty led by their principal, Mr. Juanito H. de Vivar. ( December 2002)

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Homecoming Update

The annual grand alumni homecoming was held last December 2002.  The hosts were the silver jubilarian Class 1977.  The occasion was graced by the School Director, Msgr. Domingo A. Cirilos, Jr., former faculty members and administrators.  A total of 520 graduates from 1938 to 2002 attended one of the most colorful reunions of recent years.  
(December 2002)

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Loida T. Hilario, Ph. D.

Ms. Loida Hilario [left, inset] became the School’s first Doctor of Philosophy after successfully defending her dissertation entitled An Assessment of Early Childhood Education Curriculum of MAPSA Area A Schools: A Basis for Planning A Developmentally Appropriate Curriculum at the National Teachers College last March 2002.  The petite Dr. Hilario has been with the School for over 20 years.  Right now, she is at the forefront of the accreditation efforts of the School as the anchorperson for both the grade school and high school committees.  She is now working on her second MA degree.  Congratulations Dr. Loi.

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PCS HS Starts PAASCU Accreditation

The high school department of Paco Catholic School started the long and arduous process of accreditation with simple ceremonies last 5 August 2002 at the JCS Auditorium.  An orientation was conducted by Mrs. Maria T. Pilapil in the morning.  The different committees were formed during the afternoon session.  The PCSAA Chair Rey Mones represents the alumni in the physical plant committee and the parents in the community relations committee.  Immediately, the different committees started the Institutional Self Survey with its members analyzing and evaluating the School and other items relative to its operation.  Meantime, the Grade School goes through the second phase of accreditation with the visit of PAASCU this coming November 2002.

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PCSAA General Assembly Elects New Board

With a record attendance of 93 class representatives and other alumni, 9 new members of the PCSAA board of directors were elected to assume a term of 2 years.  The General Assembly was held at the Karel Hall last 15 June 2002.

The election of the new officers followed last 20 June 2002 at the Alumni Center.  Reynaldo A. Mones was elected chairman for the seventh straight year.  Laverenti U. Zamora of Class 1977 was elected president.  Bert, as he is called by friends, has been with the Board for the past 2 years.

The other officers are:  Marlon R. Hermo ’78, Vice-President, Atty. Romeo A. Bison Jr. ‘79, Corporate Secretary, Marlene Z. Manuel ‘77, Treasurer, Edwin V. Estrada ’71, Auditor and Norberto Garcia ’77, PRO. 

The other members of the Board are: Gabriel Ma. Angelo Cascante, Alexander M. Casas, Alex R. Capili, Ma. Luisa Candelaria, Aiko Maghinang, Hernani Mangalile, Rey Castro, Hipolito Segui, and Amado B. Ferrer.

They were inducted into office by Msgr. Domingo A. Cirilos, Jr in simple rites on 29 June 2002.

During the regular Board meeting of 11 July 2002, the following were appointed committee chairpersons:  Gabriel Ma. Angelo B. Cascante—Membership , Ma. Luisa Candelaria—Ways and Means, Alexander M. Casas—Scholarship and Awards, and Aiko M. Maghinang—Youth.  A sub-committee on research and documentation was formed under the Membership Committee.

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Fr. Godo Street Signature Campaign

A signature campaign has been launched by the Paco Catholic School Alumni Association in support of a resolution passed by its board of directors to rename Paz Street in Paco to Fr. Godofredo Street.  The resolution to be presented with the attached signatures to Mayor Lito Atienza and the Manila City Council seeks to honor the Dutch school and parish builder, Fr. Godofredo Aldenhuijsen, CICM.  Fr. Godo, as he is lovingly called, also established the Paco Catholic School (PCS), now acknowledged as the largest parochial school in the world.  Fr. Godofredo served as parish priest for 44 years from 1931 to 1975.  He is credited with having built the present church in 1931-1933 with funds coming from friends and relatives, as well as other Belgian CICM priests and through parish fund drives.  He also rebuilt the church and school when these were damaged during the liberation of Manila in 1945.

Efforts to rename the street date back to some 10 years ago with the Cofradia or the Confraternity of the Holy Sepulchre and later, the Knights of Columbus Paco Council 8724 making representations with city hall officials. But these efforts failed.  This year the PCS Alumni Association hopes to produce results with its campaign.  It has sought the support of the Father Provincial of the CICM Philippines, Fr. Romeo Nimez, and the endorsement of Paco parish priest Msgr. Domingo A. Cirilos, Jr.  Foreign-based alumni may register their support through the association's web site www.pacocatholicschoolalumni.com or through e-mail address at paconian@edsamail.com.ph.  For more information, contact the PCS Alumni Center, 563-2574 and 338-7084. [By Mrs. Gloria G. Goloy, TODAY, 1 February 2002]

Ex-CICM Priests Form New Congregation
A group of 39 Filipino and 2 Belgian CICM missionaries left the CICM to form the Missionaries of Jesus, the first Philippine-based congregation.  Fr. Freddie Dulay, the only Filipino to occupy the highest position in the CICM in Rome, met with the officers of the PCSAA Board last 8 June 2002 to appeal for any kind of assistance.  

