China warship attacked a Philippine warship that was trespassing in the waters of China's Huangyan Island. The China warship fired warning shots at the Philippine warship, but the Philippine warship continued to advance. The Chinese warship then fired a missile at the Philippine warship, sinking it.The Philippine government has condemned the attack, calling it an act of aggression.

China has deployed 200,000 troops to the Spratly Islands

The China has deployed 200,000 troops to the Spratly Islands in a move to repel a combined US force that has been assembled in the region.The Chinese deployment comes as the US has been increasing its military presence in the South China Sea in recent months, in a show of support for its allies and partners in the region who are also claiming sovereignty over parts of the Spratly Islands.

The China warship attacked a Philippine warship that was trespassing in the waters of China's Huangyan Island. The China warship fired warning shots at the Philippine warship, but the Philippine warship continued to advance. The Chinese warship then fired a missile at the Philippine warship, sinking it.The Philippine government has condemned the attack, calling it an act of aggression.

Five Russian warships fired anti-ship missiles at three US aircraft carriers in the Mediterranean Sea. The US aircraft carriers USS Gerald R Ford, USS George Bush, and USS Harry S. Truman were operating in the Mediterranean Sea as part of a NATO exercise when they were attacked. The Russian warships fired a total of 16 anti-ship missiles, of which 12 were intercepted by US missile defense systems. However, four missiles managed to hit the US aircraft carriers, causing significant damage.

Five Russian warships intercepted a US aircraft carrier strike group in the Mediterranean Sea, in what the US Navy described as an "unsafe and unprofessional" maneuver. The incident occurred in international waters, about 60 miles south of Crete. The Russian warships included a guided missile cruiser, two destroyers, and two frigates.

Russia relishes divisions between China and the U.S., pouring cold water on Xi-Biden talks

There was more than a hint of schadenfreude in the Russian media this week, ahead of the meeting between Chinese President Xi Jinping and his counterpart Joe Biden in the U.S. on Wednesday.
Russian media have already characterized the APEC summit in San Francisco as a poorly-attended event.
Russian newspapers barely mentioned the Xi-Biden meeting, while state-run news agencies focused on policy tensions between the U.S. and China.
Russia holds China in high esteem, and Beijing is one of its few remaining powerful allies.

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during his press conference at the Konstantin Palace on July 29, 2023 in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

There was more than a hint of schadenfreude in the Russian state media ahead of the meeting between Chinese President Xi Jinping and his U.S. counterpart Joe Biden in San Francisco on Wednesday, with Russia accentuating the geopolitical gulf between the two superpowers.
Russia will be watching the talks closely, given its alliance with China, and any signs of a rapprochement between Beijing and Washington is likely to earn a frosty response from Moscow.

Russian media have already reveled in pouring cold water on the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit where Xi and Biden are due to meet Wednesday. A reporter for Russia’s state-run RIA Novosti news agency on Tuesday reported that a plenary meeting of the APEC summit chaired by U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai took place “in a half-empty hall.”
“Despite the presence of most of the meeting participants at the table, including the representative of the Russian Federation, some of the chairs with signs remained empty. Dozens of chairs are also empty for event guests,” the news agency said, according to a Google translation.
With more than a hint of glee, RIA Novosti contrasted its image of a half-empty conference hall with the U.S. Trade Representative Tai emphasizing to delegates “how important this event is for the United States.”
Most world leaders and high-profile guests at the APEC summit are not due to attend the event until Wednesday, while lower-ranking ministerial meetings have already been held in the last few days.

Xi Jinping, China’s president, right, arrives at San Francisco International Airport (SFO) on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in San Francisco, California, US, on Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2023. Xi arrived in San Francisco for a high-stakes meeting with his American counterpart Joe Biden on Tuesday, as the Chinese leader’s first trip to the US in six years drew crowds of protesters and supporters onto the city’s heavily policed streets. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images
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Although arguably one of the biggest events to take place at the summit — Biden and Xi’s encounter on Wednesday will be the first face-to-face meeting between the leaders in a year — it is being played down, with the main aim of talks being to reduce tensions and conflicting interests across a range of global issues.

These include significantly different positions over Russia and the war in Ukraine, the latest conflict in the Middle East and other areas of tension and rivalry in the geopolitical and economic arena, with a focus on the Asia-Pacific region.
Russia keen to stress differences

Russian news agencies were keen to emphasize those differences and the gulf between the superpowers ahead of the Xi-Biden meeting, as well as focusing on what China and Russia see as Western hegemony and attempts by the U.S. to maintain its dominance in global affairs.
They were also keen to focus on competing pro-Palestinian and pro-Israel protests taking place in the U.S. as the summit geared up for the arrival of dozens of world leaders and hundreds of CEOs from the 21 member economies in the Pacific Rim. Russian President Vladimir Putin was not invited due to U.S. sanctions so Deputy Prime Minister Alexei Overchuk is representing Russia at the summit.
The Kremlin gave a muted comment on the forthcoming talks between Xi and Biden with Kremlin Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov saying the meeting is not on the Kremlin’s agenda but that it planned to monitor it.
“The two countries, in fact, are building bilateral relations. This is their right, so this is not a topic that is widely on our agenda,” he said at a briefing, state news agency Interfax reported.
“But, of course, each such meeting — after all, of the two largest economies in the world — is important for everyone, so one way or another, we will monitor the messages that will accompany this meeting,” he added.

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA - NOVEMBER 14: Supporters of Palestine march to the city’s iconic Merchant Exchange Club where U.S. President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris were attending a fundraiser November, 14, 2023 in San Francisco, California. Nearby, the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), drawing dozens of world leaders and hundreds of CEOs from 21 member economies in the Pacific Rim, is being held through November 17. Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping are scheduled to meet. (Photo by Kent Nishimura/Getty Images)
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State news agency Tass noted Tuesday in a Google-translated report that the APEC summit had kicked off “against the backdrop of protests,” and that while “the normalization of political and economic relations and the situation around Taiwan” could be discussed, Washington and Beijing “place different emphasis on the agenda of the upcoming negotiations, and expectations of their results.”
Other points of contention aside from tensions over Taiwan include U.S. export controls and investment restrictions on Chinese tech and matters of national security after the suspected “spy balloon” incident, the agency noted.
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U.S.-China relations are now more about crisis prevention


A range of Russian newspapers including Kommersant, Izvestia, Argumenty i Fakty, Nezavisimaya Gazeta and Komsomolskaya Pravda did not feature any news on the APEC summit or Xi-Biden talks. A lone mainstream media voice, the business newspaper Vedomosti, featured an article summarizing niche areas where there could be specific agreements, such as efforts to combat the illegal trade in fentanyl and the restoration of military communication channels.
Russia has an interest in playing down any rapprochement between the U.S. and China and will view improvements in the relationship with concern. China is one of Russia’s few remaining powerful allies, with Beijing refusing to condemn Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.
Putin and Xi have met numerous times in recent years — Xi said last month that he had met with Putin “42 times in the past 10 years” — with the most recent engagement taking place in October, when Putin travelled to Beijing for an economic summit.
Russia and China are aligned in their distrust of the Western world, which they see as trying to impose a U.S.-led international order, and in opposing Western sanctions and what they see as economic coercion.
While tensions continue in the background, the lines of communication remain open, however. APEC, to which the U.S., China and Russia belong, promotes free trade throughout the Asia-Pacific region, and the group pledged at its last summit to promote and uphold a rules-based multilateral trading system.

Nonetheless, Beijing is believed to feel a deep-seated uneasiness over the economic disruption caused by Russia’s ongoing war with Ukraine. Last month, Xi said Beijing would not engage in “ideological confrontation, geopolitical games or bloc confrontation,” in an apparent reference to the West. Analysts believe both the U.S. and China have an interest in improving ties after a prolonged period of tension.
“The world’s two most powerful countries neither like nor trust each other. and their relationship is structurally deteriorating as we move into a new phase of “de-risked” globalization, but both countries are also geopolitical adults, preferring stability to chaos and accordingly unwilling to get too close to rogue states,” Ian Bremmer, president and founder of Eurasia Group, said in emailed comments Monday.

With the amount of lethal aid that the US is delivering to Ukraine to help defend themselves against the ongoing Russian invasion, it’s logical to ask: Could the US conquer Russia on its own? To answer that, we need to take a closer look at both countries' militaries, compare their strengths and weaknesses and get clear on who is the bravest and the baddest armed force out there.

Could America Beat China and Russia in a Two-Front War?

Here's What You Need to Know: The United States can still fight and win two major wars at the same time, or at least come near enough to winning that neither Russia nor China would see much hope in the gamble. The United States can do this because it continues to maintain the world’s most formidable military, and because it stands at the head of an extremely powerful military alliance.







The United States discarded its oft-misunderstood “two war” doctrine, intended as a template for providing the means to fight two regional wars simultaneously, late last decade. Designed to deter North Korea from launching a war while the United States was involved in fighting against Iran or Iraq (or vice versa,) the idea helped give form to the Department of Defense’s procurement, logistical and basing strategies in the post–Cold War, when the United States no longer needed to face down the Soviet threat. The United States backed away from the doctrine because of changes in the international system, including the rising power of China and the proliferation of highly effective terrorist networks.


But what if the United States had to fight two wars today, and not against states like North Korea and Iran? What if China and Russia sufficiently coordinated with one another to engage in simultaneous hostilities in the Pacific and in Europe?

Political Coordination


Could Beijing and Moscow coordinate a pair of crises that would drive two separate U.S. military responses? Maybe, but probably not. Each country has its own goals, and works on its own timeline. More likely, one of the two would opportunistically take advantage of an existing crisis to further its regional claims. For example, Moscow might well decide to push the Baltic States if the United States became involved in a major skirmish in the South China Sea.






In any case, the war would start on the initiative of either Moscow or Beijing. The United States enjoys the benefits of the status quo in both areas, and generally (at least where great powers are concerned) prefers to use diplomatic and economic means to pursue its political ends. While the U.S. might create the conditions for war, Russia or China would pull the trigger.

Flexibility:





On the upside, only some of the requirements for fighting in Europe and the Pacific overlap. As was the case in World War II, the U.S. Army would bear the brunt of defending Europe, while the Navy would concentrate on the Pacific. The U.S. Air Force (USAF) would play a supporting role in both theaters.

Russia lacks the ability to fight NATO in the North Atlantic, and probably has no political interest in trying. This means that while the United States and its NATO allies can allocate some resources to threatening Russia’s maritime space (and providing insurance against a Russian naval sortie,) the U.S. Navy (USN) can concentrate its forces in the Pacific. Depending on the length of the conflict and the degree of warning provided, the United States could transport considerable U.S. Army assets to Europe to assist with any serious fighting.

The bulk of American carriers, submarines and surface vessels would concentrate in the Pacific and the Indian Oceans, fighting directly against China’s A2/AD system and sitting astride China’s maritime transit lanes. Long range aviation, including stealth bombers and similar assets, would operate in both theaters as needed.

The U.S. military would be under strong pressure to deliver decisive victory in at least one theater as quickly as possible. This might push the United States to lean heavily in one direction with air, space and cyber assets, hoping to achieve a strategic and political victory that would allow the remainder of its weight to shift to the other theater. Given the strength of U.S. allies in Europe, the United States might initially focus on the conflict in the Pacific.

Alliance Structure:

U.S. alliance structure in the Pacific differs dramatically from that of Europe. Notwithstanding concern over the commitment of specific U.S. allies in Europe, the United States has no reason to fight Russia apart from maintaining the integrity of the NATO alliance. If the United States fights, then Germany, France, Poland and the United Kingdom will follow. In most conventional scenarios, even the European allies alone would give NATO a tremendous medium term advantage over the Russians; Russia might take parts of the Baltics, but it would suffer heavily under NATO airpower, and likely couldn’t hold stolen territory for long. In this context, the USN and USAF would largely play support and coordinative roles, giving the NATO allies the advantage they needed to soundly defeat the Russians. The U.S. nuclear force would provide insurance against a Russian decision to employ tactical or strategic nuclear weapons.

The United States faces more difficult problems in the Pacific. Japan or India might have an interest in the South China Sea, but this hardly guarantees their participation in a war (or even the degree of benevolence of their neutrality.) The alliance structure of any given conflict would depend on the particulars of that conflict; any of the Philippines, Vietnam, South Korea, Japan or Taiwan could become China’s primary target. The rest, U.S. pressure aside, might well prefer to sit on the sidelines. This would put extra pressure on the United States to establish dominance in the Western Pacific with its own assets.

Parting Shots:

The United States can still fight and win two major wars at the same time, or at least come near enough to winning that neither Russia nor China would see much hope in the gamble. The United States can do this because it continues to maintain the world’s most formidable military, and because it stands at the head of an extremely powerful military alliance. Moreover, Russia and China conveniently pose very different military problems, allowing the United States to allocate some of its assets to one, and the rest to the other.

However, it bears emphasis that this situation will not last forever. The United States cannot maintain this level of dominance indefinitely, and in the long-term will have to choose its commitments carefully. At the same time, the United States has created an international order that benefits many of the most powerful and prosperous countries in the world; it can count on their support, for a while.

