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By Teresita Racines (Batch '67) The formal induction of the new officers of the LCHS Alumni Association is set on Sept. 6, 1998. This was decided by the officers at the monthly Board meeting held last Aug. 13. Association President Arturo Samson is set to prepare the program soon together with Secretary Johnny Chen. Details of the program will be announced in the Spectrum once it is finalized. Also taken up during the meeting was the Treasurer's Report on the current financial status of the Association. Past President Dy Sio Te also presented her report on the highlights of her term, such as the construction of a school marker, increasing the Association's Scholarship Fund, the successful hosting of the alumni Christmas party and raffles last December, cash donation to the LCHS Student Council, among others. The Board also gave the go-signal to the Membership Committee to implement the membership campaign through the Internet. Preparations are now being undertaken to enable alumni to file their membership registration form through the LCHS alumni web site. A bank account will soon be established to which alumni may remit their membership fee at their convenience. The Board also decided to schedule a special meeting in the weeks ahead to discuss exclusively the proposal for a year 2000 grand alumni homecoming. |
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Sally Vy heads
LCHS Student Council
By Igdono Caracho (Batch '66) & Alicia Cu-Go (Batch '79)
Sally Vy has been elected president of the LCHS Student Council. She was one of the country's "Top Ten Outstanding Chinese Filipino Students" in 1997 sponsored by the Pagibig Foundation, Inc. She is the daughter of Beng Hong and Shirley Vy. The newly elected Student Council officers are Sally Vy, president; Katherine Kho, vice president; Sheila Vy, secretary; John Arthur Samson, treasurer; Bryan Cyndric Dy, auditor; July Ng, PIO.; Ronald Rae Samson & Anthon Louie Te, social managers; Jefferson Wong, Leo Michael Uy & Piscean Mae Aranton, sports managers; Romeo Jojie Babatido & Danilo Zorilla, Jr., sergeants at arms; Criss Marian Subang, muse; and Lewgrade Yap, prince charming. Elected officers of the Elementary Department Student Council are Elbert Louie Eslao, president; Neil Lim, vice president; Roxanne Conol, secretary; Nicole Chua, treasurer; Bjorn Chua, auditor; Giselle Letigio & Farley Ong, PIOs; Lionel Bryan Yap & Kristina Carmela So, social managers; Radi Alibanggo, sports manager; Kevin So & Agnes Opiniano, sergeants at arms; Shahana Cabili, muse; and Peter Santos, prince charming.
New Chinese temple in Iligan
A new branch of the Sian Tian Temple has recently been set up in Iligan City. The temple is part of the worldwide Sian Tian Temple established under the auspices of Taiwanese ministers. Its Iligan branch opened last Aug. 9 at the residential compound of Bienvenido "Titi" Lim (Batch '66) in Noria, Pala-o. The temple does not adhere to any single religious denomination as it is a non-sectarian temple. It welcomes everybody who believes in a universal God. The temple offers periodic sessions with Taiwanese ministers preaching the words of God. A session was held recently with dinner consisting entirely of vegetarian foods prepared by the visiting Taiwanese faithfuls. Administering the new Iligan temple is Jose Teck Hua Lim.
Wanted: LCHS student reporters
The Spectrum is in need of two student volunteers from LCHS with basic know-how in e-mail correspondence to be its reporters for the campus beat. The main job of the student correspondents is to report by e-mail to the Spectrum any events and activities related to LCHS, its faculty and students. The assignment provides a good hands-on training for students interested in developing their writing skills. They will also be guided regularly in newswriting and other fundamentals of journalism by the editors through e-mails. Interested students may signify their interest by writing to the Spectrum editors on this e-mail address: charlesy@durian.usc.edu.ph
Let's
support the Spectrum!
Fri, 14 Aug 1998 10:19:49 GMT+8
Our weekly newsletter, the LCHS Spectrum, has been consistently providing us a rich source of general enlightenment, vital information, member biodata, etc. Since its revival in April 1997, it has come out regularly. But there are times, I am sure, when the editorial staff finds it hard to produce the newsletter due to lack of articles. I am urging all members to contribute to our weekly newsletter. Articles of general interest, information on fellow member and their place of abode, jokes, quotations or letters to the editors. With all the hard work and the time spent just to be able to come up with a weekly newsletter, it is a pity to see that some alumni, after reading it (the printed edition ), just leave it behind. Please bring the newsletter home with you. Share it with your family, friends and associates. Let the whole world know that here in Iligan City the Lanao Chung Hua School exists and its alumni are spread world-wide. Congratulations to our hard working and energetic editors, Charles O. Sy and Dr. Henry L. Yu and the very supportive Chairman of our Publication Committee, Johnny T. Chen, for a job well done!
