OLPS Alumni

Minutes of the OLPS Alumni Meeting
OLPS Minor, Sorsogon City
8PM, July 18, 2008






In Attendance :

Tom Sementela
Tato Marcial
Atty. Jess Fumera
Gerald Angeles
Totep Perez
Bernie Donor
Atty. Wowo Fortes
Leo Ocampo
Joey Lasala
Jeangle Eco
Fr. Egay Cleofe
Fr. Jasper Valdez


Meeting Proper

The meeting was called to order at 8 PM with Atty. Jess Fumera presiding. Mr. Totep Perez read the minutes of the previous meeting. The body approved the contents of the minutes of the meeting.

Atty. Fumera led the group in the discussion of the matters arising from the previous meeting:

1. On Rice subsidy :

Mr. Tato Marcial reported that 10 seminarians are having difficulty in complying with the required 3 sacks of rice yearly, thus, a shortfall of 30 sacks in the year.

Fr. Egay Cleofe informed the group that he will provide names of those seminarians and inquired if they will become direct beneficiaries of the Alumni Foundation and in effect, they are no longer obliged to give the required sacks of rice. The group discussed on the matter and arrived at the decision that the OLPS is the sole beneficiary of the Alumni Foundation who will receive directly the rice subsidy. It is now the discretion of the OLPS administration if they will still require the 10 seminarians to give rice.

Mr. Bernie Donor informed the group that per sack costs P1,250 per sack or P25 per kilo, thus a total of P37,500.00 for 30 sacks of rice shortfall. It was suggested that the Alumni Foundation will write letter to NFA Manager to purchase rice, Totep to draft the letter, Monsignor Monje to sign. The source of fund will come from donations from alumni, post the information at alumni blogspots.

2. On Financial Statement :

Mr. Joey Cubias, the Alumni Treasurer was absent. Mr Tom Sementela suggested that Mr. Perez must remind Mr. Cubias to submit the records of transactions for him to prepare the Financial Statement.

3. On General Information Sheet:

Atty. Tootsie Cubias was absent, again, Mr. perez was tasked to remind Atty. Cubias to submit the General Information Sheet.


4. On Alumni Directory:

Mr. Marcial to coordinate with the Registrar Mam Nikki Halcon, Sr. Myrna Dioquino & Atty. Cubias.


5. On Fellowship Night:

Mr. Perez reported that he met Atty. Alwin Talde who informed him that Batch 83 had a meeting in Manila to discuss their sponsorship of the event by shouldering the financial cost and possible production of Film Documentary about OLPS c/o Film maker Larry Manda.


6. On Destroyed Fence:

Mr. Marcial took picture of the damaged portion and posted the same on the blog. However, Fr. Cleofe informed the group that there is a plan to construct an access road in the same area. Atty. Fortes suggested that the group must remove the item from the Alumni’s concern based on the aforementioned plan. The group agreed.


7. On Tarpaulin Banners:

The group decided to put the item for further discussion next meeting.


8. On Establishment of Alumni Affairs Office:

Mr. Perez informed Fr. Cleofe on the rationale behind the establishment of an Alumni Affairs Ofice. Fr. Cleofe said that seminarians are capable to be assigned, for the meantime at the alumni desk that will soon be transformed into an office. Mr perez will draft a formal letter of request to the Rector, Msgr. Monje to sign & discuss details with Fr. Cleofe, the Rector.


9. New Matters/Business:

Tasking/Formation of Committees :

1. Rice Project – c/o B. Donor, Atty. T. Cubias, Msgr. Monje, Mr. Perez
2. Homecoming Registration committee/secretariat – c/o batch 87
3. Ways & Means /Finance Committee – Joey Cubias, Tom Sementela
4. Food Committee – c/o OLPS
5. Sports Committee – c/o OLPS
6. Liturgy Committee – c/o OLPS
7. Fellowship Committee – Batch 83
8. Parade – c/o batch 87
9. Information, Documentation & Publication & Promotion – Boy Lopez (Sorsogon Guardian), Fr. Treb Futol (DZGN/TV 11), Erwin Lasam (Sorsogon Now), Marlon Loterte (Phil. Info. Agency), Mark Paras (Sorsogon Today), Gibbs Cadiz (Phil. Daily Inquirer), Delon Porcalla (Phil. Star), Linuz Escandor (Tempo, Manila Bulletin), Ching Salazar (NBN), Sim Gamba, Robert Maullon (DWOL).

Next meeting will be on August 1, 2008, 7PM at the Fatima Parish. Having no other matters to be discussed, the meeting was adjourned at 9:15PM.


CERTIFIED TRUE AND CORRECT :


JOSEPH JOHN J. PEREZ
Interim Secretary


WITH CONCURRENCE :


ATTY. JESUS FUMERA
Presiding Officer

Our prayers for the eternal repose of Tia Betty. She was the much loved cook of the OLPS College from late 80's to 90's

Godspeed Tia Betty.

