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Date: 7/16/01 7:06:30 AM Pacific Daylight Time
From:
sas@hpm.com (Cora A. Seballos)
Thank you for sharing these pictures. As I was viewing them, I didn't realize I was
crying with joy. It made my Monday morning. I hope I won't lose my job as I love to read the tons of emails you sent me over
and over and over again. I can't wait to see you all.
To everyone: Please remember that these pictures will be saved
in a disc and will be sold to benefit the scholarship foundation which is in the making.
Suki Aventino Seballos
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Date: 7/18/01 10:42:11 PM Pacific Daylight Time
From: yoli_martin@yahoo.com (Martin Yolanda)
Good that
you mentioned that Cora. It is also a fund-raising idea we brought up here in Toronto. Lulu's son is ready to put them in
a disc. We wanted to know who wants to purchase them. Toronto group is going to do a wrap up meeting on August 18th after
which date we will inform you how much money we raised from this reunion. These funds, my understanding will be forwarded
to the PUP scholarship? Is this correct Manny/Ludy?
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Date:
7/25/01 5:44:15 PM Pacific Daylight Time
From: yoletdavid@hotmail.com (v.v. david)
Hi everyone!
In one of
the comments shared in the group, someone mentioned a scholarship fund. Can someone please tell us more about this. With the
enthusiasm and organizational skills of class 65 displayed at the Toronto reunion and the idealism very apparent in the email
messages among the group, this sounds like a project worth pursuing to benefit young students at our hi-school alma mater.
By the way, is there still a high school at PUP?
Yolet
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Date: 7/26/01 6:30:43 AM Pacific Daylight Time
From: junlalog@mac.com
Hi Yolet,
I'm sure your
NY buddies will fill you in about the Class of 65 scholarship fund to deserving HS students.
Yes, there is still a
high school at PUP, now located in Sta. Mesa. Two of my nieces were graduates of PUP High and the school still maintains a
high standard in accepting students at very affordable tuition.
Regards,
jun
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Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 5:43:18
From: jetgsaint@aol.com
And last, but not the least --- in the
S.F. Mini-Reunion, we were able to collect' $$$ for our 'Scholarship Fund'...
Jet
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Date: 8/15/01 6:38:12 AM Pacific Daylight Time
From: junlalog@mac.com
Hi Jet,
The Power Mac
G4 is, quite simply, the first affordable start-to-finish authoring and recording system anywhere. For starters, the Power
Mac G4 is the first computer to ship with a drive capable of recording DVD videos for playback on most consumer DVD players
- a drive of a type, by the way, that until just recently cost over $5,000. This is the very reason I bought this - I plan
to "burn" my old hi8 tapes of Toronto Reunion and pictures into DVD videos and "sell" them, with proceeds to go to our Scholarship
Fund.
Regards,
jun
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Date: 8/17/01
8:09:34 AM Pacific Daylight Time
From: junlalog@mac.com
Hi Pearl,
Wish you could get hold of Melba to
join you or plan on paying her a "surprised visit" at PUP Sta. Mesa. She would be thrilled to death! It's what I did three
summers ago being she's very busy. If you do, update her of our scholarship fund raising for high school students.
Regards,
jun
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Date: 8/17/01 4:09:49 PM Pacific
Daylight Time
From: pearl_abcede@edsamail.com.ph (Perla P Abcede)
I am not familiar with the high school scholarship
you mentioned. Can you apprise me on that?
Got to go . . . .Pearl
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Date: 9/3/2001 7:02:35 PM Pacific Daylight Time
From: leebar89@yahoo.com (lee BARCELON)
hi guy,
...
mrs ruiz, our steno teacher, gave fond memories of noemi malana (her favorite student and assistant) (we remarked
that no wonder our grades in steno were low, it was noemi who was grading us!) she requested our batch to contribute to their
scholarship fund for needy but deserving youth. Ramon gallantly stood up and inform the group of the san francisco reunion
where a scholarhip fund had been started. mrs ruiz said she hope our batch can tap P1M for the fund.
see ya,
lee
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Date: 9/4/01 6:34:53 AM Pacific Daylight Time
From: junlalog@mac.com
Hi Lee,
First, congratulations to all on your successful reunion. Our teachers
showed again their dedication and commitment by attending your reunion and I salute them for what they have done to us. Mr.
Canlas' remarks "kayo ang aming kayamanan" was so touching.
Did I read it right, P1,000,000 (US$20,000) Scholarship
Fund from the Class of 65? It's attainable as long as we put our efforts and hearts into it, in the years to come. It would
be a sweet and meaningful legacy we can leave to our Alma Mater.
jun
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Date: 9/4/01 2:02:18 PM Pacific Daylight Time
From: jetgsaint@aol.com
Re: target P 1,000,000.00 scholarship
fund -- it is doable, as Jun said, if we put our minds and hearts and may I add, our pocket(books) into it, we can come up
with that kind of fund... in my 'other' high school, it took us 10 years to come up with approximately the same amount --
but we did it.
Jet
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Date: 9/26/01 8:31:54
AM Pacific Daylight Time
From: ccandelario@sprint.ca
A good deed of course - Rosie O's famous quote: the entrance
fee for all celebs should be at least $1m - it is unconscionable to ask the working poor to give while some people are sitting
w/ millions of dollars! - so I heard Julia Roberts gave $2m which tops Rosie's by $1m.