Chris Chua Teck-An, Past
President, LCHS-AA
Iligan, Philippines
I just want to be clarified about this LCHS-AA list of registered members published last week in the Spectrum with a partial release of A to C. I noticed that the listing includes a few of our alumni who unfortunately had already passed away or are "deceased". There seems to be a little inconsistency here. I thought this list covers those who have recently paid their P500 one-time membership fee to be considered in the category as active. By the way, glad to read the entry of a new writer like Alfred Lai II with his "Lunch Box." It was very good. Enjoyed it very much.
Leonardo "Eddie" Tan (Batch '66), Sydney, Australia
edtan@idx.com.au
I have enjoyed reading Dr. Alex Rodriguez's articles on medical myths and misconceptions. Filipino remedies were always a source of amusement to me since I had never been exposed to such home-grown solutions. When I was in the Philippines I developed several warts on my fingers. I was told that if I stood outside during a rainstorm, it would clear up the warts. Unfortunately, it wasn't that simple. When I got back to the U.S., I had them burned off and they have never returned!
Susan Kennedy Jensen (Batch '94), Provo, Utah, U.S.A.
susanjensen@usa.net
LCHS
alumni in Cagayan de Oro
By Rene Tio, Batch '70
This week's "Tracers" tracks down several LCHS alumni who have now made Cagayan de Oro their permanent home base. A key player of the LCHS Basketball Dream Team of the 60s, the flash dribbler Salvador "Sik Kian" Booc (Batch '66), is now the proprietor of Booc Bakery in Lapasan this city. Willy Dy (Batch '71) who used to live along Zamora Street in Iligan is now the Regional Head of the BIR. Cristina "Tining Lim" De Vera, married to Johnny De Vera, helps manage their own family business, the Cagayan Pacific Hardware. Venancio "Bio Sing" Alvarez (Batch '68), who used to live at Tin Lu Sing Shoe Store, is now the manager of Fortune Tobacco Corporation's "More" & "Champion" cigarettes in this area. Verna "Sy Kwan Kwan" Oh (Batch '62), is married to the famous doctor in CdeO, Dr. Francisco Oh, director and dean of Xavier University College of Medicine, and member of the Board of the Cagayan Medical Center. Verna is now the managing director of Harbor Light Resort Hotel situated in Gusa, this city. She is also actively singing a part with the Cagayan Gospel Church Chinese Choir. My sis, Flor "Otay" Sy, married to Ben "Chu Eng" Sy, engaged in food distribution business, is also active in the Choir. They hope to have the chance to be invited to Iligan (anybody?) and show their honed voices. Both of them were members of the LCHS Glee Club in the 60s. Another surprising regular church-goer of the mentioned church, a totally changed person, is Giovanni "Bunny" Co (Batch '71), now engaged in the bakery business. He has three children. The eldest, Cherry Ann Co, was a consistent valedictorian of Oro Grace Christian School (another local Chinese school here in CdeO aside from Kong Hua), both in elementary and high school. She was active in school dramatic guild, glee club, mass media publications like its newsletter and year book, and she hopes to be a journalist someday. I hope to invite her to write something about her experiences in school for the Spectrum. Her writing would certainly kindle the interest of our own LCHS fresh graduates and motivate those who are still in school.
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Nostalgic Awakening, Part II
City Hall - The government offices adjacent to a building that housed the city's notorious jail birds. Having free afternoons (Alex and myself ceased showing up in Chinese courses when we developed tormenting allergy!), we frequented this Pala-o palace using a bicycle; harvested the diminutive cherries (mansanitas) that later pumped gigantic air into our bowels, thrilled by a bonanza of simple joy in downhill foot races, and confronted those caged mean guys with our water pistols, knowing pretty well that those chained thugs with bodies riddled with arts (tattoos) were nothing but sissies who couldn't chew us back!
Dinosaurs - not the monstrous reptiles that bred in the ancient earth of my great, great grandparents. I'm referring to my graying childhood comrades (Lando Khu, Te Ban Doy, Marcing Tan, "TiTi" Lim, Co Chek Pok, Serio Uy...). Wonder if they will drown in amazement if I magically pop up in their backyard barbecue. Even with their age spots and a foot of excess baggages on their waistlines, I can identify and glorify each one of them, blindfolded! After all, this is how I associate with them presently - in dreams. See 'ya later, fellow dinoss. Hope you updated your mental megabytes for extinct pals who have not roamed Planet Iligan for decades.
