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Verdugo Park Reunion is on!
Open-Book Policy
The Organizing Committee (Karen Madarang-Kapayo, Lizette Fuster-Cotangco, Juliet Pimentel-Felarca) has been working overtime to get the reunion for our US-based alumnae ready for 24 May 2003, Saturday.
Check out the details in this e-invite. And spread the word!
The Board of Trustees encourages transparency and implements an “open-book” policy. Meeting minutes, external and internal correspondences, incoming correspondences, financial reports and other records are available for viewing to all interested alumnae here.
A Letter from SHS
If you haven’t received the letter SHS sent to its graduates last July 2002, well, you are in good company, as most of us did not receive our copies. To ensure that our correspondences will be sent to the proper addresses, the SHS 1984 AA will be sending our latest contact list over to the Alumnae Office so we all can be kept abreast on the goings-on within the larger Alumnae Association. You can find a copy of the last letter here. (Sorry, the school doesn't have a web site yet.)
As you can see from the past activity line-up, alumnae have been very much involved in making school events successful, by acting as judges and resource individuals for various SHS initiatives. If you would like to help in a similar capacity, please fill out this form and send to the school via snail mail:
Miss Gilda M. Casimiro
Alumnae Coordinator
School of the Holy Spirit of Quezon City
F. Sotto St., BF Homes, Baranggay Holy Spirit,
Quezon City, Philippines
Reunion for LA-based Alumnae in the Works!
If you are in the Los Angeles area on Memorial Day weekend, you may want to drop by a little reunion being organized some of our U.S.-based ex-classmates. Karen Madarang-Kapayo emailed to let us know that the reunion will happen May 24 or 25, 2003. We have no details yet; but you can e-mail Karen if you're interested. So far, Juliet Pimentel-Felarca, Beverly Harn-Que, Lizette Fuster-Cotangco and Me-Ann Edano have confirmed.
Let's hope it will be another fun and successful SHS HS 1984 reunion!
New web address. Updated site up soon!
Yes, folks! After 2002 left many still gasping, it seems the alumnae are back this year with renewed vigor to get our association off the ground and flying high!
Rowena Lim Tai-Sandoval has kindly sponsored our new web domain name: www.shs1984.org. Watch out for announcements via email and our yahoo e-group when the transfers and upgrades are complete, and when the new improved site goes live!
A Courtesy Visit to SHS
Last July 31 2002, the Association Board and other alumnae (Beng, Beverly M, Butch, Deidre, Mona, Nanette, Ninya, Raquel) paid SHS84 AA's first courtesy visit to the SHS High School Administration. It was a reunion of sorts, as the high school principal at the time (she has since left SHS) was no other than Mrs. Michelle Paraiso -- our algebra teacher way back. While old salutations reminiscent of high school like "miss" and "ma'm" punctuated the conversation, the Administration was pleasantly surprised to receive a visit from not one -- but a whole platoon -- of its earliest alumnae!
SHS welcomed our initiative to organize the batch in this fashion and expressed their hopes that we also assist the bigger SHS Alumnae Association. To ensure that information is well disseminated, Ms. Gilda Casimiro (our PE teacher!) and Ms. Cecile Cruz have been assigned as the Alumnae Coordinators. The school has also gladly agreed that the Alumnae Office be the SHS 1984 Alumnae Association's official mailing address. The brief visit was also marked with the sighting of Mrs. Sulit (another algebra teacher once upon a time).
As a side note, while there are many physical changes in the SHS campus and the image of our younger selves in school uniforms was harder to visualize, the familiar feeling of being "home" was there. We all left with the campus that day with a smile.
Flashback 007: The SHS campus was special because ...
... of the unpainted building. They started the "grunge look" for architecture. (Now painted)
... of the soil in the quadrangle that colored our socks a redish hue after PE and CAT.
... of the cement mushroom tables that were "imported" for CHS Mendiola.
More please ...
Flashback 006: Why some teachers are unforgettable
-Ms. V: “Gels ano ba yan? Para kayong mga Tasaday na ngayon lang nakakita ng helicopter.”
-Ms. L: “Girls, did you hear the bell, aren’t they?”
-Mrs. A: "Sandiwa is the winningest section."
-Sis. M: The saliva shower during Christian Living class.
-Sis. J: Ziggy.
Got more?
Flashback 005: What was "IN" in High School
- Hate Marcos.
- Plastic earrings.
- Hi-cut sneakers.
- "Sweet Dreams" books.
- "Thriller" by Michael Jackson.
- Socks folded inward and below the ankle.
- Big brush sticking out of the uniform pocket.
- Cobra hair, sprayed with Aqua Net (in mini-size). Or short hair gelled to the sides.
- Swooning over: Ralph Macchio, C.Thomas Howell, Rob Lowe, Rick Springfield or the "Bagets" boys.
- On TV: "Love Boat", "A Team", "Knot's Landing", "Falcon Crest", "Dallas", "Three's Company", "Cheers"
- In the Movies: "Footloose", "Bagets", "Flashdance", "E.T", "Tootsie", "On Golden Pond", "Porky's", "The Karate Kid", "Sixteen Candles"
Add pa please ...
Flashback 004: Tampons Are Evil, Said Freshman Health Teacher
Ms. XXX brought a tampon and a glass half-filled with water to class. She dropped the bullet-shaped thing in the glass. The class watched the cotton tampon bloat to the size of a tennis ball.
"See this?" She was trying to scare us. "This is why you shouldn't wear tampons. Having something this big between your legs will not be a pleasant experience."
Oh, how we were taken for a ride back then...
Flashback 003: Fronunciation Froblem
Which Freshman teacher was often heard screaming at morning flag-raising ceremonies, "Gels! Gels at the beck! You gels, face the fleg!"?
Flashback 002: Christian Living Exam from Junior Year
The Bonus portion of our CL exam read: Mysteries of the Rosary, Hail Holy Queen, Angelus, Morning Offering and several other lengthy prayers.
Everyone asked XXX, who was first to finish the exam, how she managed to get all those prayers on paper so fast. XXX gasped, "Were we supposed to write them down? I prayed them."
Flashback 001: Meme Flores' Immortal Haiku from Sophomore Year
I look at the trees.
Pretty. Then I look at you.
I look at the trees.
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