Re our plan for scholarship
- (too bad we are not in the same position as these celebs eh!
Jun was the 1st to suggest that our class establish
scholarship for deserving students based on her last conversation with Melba the last time he visited Manila.
Also
from the Sept 1st reunion in Manila, our Manila group was approached re the possibility of our class participating in this
fund raising. Based on the update, it was mentioned in that reunion that we are about to 'start the engine' towards this goal
at least.
Jet mentioned that their UP class already had a UP scholarship fund and that they only use the interests.
Maybe Jet you can give the group info on how you establish this fund, the how, the when questions in general terms. And maybe
as we gather some ideas we can brain storm on the logistic of having our own class project.
Actually in Toronto, Yoli
and Precy have started to raise funds - we are going to Casino Rama sometime in October.
Wouldn't it be nice if we
have something concrete to present on our 'planned' 2004 grand reunion in Manila?
Ayan Jun hopefully this will be
the start of 'getting back to normal'. Take care all and warmest regards to you and your loved ones! :)
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Date: 9/27/01 8:12:02 AM Pacific Daylight Time
From: corac@woodbridge.com
would u email me back your UP
website PLS to research re scholarship.
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Date:
9/27/01 8:20:51 AM Pacific Daylight Time
From: JETG SAINT
Our UP High Website: http://uphigh66.tripod.com
If
I remember right, there are two 'Fund Raising' articles in it... one for the U.S. based and the other for the Philippines...
I think those articles are about a year old...
The important thing really is to have people submit/sign pledges...
like how much a year to pledge... there should also be someone that will be dedicated to 'manage' this fund raising... the
'Fund Raiser' has to be diligently reminding/collecting on these pledges....
Jet
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Date: 9/27/01 10:06:15 AM Pacific Daylight Time
From: corac@woodbridge.com
just to give u an idea of how
they did it - I think we have to have somebody in Manila to inquire how we could set it up - sorry Jun I don't mean to put
u on the spot - actually I wanted to give you credit for suggesting the 'scholarship fund' - as when we all started all these,
my main concern then is to be lucky enough to contact most of our classmates and their willingness to join reunions, etc.
- believe me I could not imagine that we are on our stage now (actually less than a year!) - akala ko nga we won't reach this
stage. Also I think it would be nice to start informal research, get ideas, comments informally on the subject matter.
Let's see first how we can set it up, get pledges, and then we will worry about how we can actually give the funds (the mechanics
of it) later on. However if not everyone is up to this at this time, it's o.k.
UP 66 class did it by not only fund
raising but by pledges - it took them 10 years - so hopefully we can put this in less than 10 years - due to the fact that
we are getting 'younger' every year. For a fact I know that Zeny and Rose Marie's hubbies are lawyers - maybe we can start
from there or from Melba herself. It is interesting to read how UP started theirs - and here's an excerpt from Maria's update
re reunion in Manila
"The teachers were also asked to say something and when the turn of Mrs. Milagros R. Morales
came, she told us that she is the one in charge of scholarship and she wanted to distribute the paper for us to sign as pledge
that we will be supporting their scholarship program. But Ramon told everybody that your group, during your Toronto reunion,
has raised some funds already to support this project."
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Date: 9/28/01 8:55:23 AM Pacific Daylight Time
From: Priscilla.Casimiro@mah.gov.on.ca
Hi Yoli,
Congratulations
- way to go Yoli! $610.00 is a good "start-up" fund. With the commitment and hardwork from everybody in our PCCHS'65 group,
the projected $1.0 M goal is "doable" as Jun had commented. If Jet's UPHS did it in 10 years, we could even meet the target
maybe within 5 years. This is a challenge for all of us.
BTW, Yoli di ba we're supposed to charge $7.00 for our CR
trip? Please let me know and if you need help in printing/distributing the tickets, call me and I'll be at your house a.s.a.p.
Pia
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Date: 9/28/01 9:06:39 AM Pacific
Daylight Time
From: ccandelario@sprint.ca
As promised I am pleased to forward our Yoli Martin's financial
report. The $610 will be kept in the bank by Yoli until the group comes up with setting the 'scholarship fund'.
Also
Yoli/Precy are arranging another fund raising - trip to Casino Rama in October.
On behalf of the Toronto Group - we
thank you all (especially for those who can not make it but in spirit and prayers are with us and who supported our album/t-shirt
'fund raising' to all of you of you for making this reunion not only 'profitable' but an affair of true friendship and 'giggles
and laughter'. God Bless :)
Total Collected $3,093.80
Sale of Additional Albums 88.00
Sale of T-Shirts
81.40
Total Income $3,363.20
Niagara Trip $1,440.00
TTC Day Passes 117.40
Chinese Dinner 125.00
Lunch
at Yoli's 326.50
Dinner at Lillian's 300.00
Cost of Albums 444.30
Total Expenses $2,753.20
TOTAL FUNDS
RAISED $610.00
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Date: 9/28/01 2:04:24 PM Pacific
Daylight Time
From: JETG SAINT
Just to give you folks an idea, here's a sample of what we have in the
'Pledge
Form':
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U.P. HIGH SCHOOL CLASS 1966 FUND
coursed through the UPMASA
(UP Medical
Alumni Association in America)
and operated within the UPHPEISFI
(UP High, Prep, Elementary & Integrated School
Foundation, Inc.)
