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Tagumpay “Pi” M. De Leon -  Double Bass Pi de Leon is in engineer by profession and a musician by avocation. His musical experience came at an early age, being the son of the late renowned nationalist composer and Philippine national artist Felipe Padilla de Leon and the late Iluminada Mendoza, an accomplished pianist. He plays all rondalla instruments, the piano, accordion and the violin. The “De Leon Rondalla” was already appearing in various Philippine functions in the early 60s. Five years after he migrated to the US in 1971, he started playing for the Pamanlahi Dance Troupe (now defunct). He also formed the Hiyas Rondalla, active from 1978 to 1985. In 1985, he joined the Fil-Am Family Cultural Group where he collaborated with Mr. Nitoy Gonzales, the renowned rondalla maestro of the famous Bayanihan Dance Troupe from the Philippines, to establish the Fil-Am Rondalla. In 1991, they co-founded the Rondalla Club of LA together with Leonilo “Boy” Angos, the music director of Kayamanan ng Lahi Performing Arts Group. Pi De Leon has played in or directed rondallas for annual Philippine Cultural Nights in various universities and colleges. He has also participated in International Folk Dance Festivals held in Marseille, France and Sicily, Italy in the summer of 1990 and 1993 and also in the 1995 Northwest Folk Life Festival in Seattle, Washington. In between his playing schedules, he conducts rondalla classes and workshops, including his current tenure as a rondalla instructor at UC Riverside. In 1997, he was awarded a grant by the Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department to train future rondalla instructors through workshops designated as “Master Teacher Apprenticeship Class” MIT REUNION 2007 ROME - Photo Sharing! mit_med_2 on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

1954 The University of the Philippines Preparatory School was established in U. P. Manila campus A Vaccine for Polio                     Hit songs of 1955 UP Prep was a unique high school created in 1954, when the UP Board of Regents authorized then UP President Vidal Tan to open a first class high school in Manila. The school’s high standard curriculum was designed for secondary school graduates with the aptitudes and intellectual talents for university level education. The faculty was carefully selected for these advanced subjects. Only by passing a battery of rigorous examinations could a student get in, and once accepted, he or she had to hurdle to pass each of the four tough years of the highest standard of education ever given to high school students in the Philippines before one could graduate. In 1973, after graduating 20 classes — comprised altogether of 1500 graduates — UP Prep was merged with UP High School to later become what is now known as UP Integrated High School. U.P. Preparatory High School in the original site of UP 1957 Elementary Graduation for most of us. Our hangouts after school, Manila cinemas Elvis in the scene First Entrance Exam to the University and the arduous passage to Be A             Preppy at U.P. Preparatory School       Memory Lane Music Photos On March 16, 1957 Magsaysay left Manila Passed the selection process 40 % quit or     flunked in the upper classes mostly in the   junior years; Changes in Math Subjects ie.  Solid Geometry add Oriental To US History 1959 Passed Ihe Gauntlet & on to 3rd Year, Excellent Faculty; PMT & PEd. forced upon us on Saturdays Castro leads Cuban revolution My Lost Youth by Henry W. Longfellow Often I think of the beautiful town That is seated by the sea; Often in thought go up and down The pleasant streets of that dear old town, And my youth comes back to me. And a verse of a Lapland song Is haunting my memory still: "A boy's will is the wind's will, And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts." Go:1960196119621963196419651966196719681969Chronicle Main A Psalm of Life Tell me not, in mournful numbers,   Life is but an empty dream! ? For the soul is dead that slumbers,   And things are not what they seem. Life is real!  Life is earnest!   And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest,   Was not spoken of the soul. Not enjoyment, and not sorrow,   Is our destined end or way; But to act, that each to-morrow   Find us farther than to-day. Art is long, and Time is fleeting,   And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating   Funeral marches to the grave. In the world's broad field of battle,   In the bivouac of Life, Be not like dumb, driven cattle!   Be a hero in the strife! Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant!   Let the dead Past bury its dead! Act,--act in the living Present!   Heart within, and God o'erhead! Lives of great men all remind us   We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us   Footprints on the sands of time; Footprints, that perhaps another,   Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother,   Seeing, shall take heart again. Let us, then, be up and doing,   With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing,   Learn to labor and to wait.....HWL

 

