"SERVE" authors: (seated, from left) Sol Juvida, Judy Taguiwalo, Jo-Ann Maglipon, Angie Castillo; (standing, from left) Diwa Guinigundo, Sonny Coloma, Rey Vea, Manolet Dayrit, Elso Cabangon, Butch Dalisay, Ed Gonzalez, Jaime Flor Cruz, Alex Aquino, Senen Gloriosa — “SERVE” authors: (seated, from left) Sol Juvida, Judy Taguiwalo, Jo-Ann Maglipon, Angie Castillo; (standing, from left) Diwa Guinigundo, Sonny Coloma, Rey Vea, Manolet Dayrit, Elso Cabangon, Butch Dalisay, Ed Gonzalez, Jaime Flor Cruz, Alex Aquino, Senen Gloriosa

Nineteen editors of campus newspapers from the period of 1969 to 1972 are launching “Serve,” a book that tells their stories from the period before, up to and beyond the country’s martial law regime.

“Serve,” published by the Ateneo de Manila University Press, will be launched at Fully Booked at the Bonifacio Global City, Taguig, Sept. 9 at 5 p.m.

Karina Bolasco, immediate past head of the Ateneo Press, is guest speaker at the launch.

“They were fearless college editors from 1969 to 1972,” the book cover reads. “Martial law profoundly changed the course of their lives. Here are their stories.”

A sequel to the book “Not on Our Watch” (2012), edited by Jo-Ann Q. Maglipon, “Serve” is also edited by Maglipon, a journalist of 47 years.

“This is not a book by old people reminiscing about old times, like our elders might of the war,” she says. “Not that there’s anything wrong with personal bits of history, even of a war from just 78 years ago or a dark regime from just 51 years back. These, in fact, may exactly be what we need to get to know us and country better. That said, all the stories in ‘Serve’ have everything to do with today. Writers have taken care not to indulge. Always, they were aware that others need not be interested in them or their lives, but they offer forward pathways anyway for any budding patriot interested.”

The authors were actively involved in the College Editors Guild of the Philippines, an alliance founded on July 25, 1931, by four college student publications: The National of National University, The Varsitarian of the University of Santo Tomas, the Philippine Collegian of the University of the Philippines and The Guidon of Ateneo de Manila.

The book’s authors are Alexander Aquino, Elso U. Cabangon, Jones T. Campos, Sonny Coloma, Bob Corrales, Mercy M. Corrales, Butch Dalisay, Manuel M. Dayrit, Jaime A. Florcruz, Senen D. Glorioso, Eduardo T. Gonzalez, Diwa C. Gunigundo, Sol Juvida, Derly Magcalen, Maglipon, Thelma Sioson, Chito Sta. Romana, Judy M. Taguiwalo, Angie Tocong and Rey Vea.

Copies will be available at all Fully Booked shops and online atunipress.ateneo.edu; go.ateneo.net/Lazada; go.ateneo.net/Shopee; [email protected].