I would like to pledge the following sum for the
U.P. High School Class 1966 Fund
[
] $______ per year for ______ years
[ ] $______ one time contribution, enclosed
[ ] Others
(indicate
exactly below. Be creative.
Monthly payments are fine):
Enclosed is my initial payment.
NAME
__________________________________________
ADDRESS _______________________________________
_______________________________________
SIGNATURE _____________________________________
DATE __________________________________________
Write
out check to "UPMASA"
indicate in memo part "UPHS Class 1966 Fund"
Mail to:
Jess Socrates
90 Segovia Court
Hanover, PA 17331
(717) 637-4551
Your contributions are tax deductible under US Tax laws.
The UPMASA is
a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization,
Tax ID No. 37-1099415.
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Date: 9/28/01 2:32:21 PM Pacific Daylight Time
From: jetgsaint@aol.com
I believe we were able to raise another
$100 (or was it $80?) from our mini-reunion in S.F...
Jet
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Date: 9/28/01 3:43:08 PM Pacific Daylight Time
From: Priscilla.Casimiro@mah.gov.on.ca
OOPS! I mean 1.0M
pesos, not dollars. Sorry guys.
JET - $80 or $100 is still a big chunk considering there were only 5 of you at the
SF mini-reunion. Jun is right - at the pace we are going, we could achieve the $2,000 goal pretty soon.
Precy
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Date: 9/29/01 11:08:04 AM Pacific Daylight Time
From: junlalog@mac.com
Hi guys,
This is a great idea. It will save us tons of paperwork if we can direct
our scholarship program to a PUP organized non-profit organization, like what Jet's class is doing. This non-profit should
be allowed to accept tax deductible donations. If there is one existing for PUP, we need their tax ID number and descriptions
of their structures, that is, if they're allowed to soliticit tax deductibe contributions.
What about the PUP alumni
group that Maysie & Precy and others are members? Is it US based? We can certainly use it for our cause. As soon as we
have a tax ID to use, we can start a similar Pledge Form as Jet's right away.
I'm excited! It's been in the back of
my mind because of the paper work involved in starting a non-profit 501 C 3. And it is a slow process. Our own non-profit
assoc. here took us 3 years before we were able to get the tax-exempt status. I was the one who handled all the paper works
and dealings with the IRS. The only problem is this 501 C 3 is for the US only. How about Canada's?
Regards and please
let me know all your thoughts and concerns.
jun
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Date: 10/1/01 5:12:40 AM Pacific Daylight Time
From: JETG SAINT
Jun,
If there's no existing tax-exempt
organization that we can funnel the funds thru, it might not be worth it filing for tax-exempt status... on the average, we
receive pledges of $100/year... only one contributes $200/year and some $20/year...
Jet
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Date: 10/2/01 6:58:43 PM Pacific Daylight Time
From: yoli_martin@yahoo.com
Hi this is Yoli -- Correction
please on the report --the total funds raised is correct however the amount raised from sale of t-shirts should read $181.40
(Gloria R gave me US$105 or CA$181.40) and $88.00 from sale of additional albums.Total income is still the same $3,363.20.
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Date: 10/2/01 6:50:05 PM Pacific Daylight Time
From: yoli_martin@yahoo.com
Hi Jun/Lina -- there is another fund-raising coming up on October 20 -- we have a
trip to Casino Rama and we hope to raise over $250- if we have a full bus -- about 50 people. This is very exciting actually
-- it's like a mini reunion for the Toronto group.
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Date:
10/15/01 2:06:13 PM Pacific Daylight Time
From: junlalog@mac.com
Hi guys,
Well, we're all back from our
vacation schedules, fully recovered and rested, and I guess, now is the time for an open discussion on how to live up to Manila
Reunion II's expectation to raise P1-million (US$20K) for PUP's Scholarship Foundation. The amount seems overwhelming, but
with everybody's commitment and talents to share, we will be able to help PUP achieve their goal. Our Group's timetable is
10 years.
Brief History:
I was asked to start the dialog since I've been the one pushing this scholarship a year
or so ago, out of Melba's plea for help three summers ago when I visited her. But the amount then requested was P40,000 ($1,000).
With Mrs. Milagros R. Morales' involvement and high expectation from us, the amount soared to P1-million or US$20K.
Mrs. Morales is in charge of scholarship program of PUP.
Continuing our discussion on this topic last June and with
the overwhelming support to establish a "Scholarship Fund", not to mention that our number is growing, the following suggestions
are designed to lessen the pain and the paper work for our Group to achieve this goal. US dollars is the currency we'll be
using in all the discussions.
Our Choices:
(1) Private donation - the easiest and least work involved. We all
pledge say $20-$50 a year per alumnus for the next 10 years. Our annual Reunion fund raising can fill the shortfall if any.
Being a private donation, tax deductibility of donation is NOT available.
(2) Tax Deductible Donations - the legal way
to go. But, it involves a lot of works in setting up the mechanism to do it. We could form a non-profit US corporation to
make the donations a tax write off, but that's only covering the US residents &citizens. The issues of Canadian, Australian,
Philippine, &
German tax matters for the rest of us still need to be addressed and again, with varying degrees of
complexities of each country's tax laws, that's an additional headache.