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Class 1981 Elects New Officers

Joseph Nelson M. Ladaban was elected president of Class 1981 in an election held last 8 April 2002 at the PCS grounds.  The other officers are:  Melanie Alcid, external vice-president; Ned Bandojo, internal vice-president; Coring Lacerna, secretary; Joan Aquino, treasurer; Marley Ibañez, auditor; and Lyle Ibañez, PRO.  The members of the Board of Trustees are Nini de Jesus, Richard Pulmones, Cecille Bañaga, Pet Miliante, Gigi Domingo, Joey Castro, Mayet Tapiru, Edwin Amodo and Gemma Pamen.  They were inducted into office by this year’s chairman of the Election Committee, Rodrigo N. Quiambao, last 20 April 2002.

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Garcia Wins Fr. Godo Cup 2002, Msgr. Cirilos is Class “B” 2nd Runner-up

Roland Garcia of Class 1968 won the overall crown in the 1st Fr. Godofredo Open Golf Tournament held last 9 February 2002 at the Club Intramuros in Manila with a score of 65.  Msgr. Domingo A. Cirilos, Jr., School Director and Parish Priest, emerged 2nd runner-up in the Class “B” division with a score of 70.

The event was formally opened with the ceremonial tee off by Msgr. Cirilos, Mr. Joey Castro [1981], tournament director, and PCSAA Chair Reynaldo A. Mones [1971].

Mr. Garcia also scored a hole-in-one in hole number 6.  He also made the second longest drive in hole number 5 with 245 yards.

This first ever venture of the PCSAA in golf had 61 players, two of whom are Japanese.   There were 20 alumni.

An alumni from Class 1949, Romy Ronquillo, flew in from Cebu City to play in the tournament  after reading about it in the newspaper.  The mid-morning drizzle dampened his plan to play and instead shared  with the organizers some stories of his PCS days and about Fr. Godo.  He brought with him a missal which was the “Prize of Loyalty” given to students during that time with a dedication written by Fr. Godo.

For the complete list of winners, click on the links.

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Justo Cascante, PCSAA Founding President Dies at 72

Engineer Justo Ma. Cascante [1940], founding president of the PCSAA, died last 5 December 2001 of euremia and massive cardiac arrest at the Lourdes Hospital.  He was 72.

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Medical Mission 2001

The PCSAA in cooperation with the School through Mr. Romulo D. Brazal of the CIE and the Interact Club headed by Ms. Marie Bernard Mones [2002], conducted a medical mission for the indigent parishioners of the San Fernando de Dilao last 18 November 2001.  Over one hundred children and their parents availed of free consultation and check up from 6 alumni doctors and 3 dentists from Class 1977 and 1982.  Alumni working at United Laboratories and other pharmaceutical firms donated medicines. Msgr. Domingo A. Cirilos Jr. personally thanked the doctors and dentists and the students who took care of registering and interviewing the patients.  This activity was the first ever for the PCSAA.

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Alumni.NET Web Site for PCSAA
Infophil has consolidated all the PCS profiles into this single site.  The new web site address is http://pacocatholicschool.alumni.net.  Faculty members and non-teaching staff of PCS will be encouraged to register in the site for a more efficient means of locating them for future activities of the Association.

We enjoin all class webmasters to link your class web sites to the PCSAA web sites www.pacocatholicschoolalumni.com], the alumni.NET registry http://pacocatholicschool.alumni.net]. Visit it now and register.

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Class Reunions

To all classes, please coordinate all your class activities with your Alumni Association.  Call 563-2574, 338-7084 or e-mail at imaPACONIAN@gmail.com.

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Memorabilia

We recently got a copy of the 1938 graduation souvenir program.  It contained old pictures of young Fr. Godofredo, the original 3-story Sacred Heart Building built in 1935, school administrators, schedule of tuition fees and many others. 

Former PCSAA office secretary Corie Cinco-Marzan [1967] turned over to the PCSAA a copy of the souvenir program of TAMPISAWAN ’81, a variety show and the first project of the Association after it was registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)

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