What you're Looking at here is the unfinished China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, a project that was initially Introduced with an astounding budget of $60 billion. Similarly, Kenya launched a railway project with a budget of $3.2 billion, which also remains incomplete. Similar High-Cost Megaprojects have been launched all around the world with one thing in common. They are either unfinished or completely abandoned. But what was the purpose of these billion-dollar projects? And Why do these countries Invest Billions of dollars in such ambitious projects in the first place?

Turin Shroud is stained with the blood of a tortured victim, new research shows - supporting the belief that it DOES show the face of Jesus

Turin Shroud mystery 'solved': Infrared tests show ancient cloth may NOT be a medieval fake after all... and could have been used to wrap Christ's body Infra red tests dated the cloth to some time between 300BC and 400AD The shroud will appear in a live TV broadcast on Saturday Just in time for Easter a new study has claimed that the Shroud of Turin is a not a medieval forgery but could - in fact - be the burial shroud that was used to wrap the body of Christ. The cloth’s consistency is similar to those used to bury the dead at the time of Christ, 2,000 years ago, according to the latest scientific studies. Details of the research have emerged in a book and come ahead of Saturday's rare glimpse of the Shroud, when TV cameras will film it as part of a live broadcast ahead of Easter Sunday.   Separated at birth: Split screen showing the likeness between the Turin Shroud and a portrait by Leonardo da Vinci For centuries scientists have argued about the authenticity of the Shroud - which is kept in a secure vault in Turin Cathedral - and it has become one of the most iconic images of the Roman Catholic faith. The 14ft-long linen cloth bears the faint image of the front and back of a tall, long-haired, bearded man and appears to be stained by blood from wounds in his feet, wrists and sides that match those suffered by Christ at his Crucifixion.The findings are in a new book called Il Mistero della Sindone (The Mystery of the Shroud) which is published on Good Friday. The authors, Professor Giulio Fanti, an expert in mechanical and thermal measurement at the University of Padua’s Engineering Faculty and journalist Saverio Gaeta, examined fibres from the Shroud and compared them to samples of cloth dating back to between 3000BC and up to the modern era to contrast them and see if it is a Medieval forgery. Key to the findings are three new tests, two chemical ones and one mechanical, the first two were carried out using infra-red light, and the other using Raman spectroscopy - which measures radiation through wavelengths and is commonly used in forensic science. Has Turin Shroud mystery been solved? 14ft-long linen cloth, pictured above left in 1934, bears the faint image of the front and back of a tall, long-haired, bearded man and appears to be stained by blood from wounds in his feet, wrists and sides that match those suffered by Christ at his Crucifixion The results dated the fibres from the cloth to a period between 300BC to 400AD, which covers the years of Christ's life. Debate has raged whether the image is that of Christ or a fake from the Middle Ages. But what is certain is that experts have never really been able to explain how the image was made. Carbon 14 tests were conducted on the cloth in 1988 and these findings suggested it dated from between 1260 and 1390. However, some scientists have since claimed that contamination over the ages from water damage and fire, were not taken sufficiently into account and could have distorted the results. Since then, there have been several requests for fresh tests but Church chiefs have always refused - and this is why Professor Fanti and his team had to rely on fibres that were used in the 1988 tests. Before he retired last month pope Emeritus Benedict XVI gave permission for the Shroud to go on display as a 'last gift’ to the millions of Catholics before he retired from public office. Thirteen years ago when he was plain cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, Benedict wrote that the shroud was a ‘truly mysterious image, which no human artistry was capable of producing. In some inexplicable it appeared imprinted upon cloth...’ Italian state TV will broadcast footage of the Shroud but it is not thought that general public access will be allowed until 2025, the date of the next scheduled display. As part of the TV broadcast, a new app called Sindone 2.0 has been developed, showing a series of HD images of the shroud which highlight details of the cloth not visible to the naked eye. WHAT IS THE TURIN SHROUD? The linen cloth, believed by some to have wrapped the body of Jesus Christ, has captivated the imagination of historians, church chiefs, sceptics and Catholics for more than 500 years. There are no definite historical records concerning the shroud prior to the 14th century. Although there are numerous reports of Jesus' burial shroud, or an image of his head, of unknown origin, being venerated in various locations before the 14th century. But there is no historical evidence that these refer to the shroud currently at Turin Cathedral. A burial cloth, which some historians maintain was the Shroud, was owned by the Byzantine emperors but disappeared during the Sack of Constantinople in 1204. Historical records seem to indicate that a shroud bearing an image of a crucified man existed in the small town of Lirey around the years 1353 to 1357. It was in the possession of a French Knight, Geoffroi de Charny, who died at the Battle of Poitiers in 1356. However the correspondence of this shroud with the shroud in Turin, and its very origin has been debated by scholars and lay authors, with claims of forgery attributed to artists born a century apart. Some contend that the Lirey shroud was the work of a confessed forger and murderer. The history of the shroud from the 15th century is well recorded. In 1532, the shroud suffered damage from a fire in a chapel of Chambéry, capital of the Savoy region, where it was stored. A drop of molten silver from the reliquary produced a symmetrically placed mark through the layers of the folded cloth. Poor Clare Nuns attempted to repair this damage with patches. In 1578 Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy ordered the cloth to be brought from Chambéry to Turin and it has remained at Turin ever since. The shroud has had many notorious admirers. It even obsessed Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler, who wanted to steal it so he could use it in a black magic ceremony. In May 2010, five years after he became Pope, Benedict authorised a public viewing of the Shroud - the first since 2000 and also 15 years ahead of its next scheduled public display. Turin Shroud 'was created by flash of supernatural light': It couldn't be a medieval forgery, say scientistsThe image on the Turin Shroud could not be the  work of medieval forgers but was instead caused by a supernatural ‘flash of light’, according to scientists. Italian researchers have found evidence that casts doubt on claims that the relic – said to be the burial cloth of Jesus – is a fake and they suggest that it could, after all, be authentic. Sceptics have long argued that the shroud, a rectangular sheet measuring about 14ft by 3ft, is a forgery dating to medieval times.   Scientists in Italy believe the kind of technology needed to create the Shroud of Turin simply wasn't around at the time that it was created Scientists from Italy’s National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development spent years trying to replicate the shroud’s markings. They have concluded only something akin to ultraviolet lasers – far beyond the capability of medieval forgers – could have created them.This has led to fresh suggestions that the imprint was indeed created by a huge burst of energy accompanying the Resurrection of Christ. ‘The results show a short and intense burst of UV directional radiation can colour a linen cloth so as to reproduce many of the peculiar characteristics of the body image on the Shroud of Turin,’ the scientists said. WHAT IS THE TURIN SHROUD? The Vatican owns the Turin shroud, and hails the relic as an exploration of the ‘darkest mystery of faith’. But the church has shied away from any definitive statement over whether the shroud - which is supposed to have formed Christ's burial robe - is real. The Shroud is thought to have travelled widely before it was brought to France in the 14th century by a Crusader. It was kept in a French convent for years - by nuns who patched it, and where it was damaged by fire. The Shroud was given to the Turin Archbishop in 1578 by the Duke of Savoy and has been kept in the Cathedral ever since. Carbon dating tests in 1988 dated it from between 1260 and 1390 - implying it was a fake. Scientists have since claimed that contamination over the ages from patches, water damage and fire, was not taken sufficiently into account In 1999, two Israeli scientists said plant pollen found on the Shroud supported the view that it comes from the Holy Land. There have been numerous calls for further testing but the Vatican has always refused. The image of the bearded man on the shroud must therefore have been created by ‘some form of electromagnetic energy (such as a flash of light at short wavelength)’, their report concludes. But it stops short of offering a non-scientific explanation. Professor Paolo Di Lazzaro, who led the study, said: ‘When one talks about a flash of light being able to colour a piece of linen in the same way as the shroud, discussion inevitably touches on things such as miracles. ‘But as scientists, we were concerned only with verifiable scientific processes. We hope our results can open up a philosophical and theological debate.’ For centuries, people have argued about the authenticity of the shroud, which is kept in a climate-controlled case in Turin cathedral. One of the most controversial relics in the Christian world, it bears the faint image of a man whose body appears to have nail wounds to the wrists and feet. Some believe it to be a physical link to Jesus of Nazareth. For others, however, it is nothing more than an elaborate forgery. In 1988, radiocarbon tests on samples of the shroud at the University of Oxford, the University of Arizona, and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology dated the cloth to the Middle Ages, between 1260 and 1390. Those tests have been disputed on the basis that they were contaminated by fibres from cloth used to repair the shroud when it was damaged by fire in the Middle Ages. More recently, further doubt was cast on its authenticity when Israeli archaeologists uncovered the first known burial shroud in Jerusalem from the time of the Crucifixion. Its weave and design are completely different from the Turin Shroud, they said. The Jerusalem shroud has a simple two-way weave – but the twill weave used on the Turin Shroud was introduced more than 1,000 years after Christ lived.   That research was disputed, however, because there was a possibility of contamination from patches of cloth that had been sewn on following a fire in Chambery, France, in 1532   The Resurrection of Christ, 1463-65, fresco by Piero della Francesca: The Vatican - which owns the Turin shroud - shies away from statements over whether it is real or fake, but says it helps to explore the 'darkest mysteries of faith'   Carbon dating tests carried out in 1988 in Oxford, Zurich and Arizona suggested that the shroud was created some time between 1260 and 1390

