JASHS Class '70 Christmas Get-Together
Our counterpart alumni association, JASHS Class ’70, here in the Philippines has been having a Christmas get-together for the past several years. I’ve scheduled myself to attend one of them a few years back but I was having a hard time booking a flight back to the US. Since I was still a slave to the grind at that time, I couldn’t take the chance of getting stranded here and, God forbid, be in trouble at work. I think my friend Ed Sale ended up going that year instead.
Times - they are a’changin', so to speak, because now that we live here, we can attend the Christmas get-together without worrying whether we’ll get a flight or not!
So last Dec 30 at around 10ish in the morning Donna and I went to Cida’s place to celebrate the Holidays with our high school classmates. We dragged Reggie with us. He was the one who took all the pictures. I think they told people to be there by 9:30 so by the time we got there, there were already quite a bit of people milling around. Donna and I registered and we were quickly given name tags and a T-shirt each. Most of the usual barkada were there. Even Teng Gorospe, whom I haven’t seen for such a long time attended.
I heard they were able to collect quite a bit of money from the raffle tickets they sold. The proceeds, part of which was already turned over to the Principal, Ms Macaspac, by the President Ned Canlas together with some of the officers, were to be used as payment for a project they committed to fund for the Registrar’s Office. A bunch of metal shelvings and trays were acquired and installed to properly maintain students’ records, like transcripts, etc. Ms Tess Magtoto mentioned that some records have already been destroyed by termites.
As usual there was a lot of food, fun games and cool raffle prizes and a lot of pictures taken. Alicia (Violeta) Vazquez and Tony Manalastas were two of our classmates, from London and California respectively, from abroad who attended. One classmate, Luz Cuyugan gave away a bunch of P500 bills towards the end of the party. Lucky Donna won one of the P500 and I think everyone got a small Christmas ham. Alumni who are Manila residents were curiously absent.
Times - they are a’changin', so to speak, because now that we live here, we can attend the Christmas get-together without worrying whether we’ll get a flight or not!
So last Dec 30 at around 10ish in the morning Donna and I went to Cida’s place to celebrate the Holidays with our high school classmates. We dragged Reggie with us. He was the one who took all the pictures. I think they told people to be there by 9:30 so by the time we got there, there were already quite a bit of people milling around. Donna and I registered and we were quickly given name tags and a T-shirt each. Most of the usual barkada were there. Even Teng Gorospe, whom I haven’t seen for such a long time attended.
I heard they were able to collect quite a bit of money from the raffle tickets they sold. The proceeds, part of which was already turned over to the Principal, Ms Macaspac, by the President Ned Canlas together with some of the officers, were to be used as payment for a project they committed to fund for the Registrar’s Office. A bunch of metal shelvings and trays were acquired and installed to properly maintain students’ records, like transcripts, etc. Ms Tess Magtoto mentioned that some records have already been destroyed by termites.
As usual there was a lot of food, fun games and cool raffle prizes and a lot of pictures taken. Alicia (Violeta) Vazquez and Tony Manalastas were two of our classmates, from London and California respectively, from abroad who attended. One classmate, Luz Cuyugan gave away a bunch of P500 bills towards the end of the party. Lucky Donna won one of the P500 and I think everyone got a small Christmas ham. Alumni who are Manila residents were curiously absent.
It was great to see old classmates once again. We stayed the whole day so there was quite a bit of time to reminisce, which is what we always do when old fogies get together. But for most, the highlight of the day was the game 'Scavenger Hunt' when the emcee said, “Give me some false teeth!” A bunch of people stood up and started running, taking off their false teeth on the way and tried to hand them to her! I thought that was hilarious!
We were beat by the time we went home and we opted not to attend the Homeowner’s Association Christmas party here at Greenfields.
Willy Sapnu invited some of us for dinner at Mequeni Restaurant before Alicia left for London. We took Daniel with us in this event. Check out top pictures.
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