(3) Your suggestion, othan than (1) or (2) - please
explain briefly
Your Opinion:
Please let us talk thru email group, give your opinions, suggestions, comments,
and also your preference, either (1) PRIVATE DONATION, (2) TAX DEDUCTIBLE DONATION, or (3) Your suggestion. Please stick to
the topic being discussed. We will proceed with the other issues after we have selected our
choice.
Thanks and
let our golden wisdom guide us thru in giving back to our Alma Mater. Please participate in the dialog. We all like to hear
your voice.
jun
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Date: 10/15/01 3:12:39
PM Pacific Daylight Time
From: Priscilla.Casimiro@mah.gov.on.ca
Hi Jun,
My preference is #1 - Private
donation - US$50.00/year. If we can gather at least 50 members and pledge $50.00 each, it's easy to achieve a $2,500.00 goal
per year. As you have mentioned, we could add to the Scholarship Fund any amount raised during our reunion and/or "group fund
raising" events like the one we (Toronto Group) will initiate next Saturday, October 20th.
We call it "PCC High School
Class '65 First Fund-Raising Event" which is a trip to Casino Rama. Yoli Martin and I are charging each participant $5.00
and all proceeds go towards the Scholarship Fund. As of today, we have 50 confirmed participants supporting this event and
Casino Rama will provide us with a coach and driver plus lunch buffet on any of their 5 restaurants. This event will give
us initially $250.00 and other members who could not join us that day, are giving donations directly to the Fund. We will
try to make this a "fun-filled day" for everybody and depending on the outcome, we might do it again in January 2002.
Thanks
Jun for starting this dialog. With the commitment and generosity of our members/friends, I'm confident we can "do it" more
so, with God's help!
Precy
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Date: 10/16/01
10:47:35 AM Pacific Daylight Time
From: junlalog@mac.com
Hi guys,
I'm also thinking of a name for our
Scholarship Fund Raising, a name that will have special meaning for us, showing appreciation to our Alma Mater by giving back
what we are enjoying today.
I'll start with "Bigay Aral", BIGAY ..giving back... to education... ARAL.. Ludy has "Balik
Loob", "I was thinking that with all our good fortune we are reaping from our good education, we are giving back our appreciation
to our alma mater."
What's yours? Please send it in.
Regards,
jun
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Date: 10/16/01 3:11:56 PM Pacific Daylight Time
From: becky.albino@mol.gov.on.ca
JUN - thanks for opening
the dialog re scholarship fund and I'm sure it will be discussed on this Saturdays trip to Orillia's Casino Rama. Wish us
all the luck - you never know we may have all the funds required the next time you hear from us.
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Date: 10/17/01 12:01:48 PM Pacific Daylight Time
From: ccandelario@sprint.ca
Re scholarship - Personally
I would go for the private donation/pledge and fund raising. In addition to the fund raising activities in different jurisdiction,
I think we could pledge voluntarily on a yearly basis. Since breaking my promise of joining the Toronto casino trip, I promised
to give Cdn$25 to our fund here.
Jun you can count me in for additional Cdn$25 to come up with $50 (all in Canadian) for
the year 2001. (I know you mentioned US$ but I believe the conversion will come later once we have to deposit the money into
one common fund - Jun maybe u can include this query as u pool in ideas/comments from the group later on. TKS
As to
naming our 'fund'- it will take more time for me to be creative (meaning I need my nap first - joke only - but if I come up
with something I will post it).
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Date: 10/21/01
2:12:23 PM Pacific Daylight Time
From: yoli_martin@yahoo.com
Hi Jun - this is Yoli, How are you and Lina and of
course the kids? I kinda like both Bigay Aral and Balik Loob however since our project is scholarship fund, I am more inclined
to go for "Balik Aral" which connotes education.
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Date:
10/21/01 3:40:41 PM Pacific Daylight Time
From: yoli_martin@yahoo.com
Jun -- thanks for taking the initiatives
on this venue. I would prefer #1 however your projection plan for 10 years is a bit long considering our age, etc. How about
planning for say 5 years plus each group will start a fundraising to top the pledges. While we are on this topic -- what shall
we do with the CA$610 we raised from our first reunion? Who is the designate treasurer to handle this project? I have placedthis
money in a separate savings account intended for PCC Funds.
For your info, we raised $260 from the first fund-raising
event - Casino Trip. We almost had a full bus. (52 out of 55 bus capacity). We also had 50/50 draw and we use the 50% to give
to the driver as tip instead of collecting from the passengers - we split the 50% to 2 winners. We also watch a movie on this
trip - League of their Own. From what we gathered, they all had a great time and many are already asking when would be our
next trip. Unfortunately, nobody won the jackpot except one - pcc alumnus -- she won 2,500 coins ( 5 cents) or $112.50.
We
plan to do this trip every other month or 6 times a year. Some groups have their trips once a month and they charge $7-10
per person. We will not be doing that -- it could be addicting too. If we, pcc alumni, can designate a time just for us to
talk even for one hour out of the 5-hour stay at the casino --- would be nice. A chance to get away too from the gamabling
floor.
Next trip -- November 24 or December 1 or start in January 2002. I will let you know. New Yorkers who are going
to be in town might want to join us. Bye for now. XXXXOOOOO Yoli
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Date: 10/26/01 8:09:43 AM Pacific Daylight Time
From: sas@hpm.com
Jun - re fundraising, I also like the
idea of giving anually $50 or whatever the set amount is, and of course, kung nanalo ka sa Lotto (10% of your winnings), okay
ba iyon?
