Hey girls! A message from our former HSCB president, Clara Parpan:
October 14, 2008
Hello Everyone!
It’s less than two weeks to go before “So Totally 80’s”— our joint dance party with our batchmates from Ateneo and Assumption HS ’85 on October 24, Friday. While you won’t find me there channeling Belinda Carlisle of the Go-Gos in a shoulder padded-blouse and hair sprayed high with Aquanet with streaks of neon green running through it, I’m looking forward to reliving the music and the dancing, which we all have to admit, was pretty cool and still is in the 21st century!
I’m sending this message hoping that I, on behalf of the St Scho Manila HS 85 Inc board (Mitch, Rina, Liza, Ginge, and Raquel), can solicit your support by purchasing the 111 tickets we have yet to sell. We have a total of P58,000 to be collected (so far) from three sponsors and committed ticket sales. That is amazing! Thank you to all who bought tickets and solicited donations from sponsors! Out of this P58,000, P48,000 is profit for us already. We have already paid our share for the expenses so anything else is icing on the cake.
That icing on the cake becomes sweeter if we can just push ourselves a little bit more and help sell the last 111 tickets. If we can do that, it means an extra P55,500; making our profit from this activity just over P100,000! You can be assured that this amount goes directly to our batch only; into the savings account we have set up in the name of the (non-profit) corporation—St Scholastica’s Manila High School 1985 Inc. (We are duly registered with the SEC, the Securities and Exchange Commission.)
To our classmates in Manila, Cebu or anywhere in the country, let’s try to take on another two or more tickets. It’s equivalent or even less than that fancy lunch or dinner out complete with the glass of wine, or that hair-root coloring and highlights job from the salon (I get those!) we can afford on a regular basis.
Getting the tickets and paying for them are very easy--the tickets are with Liza Fernandez-Martinez and Raquel Maloles-Aldaba. Contact Liza at lizamartinez84@yahoo.com or Raquel at raldaba@adb.org. They will be at the party venue on October 24 if you’d like to get tickets on the night itself. But it’s even better if you can call or email them ahead to reserve tickets.
To our classmates abroad, I’d like to make this special appeal: May I prevail on you to buy some tickets as a donation to this first fundraiser? A US$20 or 15-euro donation is most welcome! On this blog, you’ll find news on how the homecoming preparations are shaping up, as well as a PayPal button for you to send your donations. Payment via this method is secure; all you have to do is click on the button.
Our homecoming committee treasurer, Rina Azcuna-Siongco, will take note of donations made locally and abroad and will issue official receipts. Since we are registered with the SEC and have official receipts issued by the Bureau of Internal Revenue, all financial transactions must and will be recorded accordingly.
We all lead busy lives whether we’re moms or career women, and while we all agree that we want to give back to the school we spent some memorable years in, we want to have fun while we’re at it! Buying tickets to “So Totally 80’s!” is one way to do it, whether we’re here in Manila, Asia, the East Coast or Europe! To those abroad, you will be with us in spirit and more importantly, your gesture of support will go a long way to helping us raise funds for our intended beneficiaries—a teacher chair to support teacher training and development, and the Gawad Kalinga village for St. Scho’s loyal but needy employees.
Just 111 tickets to go girls! We can do it!
Let’s cheer for St Scholastica!
With warmest regards,
Clara / Lara Parpan
Oct 14, 2008
Oct 4, 2008
The more the merrier!
Liza F. Martinez writes…
Attendance seems to be growing with each meeting. Barcino at The Fort was, once again, witness last 04 October 2008 of the encouraging turn-out of batch ‘85’ers who are gung ho about our coming silver jubilee in 16 months! Yikes! That’s just 2 Christmases away! But we shouldn’t worry, not if you saw the kind of energy that filled the second level of the bar that afternoon…okay, that evening.
There were exactly 23 attendees. Although not all 23 arrived at exactly the same time. So while I was presiding, exchanges of pleasantries pleasantly interrupted the meeting. Yes, pun intended. As Pelita Peralta-Uy said, there has to be 2 minutes of scuffle every time someone arrived. And why not! Most of us had not seen each other for 20 years! I would name all the attendees but it might fill up this space. Just check out the pictures taken from the cameras of (not necessarily BY) Carmela Endriga-Honrado, Kathy Avellana-Asuque and Gem Hernandez-Abcede. If I missed anyone, apologies please. I was too busy selling tickets and signing up people for committees.
We shared the groundwork with the bigger group and vowed to move forward. People were assigned per geographical area to follow up batchmates for the monthly collections. The 15th of each month starting in October was the agreed collection date for the monthly contributions. While the BDO account is welcome, Made Marante suggested that we open another account with a big network for an even easier accessibility. Raquel Maloles-Aldaba will look into Metrobank as a second account.