HOLY TURIN SHROUD MYSTERY  Turin Shroud is stained with the blood of a tortured victim, new research shows - supporting the belief that it DOES show the face of Jesus Experts claim there is blood on the Shroud which is not typical of healthy person They say it contains creatinine and ferritin, found in those who suffered trauma The findings contradict claims that the Shroud was painted by Medieval forgers The shroud is currently being displayed at St John the Baptist Cathedral in Turin  Experts have claimed the Shroud of Turin is stained with the blood of a torture victim, supporting claims it was used to bury Jesus. They say the linen cloth, believed to have been used to wrap Christ's body after crucifixion, contains 'nanoparticles' which are not typical of the blood of a healthy person. The alleged findings contradict claims the face of Jesus was painted on by forgers in medieval times.   Experts have claimed the Shroud of Turin (pictured) is stained with the blood of a torture victim Experts claim the linen cloth, believed to have been used to wrap Christ's body after crucifixion, contains 'nanoparticles' which are not typical of the blood of a healthy person Elvio Carlino, a researcher at the Institute of Crystallography in Bari, Italy, says the tiny particles reveal 'great suffering' of a victim ' wrapped up in the funeral cloth'.  These particles had a 'peculiar structure, size and distribution,' added University of Padua professor Giulio Fanti. He says the blood contained high levels of substances called creatinine and ferritin, found in patients who suffer forceful traumas like torture. Professor Fanti said: 'Hence, the presence of these biological nanoparticles found during our experiments point to a violent death for the man wrapped in the Turin Shroud.' The Shroud of Turin measures around three metres by one metre and contains a faintly stained image of a man which Christians believe depicts Jesus. One professor said the particles found contain high levels of substances called creatinine and ferritin, found in patients who suffer forceful traumas including torture It has been subject to intense scientific study to ascertain its authenticity. The new findings were published in the US scientific journal, PlosOne, in an article titled 'New Biological Evidence from Atomic Resolution Studies on the Turin Shroud.' +4 The Shroud of Turin, which measures around three metres by one metre and contains a faintly stained image of a man which some believe to be Christ The findings contradict claims that the shroud was forged in the Medieval era. Fanti said the characteristics of these particles 'cannot be artifacts made over the centuries on the fabric of the Shroud.' Researchers drew on experimental evidence of atomic resolution studies and recent medical studies on patients who suffered multiple acts of trauma and torture. Elvio added: 'These findings could only be revealed by the methods recently developed in the field of electron microscopy.' He said the research marked the first study of 'the nanoscale properties of a pristine fiber taken from the Turin Shroud.' The research was carried out by the Instituo Officia dei Materiali in Trieste and the Institute of Crystallography in Bari, both under Italy's National Research Council, as well as the University of Padua's Department of Industrial Engineering. The shroud is currently displayed at St John the Baptist Cathedral in Turin. During a visit to the city in 2015, Pope Francis paused in silent prayer before the Shroud. shows the Holy Shroud, a 14 foot-long linen revered by some as the burial cloth of Jesus, displayed at the Cathedral of Turin, Italy. The long linen with the faded image of a bearded man is the object of centuries-old fascination and wonderment, and closely kept under wrap. Now, for six weeks, both the curious and those convinced the Turin Shroud is the burial cloth of Jesus Christ can have a brief look. By late March, 1.3 million people had reserved their three-to-five-minute chance to gaze at the cloth, which is kept in a bulletproof, climate-controlled case. Organizers said earlier this year they hoped some 2 million pilgrims and tourists would see the linen during the special viewing from Saturday April 10 to May 23. The Turin Shroud DOES have miraculous powers... whether it is genuine or not Italian scientists claim shroud was created by 'supernatural event' as burst of ultra-violet light necessary to leave imprint on cloth wasn't then possible Implication from research is that image of Jesus was scorched onto linen by divinely generated light given out by His body Shroud believers welcome new scientific research 'proving' its existence But Vatican still refuses to comment on the long-running saga Puzzle: The Turin Shroud's origin is endlessly debated. Still, the Catholic Church has placed the cloth in a cathedral as an object of worship The Catholic Church has never publicly accepted or rejected popular belief that the Turin Shroud is the burial cloth of Jesus Christ. But it has done everything short of that to encourage devotion to this ancient piece of linen, on display in Turin Cathedral, which bears the markings of a man who appears to have been crucified. The extraordinary sepia image on the cloth is simply — as Pope Benedict XVI likes to put it in that careful, precise way of his — ‘an image that reminds us always of Christ’s suffering’. Yet, this week, a group of Italian scientists claimed the shroud was created by a ‘supernatural event’ rather than the machinations of medieval forgers. The academics concluded that the sort of burst of ultra-violet light necessary to have left such an imprint on the cloth just wasn’t possible by any human endeavour in any age other than our own technically advanced one with its access to lasers. The implication of their findings is that the image was scorched on to the linen as a result of a divinely generated light given out by Jesus’s body when he rose from the dead. Believers in the shroud hail the research by scientists at Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development (ENEA) as proof that it is genuinely the cloth of Christ. They claim it backs up the work of a group of American scientists from the Shroud of Turin Research Project (STURP) from the Seventies. These scientists established by careful analysis of the fibres of the cloth that the image of the bearded, crucified man had not been painted on to the cloth. It was not, they concluded, ‘a natural formation’. Science, say the believers, appears to have provided no reasonable answer to counter the belief of generations of Christians that this is the image of Christ on the shroud in which his body was wrapped when it was taken down from the cross.   Scientists in Italy believe the kind of technology needed to create the Shroud of Turin simply wasn't around at the time that it was created. Still the Vatican steadfastly refuses to be drawn again into the saga And yet, despite this latest research supposedly proving its authenticity, the Vatican has steadfastly refused to be drawn again into the long-running saga of the shroud. The question is why. Why, if the science seems so certain, won’t the Catholic Church endorse this piece of cloth as the genuine article? One reason is that the new research still cannot get round the main stumbling block when it comes to proving the shroud’s authenticity. In 1988, three separate and internationally acclaimed laboratories in Zurich, Oxford and Arizona carbon-dated samples of the cloth, provided by the Church, and came up with 1260 to 1390 as its probable date of origin. In other words, that research showed it to be a medieval forgery. And in the 23 years since,  the best that the shroud’s devotees have come up with to counter this incontrovertible fact is a theory that all three samples that were carbon-dated were contaminated — that they contained rogue fibres from later medieval attempts to patch and mend the original shroud. There are plenty of papers that try to make this thesis stand up, but the overall impression is of whistling in the wind. So why do people flock to see the shroud on the rare occasions it is put on public show in its glass, climate- controlled display case? The most straightforward answer is that we like a mystery and this one is about as tantalising as it gets. For just as the Church has never felt able to pronounce definitively on the shroud, neither has science come up with a water-tight theory as to exactly what it is and how the image came about. The shroud therefore exists in a kind of middle ground — where we can all pronounce our own verdict. But once you start considering the possibilities of how it was created, you immediately get in a tangle. If it is a medieval forgery, then how can its image have been created by methods beyond the wit of humankind at that time?   Why do people flock to see the shroud? We like mystery. Since neither the church nor science have come up with a definitive answer, the shroud exists in middle ground, where we can make our own verdict One of the most intriguing aspects is that the image of Christ is hard to pick out with the naked eye in the sepia markings on the cloth, which is 4½m long and just over a metre in width. But, when at the very end of the 19th century, a photographic negative of the image was first produced, it looked every inch like the face of Christ. How could a medieval forger have produced something so exact 500 years before the technology existed to make a negative image? Yet the sceptics could easily counter this with an argument of their own. Even if the shroud is really 2,000 years old and the carbon-dating laboratories mistaken, they point out what is there to link it to Jesus? Crucifixion was a common method of putting criminals to death back under the Romans. This might just as well be the funeral wrappings of a run-of-the-mill murderer or thief. Indeed, one theory popular among supporters of the medieval forgery theory is that it was made centuries after the death of Christ by crucifying someone in exactly the same manner as described in the Gospel accounts and then wrapping the victim in a shroud. The further you go into this mystery, the murkier the waters become. And if you go so far as to visit Turin (for 500 years the shroud belonged to the locally based royal house of Savoy) and stand in front of the display case, there is undeniably a certain awe about this object.   The Resurrection of Christ, 1463-65, fresco by Piero della Francesca: The Vatican - which owns the Turin shroud - shies away from statements over whether it is real or fake, but says it helps to explore the 'darkest mysteries of faith' It springs, to my mind, not from any air of authenticity that the object itself radiates, but from the knowledge that for centuries people have been making precisely the same pilgrimage as I and so many others have done to gaze at this piece of cloth. It stems from the fact that they have harboured exactly the same hopes that by doing so, somehow, they will be able to reach a final conclusion on the truth or not of the very claims of Christianity. How comforting it would be to know, for sure, if there is a God. What is important today about the shroud is not whether it is genuinely the burial cloth of Jesus — we are never going to reach a consensus on that — but rather that over many centuries people have believed in it. It is this history of belief that is the really powerful thing. At a stroke it carries us back through centuries of Christianity and connects our sceptical, secular and scientific age with an earlier epoch of miracles and faith. This is why the Catholic Church refuse to be drawn on the Turin Shroud. As Pope Benedict says, it is an extraordinarily powerful image of Christ’s suffering —  and made so because of the faith people have in it, whether it is genuine or not. On its own, the shroud is never going to be enough to legitimise belief in the core tenet of Christianity — the Resurrection of Jesus. But nevertheless, it is a powerful focus for our thoughts on the subject — a symbol of the hopes of so many who embrace Christianity without any conclusive proof other than their own belief. And that, surely, is the point about religion — a point we are in danger of missing now that every belief and theory is judged to be worthless unless it can be put under a microscope by scientists and proved, irrefutably, to be true. Some things, some important things, just don’t fit into this rigid, logical model of the world. Science, as the saga of the shroud epitomises, can never get to the bottom of faith.

 

University of the Philippines Prep High School

THE SONGS AND MEMORIES OF MY HIGH SCHOOL YEARS UPDATE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES

This is my High School group pictures: Founding of our beloved University of the Philippines IN 1908

The University of the Philippines was established in 1908 as the American University of the Philippines by an act of the First Philippine Legislature Act No. 1870, otherwise known as the University Charter, specified the function of the University, which is to provide advanced instruction in literature, philosophy, the sciences, and arts, and to give professional and technical training.UP Prep was a unique high school created in 1954, when the UP Board of Regents authorized then UP President Vidal Tan to open a first class high school in Manila. The school’s high standard curriculum was designed for secondary school graduates with the aptitudes and intellectual talents for university level education. The faculty was carefully selected for these advanced subjects. Only by passing a battery of rigorous examinations could a student get in, and once accepted, he or she had to hurdle to pass each of the four tough years of the highest standard of education ever given to high school students in the Philippines before one could graduate. In 1973, after graduating 20 classes — comprised altogether of 1500 graduates — UP Prep was merged with UP High School to later become what is now known as UP Integrated High School.

For me,  U.P. Prep High, was another passage to adulthood. I was exposed early to student politics and activism, when a strike by college seniors closed classes in 1957 and sent us home for a week during my yearling year. I was puzzled why the strike, but it was a transition of presidency of the University, and there was no sitting president. 

Later, I learned more about classmates from the best among the best, chosen from different walks of life. You apply yourself to a diverse bunch of kids, invariably they were not from the same parish, like back in the elementary. My little world  expanded by the distant location (two jeepney rides)  to Padre Faura. Fascination in the field of Sciences and Mathematics from Liberal mentors instead of  Religion gave me a glimpse of my future career. Disallowed text by the catholic church, accessed freely in High School, and devoured voraciously, led to the knowledge of my heritage, and our true history. My sensibility changed and it became more acute in the unequal treatment of less influential classmates by superiors. 

RIZAL HALL: My High School: UP Prep was a unique high school created in 1954, when the UP Board of Regents authorized then UP President Vidal Tan to open a first class high school in Manila. The school’s high standard curriculum was designed for secondary school graduates with the aptitudes and intellectual talents for university level education. The faculty was carefully selected for these advanced subjects. Only by passing a battery of rigorous examinations could a student get in, and once accepted, he or she had to hurdle to pass each of the four tough years of the highest standard of education ever given to high school students in the Philippines before one could graduate. In 1973, after graduating 20 classes — comprised altogether of 1500 graduates — UP Prep was merged with UP High School to later become what is now known as UP Integrated High School.

Our UP Diliman Campus early 1960

In 1939, the Board of Regents acquired a 493-hectare land in the Diliman District of the newly established Quezon City. Construction began on the area on the same year. The development of the area was then stalled by World War II, with invading Japanese troops occupying some of the buildings built. By 1942, the university was forced to close down some of its colleges, with only the Colleges of Medicine, Engineering, and Pharmacy maintaining their operations.

When the war ended in 1945, the buildings intended to be the homes of the College of Law and the College of Liberal Arts were left with extensive damages. The university administration led by UP President Bienvenido Gonzales sought a grant worth P13 million from the US-Philippines War Damage Commission to restore the damaged facilities and to construct new ones so that the transfer of the university from Manila to Diliman could be pushed through. Through a symbolic ceremony of transferring the Oblation from Manila to Diliman, the whole university's administration was relocated to the new campus. New buildings were constructed in response to the creation of more academic degrees.


Organization of the newly established institutes and the reformulation of programs followed with the establishment of programs such as the General Education Program, a delegated roster of core courses required to be taken by all students at the undergraduate level. Under the presidency of UP President Vicente Sinco, a University College was made to address the need of a much-organized college structure. The College of Arts and Sciences was created to offer major subjects in the natural sciences, social sciences and humanities.

Thank you Cap and Helen for hosting our little mini once again.  Thank you for the sumptuous meal, the take home goodies and excellent company. Thank you Alex and Marissa for the wonderful gifts, excellent company and the delightful music.  Marissa, our twins were especially enamoured with your piano renditions. We missed you Augie and Violet.  Hope nothing serious caused you not to show up. We really had a most enjoyable evening. Salamat RC & Dudi

A poignant oblation photo. My interpretation of my last look and parting with "UPPHS". "Paalam" Prep High.

My political ideology agrees with the student activism during the Marcos administration. This is one reason why I left the Philippines, long before Martial Law. UP Diliman became the bastion of activism in the 1960s and 1970s, with various tumultuous events eventually contributing to the declaration of Martial Law in 1972. In this period, UP Diliman became a center of dissent towards the Marcos' administration. The year 1971 marked an important event in the Philippine history when the entire Diliman campus was declared the Diliman Commune, and became free from government control. Students and faculty members took over the campus in response to increasing military presence and the increase of oil prices. The students established full control of the campus for a month, barricading the streets with chairs and tables.

Don't Cry For Me Pilipinas

A Country, A Race, A Nation 

Hosts to heroes long since departed, 

Mark the revolutions. 

The governments, who left dry tokens 

Of their sojourn there 

On the pearl of the Orient Seas, 

Any broad alarm of the hastening doom 

Is lost in the gloom of crimes against its people. 

But today, the Country cries out to us, clearly, forcefully, 

Come, you may stand upon my 

Side and face your distant destiny, 

But seek no haven in my shadow. 

I will give you no retiring place up here. 

You, created only a little lower than 

The guardians, have crouched too long in 

The bruising darkness, 

Have lain too long, Face down in feudal ignorance. 

Your minds spelling rancor 

Armed for slaughter. 

The country cries out today, you may stand by me, 

But don't hide behind false constitution. 

Across the hall of nations, 

A poor people cries for justice, 

Come rest here by my side.................ASC 

Marissa playing America the Beautiful, The Theme from the American Civil War, O'Sheanandoah, Ang Bayan Ko

As she plays these melodic patriotic songs, I begin to reminisce,  my stay at Rizal Hall. I have passed nearly 80 years of my life, but I still have vivid memories of the halls, and classrooms at the University of the Philippines in Manila. I can not deny my deep feeling of warmth to this great school. Among the colleges that I have attended in the Philippines and in the USA during my academic life, my particular fondness is always with the University of the Philippines.  I and like every alumni of the U. P. Preparatory High School should be so proud of this University and the rich traditions that it represents…ASC

Reaching my destination in San Francisco, my dreams of more liberation of my ideology and thoughts were fulfilled. But we wanted more, to see life without violence, unlike the country I left. We wanted media that contained truth. Some of us risked our lives to find out what the government was doing and let the underground press know. We wanted to talk about things in print that we were not allowed to discuss in our culture of origin. We wanted to live without stupid, arbitrary rules, either for ourselves or for our children. Some of our children, as adults today, say they wish we had been more protective of them, or offered more structure.It was a moment in history when a mushroom explosion of consciousness began altering the life force. Through that explosion, we broke down the prison walls of "intellect as the ultimate". We focused on the heart, and by doing so, reopened our cookie jar of possibilities·politically, socially, sexually and spiritually. The effects of that explosion have permeated our culture. We, as a generation, have a responsibility to see that the 60's are remembered in the context in which they unfolded."

