high-school reunion Archives

Why I’m attending our 60th Maryknoll high school reunion

This 2015, it would be exactly 60 years since we, the Maryknoll High School Class of 1955, graduated. Sixty years!

Our milestone birthdays–and the ‘chinelas’ philanthropy that goes with them

We high-school classmates are celebrating birthdays again, and more regularly. At our age, after all, every birthday has become a milestone.

Living the Atenean ideal

As the Ateneo de Naga HS Class ’62 celebrates its 50th graduation anniversary, it is but fitting that our class pays tribute to one member who turned out to be our brightest star and one of the school’s most outstanding and most accomplished alumni.

From high school reunion to lifetime union

Timely advice to single ladies: Attend your high school reunion; you just might find a new love there. Ask former Social Security System president Corazon de la Paz-Bernardo, who married high school classmate Enrique V. Bernardo, President and Commissioner of ANZ Bank in Jakarta, Indonesia, 51 years after they graduated from Rizal High School, once the world’s largest high school in terms of enrolment.

Spaghetti-throwing, mobile parties, razzing the teacher —‘We were the freedom batch, graduates of ‘86’

Their teachers cursed them, saying they’d never amount to anything. Ateneo High School Class 4E batch ‘86 was raunchy but harmless. Blame it on hyperactive adolescent testosterones. Everyday was like a scene from “Iskul Bukol” meets “National Lampoon.” Before the era of iPhones, BBs and other techno-toys, the students had only their unbridled imaginations and lack of inhibitions.