35th Homecoming

(Ed’s note: This list is unordered to reflect the manner it was formulated.)

Thank you to everyone for making our 35th homecoming a memorable one:

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• johnny liao – for getting the shirts done, the banner, organizing everyone to attend, lifting the 76 banner higher than the other batch banners (despite being “height-challenged”) and having the patience to bring around all those shirts in his SUV to all the batch get-togethers prior to the homecoming
• toti singson – for making everyone “konsensya” to attend, because he was attending
• cesar santiago, chuck garrison, eugene jose – for making that short trip from california to mandaluyong to join us
• dondi joseph – for those 6 bottles of wine that got everyone into the mood.
• vivian singson – for taking over the t-shirt bangketa sale after johnny liao got too busy to sell t-shirts
• susan estrada – for trying to keep her husband from drinking (unsuccessfully) because he had a race to run the next day
• albert quintos, dondi custodio, benjo gana, mark bocobo, ray acevedo, nick tolentino, pepper nakpil, ricky berenguer, fr. dennis meim – for making sure i wasn’t the only “honor section” there. (did i miss anyone?)
• timmy lee – for the 2 bottles of wine (was that wine? it was certainly sweet.)
• luke esteban, susan estrada, earl torres – for documenting the night with your cameras & posting them on Facebook. (as of this writing. any more photos will be appreciated.)
• hans peter smit
  for bringing everyone’s attention (again) to 76 when henry atayde asked “anong batch ka talaga, hans?”
  for choosing to be with 76 instead of his other batches
• dingdong eduque – for showing the other batches that 76 could do more onstage than just look pretty for group photos
• bertie villadelgado – for behaving & preventing World War 3 (again)
• for anonymous donors who gave but don’t want to be recognized (thanks a lot, guys)
• raul nanquil –
  a. for making sure we all enjoyed his company by making sure he wasn’t masungit that night because of a headache for bringing toti his bottle of wine
• darryl duarte – for a great t-shirt design & patience with his batchmates who kept changing our minds
• greg zara – for honoring us with his presence after 35years
• for our departed batchmates who were with us in spirit i’m sure there are a lot more people to thank, but since my wife & i left early, we did not have the pleasure of being with them.

(Ed’s note: Appended by Johnny L.)

• To pepper
  a. For bringing Manny Monzon’s jw green
  b. For doing a solo performance to raise funds for our usual beneficiaries (i hope someone can upload his pix)
  c. For maintaining our website n uploading this short list
• to all of you who bought shirts n to those who did not get their sukli- proceeds would go to said beneficiaries, etc
• For fr dennis who celebrated the 5pm mass
• Earl torres- For helping sell the tshirts n gathering his 4g classmates to join us – gerry banson, vic almanzor (also der 1st time)
• Albert quintos, who drove again all the way from los angeles, pampanga with her two pretty daughters (they have attended homecomings more than 85% of us)
• To our batchmates who pledged, please don’t forget to deposit ur donation (tonichi has email proof)
• Bro bobby casingal – for keeping us TUGether n reserving a parking slot just across the entrance for very easy access n making sure the elections were clean
• Bob jereza – who flew in from bacolod n kept me company at the gate w/greg zara
• 75 of us (including hans) who made the night a very memorable one (still looking for the list i made)
• Bong Joves – for mounting the troops at the right time
• Romi beza – who was always coordinating our US based batchmates
• For those who tried to make it but:
  a. Hoton – who flew in from cebu but got chills in the morning n had to miss the fun
  b. Junet l – who was always present in the past homecomings n documented them but had to rest this time for the Condura run
  c. Rolly leveriza, who got his shirt friday nite n i hope the TUGs will accept his reason this time
• Almighty GOD – for making us healthy n wise to attend our 35th n hopefully our 40th, 50th, etc

(Ed’s note:Appended by Rocky N.)

• and to Tonichi for “breaking-in” his new toy (bigay ata ni Cesar)

(Ed’s note:Appended by George D.)

• also to Tonichi for letting me try his new toy, kaso di naka hirit si Rocky.

(Ed’s note:Appended by Pepper N.)

• Tito F., Bobbit S., Gen. Sonny T., Edwin B., Val M., Bitoy V., Fritz D.L., Photog Manny A., Allan I., Docs Gilbert D.L.C. and Reggie B., Noel S., Pachelo L., Rod A., Buboy L., George S., Gene M., Joey C., Butch P., and the young lass who performed at our table
• Sar S., Gerald A., Jed T., Fr. Dennis, Chuck G., and Andy B., who, along with myself, closed the place down.

Thank you to everybody, and on to the 40th!