Looking up Powell St. from Market St. The canteen at Woolworth on your right, served me well at lunch. During my job search, the hills of San Francisco was a hindrance. I think my overdeveloped legs were the outcome of the constant walking in SF. The Filipino community has grown remarkably since World War II and has spread to all areas of the city, especially the South of Market area. The affluent Castro district (technically Eureka Valley near Twin Peaks) has attracted gays and lesbians from throughout the country, becoming perhaps the most famous gay neighbourhood in the world. Its streets are adorned with elegantly restored Victorian homes and landmarks highlighting significant dates in the struggle for gay rights. It is said that no local politician can win an election without the gay community's vote. Dropping down California St. Fabled hills, were the scourge of the handicap, nowhere in any city but San Francisco, where wheel chairs are absent...my own observation. I remember there were so many people coming in for the Peace March, we wondered around listening to the sounds of the bands warming up at the Union Square. The guitars faded in and out like the morning fog that drifted in and out on the breeze off the bay. Again, there was the thick smell of incense and marijuana, but there was something else in the atmosphere as well: the air was glowing electric with excitement and anticipation. Everyone felt that we were about to be part of something really big.

The girls of St. Theresa, the innocence of the young ladies above, untouched by the sixties youth revolution remained in my mind. Why someday, one of them will be my partner in life.

So much legend has been woven around the Sixties that it is very hard to see them for what they were, especially the ideas that sparked the Youth Revolution. It was a time when it was really something to be young.' I should mention that many of us whose youth had been pinched by post-war austerity did our best to have another one by joining the party.Sex, drugs and rock & roll are the staple ingredients of the legendary Permissive Society "That sense of freedom had a place and I don't think you can blame the Sixties for what we are like nowadays. "I think that is an excuse for the way things are now and you can't make excuses."Some things may have got out of hand, but it was a time when people became more liberated."It is not true to say it was a time of hedonism. It is excessive to say that."We were obvioulsy involved in photography and we had some innovative people working for us and we had ideas. The Sixties had a lot to offer." Muse APO DELTA 1966 Dewey Blvd below: The jetty potruding to Manila Bay is the future Cultural Center, on the other side of Dewey is the Manila Naval Station (MNS) where we lived from 1965 to 1966. the headquarters of the Philippine Navy was relegated to a small block of land south of the Manila Yacht Club. The original plan was to reclaim the site of the cultural center(CC) to replace the location of the MNS by the Central Bank. Imelda Marcos, saw this valuable real state and confiscated the plan for her project the now CC. The yacht club remained, the Navy base (MNS) was transferred to Fort Bonifacio. FOJAS, MONTALBAN, CORPUS, ACEVEDO, RC VALENZUELA, MANALAC, ATOT TAN, DE GUZMAN, C PASCUAL, VIUS, FOJAS, BUENAVENTURA NEL MENDOZA, HEDY SAGUIL, EVA FAROLAN

University of the Philippines Prep Class'61....sitting from left Doddie, M.D.,PhD, Nilda, Assoc.Principal Scientist

standing...Babes, Paul,ret.

Don't know if you remember me. Nilda Fulgencio. I enjoy reading your e-mails and I couldn't help but feel the longing you feel for our country while singning the song. You see I have not gone home since 1972. Anyway, I have suddenly been reading more about you

from the MIT CHECHEM website and this. Keep communicating and regards to you and the family

Nilds.

RENE HERBOSA

After lunch, you can buy santol or hilaw na mangga con bagoong  at the driveway entrance to Rizal Hall. That's where I first saw Nora Borja, then third year, and crush ng bayan.  The late Eulogio Tablante, Babe Acevedo's brother in law( elder brother ni Eva) was the James Dean of UP Prep. The Fourth year gangs were Cronvar and Dixie; Noel Alejo, Oyen Alejo, Rudy Gumba, Jun Gregorio, Rene Santiago+, Nides Belgado, Cesar Ledda, Taddy Palma, Silvino Guzman, and Ed Coronel were Cronvar. Jojo Binay, Angel Reano, Vic Guiang, Rey Aguilar, and others whose names I can't recall at the moment were Dixie.

RIP NESTOR RIVADELO

CESAR PASCUAL,  PASCUAL VERON CRUZ

E. ACEVEDO, AMADO SANTOS, WIFE JOSIE SANTOS

CARMELO MADRID

Carmelo is not a relative, not even a distant one, although he shares my Madrid relatives' wry sense of humor. To wit: While walking down Escolta Carmelo blurted that the man we just passed by was a hypocrite. When I asked how he knew. He said the man snarled when he tried to "hipo" his car! Also, he figured the man walking ahead of us at Padre Faura was
good at short hand. Kasi daw maigsi yong kanang kamay!I am sure the Korean Airline crew he fies with are getting a dose of the Madrid humor!

Summer is a slow period for getting piano gigs, like once a month instead of the every other weekend during the fall and winter. My latest was at a cocktail hosted by the president of a local bank at his Chapaqua mansion, two blocks away from the Clintons. My eyes bulged when they showed me the piano - it was an 1890 Bosendorfer! Maski Chopstick maganda ang tunog sa Bosendorfer. 

Am sure you are enjoying retirement, like most of our batchmates who opted for the same thing!

Doddie

THERESA 

AND ED MANALAC, POL MORAL

Doddie Bautista

Gerry Bautista

Manny Bustamante

Vic Calulut

Nanding Casanova

Rellie Cifra

Manny (Duck) Clamor

Boy Dalao

Walter del Rosario - Prepian

Bobby Galias - our GC when I joined APO

Dr. Joel Ganaban

Elpi Pada

Ed Pastoral

Florendo Rabago - UP Faculty

Guillermo Lazaro - UP Faculty

Ben Roa - Prepian (elder brother ni Boots ) (husband ni Nora Borja - Prepian)

Jose Sason - Prepian

Jay Pecache - Prepian

Omar Sayoc

Dr. Art Taca

Boni Tamayo

Tristan Villareal - husband of Marlene Clemente ( Marlene, also a Prepian, sister of our Prep teacher Ms. Clemente)

Ernie Vizconde - youngerbrother ni Its

16 sa listahan mo ang kakilala ko. I didn't realize na si Relly ""Ciper" Cifra at si Walter del Rosario ay sumakabilang buhay na. I used to play chess with Relly sa Vinzons...lagi siyang panalo. Art Taca was easygoing, anak ng Director ng Manila Zoo. Dodie was black belter sa Judo; worked at United Labs. That's how we met again after college. I was with Richardson-Merrell. Di ba sina Yani at Jun Veron Cruz and kabatch mo sana...pero nagpa-defer ka dahil inatake ka ng asthma during a session?

Alam mo, nasaang landas kaya ang Pilipinas ngayon kung sina Jesus Lava ay nabigyan ng pagkakataong mamuno? Nasilip mo ba kung ano ang kasulatan na lumabas sa makinilya? 1959...aba may muwang na tayo noon. Naituro na ni Mrs. Rosario Cortes sa atin ang kasaysayan ng Pilipinas noon. Isa si M'am sa mga naunang gumamit ng mga kasulatan ni Dr. Agoncillo sa pagtuturo ng Kasaysayan.

Ping, di ko na alam contactin si Ed Labadia. Kay Maggie ko tanungin? Baka magalit si Higgy.

O, ingat. 40 pounds ang limit mo kargahin? Pag nagka-apo ka, kaya mo pang kargahin. Bilis , Tres Marias.

Always,

Pol&M

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Finally, it was time for us to depart. Tight handshakes and hugs were exchanged. Brother Oca couldn’t help getting misty eyed, he has to wear his Ray Bans to hide it. Sadness and happiness both can be seen on each other’s faces as we bade goodbye to the brothers at Jonah’s place. I can’t forget the tight hug that Brother Tito made – reluctantly letting you go, his eyes reddened with tears. Thanks so much to Brother Jojo Lobusta for teaching Brother Tito the “APO whistle”. It was fun watching Brother Tito sound that whistle with a nod and a wink! I miss you all my dear brothers. Brothers Cesar Frias, Alex Custodio, and Oliver Vergara, I am really honored to meet you all and I hope to see you again and let the experience remind you of what we are. It was one of the most memorable event and I felt sorry for all who missed it. Manang Linda, Brother Norie’s wife said: “This is the most alive and joyous Valentine Party that they had attended.” Lastly let us remind ourselves what brother Cesar Frias stressed in his word of wisdom – “Let unity be the main reason to keep the fraternity alive!”

HONORIO  SAN  PEDRO  AND  AUGIE  CAPULONG,  48 YEARS LATER OUR BAY AREA   CONTINGENT  AT MELCHOR   CAPILI' S  WAKE 

My uncle Melchor Martinez Capili (UP Prep High School '61 / BSEE, UP College of Engineering '67) passed away in San Francisco days ago. 

His high school friends include Renato Constantino Jr (cc: Marika B. Constantino) and Eddie Manalac. Kindly ask your friends to pray for the eternal repose of his soul.

SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES PREP 61 AT THE WAKE OF MELCHOR

 Destination San Francisco. "If you're going to San Francisco, be sure to wear some flowers in your hair...If you're going to San Francisco, Summertime will be a love-in there" We first arrived in San Francisco in the late 60's, enamored about the City, loved it and never left the place. I remember my first walk/day here in the US. The new country was a treat the culture did not surprise me as I was aware of the scenes from readings before, but then, mostly involved in search of a job. Funny, when we look back, we think, we squandered the times of our life when our hormones were in tune with our desires. I was single then, going to school in San Francisco and also at the California State University in Sacramento, during those days really experienced the happening, although a little bit subdued due to work in the day time. That song forever imprinted in my mind "San Francisco" it became an instant hit  and quickly transcended its original purpose by popularizing an idealized image of San Francisco. As the memories flicker down the memory lane, I wish to live back in the sixties with the images of the hills over the bay frozen in time....

ATOT TAN, DEO REYES, CARMELO MADRID, VALENZUELA COUPLE, ITS TAN, BELLA, ANDREW ANG,  RC, TING & ED MANALAC, FRONT STANDING DUDI CONSTANTINO, LULU PABLO, ANGELITA PASAMBA , POL MORAL , VIUS, SEATED QUENTIN PASTRANA

J. GUZMAN, A. CAPULONG, CAP, RC, AC

FROM RC  ANCIENT MEMORIES

 Panciteria Moderna was the place to go for pancit miki  and miki bihon

 already wrapped in their version of "tetra pak".  Pancit bihon was the

 specialty of Panciteria Wa Nam.

 At Ma Mon Luk siopao was at 30 centavos; mami was at 70 centavos or 2

 pcs of siomai (large) with unlimited soup was at 30 centavos. So with

 one  peso busog ka na.

 

The Shangri-la in the basement of Shelborne Hotel (at the back) was

 the place to go for dates if you wanted a dark and cozy atmosphere.

 The  Embers (in Cubao) of Bert Nievera was also popular. The Black

 Angel along Shaw Blvd near the corner of Kalentong in Mandaluyong was

 a very good place to listen to soft music (e.g. Fleetwoods, etc) and

 the lights were also quite low. With Php 30- 50 in your pocket you

 were in pretty good shape for a date.

 "Bakuran" was the in-thing at parties with "screening" from a friend

 to assist you in getting a dance with a girl who was very sought

 after.

 Wack-Wack, the Sky Room in Jai-Alai, the penthouse of the Rufino

 Bldg. as well as the penthouse of the Sarmiento Bldg right opposite it

 were the favorite places for proms and balls. Sikat ang event if the

 Hi-Jacks; the Electromaniacs or the Technicolors was the "combo"

 playing. Alta Vista along Roxas Blvd. was the favorite place for

 wedding receptions at Php8.50 per cover!

 PLDT telephone numbers were five digits and you used your index finger

 to dial a number one at a time.

 If you remember all these things, you're history in great company and

 I dare say, happy to be.

 Since the writer was fleeting between two generations (60's-70"s), you

 party goers surely remember the Dyna Souls (dubbed the Beatles of the

 Philippines) , The Tilt Down Men (The Sotto brothers, Tito & Val,

 favored the Dave Clark 5) Jaime Jose & the Deltas* (remember Maggie

 Dela Riva?) What about gate crashing a "Tipar" (for party) and the

 ensuing rumble between feuding barkadas: The Havocs, Combat, &

 Exotics, meron pang kanya-kanyang busina (car honking IDs).

 Remember BMI (Baguio Military Institute)? That school was a dumping

 ground for kicked out students from Manila and kids that needed

 discipline. Let us not forget ang mga taga "Baste" (San Sebastian).

 Ang daming siga noong araw.

 Sure you remember playing Pelota... And drag racing along Ortigas and

 behind Meralco..

 Sikat ka sa barkada kung may "syota" (girl friend) kang  "Colegiala"

 (Assumption, STC, St. Scho, Maryknoll, Holy Spirit;  and the other

 schools - St. Paul's, St. Joseph, Centro Escolar ). As proof, you

 should be wearing her high school ring in your pinkie finger...And

 dapat karta 9 ...You probably took her out to the Butterfly (at UP) to

 listen to folk songs and sip Butterfly Iced Tea.

 Did you get to date a "chick" from Brent (Baguio) and IS  (Makati)?