Perhaps, we can also do a yard sale for fundraising. My family and I are also doing a fundraising for my
son's school. (Some of you knew about this.) The Filipino American Student Association (FASA) of Virginia Tech named their
scholarship foundation after my son Bong (Rhonyll Seballos Memorial Foundation) who passed away while on vacation in Boracay
last Jan. 2000. He was honored because his schoolmates said that he embodied what FASA was and is. A day before he left for
Boracay, he even dragged us to Rizal's birthplace after we visited Pansol. He has encouraged his college friends to learn
how to speak tagalog and sometimes even gives classes.
I'm sorry, I got sidetracked. Every time I got a chance to
talk about my son, I can't stop. About fundraising, I sell bottled water at work for $0.60 (100% profit) and grosses at least
$3.60 or more a day. My clientele is getting bigger though. My mom's friends who play mahjong occasionally donates "tong"
for FASA. Perhaps our Philippine counterpart can think of a better way in terms of fundraising. What
the Canadian families
are doing (trip to the Casino) is also great.
The important thing is we have to start soon. The treasurer or "the
assigned collector" should be a patient but persistent one. Let's start the ball rolling and where do we mail our checks?
Should we have a US treasurer para in U.S. dollars pa rin ang pera and Canada should have one? Pagka nahuli-huli kayo ng kaunti,
christmas shopping na at kahit singko wala na kayong makukuha sa akin.
Suki Aventino Seballos
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Date: 10/26/01 8:44:13 AM Pacific Daylight Time
From: jetgsaint@aol.com
Suki,
Always nice
to have the scholarship in memory of someone... in FASA's case your son... our very first scholarship is in memory of our
first classmate that died... he was our first honor and a very well liked-guy -- he joined the NPA right after high school
graduation and was killed in an encounter with the military... we had it in his memory 'cuz he was willing to die for his
belief and not 'cuz we're honoring his being in the NPA... but now that we (UP High Class 66) have 7 classmates that went
to our creator ahead of us, we decided to just name the rest of our scholarships not to a specific person... just "Class '66
Memorial Scholarship". (I believe we gave 3 scholarships for last year's graduates).
Also, personally, I think we
shouldn't peg the amount of the pledges to say $50, or $100 or whatever amount... we can suggest it... but not peg it...
Also,
if one wants to sponsor a scholar, to give a deserving student, all by themselves please do so --- say 1,000 pesos a month,
is only 12,000/year or about $235 U.S....
Suki is right... let's start it soon... sabi nga nila -- "Daig ng maagap
ang matalino"... ganoon ng ba ang kasabihan na yon?
Jet
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Date: 10/26/01 9:08:19 AM Pacific Daylight Time
From: ccandelario@sprint.ca
- Read Suki's email with subject
line 'etc' and Jet's reply re scholarship. How are you doing with your survey Jun? - so far majority na ba ang sumagot? Even
Yoli would like us to have a timetable of less than 10 years.
As Suki, Yoli suggested iklian natin ang oras ng mesa
(timetable) natin so we can put this 'SF' (hindi San Francisco ha kundi Scholarship Fund) in place. Jet I think Jun's email
clear it up that pledges are totally voluntary be it $20 or $up for a year kasi with the group power and the present exhange
rate medyo malaki na rin pag napalit.
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Date: 10/26/01
9:23:15 AM Pacific Daylight Time
From: junlalog@mac.com
Hi Suki,
How are you? Nice to hear from you about
the scholarship and fund raising ideas. They will be part of our committed ideas and suggestions, which BTW, I'm still waiting
on the "silent" members (Manny, you're one of them) to please voice their opinions/ideas. I'll wait another week and will
discuss the next
step... the mechanics of collecting and accounting the funds.
jun
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Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2001 8:24:49 PM Eastern Standard Time
From: "Barcelon, Lilia P." <barcelonlp@pnb.com.ph>
hi friends,
with the healthy discussion on the scholarship fund going on, please allow me to give some inputs.
i'm part of the scholarship committee of the pnb which grants scholarship
for needy but deserving students. the pnb foundation
started from a pnb anniversary project called teknical skolar and a book drive asking employees to donate old books ( called
ambag aklat). now the bank donates annually to the foundation in support of its scholars and we do some fund raising projects.
here are the basics of our scholarship rules which may be considered for the proposed batch fund -
1. scholarship
is for a 4-year technical degree, i.e. eng'g, computer science, vet med, architecture, fisheries, agriculture, nursing, etc.
(rationale: there are so many white collar graduates i.e. marketing, cpa, etc.)
2. eligibility: candidate -
a)
must be within the top 5% of the graduating high school class
b) must pass the entrance exam of the university or college
- any university/college but preferrably u.p. or other gov't universities like univ of benguet, tech univ of the phil, central
luzon agri school in cabanatuan, etc. schools are accredited - meaning - there is a memo of agreement on the handling of the
scholars.
c) must pass the scholarship exam of pnb foundation
d) parents must not be earning more than P100,000
per annum,
e) must be physically fit;
f) must maintain an average of 85% with no failing grade (any failing grade
even rotc or p.e. shall terminate the scholarship)
g) must maintain and complete same course (no shifting of course allowed)
3. benefits:
a) full payment of tuition fees and other enrolment expenses
b) allowance for books of P2,.500 per
semester
c) monthly allowance of P500 to be credited to an atm acct with pnb (there had been requests for increase on
the monthly allow)
d) payment of expenses for thesis
4. there is a scholarship contract to be signed by both parents
and the student to ensure that the student will have full support of the parents.