Batchoy - Of all culinary delights that I can't reproduce, this soupy mixture is it. In spite of blending and brewing the required ingredients, the savory taste just doesn't come out right and fulfilling. Someone suggested that it has to be the minerals in the local aqua. Another intimate mocked the awkwardness of my stirring skills which somehow vaporized the divine flavor. Whatever abracadabra you pepper into this ethnic recipe, this menu is a feast for my sampling receptors.
Tartanilla - the commercial prototype of Ben Hur's racing machine.
In American soil, it will cost you a bundle to be lullabied in this "aristocratic"
vehicle, if there is such a service. It is crafted for local tourists with
sizable financial reserves who aspire for "an experience of a lifetime."
This spruced-up, horse-drawn two wheeler is the closest I can get to a
four-legged animal and its flatulent effort. I yearn for the clanking and
rattling noises of calculated strides, the harmonious union between a topnotch
mammal (kutsero) and his domesticated pet, the power brake that
is activated by a single yanking communication ... the hurried moments
of pee-pee break through a "distinguished" stallion pipeline and the liberal
litters of raw fertilizers strained in doggy bags (yuck!). (To
be continued)
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The Power of the Ball
Recently, we witnessed the long queues at some lottery agents or outlets in the US of A aspiring to be the lucky winner of the 80-million-to-one chance $250 million jackpot prize of the Powerball. It is wonderful to get rich. And to get rich the quickest way through legal means of state lottery is even better. And to win a quarter of a billion US dollars is just mind boggling! If you have that kind of money here in Australia, you will be among the top ten richest men in the country.
No wonder people queued for about 12 hours just to get an entry ticket. And many interstate residents even traveled long distance just to get a crack at the biggest jackpot ever. Then the Powerball draw came and perhaps half of the US just stood still with millions of hearts skipping a few beats. With only one entry as the winner and all the rest were losers. "Why not me?" This must be the question asked by each of them. I deserve to win that much money as I will donate half of it to the charities and other good deeds for my fellow mankind.
The impact of the winning entry was somewhat muted as it was a syndicate of 13 workers who won the jackpot. Lucky 13 indeed! So each one only received around 14 million after they opted to receive the lump sum at once instead of the installments to be made for the next quarter of the century.
What if it was only one person who won? That person will have a very difficult life after winning that large sum of money. He might be ultra rich but he will be the subject of much envy and perhaps even hatred by his fellowmen. He is going to lose some friends for sure but he will suddenly discover his expanded family tree! Better join the FBI Witness Protection Program with a change of name and address and everything.
Life is in fact a game of luck. Every little decision we make is sort of a gamble. Just think of how many times we ask ourselves - "What if...?"
Well, I am not financially rich but I just keep the dream alive by buying a ticket for the lottery, lotto and the Powerball every now and then. I have already contributed much to the public charities through all these years for the countless tickets I bought. Till this dream comes true, I will always remember that I was taught once that it is easier for a camel to enter the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God. Amen.
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The Class of 1973
(First of two parts)
"Faded photographs covered now with lines and creases, tickets torn in half, memories in bits and pieces..."
You sure do remember this remarkably popular song of the early 70s, such time when we were bidding goodbye to our teenage years. We were then in our second decade of life, in the prime of our youth.
I started college in Silliman University in 1969, fresh from the agony and ecstasy that my high school years brought forth. Pretty much excited to enter college in a city called "The City of Gentle People" (Dumaguete), I enrolled as freshman taking up B.S. General Science (as my preparatory course to Medicine). After four years, I graduated from Silliman. It was 1973. Twenty-five years after that memorable year certainly has transformed me in more ways than one. For one thing, I have traveled life's journey with its ups and downs, transforming an innocent prom-di (read: from the province) into a city boy; a yuppie, so to speak.
Come August 28, 1998, we will be celebrating our Silver Jubilee. It will be Silliman University's 97th Founder's Day. When I started college in that school, in 1969, Silliman was on its 68th year. How time really swiftly glides away! Today, as I browsed over my 1973 yearbook of graduates (PORTAL '73), I can only smile and reminisce the great years I spent in that high standard, Americanized university called Silliman. Yes, the graduation pictures appear faded now, some with lines and creases. Oh, how young-looking we were then, sans laugh lines, wrinkles, receding hairlines, etc. It was indeed a very good year, that 1973.