 Of course you should have enough cash for the gaso (gas), tsibog

 (food/dinner) , cover charge/drinks at the Flame or Rino's, konting

 damo, and for the finale, enough datong (cash) para sa "biglang liko".

 Or kung gipit for cash, park at the huge lot of Folk Arts and just do

 it in the car...Kaya lang dapat may "Tapwe" (Singkuwenta pesos) pang

 lagay sa parak (police), and a handy calling card of a military

 officer with a  hand written note in the back that "you should be

 given utmost courtesy"... .jeesh...

 Then in the late 70's early 80's came the CB radio phenomenon.. Tibs

 on Makati Ave. for beer and happy hour at the Manila Garden; always

 overflowing with beer and chicken wings...Tapos masahe sa Imperial

 Palace  or  Maalikaya... To cap the night, a stop at Birds of the Same

 Feather for smooth jazz courtesy of Eddie Katindig.

 Tapos you get to do it all over again the following day.

 

MONTALBAN, FOJAS, CAROL CORPUS, JOSE ACEVEDO , RC

When we were young, we were in a hurry to grow up
The future a dream and now the reality
These were icons of our mind as kids
Now we know and we have learned

Tomorrow, the tomorrow is uncertain
With unknown script
You don't know how
Life can bring it
Because everything is passing
And what will happen tomorrow
Nobody knows.

Now that our wish came true
To become adults, our life is complete
Time is not enough for our dreams anymore

Our childhood is gone…

The Captain's Table, opposite us Judith and Wayne my warm immediate friends

RIP AMADO SANTOS

Amado Punzalang is the virtuoso on the piano. He resides in New Jersey. He plays sa simbahan.  Paul Montalban and Vivian are musicians as well.  Did you know that Paolo Montalban (Cinderella actor, partner of Brandy) is the son of Paul?  A handful of our 61 classmates live in the West Coast as listed:  Jose Guzman, Honorio San Pedro, Erlinda Ramos, Victoria Tolentino, Jose Buenaventura, Amado Santos, Ernesto Tan Gatue, Edgardo Silverio, Milagros Suva, Lilac Umali, Evelyn Fontanilla, Sister Elsa Sevilla, Josefino Quiambao, Dolores Vergara, Melchor Capili, Augusto Capulong etc.  Carol Corpus, Paul M., Amado Punzalang, Nilda Fulgencio reside in the East Coast.  Vilma Bala, Ping Fargas, Macrina de Leon etc. nasa Toronto. naman.  Nelia Gonzales nasa Richmond, BC, Canada naman. George Olivar passed away three months ago.  Jose Sason & Jose Pecache passed on too.....a few years back


Dear Amado,

Since you are the piano virtuoso among the classmates, here is a collection of concert grands including the Bosendorfer that you admire and wish to play. Take care and Click below......

• THE CONCERT GRAND PIANOS
• God Bless, ASC

Our Field trips to Bagiuo: The University of the Philippines made this field trips available to the student body under the supervision of Mr. Rubio. I remember our trips to Bagiuo and Bicol by train. The later, I was not able to avail. students start the term with a trip to various High Schools, either to a resort, an American base, or towns in Luzon. School life is also enriched by additional field trips to such places important to the nation’s infrastructure, like dams, markets, military base and institutions like PMA.  BURNHAM PARK Bagiuo below photos


Burnham Park, where we rented roller skates, and then, shared one of these tricycles with an upper class junior. I held both her hands, no names please, a boyish romantic encounter. Surely an unforgettable Chance Encounter for a boy of 13,  as she shifted towards me. We cuddled and continued to ride in the cool afternoon fog.

1st row: Manuel Edralin,Wilfredo de Leon,Cynthia Cuevas,Eldora Bella,Nilda Fulgencio, Araceli Cruz (?),Lourdes Gacad,Rosalita Vizconde,Melanie Villanueva,Lilia Laqui,Frine Bautista, Rosalinda Roa Edgardo Cruz
2nd row: Roma Clemente,Roberto San Juan, Oscar Recto, Milagros Suva, Lilac Umali, Elizabeth Stuart, Melind Caparas, Erlinda Ramos, Lourdes Balderrama,Bilma Bala,Roberto Roa,Romeo Fojas
3rd row:Romeo Miclat,Paul Montalban,Virgilio Vergara,Jose Acevedo,Jose Fargas,Amado Santos,Philip Kastner,Jesus Ching, Melchor Capili, Pascual Veron Cruz, Eduardo Maglaque and Rodnel Javier

1960: I became aware of my heritage in my junior year at UP Prep and began preparation for my appointment as a cadet of the PMA at Fort Del Pilar. This was a period in my teen years that I remember fondly, memories in my High School, of the hectic days, dashing thru the corridors catching my schedule of classes at Rizal Hall. I recall my bag loaded with books, eager, wide eyed, and quick to learn the tenets of math, the arts and sciences. I remember past friends and stormy situations that most teenagers weathered through. As in life surviving the unspoken pecking order among bigger classmates and the so called in crowd was the rule. That lone wolf streak that kept me apart, which peers seemed to see as a weakness was a measure of heritage that set me off from the current teenage precepts of the day. Later, when of age and after further studies, having ever spurred curiosity, whetted my appetite for a life of adventure, of soldiering and foreign lands. 

BOTH OF THIS PHOTO  ONE THIRD  (13)  DEPARTED TO ANOTHER DIMENSION BEGINNING WITH MISS GALANG, NICK PELAEZ, JOSE QUIAMBAO..MELCHOR CAPILI..MAMERTO MADELA...NESTOR RIVADELO...EVANGELINE GABRIEL...

MANUEL EDRALIN....CARLOS GARCIA...ERNESTO VILLAREAL, HECTOR LUMBERIO

Hello Cap and Helen, Alex and Marissa,

Maraming salamat! Kahit aanim lang tayo, (Si Augie and Violet missing-in-action and much missed) masaya at busog na busog kami sa

ating salu-salo. Pati ang mga anak namin, sina Karmina at Noel, walang katapusang rave sa ginisang munggo ni Helen at yung broiled

catfish niya (to die for talaga ang sarap!!!).

Thanks Alex for the many tips o various matters and MARISSA! for the beautiful music. Ang galing-galing mo palang mag-piano. And Helen, your shopping tips are invaluable. I will really take you up on your offer na sa next

tagpuan natin, e, sa city na tayo magkita. PERO, kailangan pagdating ninyo sa Pilipinas, (sa Marso, alam ko,nandito kayo) bigyan naman ninyo kami ng isang araw para kami naman ang mag-host ng mini sa inyo.

Pasusundo namin kayo sa Morong. Ayan, wala na kayong excuse. Let us know when you are back in the Pilipinas Islands so we can schedule it.

 Again, our thanks to all of you. Helen, mamaya ko na ipadadala ko yung galing kay Karmina. Mag lalast day labas muna kami nila RC, Noel

and Karmina. Of course, kaladkad namin ang mga bata.

Dudi and RC

After a terrific night in Vallejo, Dudi and I just got up after lazing 

away in bed practically the whole morning recollecting accounts of the 

night.

Thanks to Cap and his gracious wife Helen for organizing and hosting 

the mini. It was great to see you guys once again. It was fun!!

After 47 years we finally meet up with Alex and his lovely wife 

Marissa. And to think they were living only three blocks away from 

Cap up to about 3 years ago! It really takes a mini to reconnect.

Pol: Alex should be your friend (now!) he has just lost some 20 

pounds and is now a slimmer 204 pounds! Not the same size as in Prep!

Hehehe.

Thanks to Joe for driving all the way from Dublin. Missed Mayette.

Thanks to Augie and Violet for finally finding Cap's house while 

avoiding launching divorce proceedings on the way.

The food and the wine AND the company makes me fully support the plan 

to organize a reunion as soon as possible. A cruise would be an 

excellent opportunity to bond once more. Remember we're all in the 

"pre-departure lounge."

LEFT TO RIGHT, FRONT ROW: FRINE BAUTISTA, LILIA LAQUI, EVA FAROLAN, SEVILLA, FONTANILLA, N. GALANG, 2ND ROW, NICK PELAEZ, ALEX C, JOSE QUIAMBAO, J. GUZMAN, SALVADOR, MELCHOR CAPILI,  3RD ROW:  P. VILLAVICENCIO, GODOFREDO ALARAS, ROGELIO CUEVAS, MANUEL MEDINA, MAMERTO MADELA, NESTOR RIVADELO

STANDING: EVA FAROLAN, MACRINA DE LEON,  SITTING: NEL MENDOZA, HEDY, 50 YEARS LATER BELOW

LEFT TO RIGHT: FARGAS, HERBOSA, DE LEON, VERON CRUZ, SILVERIO, RIVADELO, TANGATUE, CAPULONG

The University of the Philippines made this field trips available to the student body under the supervision of Mr. Rubio. I remember our trips to Bagiuo and Bicol by train. The later, I was not able to avail. students start the term with a trip to various High Schools, either to a resort, an American base, or towns in Luzon. School life is also enriched by additional field trips to such places important to the nation’s infrastructure, like dams, markets, military base and institutions like PMA.  

Baguio Market

Market place, Baguio, Pines Hotel where we

 stayed for two nights

View of the Bagiuo Cathedral from my PATRIA hotel room located adjacent to Pines Hotel.