5. the scholars have no obligation
whatsover to pnb - i.e. they dont have to be employed at pnb .
we also support scholars for the short technical courses
for high school graduates offered by don bosco technical school such as 2 year course in auto mechanics, airconditioning,
etc. don bosco assures that their
graduates are placed with toyota, honda, and other car companies. the same benefits
and rules. Courses cost about P7,500 per year.
we also have short courses (i.e. 6 mos or 3 mos) for women, on data
encoding, high speed sewing - also under the don bosco. again don bosco handles placement of graduates.
considering
the socialized tuition at u.p. for examples, the budget for a 4 year course goes like
tuition - P20,000 x 8 sems
allowance
- P500 x 48 mos
book allow - P1,500 x 8 sems
thesis/graudation - P7,500
that would be P150,000 per scholar
for la salle or ateneo, the ave tuition per annun is about P90,000.
considering that pup has a low tuition, we could
probably increase the book and monthly allowance - still the P1M budget will have to earn to sustain a continuing grant..
banks dont pay as high as 18% per annum - t-bill and
time deposits rates for P1M today range from 8-10%. there are savings
and loans associations that pay high but risky.
so, having said all of that, some of us should really sit down and
propose the what/how/who of the fund. it's really not a simple act of giving the fund to the school -
another food
for thoughts - the pnb foundation also gave a student assistance fund of P100,000 to the u.p. los banos about 10 years ago.
the fund, which is managed by their student affairs office, offers low interest short term loans to students who may be encountering
difficulties such as delayed allowance from parents, monthly dorm payments, funds for school projects, etc. you'd be surprised
on the low past due accounts. it's really just a revolving fund and so far it has been earning and had helped a lot of students.
based on the report of the fund manager, it's almost always funds out. this was suggested by the u.p.l.b. adm cuz they have
a lot of scholarship funds and this way they can help students in another way.
so friends, let me hear from you on
this. i can post a copy of our memorandum of agreement with the schools and the parents.
see ya,
lee
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Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2001 9:51:23 AM Eastern Standard Time
From: yolet david <yoletdavid@yahoo.com>
I'm
not able to follow all the e-mails and I'm not even trying to understand the ones about sports(I have zero understanding of
these even if I've watched them occasionally just to see who is winning.) but I just
wanted to raise my hand on the scholarship
fund drive.
Count me in. $50 is not too much even if you convert it into pesos since it's on an annual basis. I think
the Toronto group's idea of raising additional funds through other sources is good... you hit two birds with one stone when
you organize a social event and earn some funds too. People can also join bazaars or flea markets with their excess stuff
and turn over the proceeds to the fund.
I'm not clear on one thing. Our object is to raise P1M. Is that supposed to
be turned over to PUP once we've collected that amount or will we be maintaining a scholar(s) even before we raise P1M? I
am of the view that we should start it as soon as we have funds even for one student and should have a hand on how to disburse
the funds e.g. having a hand in the selection of the scholar(s) and (as Glo J once mentioned) for the scholars to communicate
with our group so that a bond could be formed between the student and us as donors. That way, we will have a concrete sense
of helping someone, not just a faceless student and vice
versa.
Also, while it might be easier to just turn over
the funds to the PUP management, I doubt whether that is the best option. I think we should set up the fund and have them
submit to us their recommendations --then we can decide on it either by committee or as a whole. Our group has a lot of talent
and experience--maybe not too much time to directly manage the whole project but I do believe that w/ management and financial
people based in Manila (e.g. Lee
Calderon & Pearl Abcede) and "think-tank" people (translation: brain drained out
of RP) based abroad and all communicating via e-mail, this should work.
I don't want to be bureaucratic on having
a hand on the disbursement of funds but when you leave it to an institution, they will naturally do it in their usual
way.
Sometimes the most intelligent student is not the
best choice, and the neediest may not be the most
intelligent but
could probably benefit the most.
I'm sure a lot of you have more experience and better ideas so maybe we can divide
the conceptualizaton process according to subject: e.g. fund raising, fund disbursing, guidelines for student search etc.
Jet, is there a way we can input our ideas in a list, say in our website? I've seen a lot of good ideas in the e-mails
but can't keep track of them. Perhaps some of my thoughts have been brought up already but I'm just not aware of them. If
we add them to a list then maybe later we can add and discard or vote on them... whatever...
yolet
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Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 9:01:57 AM Eastern Standard Time
From: jetgsaint@aol.com
Yolet -- Good idea about putting
the scholarship exchanges on the Net... I'll do it the soonest...
Lee --- it's nice to know that PNB gives out those
scholarships... one note... with our giving scholarships, what is the thought of the group, especially those that started
the idea--- is it to give a full scholarship, that is, to pay for all the school expenses --- tuition, books, monthly stipends?
or is it partial scholarships -- that is, it will be just a fixed amount to help them out -- say 12,000 pesos or 1,000 pesos
a month? are we going to use only the interest on the fund and not touching any principal? if we touch the principal, there'll
be an end to the scholarship fund... if we use only the interest, then the fund can be in perpetuity and ever increasing...
will the scholarship be for 4 years per student or just 1 year per student? so many questions to answer....