The OLPS Alumni "working group" (tato, how do we call the group volunteering to revive the alum association?) will hold the next meeting on July 18, 2008 at OLPS Minor

Agenda will include, among others, the points raised and discussed during the previous meeting (minutes here)

All Sano are most welcome to participate in the meeting.

Got this from the B87 blog. let us all lend our full support to this endeavor guys!!! Kindly contact Sano Totep Perez (B87) for details and updates.

Former Alumni Officers gathered at Fatima Parish, Sorsogon City last June 7, 2008 hosted by Mons Pax Monje. Discussed were :

1. Filing of Petition to Revive the OLPS Alumni Foundation at SEC
2. SANO Reorganization
3. Tentative 2008 Homecoming sked.

fr. gerry has a blog at multiply.com. lotsa pix. he looks so different without the glasses :-)

Our condolences and prayers to Mervs Hael's family whose dad died last saturday May 18, 2008

nag r&r an staff san minor sa ilocos. more pix sa OLPS Minor

calling all sano interested to help out in the prep works for the 2008 OLPS foundation day, please sign up here. Batch 83 is in charge of this year's foundation day and they need all our help to make this year's foundation day the best ever.

i have no idea yet about the plans re from the OLPS minor or from B83 but they could surely use our help. ok?

one of the problems frequently encountered is communicating will all the sano. perhaps some sano there in sorsogon can help out Ms. Halcon or whoever is in charge of OLPS Alumni Relations to send out letters/emails/text to all sano about the foundation activities.

suggestions are most welcome here and i'll email them to padi rector and to gerry arnedo (b83) and also circulate them via our mailing list.

apologies tabi to all sanos who emailed me and got no response. i forgot to check olpseminarista mailbox for the past 3mos!!!! grabe. work got in the way of managing this blog hehehe.

anyways, pasensya na tabi bombi, totep, mike d., alvin, gerry a., nstrcastillo, et al.

also i banned some IPs from the chatbox kay maramok na.

and checkout some of the comments on the post. pretty interesting.

mas mahayahay nan magian ini pagkitaon na chapel nyan kesa sadto san 2005. tenks kay padi rector

shouts out to Atty. Dante Arcos (B86) for passing the bar. sin-o pa tabo na sano an nakapasar kaya?

our prayers for the eternal repose of Sano Perry Labayo's dad who passed away yesterday.

Batch 92 and Batch '94 made it to OLPS minor last Black Sat and had a good time.

















pungal, me uniform pa. asteeeg!

















b92 vs. b94 -- sino an gana?















more pix and deets sa blog ninda. kadto na kamo!!! hehe may mga puladayon an bayhon didto :-)


Batch 87 also had a get together at totep's place.

















nagparahurulat sa mga online friends ninda na unfortunately it seems dili online hehe. enjoy man gihapon

sya amo lang anay ini kay intaramad na an iba na batch hehe.

whatever happened to the SANO Board of Directors?? so far no info or advance notice of SANO activities anymore. no word also from the people in Minor if somethings gonna happen this saturday.

anyways, to those batches who have something up on BlackSat, kindly post pix or email me pix and stories

Our condolences to the family of Charlie (B81) and Bong (B83) Miaco whose mother passed away recently. Let's all pray for her eternal repose.

here are the chaps who wrestled through four years of OLPS and are set to graduate this march(?)

Mga sano, what advise can you give these 11 as they face the thrills and disappointments of "buhay sa luwas"?

1. to start off, me i'd encourage them to take a year off and just bum around and travel. see what its like being out in the world. well, thats what i would have done if given the chance to do it all over again hehehe.

lots of new stuff over at the OLPSminor blog. go visit na!


BAMS 2008





























some kind of spiritual miracle seems to be taking place here. and tio nards is the ninong daw! hehe

















remember the always nice and helpful sr. myrna and ms. halcon? (i dont now the gal in the middle though)

mayad pa an olps kay damo an outing hehe.

here's another fine addition from Gabby of B86 to the ever-growing collection of prose and verses in the soon to be literary hit "The Book of Sano" :-p


A Matter of Waiting
by Gabby Lagamayo, B86

The problem with the future is that we don’t know how it will unfold. We can make some logical predictions based on history and observation, but there is always that x of an unknown that no one can anticipate. The vastness of predictive studies, and you can add the unscientific ones, could only comprehend things that have transpired.

Neat intro, huh? No? I thought I’d make a great impression. So what am I anxious about? In two measly weeks (as of the time I’m writing this piece) I’ll be joining the club of the big four-oh; entering the twilight zone where, they say, everything gets bad or good depending how you live your life. I’m the eldest in the batch so I get to become forty first. This post is about being that.

click here to continue reading the writeup at the b86 blog...