MY ARTS TEACHER MS Viduya_Marita . MY SCIENCE TEACHER MISS JULLIETA DAYAP Just want to share this photo with you classmates. Sent this photo to RC, Its, Vads and Augie earlier. Sent also a copy to Tom Banguis, Jr. ... he retouched and enhanced it at his Ad firm and sent it back to me. Photo taken at the old Aristocrat restaurant at Cubao. I booked this gig  for my cousin, Letty Sunico, the celebrant (debutant).. . elder sister of Raul Sunico - the concert pianist. Raul Sunico's late Dad and my late  Mom are 1st cousins. Can't remember the year... still remember what I was playing when this photo was taken, Perfidia by the Ventures. Left to right: Augie Capulong - bass; Tom Banguis, Jr. - drums; cousin of Tom - lead guitar; Ping Fargas - lead guitar; RC Constantino - manager;  Arthur Tan - rhythm ; Pong Villareal drums Lanie...can still play a lot of '60's instrumental pieces by The Ventures and The Shadows.  Have 2 Fender electric guitars and 2 acoustic nylon guitars and a huge Fender ampli here in Toronto. Do you know that Vads joined  the band after Augie and Atot left. Vads can play the keyboards, bass and piano ... ang galing niya. And we added, Chito Bacani,  cousin of Vius as our lead guitarist, matinik sa lead guitar kaysa sa amin. My younger brother took over the drums from Tom  Banguis when he left. Was the only original member that joined the new group ( The Extremes) after Atot found a new manager.  Left the band after graduating 1966 ..so did Vads and the cousin of Vius. My brother formed a new band ( The Nitwits ) all from  San Beda. Do you know that one of the classmates of my brother, Danny, is the son of Lino Bocalan (famous smuggler then)  he also formed a band called, The Tilt Down Men ...lead vocalist si Tito Sotto . .. those were the days...... VALENZUELA, MANALAC, ATOT TAN, DE GUZMAN, C PASCUAL, VIUS, FOJAS, BUENAVENTURA NEL MENDOZA, HEDY SAGUIL, EVA FAROLAN Charmaine is our school song, and it begins like this… I wonder if you will remember? Prep High, Prep High I wonder if you will remember? Prep High, Prep High.  I wonder when Prep High is calling, Will you come back again? I wonder if you'll keep on striving  For the welfare of our land? I hope you will keep e'er alight    The bright flames Of leadership learned at Prep High You'll go away graduation day We know you have to go 'Mid tears and cheers we'll let you go  Prep High must let you go. When old leaves turn to new Prep High will call on you. TIP RIP         RIP Dr. Imelda Ocampo Andres RIP CLASSMATES I shall not see the shadows, I shall not feel the rain; I shall not hear the nightingale Sing on, as if in pain: And dreaming through the twilight That doth not rise nor set, Haply I may remember, And haply may forget. Arlene  Aquino Evangeline Gabriel Hector Lumberio Purita Resurreccion Alipio Baluyot George Olivar Emanuel Manalac Mamerto Madella  Nicolas Pelaez Jose Sason Jose S.  Pecache Oscar Recto Amado Santos Carlos Garcia Ernesto Villareal Manuel Edralin Melchor Capili Nestor Rivadelo Dr. Imelda Andres Nilda Fulgencio Rodnel Javier Lulu Pablo Josefino Quiambao My High School: UP Prep was a unique high school created in 1954, when the UP Board of Regents authorized then UP President Vidal Tan to open a first class high school in Manila. The school’s high standard curriculum was designed for secondary school graduates with the aptitudes and intellectual talents for university level education. The faculty was carefully selected for these advanced subjects. Only by passing a battery of rigorous examinations could a student get in, and once accepted, he or she had to hurdle to pass each of the four tough years of the highest standard of education ever given to high school students in the Philippines before one could graduate. In 1973, after graduating 20 classes — comprised altogether of 1500 graduates — UP Prep was merged with UP High School to later become what is now known as UP Integrated High School. Basta salamat sa mga San Pedro, kasama na si Honorio at Edgar. Saw Q's email sa UP APO loop namin... bilin sa aming kabatch Cesar "Karias" Frias (also here in Ontario), alagaan daw ako dahil 5 na ang SLN sa aming batch. Namely: (1) Jay Pecache (2) Jose Sason (3) Dr. Joel Ganaban (4) Rellie Cifra (5) Boni Tamayo. Ooops!... ayoko pang maging # 6. Ok lang ang #17 dahil 17 kami sa batch namin, hehehe Alam mo bang kabatch ko sina  Doddie Bautista Gerry Bautista Manny Bustamante Vic Calulut Nanding Casanova Rellie Cifra Manny (Duck) Clamor Boy Dalao Walter del Rosario - Prepian Bobby Galias - our GC when I joined APO Dr. Joel Ganaban Elpi Pada Ed Pastoral Florendo Rabago - UP Faculty Guillermo Lazaro - UP Faculty Ben Roa - Prepian (elder brother ni Boots ) (husband ni Nora Borja - Prepian) Jose Sason - Prepian Jay Pecache - Prepian Omar Sayoc Dr. Art Taca Boni Tamayo Tristan Villareal - husband of Marlene Clemente ( Marlene, also a Prepian, sister of our Prep teacher Ms. Clemente) Ernie Vizconde - youngerbrother ni Its 16 sa listahan mo ang kakilala ko. I didn't realize na si Relly ""Ciper" Cifra at si Walter del Rosario ay sumakabilang buhay na. I used to play chess with Relly sa Vinzons...lagi siyang panalo. Art Taca was easygoing, anak ng Director ng Manila Zoo. Dodie was black belter sa Judo; worked at United Labs. That's how we met again after college. I was with Richardson-Merrell. Di ba sina Yani at Jun Veron Cruz and kabatch mo sana...pero nagpa-defer ka dahil inatake ka ng asthma during a session? REFER TO 2 RIGHT PHOTOS 1960: I became aware of my heritage in my junior year at UP Prep and began preparation for my appointment at the PMA in Fort Del Pilar. This was a period in my teen years that I remember fondly, memories in my High School, of the hectic days, dashing thru the corridors catching my schedule of classes at Rizal Hall. I recall my bag loaded with books, eager, wide eyed, and quick to learn the tenets of math, the arts and sciences. I remember past friends and stormy situations that most teenagers weathered through. As in life surviving the unspoken pecking order among bigger classmates and the so called in crowd was the rule. That lone wolf streak that kept me apart, which peers seemed to see as a weakness was a measure of heritage that set me off from the current teenage precepts of the day. Later, when of age and after further studies, having ever spurred curiosity, whetted my appetite for a life of adventure, of soldiering and foreign lands. When you are old and gray and full of sleep, And nodding by the fire, take down this book, And slowly read, and dream of the soft look Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep; How many loved your moments of glad grace, And loved your beauty with love false or true; But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face. And bending down beside the flowing bars Murmur, a little sadly, how love fled And paced upon the mountains overhead And hid his face amid a crowd of stars. Quand vous serez bien vieille par Pierre de Ronsard Quand vous serez bien vieille, au soir, à la chandelle, Assise auprès du feu, dévidant et filant, Direz, chantant mes vers, en vous émerveillant: "Ronsard me célébrait du temps que j’étais belle!" Lors, vous n’aurez servante oyant telle nouvelle, Déjà sous le labeur à demi sommeillant, Qui au bruit de Ronsard ne s’aille réveillant, Bénissant votre nom de louange immortelle. Je serai sous la terre, et, fantôme sans os, Par les ombres myrteux je prendrai mon repos: Vous serez au foyer une vieille accroupie, Regrettant mon amour et votre fier dédain. Vivez, si m’en croyez, n’attendez à demain: Cueillez dès aujourd’hui les roses de la vie. The summer sun is sinking low; Only the tree-tops redden and glow: Only the weathercock on the spire Of the neighboring church is a flame of fire;      All is in shadow below. O beautiful, awful summer day, What hast thou given, what taken away? Life and death, and love and hate, Homes made happy or desolate,      Hearts made sad or gay! On the road of life one mile-stone more! In the book of life one leaf turned o'er! Like a red seal is the setting sun On the good and the evil men have done,--      Naught can to-day restore!..HWL I WAS READING SOME OLD 61 EMAILS AND CAME ACROSS THE NICKNAMES. I WOULD SAY IT WAS HILARIOUS TO READ THIS AND HOW CLASSMATES REMEMBER EACH AND EVERY ONE. YOU WERE VERY KIND, SOME NAMES ARE X-RATED AS I RECALL, BUT  YOU DID A GOOD JOB RECALLING THE SANITIZED MONICKER....ASC After 38 years, not an easy task. Kaya pala si Kardinal ang na-assign na mag-recall: mahirap na medyo delikado pa.Mahirap dahil hindi ako saksi sa lahat ng pangyayari sa lahat ng sections. Delikado dahil baka may sugat namanariwa. Pero katuwaan lang ito. Sana lahat matuwa at walang mapikon--afterall trabaho lang ito at " recaller" lang ako hindi "namer" o "baptizer". Bato-bato sa langit, ang matamaan mag-email agad. > 1.Jose Acevedo. Babe, Baba, Ali Baba. > 2.Godofredo Alaras. Godofredo. > 3.Corazon Amante. Cora. Pipit( from Joey) > 4.Andrew Ang.Ang. Undress Ang > 5.Arlene Aquino+. Arlene, Stitch, Stitch. 6.Vilma Bala. Vilma. Bambi. > 7.Lourdes Balderrama. Dudi......(aka. ..Balde shortened version of Balderama) > 8.Alipio Baluyut+. Alip. > 9.Frine Bautista. Frine. > 10.Eldora Bella. Dhoree. 11.Jose Buenaventura. Joey. Yat. > 12.Melinda Caparas. Melinda. It. 13.Melchor Capili. Melchor. Cap. Ohab( from Ping) 14.Augusto Capulong. Augie. 15.Nemesio Ceralde. Jr. Boy. Boyd. Tenggoy Jr. 16.Jesus Ching. Ching...(aka Foo Man Ching) 17.Renato Constantino, Jr. RC. Yat. One Beer Kid. Wangbu. 18.Carol Corpus. Carol.Carole. 19.Cynthia Cuevas. Cynthia. Cindy. 20.Rogelio Cuevas. Cuevas. Roger. 21.Alexander Custodio. Alex,Todio. Custodio.... Gen. "Bull" Tojo (Japanese mannerism of bowing) HERE IN THE US THEY CALL HIM "RAGTIME" > 22.Manuel Edralin. Manny. Edra. Antok. > 23.Jose Fargas. Ping. > 24.Evangeline Farolan. Eva. > 25.Wilhelmina Fernandez. Mimay. Curly Bangs. 26.Romeo Fojas. Fojie. > 27.Evelyn Fontanilla. Evelyn. > 28.Nilda Fulgencio. Nilda. FT.French Twist. >29.Carlos Garcia. Itoy. Bukol...Elvis pompadour and then shortened, aka..Elpo Boy/Epoy.... last time I saw Epoy was at Mapua during my Junior year; he was registering for classes with his older brother. > 30.Nelia Gonzales. Nelia. Nel. 31.Jose Guzman. Guzman. Joe. > 32.Rene Herbosa. Rene. Pompoy. > 33.Romeo Imbuido.. Romy. Imbudo. > 34.Marilyn Jamias. Marilyn...The Pianist > 35.Rodnel Javier. Rodnel....McKinley Boy...aka Medyas from Lilia   > 36.Lilia Laqui. Lilia....(crush of Rodnel) > 37.Macrina de Leon. Macrina. Macre. > 38.Wilfrido de Leon. Willy. Daga. Tenga. > 39.Hector Lumberio. Lumberio. Hec. > 40.Mamerto Madella+. Madella. (Saw him last at V-Luna Hospital for our Physical for PMA;he has hypertension and skin rash;I was myopic; he got in, at second try. 41.Carmelo Madrid. Madrid. > 42.Eduardo Maglaque. Ed. 43.Bayani Mandanas. Yani. Bondy. Bondat. > 44.Emmanuel Manalac+. Emmy. Emong. > 45.Eduardo Manalac. Ed. Eddie. >  > 46.Manuel Medina. Medy. Manny. > 47.Bonita de Mesa. Bonita. Bonnie. > 48.Paul Montalban. Paul. > 49.Leopoldo Moral, Jr. Pol. Moral.Neggy. Cardinal. > 50.Juliana Nable. Juliana. Julie...aka Noble >  > 51.Teresita Narciso. Tessie. Kumbinto. > 52.Edgar Navarro. Ed > 53.Imelda Ocampo. Imelda. > 54.George Olivar, Jr. George. Diyords. > 55.Marcelita Ordonez. Marce. 56.Lualhati Pablo. Lulu. Usec Pablo. > 57.Angelita Pasamba.Angelita. Lita. Angge. > 58.Cesar Pascual. Cesar. Sandok. Sandy. > 59.Quintin Pastrana. Quintin. Bakya. Q. > 60.Mildred Patino. Mildred. >  > 61.Jose Pecache+. Pec. Jay...aka Pecs he likes to flex his "muscles" > 62.Nicolas Pelaez+. Pelaez. Nic.Negro... .Nick can be persistent in his quest for a girlfriend. We once followed a certain sophomore named Kathleen.... . all the way home thru busses and jeepneys with her, and managed to egged a smile; all the while serenading her the Irish ditty Kathleen in front of passengers.  > 63.Amado Punsalang, Jr. Amado. Dodie. 64.Josefino Quiambao. Quiambao. Pepe.....aka Yodel King > 65.Barbara Ramirez. Babs. > 66.Corazon Ramirez. Cora. Corkie. > 67.Erlinda Ramos. Erlinda... > 68.Helen Reantaso. Helen. > 69.Oscar Recto+. Oca. Torecs. > 70.Irma Remo. Irma. > 71.Deo Reyes. Deo. > 72.Nestor Rivadelo. Vads.Sleeping Vads. > 73.Roberto Roa. Boots...He is in LA according to relatives I met aboard ship. > 74.Rosalinda Roa. Rosalinda. > 75.Romeo Salvador. Romy....aka Anita Eckberg > 76.Alberto San Agustin. Bert. > 77.Roberto San Juan. Johnny. Bot. San Juan. > 78.Honorio San Pedro. Nori. Honorio. > 79.Amado Santos, Jr. Dong. Jun. > 80.Jose Sason. Sax. Negro. Kulot. Nonoy. Saxon. Saxophone. >  81.Zenaida Seva. Zeny. > 82.Ma. Lourdes Saguil. Hedy....last time I saw her was during the end of our sophomore year; Loved to dance with her slow (that is the only dance I know) even if I was only her shoulder height ...sorry Lani, that was before the prom. > 83.Elsa Cristina Sevilla. Elsa. Sister. MS...No nonsense Elsa > 84.Edgardo Silverio. Ed. Silver. Kabayo. > 85.Milagros Suva. Mila.  > 86.Arthur Tan. Atot. > 87.Ernesto Tan-Gatue.Boy. ..Beat up Hannibal Manikan mano a mano > 88.Victoria Tolentino. Vicky. Toyang. > 89.Lilac Umali. Lilac. > 90.Oscar Valenzuela. Oscar. Oca. > 91.Dolores Vergara. Dolores. Dolly. > 92.Virgilio Vergara. Vius. Ilyong. Ronnie. > 93.Pascual Veron-Cruz Jr. Pascual. Kalbo. Pasky. Jun...aka Math Wiz Veron > 94.Melanie Villanueva. Melanie. Lani. > 95.Ernesto Villareal. Pong. Ponga. > 96.Pablo Villavicencio. Pablo.Bing. > 97.Rosalita Vizconde. Rosalita. Its. > 98.Cynthia Catindig. Cynthia. > 99.Evangeline Gabriel. Evangeline.. ...aka..Smiling Vangie..always with a smile > 100.Lourdes Gacad. Lourdes. 