Jet
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Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 12:58:52 AM Eastern Standard Time
From: Manny Bautista <mannybote@yahoo.com>
Mga
kamagaral ko sa PCC,
I agree with Yolet that we should not wait until we raise the 1 million pesos before we start
sponsoring students. The need is there now so we can start with whatever number of students we can support with the funds
we have and whatever we can raise immediately.
Jet made a good point that we should not peg the contribution amount,
though the suggested amount of $100 a year seems manageable. If we put aside .30 cents a day or $2.00 a week we'll have more
than $100 at the end of the year. Let's start putting away our change and get this Class 1965 Scholarship Fund going.
Manny
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Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 10:02:01 AM Eastern
Standard Time
From: junlalog@mac.com
Manny - Thanks for your input.
Yolet & Lee - thank you so
much for your wonderful ideas. I don't want to deal with the details right now as we're still in the first stage of our discussion
- that is, choosing between private or tax deductible donation, though your ideas require us to incorporate to carry them
out. Do we really want to be involved that much or just comply with the request of PUP Foundation and trust the Foundation
to do its work diligently?
I'm missing GloJ, GloM, Connie, and Lita's opinion. Please naman, say something.
jun
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Date: 10/29/01 2:56:24 PM Pacific Standard Time
From:
Priscilla.Casimiro@mah.gov.on.ca
Jun, re: scholarship - I hope naitago mo yoong pinadala kong e-mail noong Oct. 15th.
Nandoon yoong aking preference (#1) pero kung ano ang maging decision ng buong samahan, I'll surely abide - no problem sa
akin.
Mayroong nakatakdang pagpupulong ang Toronto Group sa Nov. 24th para pag-usapan ang scholarship at ang mga fund
raising activities.
SUKI, kasama sa listahan namin noong nag-meeting kami kina Becky (Aug. 18th) ang garage sale.
Naalala ko yoong kinuwento mo sa amin ng anak kong si Michelle yoong pagbebenta ng tubig sa trabaho para sa scholarship fund
in honor of your son - Bong. We really admire your dedication - sabi nga namin ni Che eh uliran kang ina. May God really bless
you for everything you'll be doing in memory of Bong!
Precy
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Date: 10/29/01 5:59:09 AM Pacific Standard Time
From: JETG SAINT
Yolet -- Good idea about putting the
scholarship exchanges on the Net... I'll do it the soonest...
Lee --- it's nice to know that PNB gives out those scholarships...
one note... with our giving scholarships, what is the thought of the group, especially those that started the idea--- is it
to give a full scholarship, that is, to pay for all the school expenses --- tuition, books, monthly stipends? or is it partial
scholarships -- that is, it will be just a fixed amount to help them out -- say 12,000 pesos or 1,000 pesos a month? are we
going to use only the interest on the fund and not touching any principal? if we touch the principal, there'll be an end to
the scholarship fund... if we use only the interest, then the fund can be in perpetuity and ever increasing... will the scholarship
be for 4 years per student or just 1 year per student? so many questions to answer....
Jet
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Date: 10/29/01 8:37:47 PM Pacific Standard Time
From: yoli_martin@yahoo.com
Jun, I think we should get
"little" involvement in this project as much as possible and like what you said the PUP Foundation should be doing the work
there with diligence of course on their part in carrying out this project. (in consultation with us of course because we are
the sponsors.) We should know also the number of students to receive the funds and not for one year only but until they complete
the degree with their marks being monitored, i.e. maintaining a certain average which PUP will set----- and if they (students)
do not maintain the required average, then they can lose their scholarship, In terms of tax deductions, I don't think we (Torontonians)
will be able to deduct this donation in our income tax. My concern is who will qualify for this funds:- students who are desering
but can't afford to finish their studies due to finances? How many students are we going to grant scholarship? etc.
We
are having another casino trip on November 24 and hope to raise $300 from this trip. We actuallly plan on doing this trip
once every 2
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Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 5:32:14 AM Eastern
Standard Time
From: "Barcelon, Lilia P." <barcelonlp@pnb.com.ph>
mga kapatid,
can we look at these
items and make comments, propose revisions, delete etc so we can set up the parameters of the scholarship fund:
1.
batchmembers' commitment to the fund - ( who?) i.e. incorporators/ subscribers/ committee / coordinators, whatever
2.
project managers/ point persons per group (i.e. toronto group, uno group, california group, manila group) and overall project
manager (i.e. jun lalog).
3. term of the fund
a) one time donation
b) perpetual fund
c) term - i.e. 4-years
4. target amount of the fund
5. build-up of the fund
5.1 how
a) fixed or voluntary donation per member
b) fund raising
5.2 term of fund accumulation
a) one year
b) 5- years
c) others
6.. fund manager
a)
school adm
b) batch committee - overseas committee
- manila-based committee
7. scholar/fund administrator
a)
school adm
b) batch committee -
8. beneficiaries
a) qualification
b) preferred courses
c) benefits to
the scholar
d) etc
9. target date of lst scholars
10. etc
a general agreement on the basic items can really
start the project. foremost i guess is the batch commitment and the identification of the project managers (para may taga-kulit).
are these nittygritty details taking the fun out of the project?
lee
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Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 4:31:53 PM Eastern Standard Time
From: JETG SAINT
Yolet -- I started putting the
exchanges of e-mails re: the scholarship in the website: http://pcchigh65.tripod.com under the heading 'Scholarship Fund'...