With the first fundraising event happening on 24 October, tickets moved. Although not as briskly as we had hoped. Sad face here. But I have to acknowledge Carmela, Rowie Gallos-Marquez , Kelly Espinosa, Analei Atienza and Racquel for responding to a request the night before and getting their complete share of the tickets. Thanks too to Made, Kathy, Lara Parpan, Meg del Rosario-Isleta, Malen Manese-Isaac, Gem, Ermin Punsalan-Velasco for purchasing tickets. Thank you so much for your quick response. It’s inspiring. Naks! There are more tickets with me and Raquel. Just contact us if you want to get some. Please see Lara’s letter rallying support for the October 24 event. A profit of P100,000 is within our reach, if we all pull through and give just a little bit more.
We discussed developments with other proposed projects. The bazaar became a garage sale. Target date: Nov. 16. Ermin kindly volunteered her mother’s house in Better Living, Paranaque and also her clinic as storage area. Stand by for updates on this. Project Head Nora Siggaoat-Pinga will give us updates and a timetable for next steps.
Pelita talked about the ball which we later agreed to turn into a party. Remember the Corinthian Gardens Clubhouse? Hehe. We’ll try to bring back those days. Again, stand by for more updates on this. Pelita will share with us a project plan so we know what financials we’re talking about and what our responsibilities will be like.
Before mayhem erupted, we got most everyone to sign up for their respective committees. Check out the Minutes for Committee Members as well as detailed agreements and people with assignments. After the sign-up, the customary picture taking. What’s a meeting without this right? Expect more photos in the meetings to come. Even after this gathering adjourned, a big part of the group went on to have dinner at a nearby restaurant. But that probably deserves another blog entry…
Attendance seems to be growing with each meeting. Barcino at The Fort was, once again, witness last 04 October 2008 of the encouraging turn-out of batch ‘85’ers who are gung ho about our coming silver jubilee in 16 months! Yikes! That’s just 2 Christmases away! But we shouldn’t worry, not if you saw the kind of energy that filled the second level of the bar that afternoon…okay, that evening.
There were exactly 23 attendees. Although not all 23 arrived at exactly the same time. So while I was presiding, exchanges of pleasantries pleasantly interrupted the meeting. Yes, pun intended. As Pelita Peralta-Uy said, there has to be 2 minutes of scuffle every time someone arrived. And why not! Most of us had not seen each other for 20 years! I would name all the attendees but it might fill up this space. Just check out the pictures taken from the cameras of (not necessarily BY) Carmela Endriga-Honrado, Kathy Avellana-Asuque and Gem Hernandez-Abcede. If I missed anyone, apologies please. I was too busy selling tickets and signing up people for committees.
We shared the groundwork with the bigger group and vowed to move forward. People were assigned per geographical area to follow up batchmates for the monthly collections. The 15th of each month starting in October was the agreed collection date for the monthly contributions. While the BDO account is welcome, Made Marante suggested that we open another account with a big network for an even easier accessibility. Raquel Maloles-Aldaba will look into Metrobank as a second account.
With the first fundraising event happening on 24 October, tickets moved. Although not as briskly as we had hoped. Sad face here. But I have to acknowledge Carmela, Rowie Gallos-Marquez , Kelly Espinosa, Analei Atienza and Racquel for responding to a request the night before and getting their complete share of the tickets. Thanks too to Made, Kathy, Lara Parpan, Meg del Rosario-Isleta, Malen Manese-Isaac, Gem, Ermin Punsalan-Velasco for purchasing tickets. Thank you so much for your quick response. It’s inspiring. Naks! There are more tickets with me and Raquel. Just contact us if you want to get some. Please see Lara’s letter rallying support for the October 24 event. A profit of P100,000 is within our reach, if we all pull through and give just a little bit more.
We discussed developments with other proposed projects. The bazaar became a garage sale. Target date: Nov. 16. Ermin kindly volunteered her mother’s house in Better Living, Paranaque and also her clinic as storage area. Stand by for updates on this. Project Head Nora Siggaoat-Pinga will give us updates and a timetable for next steps.
Pelita talked about the ball which we later agreed to turn into a party. Remember the Corinthian Gardens Clubhouse? Hehe. We’ll try to bring back those days. Again, stand by for more updates on this. Pelita will share with us a project plan so we know what financials we’re talking about and what our responsibilities will be like.
Before mayhem erupted, we got most everyone to sign up for their respective committees. Check out the Minutes for Committee Members as well as detailed agreements and people with assignments. After the sign-up, the customary picture taking. What’s a meeting without this right? Expect more photos in the meetings to come. Even after this gathering adjourned, a big part of the group went on to have dinner at a nearby restaurant. But that probably deserves another blog entry…
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