Every so often, in our moments of solitude, or times when we take a
break from the humdrum of daily life, we pause and ponder and reminisce
the swiftly gliding years of our youth, when the world was then simpler
in many ways. Parts of that era, of course, are the memories we built or
created in every nook and cranny of Silliman University and the world outside
of it. Whenever we travel along such sentimental journey into the past,
we always remember those gargantuan experiences we had during our college
days: We remember that monumental day when we received a letter of
acceptance from Silliman regarding our application to college ...The enrolment
...The first day of classes when we were still soft-boiled and raw-skinned
from our high school, converging in the crossroad of Silliman, simply equipped
with a shark skin-made high school diploma on our back, all poised to hit
the same bullseyes: to acquaint ourselves of the trials, tests and tribulations
of a college student. We do remember the four years we spent in college,
most specially our maiden year in the college odyssey. (Continued next
issue)
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Myths and Misconceptions in Medicine
(Last of a series)
9. Is taking a cold shower right after sex hazardous?
Taking a cold shower after sex is not hazardous but is, instead,
beneficial; more so if you will take a hot shower. The reason is that it
is more hygienic and it somehow diminishes the chances of infection especially
among women where the urethral opening is short and accessible during the
fight. We have bacterial flora (normal symbiotic bacteria on certain parts
of the body especially the skin) in and on our body which are beneficial
for our health. These bacteria don't cause infection but help protect the
body if they are in such part of the body yet harmful if they go somewhere
else. When one indulges in sex, skin is involved and so with some of the
mucous membrane, thus this area is exposed to such bacteria ... ergo, infection
from outside bacterial source. The thing is that right after sex, body
metabolism continues to produce heat which has to be dissipated to cool
off your systems, thus you will notice that even after a cold shower, you
will still be sweating and it will spoil your sweet aroma if you are using
a sweet smelling soap or shampoo. Warm shower on the other hand promotes
vasodilatation which in turn increases your circulation. With this vasodilatation,
it also promotes excretion thus washing out your internal sexual parts.
10. Going to bed with a full stomach in the evening can cause
"bangongot"?
This can be a myth or fact because "bangongot" in medical parlance
is associated with acute hemorrhagic pancreatitis especially if the person
has some obstruction in the duct system or the tubes that involve the drainage
of the gall bladder and pancreas like stone or whatever. With this blockage,
pancreatic enzymes goes nowhere but back to the pancreas so it eats up
the pancreas and the associated structures around it causing fatal outcome
and death. The increase production of pancreatic enzymes is due to the
heavy meal which causes this condition while dreaming. The safest thing
to do is stay awake for a short while to digest your heavy meal. Besides,
one has really a problem to go to sleep with an overly filled stomach just
like an empty stomach. Simply, watch your diet!
11. Babies or kids having incessant coughs is attributable to some
internal "fracture" or "pi-ang".
This maybe true or false. Cough is a symptom which is usually due to
irritation in the respiratory system thus involves the lungs and other
accessory structures like the skeletal system which might irritate certain
structure/s of the respiratory tree. "Piang or internal fracture"
might impinge some of the respiratory structures thus causing the cough.
LCHS-AA ROSTER OF MEMBERS |
Second Installment: D to G
Dagongon, Alfredo Jr.; Dagondon, Almer; Dagondon, Anita Espiritu; Dagondon,
Edilino D.; Daguman, Loreto Jr.; Dano, Marcelino; Deloy, Wilfridis I.;
Duran, Underson; Dy, Anton Benolerao; Dy, Carlos C.; Dy, Clive Jonathan;
Dy, Desiree U.; Dy, Franklin; Dy, Gregorio C.; Dy, Henry C.; Dy, Janet
C.; Dy, Jesus C.; Dy, Jocelyn C.; Dy, Johnson; Dy, Johnson C.; Dy, Juvy
C.; Dy, Kelly C.; Dy, Minnie Noreen Q.; Dy, Peter C.; Dy, Ritky C.; Dy,
Robert; Dy, Scarlet U.; Dy, Sio Te; Dy, Sun Che; Dy, Sun Kang; Dy, Sun
Lay; Dy, William C.; Dy, Willy C.; Dy, Wilson C.; Dy Pico, Aileen; Dy Pico,
Francisco K.; Dy Pico, Romeo; Dy-Carlos, Carine O.; Dy-Carlos, Charina
O.; Dy-Carlos, Chester; Dy-Carlos, Cristina O.; Dy-Henry, Hazel U.; Dy-Henry,
Hiram U.; Dy-Henry, Honey U.; Enoy, Anitha Michelle; Esteban, Urselina
B.; Fuentes, Alvin; Fuentes, Arline; Gaite, Alfonso C. II; Gaite, Eurose
W.; Gaite, Gilbert Cleto C.; Gaite, Ike Saturnino C.; Gaite, Manuel S.;
Gaite, Terence Sebastian C.; Garrido, Leah Jeassamine P.; Go, Alicia Cu;
Go, Bonifacia Co; Go, Caleb; Go, Dena Sy; Go, Gertrude Te; Go, Henry James
A.; Go, Jose Sam A.; Go, Lee Van E.; Go, Leonardo C.; Gonzaga, Liza Claire;
and Granados, Glomie L.