I'll add the rest as soon as I go thru the e-mails I saved about the scholarship...
Lee -- I like the itemized list
of what we need to figure out what we have to do for the scholarship fun... whenever you can, if you can possibly post a copy
of PNB's memorandum of agreement with the schools and the parents.
Jet
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Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 2:53:58 AM Eastern Standard Time
From: lee BARCELON <leebar89@yahoo.com>
hi
jet,
i'll post the memorandum of agreements next week. cuz this noon, oct 31 is the start of our 4 1/2 days long weekend
cuz of all saints day.
lee
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Date: Wed,
31 Oct 2001 2:42:48 PM Eastern Standard Time
From: sas@hpm.com
Lee -Ang galing. May tanong ako. Iyon bang mga
Project Managers (na taga-kulit) ay may bayad sila tuwing may miting? at saka libre ang pamasahe sa eroplano at hotel, etc.
pagka nagmimiting sila? Tapos, mayroon din silang allowance? Puwede ba akong mag-apply?Seriously, this is a good start. Let's
keep the ball rolling habang maiinit tayong lahat. Hindi ako mahirap kausapin, any neat suggestion is okay with me.Suki
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Subj: [PCCHigh65] scholarship fund
Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2001 9:36:16 AM Eastern Standard Time
From: sas@hpm.com
To:
PCCHigh65@yahoogroups.com
Totohanan na ito. Why don't we assign a date to have a meeting via e-mail about scholarship.
Let's say, on Tuesday, Nov. 13, let's start talking about it. And perhaps, every Tuesday of the week, we should exchange
emails
about it. Lee has given us an outline to work on. If anyone is interested, we can print a copy of it and using "tracking"
of Word, we can do a redline/strikeout of what we need to incorporate.
Jun, since you're the President or Chairman
of the Board (ano ka ba talaga?) of the group, you'll be the moderator, di ba?
Jet, is the file in Word? If not, I
will make a copy and clean it up, and create a master file, and forward it to you, so you can place it somewhere where we
can take a look at it and save it with our changes/suggestions (in redline/strikeout). Baka puwede mong ilagay sa "Files."
So, sino ang treasurer sa America? Magpapadala ako ng 25 cents every day sa kanya except on Saturday and Sunday.
Take
care,
Suki
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Subj: Re: [PCCHigh65] scholarship
fund
Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2001 11:11:29 AM Eastern Standard Time
From: "Priscilla Casimiro" <Priscilla.Casimiro@mah.gov.on.ca>
To: <PCCHigh65@yahoogroups.com>
Hello friends!
The Toronto Group will discuss this subject on Nov.
24th . While most of our supporters/passengers for the 2nd fund-raising event at Casino Rama are having fun at the gambling
floors, we will be "brainstorming" at the lunch tables. This was an idea suggested by Cora Romero and we all agreed to do
so. lunch tab All 55 seats are already taken and we still have lots of "standh tabbys" waiting for any last-minute cancellation.
Parang mayroon mini-reunion ulit kami dito at masarap pa ang pagkain dahil "buffet lunch" like what we had during
the 1st trip. We had lots of fun then and we look forward to the success of this 2nd trip again.
We will send you
the result of this meeting asap.
So long for now!
Precy
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Jet.
Can you post this on the scholarship website? It's a response
from Connie. Thanks,
jun
---
In PCCHigh65@y..., ciraka@a... wrote:
Hello Mga Kapatid,
Sumasangayon ako sa mga suggestions ninyo. Kung ano ang
mabuti para makatulong sa mga nagagailangan na magaaral na gustong makatapos pero hindi kaya ng mga magulang na mapagaral
sila. Kayo na ang magdesision at ako ay ayos lang sa mga binabalak ninyo.
Salamat at ingat lang.
Kamusta sa
lahat at nagmamahal,
Connie
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Subj: [PCCHigh65]
Re: scholarship fund
Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2001 12:15:37 PM Eastern Standard Time
From: junlalog@mac.com
To: PCCHigh65@yahoogroups.com
Hi Suki,
I'm here. Now that the Series is over, we can focus on "Bigay Aral '65" (Scholarship Fund Class 65).
To all,
As your Dir. of Tagakulit, officially or unofficially, I'd like to start the email dialogue on Nov. 27,
after the Toronto meeting of Nov. 24. The extra time would also give the other "silent" members to catch up on what's posted
on the website - pcchigh65.tripod.com about the scholarship. Because of the time difference, I don't know how we can get Manila
Group to join us "live" at our present eGroup connection. Also, I don't know how many of us have internet access at home so
we can talk Manila time.
To GloJ & GloM,
Connie has sent her piece of advice/comment, so was Yolet.
Can
we hear from you, please?
To Manny,
Since you're the appointed Treasurer at the Toronto Reunion, I'm sure the
other members will join me in officially appointing you the over-all Treasurer.
Regards,
jun
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Subj: Re: [PCCHigh65] scholarship fund
Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2001 6:52:10 PM Eastern Standard Time
From: "dpicazo"
<dpicazo@pathcom.com>
To: <PCCHigh65@yahoogroups.com>
I concur
Danny
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