2002 Somewhere in the Pacific Atoll of Kwajalein. Of the 29 atolls, 27 are accessible by small plane (Air Marshall Islands). Majuro and Kwajalein atolls, the two population centres are serviced by both Air Marshall Islands and Continental Air Micronesia Jet Aircraft. Kwajalein Atoll is in the heart of the Marshall Islands. It lies in the Ralik Chain, 2,100 nmi (2,400 mi; 3,900 km) southwest of Honolulu, Hawaii at 8°43′N 167°44′E. Kwajalein is the world's largest coral atoll and comprises 93 islands and islets, it has a land area of 1,560 acres (6.33 km²),[1]:12 and surrounds one of the largest lagoons in the world, measuring 324 mi² (839 km²) in size. The two most significant land masses are Kwajalein Island in the south, and the linked islands of Roi-Namur in the north. By the start of World War II, the Marshalls (South Pacific Mandate) were already an integral part of the Japanese perimeter of defense. Its facilities were being utilized as outlying bases for submarines and surface warships, as well as for air staging for future advances being planned against Ellice, the Fiji Islands, and Samoa. The Battle of Kwajalein was fought as part of the Pacific campaign of World War II. It took place from 31 January-3 February 1944, on Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands. Employing the hard-learned lessons of the battle of Tarawa, the United States launched a successful twin assault on the main islands of Kwajalein in the south and Roi-Namur in the north. The Japanese defenders put up stiff resistance, although outnumbered and under-prepared. The determined defense of Roi-Namur left only 51 survivors of an original garrison of 3,500. For the US, the battle represented both the next step in its island-hopping march to Japan and a significant moral victory because it was the first time the Americans had penetrated the "outer ring" of the Japanese Pacific sphere. For the Japanese, the battle represented the failure of the beach-line defense. Japanese defenses became prepared in depth, and the battles of Peleliu, Guam, and the Marianas proved far more costly to the US. Trivia: The places to go to for lunch were: BY RC 1. Cherry Pink on Taft Ave.Patronized  mainly by girls. Sosyal. 2. Green Valley, adjacent to Rizal Hall. Only Prep boys go there...to eat and smoke. For P.40, you get rice, beef steak. For p .10 more, you get Coke. 3. Rizal Hall canteen. Pag-aari nina Auring, George, and siblings. Helper,s name: Agustin. Nakaaway yata ni RC. Here you have choices of rice meals, palabok, sandwiches. 4. Justice Canteen. Behind the Dept. of Foreign Affairs. This is the place where you want to be seen dining. Minimum cost of lunch is P.60. The place is really for DOJ  officials and justices; patrons smoke blue seal  Chesterfields or Salems. It's best to be there on a Monday, when your allowance for the week is still intact. Special ringside seats for performances at the Araneta Coliseum were at Php 5.00 per. So with Php 20.00 you could safely invite someone and still have enough for a snack afterwards or a game of "putt and putt" at t he mini-golf place located at the back of Araneta. During early 60's, 5 centavos and 10 centavos ang bayad sa jeep. Manila and Suburbs ang lahat ng biyahe ng jeep noon na 3 seater lang at pitpit ka pagbata ka pag sumakay ka. Sa Avenida at Sta. Cruz, Blumentritt, Tayuman, San Roque Church, Espiritu Santo Church, Grace Park at Monumento ang mga sikat na lugar. Yung Good Earth Emporium pwede ring idagdag sa mga magagandang shopping mall noong araw. Yung Manila Grand Opera house, Odeon, Hollywood, Cinerama, Ideal, State, Lyric, Capitol ang mga sikat na sinehan noon. Sa Q.C ay sikat yung Max's Chicken at Dayrit. Ang dollar rate noon ay 3.70Php sa 1$ ang palitan. Ang Sarsi ay cinco centavos (5 centavos) 10 Centavos ang Coke. Pero sikat yung Canada Dry, Uva at orange ang paborito namin noon. Pag pasko madalas kami sa Sta Cruz para manood ng palabas sa Manila COD para sa Xmas season. Noon walang chippy at potato chips, ang merienda ay banana cue,  camote cue, palitaw, biko, pinipig, halo-halo,carioca, pilipit, butsi, hopiang hapon, hopiang munggo, hopiang baboy, bibingka, puto, cassava, cake o budin, suman at mani. Ang apple ay apat-piso ang benta sa Lawton Bus terminal. Mas mahal pa yung local na chico na pineras. Ang grapes, pear, at apple ang karaniwang binebenta sa mga bus terminal na papuntang south (BLTB). Ang bus noon ay bukas lahat yung isang side kaya doon dumadaan ang mga pasahero. Ang sikat na mga Plaza noon ay Plaza Goiti, Plaza Miranda at Plaza Sta. Cruz. Sa mga bakery sa Manila ay sikat yung machacao na tinapay. May I add: Hallili Beer (sold to the Sorianos), Tody chocolate drink in cans, Julep, Pancho Pantero, Horlicks malted milk tablets; Hallili bus, Super (dog logo) Transit, Yujuico, JD & MD buses; ShoeMart Carriedo (the first SM) followed   by 2nd ShoeMart beside Ideal Theater and fourth was SM Echague with a revolving restaurant at the top floor. Safari Club beside Manila Zoo at the height of the "Twist" craze, Dance-O-Rama with Pete Roa & Baby O'Brien, Jam Session every 6PM on television. Now anyone who missed those days can't really claim they've seen and tasted the best. Every generation has its own set of "Aces". Do you recall when: You tasted Fres Gusto, Cosmos "Sarsi" Sarsaparilla, RC Cola, Yes Cola, Teem, Darigold Evap, Liberty Condensada, Choco Vim, Sunkist Orange (in tetra packs), Magnolia Chocolait, (pronounced chocolight), Klim (the word "milk" spelled backwards), Big 20 Hamburgers, Foot-long hotdog, Tweet & Jiggs Candies (by Mr. Krieger), Sugus Candies, Choco Nut, Tootsie Roll, Blenda Margarine, Serg's Chocolate, kerosene-flavored popcorn and kropeck along Dewey Blvd, dirty ice cream, Magnolia Ice Cream sandwich, Selecta ice cream (now Arce Dairy) and their fresh carabao's milk, Magnolia popsicles in orange, chocolate and  langka flavors, Sison Ice Drops in monggo, and buko flavors, Milky Way's buko sherbet, Acme Supermarket' s sundaes and Coney Island's 32 flavors? You went to: Syvel's, Assandas, Arcegas at the Maranaw Arcade, Funhouse at Bricktown, Aguinaldo, Erehwon Bookstore, Alemars Bookstore, Bookmark, Botica Boie, Makati Supermarket (in Makati!), Rizal Theater (with its spacious lobby) with D'Bankers Barbershop and Leila's Coffee Shop, Tropical Hut (and its hamburger), Acme Supermarket, Cherry Foodarama, The Regent of Manila, Hotel Mabuhay, Manila Hilton, Christmas carnival (where Dusit Hotel now stands), Villa Pansol and Lido Beach? Rizal what?" "Who would be crazy to build a cinema in the middle ofnowhere?" It turned out to be the best theater in the city of Makati (at the same site now occupied by Shangri-La Hotel). And ate at: The original A&W along UN Avenue in Manila, Aristocrat across Malate Church, Italian Village, cafÃ(c) Valenzuela, Bonanza Restaurant, Brown Derby, Little Quiapo, Country Bake Shop, Selecta Restaurants (owned by the Arce family), Taza de Oro; New Europe, Madrid, Cucina Italiana, La Cibeles at A. Mabini, The Plaza, Jade Garden Restaurant, Luau, The Makati Automat, Sulo Restaurant (in Makati), Makati Fastfood Center (the first ever), Bulakena, Casa Marcos, Au Bon Vivant, Salambao Restaurant, Dairy Queen along Buendia, Di Mark's Pizza, the elegant dining room of the old Army & Navy Club. Botica Boie in Escolta, Albas in Florida, Malate Brown Derby and their signature foot-long hotdog came with its special, extra tarty mustard sauce and a hot, crispy bun. We used to park at their drive-in bays after we were exhausted from all-night partying but with enough energy to gobble down sausages and soft drinks. The Plaza was the favorite venue for all formal school and social functions. Food was not a big factor so long as cozy couples could have their special table for two. You shopped at: Escolta, Harrison Plaza (when it was still clean and had the bump cars), Ali Mall, Rustan's in San Marcelino, Aguinaldo's in Cubao, Quezon City; Shoemart in Makati was a small, split-level affair. The original Rustan's was the garage of the Tantoco's residential house which was eventually converted into a dazzling shop filled with eclectic things and collectibles. Blockbuster movies were: Love Story, Mahogany, Saturday Night Fever, Grease, Planet of the Apes, Star Wars, Logan's Run, Battlestar Galactica, Paper Chase, Enter The Dragon, Jaws, Towering Inferno, Poseidon Adventure, Carrie, Willard (theme song was Ben sang by a young Michael Jackson), Exorcist, Love Bug, Tinimbang Ka Nguni't Kulang. You wore, carried or used Denman brush tucked in your back pants pocket, Jordache and Sassoon jeans, Bata rubber shoes, Botak running shoes, Ace flexible comb, Ace clutchbag, Carrera shades, Ray-Ban, Photochromic and Ambermatic shades, Foster Grant sunglasses, Alaskin, tie-dye shirts and pants, double-knit pants, Sergio Valente, Vidal Sassoon, Fiorucci, Banlon, Ye-ye Vonnel shirts, Nik-Nik, Bang-Bang, Faded Glory, Jazzie, Puma Topfit, Tiger Onitsuka, Happy Feet, clogs, Wet look shoes, Pierre Cardin, Brut, Jovan musk oil and grass oil, Aramis, platform shoes with bell-bottom pants and wide-buckled belts. You had your hair styled or permed by: Flavio and Carmen, Nomer's, Lita Rio, Grace Lagman, Dick & Lucy, and Kayumanggi. That was the time of Aqua Net stiff, foot-high beehives, French twist and Kiss Me liquid eye liners and Pretty Quik instant facial blotters. You sang: Bobby, Bobby, Bobby by Jo Ann Campbell, Someday by Ricky Nelson, And I Love Her by the Beatles, Cherish by the Association, Because by Dave Clark Five, Distant Shores by Chad and Jeremy, Rainy Days & Mondays by the Carpenters, You've Got a Friend by Carol King, Hundred Miles by Peter, Paul and Mary, Evergreen by Paul Williams. Saved whole month's allowance P50 to watch the Beatles perform live at Rizal Memorial Coliseum in 1965. It was hip to listen to: Bingo Lacson and Jo San Diego (past midnight) of DZMT, the singing sensations from Ateneo de Manila? RJ and the Riots, The Loonilarks, Joe Mari Chan and the APO Hiking Society and dance to live combo music garbed in cocktail dresses and dark suits. DZMT was affiliated with the Manila Times and was the only broadcast station that stayed on the air past midnight. Jo San Diego was their anchor woman (she with the velvety bedroom voice). And danced at: Manila Hotel's Jungle Bar, Stargazer, Bayside Night Club (with live music by the Carding Cruz band), and the Nile (and the Italian singing group Five n' Fives), Queue Disco, Circuit Disco, Where Else? Altitude 49, Delirium (in Greenbelt) D'Flame, Rino's, andVelvet Slum, Wells Fargo, and Coco Banana. After graduation, jam sessions were replaced by night clubs and Bayside was the place to go for live bands and non-stop dancing. Do you remember when: Dollar to peso exchange rate was $1 = P7,Walang Tindigan buses charged  a flat rate of P1, Love Bus fare was P1.50, family size Shakey's Pizza cost less than P40, Malate streets were named after US States (Pennsylvania, Colorado, etc.); Paranaque, San Juan, Makati, Pasig, Las Pinas, Taguig, Pateros and Muntinlupa were municipalities of Rizal province; DLSU was De La Salle College, Poveda was Institucion Teresiana, Adamson University was the original St. Theresa's campus, Robinsons mall was the Assumption Convent campus, Petron was Esso, Villamor Air Base was then known as Nichols Air Base, bancas were plenty in the Baclaran side of Dewey Blvd. (now Roxas Blvd.) and traffic was non-existent in Tagaytay. The next morning we had tamales for breakfast hosted by Mrs. Roa who incidentally cut her finger preparing the tamales. Then lechon for lunch and a series of songs from Mrs. Pangilinan, in appreciation for hosting us, the location this time is hazy.The next billet is at Urdaneta High School below. The same as the last night, boys will be boys as  Mr. Toralba and Lazaro kept the peace. Burnham Park above, where we rented  roller skates, and then, shared one of these tricycles with a junior, held both her hands, no names please, a boyish romantic encounter. Surely an unforgettable Chance Encounter for a boy of 13,  as she shifted towards me. We cuddled and continued to ride in the cool afternoon fog. Ambuklao Dam, newly constructed then, Photo of Bay Area Prep 61 and songs of 1957 TO THE RIGHT. Memories of our field trip to Bagiuo in 1957. First stop was Angeles, Pampanga, where we toured Clark with Dr. Roa. I remember the doctor riding in a brand new 1957  yellow Chrysler with all the high fins typical of the cars of the late 50’s. The day was not over yet, a jam session in the moonlight at a basket ball court at the school grounds. The seniors and teachers alike did enjoy the ball hosted by the Pampanga High School. I remember the single Ms. Roma Clemente, photo above, talking about her repertoire of dances and how she enjoyed it. Me, I stayed behind, as I do not dance yet, but was busy talking to local high school girls. I found out the beddings belong to them. Thinking this time, how UP Prep can reciprocate. Billets were in a gymnasium with rows of cots and mosquito nets. I do not know where the girls were, but the energy was ever flowing from the boys…as shoes were flying everywhere in the dark, landing safely at the mosquito nets. Above Pictures of the boys in a later field trip  (1960) to Bagiuo and Pampanga High School ROAD TO BAGIUO ABOVE, THE KENNON ZIGZAG ROAD This song is dedicated to all my lady professors and Mr. Rubio, my sincere appreciation for your kindness and knowledge imparted that helped me  for the rest of my life. Mrs. Celeste Botor my English & Compo teacher Mrs Rosario Cortez my History teacher At Prep High, Charmaine is our school song, and it begins like this… I wonder if you will remember? Prep High, P rep High RIP LULU RIP LULU PABLO 1960: I became aware of my heritage in my junior year at UP Prep........READ LEFT STATEMENTS 1960: I became aware of my heritage in my junior year at UP Prep SIXTY YEARS LATER, THE BOY IN HIS SENIOR YEARS  ABOVE FIJI, AMERICAN SAMOA ,  NEW ZEALAND, AUSTRALIA. VENICE below,  the sea meets the mountain Mr  Manuel Rubio my Tagalog teacher and also the Principal of UP Prep At Prep High, Charmaine is our school song, and it begins like this… I wonder if you will remember? Prep High, Prep High RIP NICK PELAEZ MY DEAR FRIEND Nick can be persistent in his quest for a girlfriend. We once followed a certain sophomore named  Kathleen.... . all the way home thru busses and jeepneys with her, and managed to egged a smile;  all the while serenading her the Irish ditty Kathleen in front of passengers.    ON OUR 44TH ANNIVERSARY A MEDIEVAL 1000 YEARS OLD HOUSE IN A TOWN IN FRANCE ESTABLISHED BY KING RICHARD THE LION HEARTED  TOWN   see..... THE CONCERT GRAND PIANOS     THE CITY OF ROUEN THE CAPITAL OF NORMANDY WHERE JOAN OF ARC WAS BURNED AT  THE STAKES. THE TALL SPIKE LIKE A FLAGPOLE WAS WHERE SHE WAS GRILLED ON TOP  THEREBY DIED 0F ASPHYXIATION QUICKLY.THE PYRAMID BEHIND THE STAKE IS THE  CHURCH OF ST. JAN D'ARC. THE HALF HIDDEN TURRET AT THE EDGE OF TOWN WAS WHERE  SHE WAS IMPRISONED. The University of the Philippines made this field trips available to the student body under the supervision of Mr. Rubio. I remember our trips to Bagiuo and Bicol by train. The later, I was not able to avail. students start the term with a trip to various High Schools, either to a resort, an American base, or  towns in Luzon. School life is also enriched by additional field trips to such places important to the nation’s infrastructure, like dams, markets, military  base and institutions like PMA.

