4F Reunion

Last October 13 members of class 4F had a reunion at Tingting Palanca's (4F) very own Basty's restaurant in the Fort. Although the group was small, about ten people in attendance, the catching up was great. We also had a class list, c/o Arvin Cortez who went to LSGH and took a picture of the plaque on the statue our class donated to the school.

Armed with the new list, 4F have agreed to have a monthly gathering in order to get more people involved (actually just to catch up) in our efforts to plan our 2012 homecoming. Next meet-up will be in Dong Delos Reyes' (4F) Buffalo Wings and Things, date to be announced soon.

Contribute a Title or Theme for Homecoming 2012

We're asking our fellow batchmates to contribute a theme and title for the Homecoming 2012. Chong, kahit ano naman magandang movie eh kailangan ng title bago siya ma release. The title is important and has to be relevant. Just as it was for Batch 86 to have concluded the centennial for La Salle's 100 year and called their homecoming as the Greentenial. the idea for our theme is to inspire the start of the new century, to move forward. Throw your comments here and give a title for Batch 87 Homecoming.

Volunteer Board

Here's where you can help. There's going to be a lot of things to do, but here's what we have so far. Pili ka na kung ano ang sagot mo na for the Batch. Thanks in advance.

A Night We Will All Remember

by: Tingting Velasco

Guys,

I had a fab Pan de Sal Lunch with JP Tugade. Over the coffee, laughs and great Roast Beef Pan de Sals we talked about conepts and more plans for the 25th.

JP suggested we do a tie up with Bench. Established in '87, Bench can be our major sponsor and we could also ride on some events for fundraising leading to the 25th. The "Bench Lounge Soiree" is to be held at Valle Verde Country Club open to all '87 batches (preferably girl) schools. Highlights of the event will be performances, great music, raffles ( a date with..., we give away an '87 Benz etc.). Whatyathink?


Another concept is the "87 Things that make you proudly VERDE. Let's draw up this list and we can flash it on the screen on the the 25th. Be creative. Let me start with a few:

Some of the "87 Things that make me proudly VERDE:

1. Green guys get along.
2. We are not sosyal, pare.
3. Munding is with the batch.
4. Quini was with the batch.
5. Mama bart taught us.
6. We won against San Beda thanks to the Henson and Favis Dynamic Duo.
7. "Dewey Dewey" was a great play.
8. Boy Ramos, enough said.
9. The reunions we have are W I L D!
10. Lorex is with us.
11. Ace Barbers was a pioneer in student activism displaying political savvy in 3rd Year... they went against the establishment.... it was either that or he got kicked out with Quini et al....
12. Aki is stoned rotten at the reunions.
13. We are men for others.
14. The most sosyal officer in the Philippine Army is from us pare.
15. Musical taste is refined at LSGH.

You gus get the drift right? Let's complete the list!!!!!

Let's Get Together: Mini Class Reunions Scheduled

by: Eddielu Arellano

Guys, the homecoming is going to take a lot of work to reach it's goal of funding the night of the event itself. With the goal in mind, it's going to be really ONE BIG FUN Night. Now even though it's going to take a lot of us to support this success, there's no reason why we can't also have fun while we're pulling together for all the fund raising activities. So from the last meeting, it was decided that we kick off mini class reunions to get everyone involved and updated on how we're going to go about the homecoming activities. It's a start to get back together for this one goal. For Batch 87 to deliver a great night on it's 25th year homecoming in 2012.

Currently here are the schedule / organizers of the different class reunions

4F (October 13 - Arvin Cortez, Joey Z, Eddielu)

4A (October 13 - Jake, Myki, and Reuben)

4D (Jojo Asis)

4H (Mich Shivers)



Others are underway, we're just confirming from organizers of when they plan to get together

Our First Activity is Set

Dear Batchmates:

Last September 23, 2010 we had our 1st batch meeting which, was graciously hosted by one of our batch mates, King Reyno. The objective was to update the attendees on the initial fund raising ideas being considered by the batch and to solicit volunteers to head the different committees under the working committee.

As a matter of reference the different committees are: The Homecoming Event, Finance, Internal Communications, Legal, Sponsorships, External Communications, AA Affairs and Events. We would like to encourage everyone and anyone among our batch to volunteer! We will need all the help we can get!

It was also agreed that our batch shall embark on its first fundraising activity, a charity stakes. This activity will be on December 4, 2010, so we really need to work FAST and HARD to make this initial effort a success! As always, we will keep the batch abreast on the progress of this initiative.

Lastly, please continue asking our batchmates to send their email addresses to Reuben Ravago so he can include them in our newsletter. The intention is to reach out to as many of our batchmates as possible! Reuben’s email address is ravago@gmail.com

Regards!

Paul Fernandez
Batch ‘87

Vote your Class Reps

by: Eddielu Arellano

What I am now and what you are now we all owe to our experiences we had in our years at Ortigas Ave!

It excites me that we shall be going back home in 17 months to re-live our 25 years together, seeing familiar faces and not so familiar faces, reliving our good and not so good memories, and it also saddens me because it shows our age and how long we've all been separated from home! Home they say is where the heart is but to most of us, this home is where the everything is !! And when i say everything i mean everything!!! Please list down your everything....

Now back to reality and the challenge that is facing our coming home! The batch or a very small percentage of the batch has been trying for several years now to bring all of us together to make this special day worthwhile, fun-filled and memorable to all, but we have been hitting roadblocks! Its difficult but we will not stop trying..

We need the support and the people to get this going and to start of, the "very small" group would need class reps to work for the success of this "day". It may be in the form of our class officers or also the influential or willing to step up people from each barkada of each class.Again, I cannot stress enough the importance of time and participation of each cluster for this to be the most memorable event of our lives. its either that, or we become the most memorable batch that did not have a homecoming.... so do we leave it to fate or do we choose to move now?! I choose now!

Eddielu

Cast your votes for class reps by commenting below

Batch 87 Meet's Up at Basty's

by: Paul Fernandez

About 25 – 30 members of our batch met up last August 26, at Basty's (Tinggoy Palanca’s newest bar at the Fort). As expected, everyone had lots of fun (and lots to eat and drink, too) while catching up on each other’s lives and families.

The cool thing about the night, though, is the fact that everyone was really, really (major, major he he) psyched about our upcoming 25th year homecoming in 2012!

There were two (2) matters that stood out during our discussion about the reunion. First, WE NEED TO UNITE NOW FOR 2012, AND BEYOND!! In order to make it easier for us to communicate with each other, the following initiatives will be taken:

• please inform 5 – 10 of your batch mates about this newsletter; ask them if they are part of it already; if not,

• please tell them to text their email address to Reuben Ravago (09178990331) so he can include them already

The other theme that was evident that night was the need to raise money for the reunion and for the batch! We have a lot of good ideas on how to make 2012 and beyond special but we need funds to fuel these ideas. We need to implement, at least, one fundraiser before the year ends. Initial ideas brought forward are:

• Batch shirts
• Batch watches
• 80’s party
• Fun run
  

These ideas are so doable! We will just have to prioritize which ones will give us the highest return for our efforts. We need HELP to raise funds! We need HELP from batch mates who can champion projects for the batch!

Speaking of championing projects – our very own Aloy Aquino has signified his commitment to unite our batch mates in the US and Canada. Thank you, Aloy!

All in all, a great start – batch 1987! But we still have a long way to go! We will still need the HELP of everyone to make 2012 a success.

Until the next update...

Paul Fernandez