Dream Fulfilled

Our dream to have a legitimized Bicol Central Academy Alumni Association has been fulfilled thanks mainly to the persistence and untiring effort of one individual, Francia Adan-Banzuela, Class 1966. She organized meetings to explain our "idea" and temporarily elected 15 officers and board members necessary for the filing of the incorporation papers. Our Alumni association the BCA Libmanan Alumni Association Incorporated is now a registered non-profit organization

The membership fee was set at PHP100 that is about US$2.50. As soon as possible, the membership and pledge forms will be available at the BCA Libmanan Alumni Association website. We will be sending emails to all our contacts and ask for their support to this phenomenal endeavour.

We should however not rest on our laurels. The job is barely finished and there are tons of tasks yet to be accomplished. We need to rally our membership to be active and contribute to our membership fund to finance our many plans and projects. We will also be needing pledges for the Scholarship fund.

Hopefully, our membership will answer the call...let's all join hands to make good things happen to our Alumni Association..

An Open Letter to Our Fellow Alumni

My fellow alumni,

About this time last year, some of our classmates re-discovered each other through the magic and wonders of the internet. I was able to chat with fellow Batch 66 alumni, Dr. Raymundo (Munding) Pendor, who is now the President of Holy Cross College of Davao, Aning Atienza-Orquina, France Adan-Banzuela and Adriano Tenorio. Dr. Pendor mentioned to me that he left some seed money for a future scholarship fund in Libmanan. Then, France mentioned about her plan of publishing a Newsletter for the BCA Alumni Batch 66.

That's when the idea struck me… why not build a website to test if there would be interests for an Alumni Association and Scholarship Fund? So, I built the website for the future BCA Alumni Association which can be found in http://bcaalumni.homestead.com/. It is a temporary and Unofficial website with the mission and goal of gathering and disseminating information regarding the proposed formation of the association. I was also hoping that our fellow graduates will provide us information about themselves and their present whereabouts, whether they are in Libmanan or anywhere else in the world.

The website has a page with the proposed Constitution and By-Laws which I wrote with the help of Dr. Pendor. Our plan is to submit the Constitution and By-Laws for ratification during a General Meeting or Assembly.

The response was modest but significant. More than fifty BCA graduates submitted information and provided their e-mails. The feed backs were both kind, and generous. They are a small number but, I believe, represents the hundreds if not thousands of BCA Alumni out there who felt the same way we do, but without internet access.

The enthusiasm shown by the visitors to the website confirmed my belief that a legitimate BCA Alumni Association may now be finally formed. So why legitimize our Alumni Association by incorporating it? There are several reasons but foremost is the capability for sourcing funds which only an organized and incorporated association can do legitimately. With an incorporated association, we will be able to solicit from our fellow BCA Alumni all over the world, who I believe are willing and able to give to this just cause.

It's time to give back to our community!

Teddy V. Peredo, Batch 66

Spring Break?

I failed to write for Winter and now it's late Spring and I still have nothing to share to our fellow alumni. There were some submissions though, and I want to welcome them to our website.

• Raymundo Pons Jr., Class 1968
• Maria Nieves Del Rosario-Calabrese, Class 1978
• Wenceslao Arroyo Jr, Class 1980
• Deity Avila

As in the past years, Class 66 will be holding their annual reunion on Black Saturday.

I feel bad that I can't come to the reunion this year but hopefully our plan to incorporate the BCA Alumni Association will be taken up during the reunion.

I would like to renew my invitation for anyone to send me pictures of their Class Reunions or events. I don't want anyone to think that the BCA Alumni website is only for the Class of 66 so PLEASE...send me pictures

As soon as the Alumni Association is formed, I will make changes to the Website. I'll try to get the approval from the officers to make it the Official Website. I will also be sending out request for everyone to join the BCA Alumni Association and commit pledges for the BCA Alumni Scholarship Fund.

Until the next post....be happy!!!