God bless my alumni association

In this our chosen Nation,

Let it blossom forth in harmony and peace;

From east to west establish the brotherhood and friendship,

That all strife and loneliness may cease.

In the busy offices and streets of cities,

In the mountains and quiet fields of farms,

Raise each other's mind to greater vision,

Shield my classmates' life from that which harms.

We give thanks for precious friends and alliance;

Help us cherish them as we should;

May we give ourselves in service to each other

for your praise and other's good.......ASC

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I WAS READING SOME OLD 61 EMAILS AND CAME ACROSS THE NICKNAMES. I WOULD SAY IT WAS HILARIOUS TO READ THIS AND HOW CLASSMATES REMEMBER EACH AND EVERY ONE. YOU WERE VERY KIND, SOME NAMES ARE X-RATED AS I RECALL, BUT  YOU DID A GOOD JOB RECALLING THE SANITIZED MONICKER.

ASC

 After 38 years, not an easy task. Kaya pala si Kardinal ang na-assign na mag-recall: mahirap na medyo delikado pa.Mahirap dahil hindi ako saksi sa lahat ng pangyayari sa lahat ng sections. Delikado dahil baka may sugat namanariwa. Pero katuwaan lang ito. Sana lahat matuwa at walang mapikon--afterall trabaho lang ito at " recaller" lang ako hindi "namer" o "baptizer".

Bato-bato sa langit, ang matamaan mag-email agad.

> 1.Jose Acevedo. Babe, Baba, Ali Baba.

> 2.Godofredo Alaras. Godofredo.

> 3.Corazon Amante. Cora. Pipit( from Joey)

> 4.Andrew Ang.Ang. Undress Ang( from Oca V.)

> 5.Arlene Aquino+. Arlene, Stitch, Stitch.

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> 6.Vilma Bala. Vilma. Bambi.

> 7.Lourdes Balderrama. Dudi......(aka. ..Balde shortened version of Balderama)

> 8.Alipio Baluyut+. Alip.

> 9.Frine Bautista. Frine.

> 10.Eldora Bella. Dhoree.

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> 11.Jose Buenaventura. Joey. Yat.

> 12.Melinda Caparas. Melinda. It.

> 13.Melchor Capili. Melchor. Cap. Ohab( from Ping)

> 14.Augusto Capulong. Augie.

> 15.Nemesio Ceralde. Jr. Boy. Boyd. Tenggoy Jr.

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> 16.Jesus Ching. Ching...(aka Foo Man Ching)

> 17.Renato Constantino, Jr. RC. Yat. One Beer Kid. Wangbu.

> 18.Carol Corpus. Carol.Carole.

> 19.Cynthia Cuevas. Cynthia. Cindy.

> 20.Rogelio Cuevas. Cuevas. Roger.

21.Alexander Custodio. Alex. Todio. Custodio.... General "Bull" Tojo (mannerismm of bowing)

> 22.Manuel Edralin. Manny. Edra. Antok.

> 23.Jose Fargas. Ping.

> 24.Evangeline Farolan. Eva.

> 25.Wilhelmina Fernandez. Mimay. Curly Bangs.

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> 26.Romeo Fojas. Fojie.

> 27.Evelyn Fontanilla. Evelyn.

> 28.Nilda Fulgencio. Nilda. FT.French Twist.

> 29.Carlos Garcia. Itoy. Bukol...Elvis pompadour and then shortened, aka..Elpo Boy/Epoy.... last time I saw Epoy was at Mapua during my Junior year; he was registering for classes with his older brother.

> 30.Nelia Gonzales. Nelia. Nel.

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> 31.Jose Guzman. Guzman. Joe.

> 32.Rene Herbosa. Rene. Pompoy.

> 33.Romeo Imbuido. Imbuido. Romy. Imbudo.

> 34.Marilyn Jamias. Marilyn...The Pianist

> 35.Rodnel Javier. Rodnel....McKinley Boy...aka Medyas from Lilia

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> 36.Lilia Laqui. Lilia....(crush of Rodnel)

> 37.Macrina de Leon. Macrina. Macre.

> 38.Wilfrido de Leon. Willy. Daga. Tenga.

> 39.Hector Lumberio. Lumberio. Hec.

> 40.Mamerto Madella+. Madella. (Saw him last at V-Luna Hospital for our Physical for PMA;he has hypertension and skin rash;I was myopic; he got in, at second try.

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> 41.Carmelo Madrid. Madrid.

> 42.Eduardo Maglaque. Ed.

> 43.Bayani Mandanas. Yani. Bondy. Bondat.

> 44.Emmanuel Manalac+. Emmy. Emong.

> 45.Eduardo Manalac. Ed. Eddie.

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> 46.Manuel Medina. Medy. Manny.

> 47.Bonita de Mesa. Bonita. Bonnie.

> 48.Paul Montalban. Paul.

> 49.Leopoldo Moral, Jr. Pol. Moral.Neggy. Cardinal.

> 50.Juliana Nable. Juliana. Julie...aka Noble

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> 51.Teresita Narciso. Tessie. Kumbinto.

> 52.Edgar Navarro. Ed

> 53.Imelda Ocampo. Imelda.

> 54.George Olivar, Jr. George. Diyords.

> 55.Marcelita Ordonez. Marce.

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> 56.Lualhati Pablo. Lulu. Usec Pablo.

> 57.Angelita Pasamba.Angelita. Lita. Angge.

> 58.Cesar Pascual. Cesar. Sandok. Sandy.

> 59.Quintin Pastrana. Quintin. Bakya. Q.

> 60.Mildred Patino. Mildred.

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> 61.Jose Pecache+. Pec. Jay...aka Pecs he likes to flex his "muscles"

> 62.Nicolas Pelaez+. Pelaez. Nic.Negro... .Nick can be persistent in his quest for a girlfriend. We once followed a certain sophomore named Kathleen.... . all the way home thru busses and jeepneys with her, and managed to egged a smile; all the while serenading her the Irish ditty Kathleen in front of passengers. 

> 63.Amado Punsalang, Jr. Amado. Dodie.

> 64.Josefino Quiambao. Quiambao. Pepe.....aka Yodel King

> 65.Barbara Ramirez. Babs.

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> 66.Corazon Ramirez. Cora. Corkie.

> 67.Erlinda Ramos. Erlinda...

> 68.Helen Reantaso. Helen.

> 69.Oscar Recto+. Oca. Torecs.

> 70.Irma Remo. Irma.

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> 71.Deo Reyes. Deo.

> 72.Nestor Rivadelo. Vads.Sleeping Vads.

> 73.Roberto Roa. Boots...He is in LA according to relatives I met aboard ship.

> 74.Rosalinda Roa. Rosalinda.

> 75.Romeo Salvador. Romy....aka Anita Eckberg

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> 76.Alberto San Agustin. Bert.

> 77.Roberto San Juan. Johnny. Bot. San Juan.

> 78.Honorio San Pedro. Nori. Honorio.

> 79.Amado Santos, Jr. Dong. Jun.

> 80.Jose Sason. Sax. Negro. Kulot. Nonoy. Saxon. Saxophone.

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> 81.Zenaida Seva. Zeny.

> 82.Ma. Lourdes Saguil. Hedy....last time I saw her was during the end of our sophomore year; Loved to dance with her slow (that is the only dance I know) even if I was only her shoulder height ...sorry Lani, that was before the prom.

> 83.Elsa Cristina Sevilla. Elsa. Sister. MS...No nonsense Elsa

> 84.Edgardo Silverio. Ed. Silver. Kabayo.

> 85.Milagros Suva. Mila. 

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> 86.Arthur Tan. Atot.

> 87.Ernesto Tan-Gatue.Boy. ..Beat up Hannibal Manikan mano a mano

> 88.Victoria Tolentino. Vicky. Toyang.

> 89.Lilac Umali. Lilac.

> 90.Oscar Valenzuela. Oscar. Oca.

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> 91.Dolores Vergara. Dolores. Dolly.

> 92.Virgilio Vergara. Vius. Ilyong. Ronnie.

> 93.Pascual Veron-Cruz Jr. Pascual. Kalbo. Pasky. Jun...aka Math Wiz Veron

> 94.Melanie Villanueva. Melanie. Lani.

> 95.Ernesto Villareal. Pong. Ponga.

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> 96.Pablo Villavicencio. Pablo.Bing.

> 97.Rosalita Vizconde. Rosalita. Its.

> 98.Cynthia Catindig. Cynthia.

> 99.Evangeline Gabriel. Evangeline.. ...aka..Smiling Vangie..always with a smile

> 100.Lourdes Gacad. Lourdes.

Ah me! the sixty years since last we met
Seem to me sixty folios bound and set
By Time, the great transcriber, on his shelves,
Wherein are written the histories of ourselves.
What tragedies, what comedies, are there;
What joy and grief, what rapture and despair!
What chronicles of triumph and defeat,
Of struggle, and temptation, and retreat!
What records of regrets, and doubts, and fears
What pages blotted, blistered by our tears!
What lovely landscapes on the margin shine,
What sweet, angelic faces, what divine
And holy images of love and trust,
Undimmed by age, unsoiled by damp or dust!

U. P. Prep High School 1961 Rizal Hall... View from Manila Naval Station Breakwater.......A BOY’S MEMORIES OF MANILA

Environs U. P. Manila campus    Sarmiento Bldg, Makati, where I worked at Procter  Gamble; ARISTOCRAT. The closest restaurant to our place at MNS. 432 San Andres St. cor. Roxas Blvd., Malate  Top, movie houses, City Hall, Right Photo Bagiuo, the terraces and the Lost highway bontoc-mainit (mountain province). A mountain trail in the Cordillera, Philippines.  Rizal Avenue the street was named after Rizal, it was referred to as Calle  Dulumbayan.  I watched movies at the Ideal, State, Dalisay and Avenue Theaters. Later on ... the Universal Theater  and Odeon and Galaxy. And Scala, Apollo, Alegria and Opera House.

In the twilight of age all things seem strange and phantasmal, 

  As between daylight and dark ghost-like the landscape My heart goes back to wander there, 

And among the dreams of the days that were, 

  I find my lost youth again. 

    And the strange and beautiful song, 

    The groves are repeating it still: 

  "A boy's will is the wind's will, 

And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts."

I should not be withheld but that some day 

into their vastness I should steal away, 

Fearless of ever finding open land, 

or highway where the slow wheel pours the sand...RF

Art is long, and Time is fleeting,

  And our hearts, though stout and brave,

Still, like muffled drums, are beating

  Funeral marches to the grave. 

In the world's broad field of battle,

  In the bivouac of Life,

Be not like dumb, driven cattle!

  Be a hero in the strife! 

Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant!

  Let the dead Past bury its dead!

Act,--act in the living Present!

  Heart within, and God o'erhead! 

Lives of great men all remind us

  We can make our lives sublime,

And, departing, leave behind us

  Footprints on the sands of time;

Footprints, that perhaps another,

  Sailing o'er life's solemn main,

A forlorn and shipwrecked brother,

  Seeing, shall take heart again. 

Let us, then, be up and doing,

  With a heart for any fate;

Still achieving, still pursuing,

  Learn to labor and to wait... 

U. P. Prep High School 1961 Rizal Hall...

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