Page 8 A quarterly publication of Pangasinan Brotherhood-USA, Inc. April - June 2017
Multi high school reunion 2017 set at Las Vegas in September
By Elpidio R. Estioko, UCHS ‘65
Corona, California - Overall reunion organizer Fe Gonzales Sepulveda, Our Lady of the Lilies Academy (OLLA’63), announced today that this year’s multi high school reunion for three high schools in Urdaneta City, Pangasinan, Philippines will be held at Tropicana Hotel (Gala night), Las Vegas, Nevada on Saturday, September 30, 2017 and the picnic will be held the following day, Sunday, October 1, 2017 at Paradise Park, also in Las Vegas. PDEA Director Gen. Isidro S. Lapena and St. Claire College owner in Caloocan City Dr. Claire Gandia are the guest speakers.
The organizational meeting was held early May at Sepulveda’s residence in Corona which was attended by 21 alumni and their spouses from Our Lady of the Lilies Academy (OLLA), Divine Word College of Urdaneta (DWCU), and the mother high school Urdaneta Community High School, (UCHS), now the Urdaneta National High School (UNHS), which includes the barrio high schools.
To register, please send your donation of $120 per person to OLLA’s Cynthia Cortez, 10865 Cameron Court, Corona, CA 92883. Along with your payment, please provide in a separate piece of paper, the name of the alumni, high school attended, year graduated, name of guest, if any; and email or phone number. As of this writing, 234 had already registered to attend the reunion.
Chairperson for souvenir program is Rufino Ortiz, Jr. UCHS ’75. Inside and outside full pages were already taken, so with the center fold. Full page ad is $100 and half page is $60. Deadline to submit ads is August 31, 2017.
Seating arrangements and welcoming committee is headed by the Divine Word Academy alumni headed by Rey & Gigi de Vera. Roselily Morales Jacob, UNHS ’79, is the chairperson for the lunch picnic portion and Julie Agojo, UCHS’66, is the chair of the decoration committee.
For more information, please contact: Fe Gonzales Sepulveda, OLLA’63, fgs@netzero.com; Rufino Ortiz, Jr., UCHS ’75, 2017vegasreunion@comcast.com; Cynthia Cortez, OLLA’66, cyncortez_2002@yahoo.com; Rey de Vera, DWCU’77, reggiep217@gmail.com; Julie Agojo, UCHS’UCHS’66, julieagojo@outlook.com; and Roselily Jacob, UHNS ’79, drljacob@gmail.com.
The multi-alumni homecoming from three high schools in Urdaneta is being held every four years. The last reunion was in 2013 which was also held at the sin city of Las Vegas with 734 attending the reunion.
Fe Gonzales Se[ulveda, alumni and spouses meet at Corona, CA in May 2017.
The Power of Dreams and the Significance of Financial Literacy
By Eddy Sumar
Eddy Sumar, author, consultant and founder of ERS Consulting Services, is pleased to be collaborating with Pangasinan Brotherhood-USA and it’s Youth & Hospitality Officer, Ferdinand B. Soriano, to bring the Power of the Dream and Financial Literacy to the youth of PB-USA and beyond.
Sumar and Pangasinan Brotherhood-USA believe that today’s youth need to be guided by their dreams, becoming the best they can become and fulfilling their own passions in life. We, as a community, we need to guide them in order for them to reach their ultimate potential.
The projects, The Power of Dreams and Financial Literacy, will help PB-USA youth and the NextGen group to identify their dreams, as well as the obstacles and facilitators, in order to design individual and practical plans and dream maps that will help each youth-participant to reach his or her own dreams. In addition, each youth will participate in an intensive 3-day Financial Literacy boot camp highlighting the value of personal discipline in money mastery—becoming money-wise. Furthermore, each participant will learn how to become financially fit and fiscally responsible.
The combination of the Power of the Dream and Fiscal Responsibility will help the participants to become masters of their own destiny. Sumar and PB-USA believe and hope that this project will grow to become the foundation of success for the youth of PB-USA. PB-USA intends to establish this platform to enable the organization to be able to solicit grants to fund such an endeavor.
Editorial … from page 1
Founder and CEO Dennis Alvarez, IC Green Motoring Technologies, Inc. made a testimonial on the huge success of its miracle product. He is the inventor and patent holder of oil enhancer product its origin in Manila. It is now in USA. Eddie Ferrer introduced Dennis Alvarez from Bayambang, Pangasinan who showed his product and company's brochure to the curious audience. Mr. Alvarez further explained the impact of his new discovery in the control of carbon emission whose results are far more dramatic than oil enhancers currently in the market. .
An article about this scientific wonder is written by Lino F. Caringal, Jr. in the first issue of PB-USA Palaris newsletter. Eddie Ferrer announces, “Pangasinan Brotherhood's NextGens have arrived and have successfully taken over the realm of leadership and activities to continue the mission of PB-USA. Ever moving forward to reach out on community services, cultural and musical events, livelihood, trade, e-commerce, entrepreneurship, scholarships, and donations for kabaleyans in need, Pangasinan Brotherhood is committed to pursue these activities and missions.” - By Palaris
Alcala in our minds … from page 4
Helping Alcala has always been a priority to AASC. It actively supports projects that are intended to improve the town and the life of its citizens. Aside from sending relief to victims of natural disasters, it has sponsored several Medical and Dental Missions over the years, the latest of which was held on April 28 this year. It has immensely contributed toward the beautification of the town plaza, the town’s jewel and source of pride and joy. It has donated two ambulances in the past decade. In 2003, it built a health center in the barangay of Anulid, which drew not only people from Alcala but also the neighboring town of Bautista. It soon became a prototype for other barangay health clinics in Pangasinan. AASC continues to help local schools. It gave the initial funding for the first classroom of the Canarvacanan High School. It built an open court for the Alcala Central School and just finished building a canteen at the San Vicente Elementary School. This is not to mention the school equipment and materials, books, backpacks and many other little things that they have donated to the various local schools.