We were deep in our ChE majors, others, took it easy in extra dose of extra curricular activities, ie. Boogie Through Life ~ JFK Assassinated Songs we Studied with The world was horror-struck on 22 November 1963 when John F Kennedy, the charismatic young president, became the third U.S. President to have been assassinated. At 12:30pm, Friday, the President was travelling with his wife, Mrs Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy and Texas governor John Connally in a black Lincoln convertible through the streets of Dallas. While Dallas resident Abraham Zapruder’s home-movie camera rolled, a hidden assassin shot President Kennedy in the head even as crowds of cheering, flag-waving people watched on. The limousine sped off to Parkland Memorial hospital with the President slumped across the backseat with a blood-spattered Mrs Kennedy cradling him in her arms. JFK was pronounced dead 30 minutes later. By 1:45pm, Dallas police had seized a suspect: Lee Harvey Oswald, a 24-year-old employee of the Texas School Book Depository, from whose sixth-floor window the shots were said to have been fired. Two days later, on Sunday, November 24, millions of Americans watched on television as Oswald              was being transferred from the Dallas city jail to a county jail. Suddenly, a local night-club owner with a riminal record named Jack Ruby stepped out of a small crowd and shot Oswald at point-blank range in the stomach with a .35-calibre revolver. Oswald died within minutes. The alleged assassin’s bizarre, mob-style "silencing" and other murky details of the assassination (including various interpretations of Zapruder’s film, the only film record of the event) gave rise, almost instantly, to a host of theories about who was responsible. (The official explanation, the Warren report of 1964, did little to assuage the nation’s bewilderment.) Indeed, JFK’s assassination grew into a kind of national obsession, spawning numerous conspiracy theories. "Where were you when Kennedy was shot?" became the question by which a generation of bereft                 Americans  identified itself.        Alpha Phi Omega Brothers ..Delta Chapter Philippines By the time Lyndon Johnson was sworn in as the 36th president aboard Air Force One in Dallas three hours after the shooting, the Kennedy legend had grown to epic proportions, hiding harsh realities including the nation’s violent division over civil rights and its increasing entanglement in Vietnam. Recuerdo of old Manila, the path to Doroteo Jose campus & Intramuros Surgeon General warns against cigarette smoking This was the start of the diaspora  of our class to the USA 1965 Immigration Law Changed the Face of America Remember Sen. Edward Kennedy, The Reason why we are here enjoying the bounties of the USA President Lyndon B. Johnson (center) signs the sweeping immigration bill of 1965 into law at a ceremony on Liberty Island, Oct. 4, 1965. Sen. Edward Kennedy and his brother, Sen. Robert Kennedy, are seen at right.  The Long View on Immigration As a young politician, Sen. Edward Kennedy helped steer the 1965 immigration law through the Senate. He reflects on the politics that helped push the overhaul through then -- and on the current debate over immigration -- in an interview with NPR's Jennifer Ludden, exclusively on npr.org:May 9, 2006 Read the Q&A with Kennedy All Things Considered, May 9, 2006 · As Congress considers sweeping changes to immigration law, nearly all the debate has centered on the problem of illegal immigration. Little discussed are the many concerns of legal immigrants, the estimated 3 million to 4 million who are, as it's so often been put --"already standing in line." The current system of legal immigration dates to 1965. It marked a radical break with previous policy and has led to profound demographic changes in America. But that's not how the law was seen when it was passed -- at the height of the civil rights movement, at a time when ideals of freedom, democracy and equality had seized the nation. Against this backdrop, the manner in which the United States decided which foreigners could and could not enter the country had become an increasing In the twilight of age all things seem strange and phantasmal,   As between daylight and dark ghost-like the landscape appears.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emuVLVylBiA&feature=related Oath taking of newly registered Chemical Engineers. Circa June 24, 1967 in Makati, Sarmiento bldg. From far left is Jose Catibog, me, Reynaldo Santos, Maximillan Ui, Audie Vergara, Florencio Roxas, Lorna M. Jereza, Rosalina Derige Corbett, Oscar Santos, Rey Sequerra, Celso Chua, Romeo Olalia..............­..........Alexander The Brothers Alpha Phi Omega (APO) Fraternity of the Delta Chapter Philippines circa 1966, from L # 3 - kneeling, me, my back Cesar Frias ChE68, 4-kneeling, Warlito Boquiren ChE66, his back, Jose Catibog ChE66, Advisor Prof. Sevilla and daughter.  More than 350,000 members have joined Alpha Phi Omega National Service Fraternity since it's founding, at 366 college campuses here in the US alone, not counting other countries. Our mission is to prepare campus and community leaders through service. Our purpose is to develop leadership, to promote friendship and to provide service to humanity............­....ASC Welcome to Llangollen 2010 - Llangollen on demand Latest video clips Competitions Choral Competitions Mixed Choirs Barbershop/Close Harmony Choruses Male Choirs Female Choirs Chamber Choirs Youth Choirs Senior Children's Choirs Junior Children's Choirs Folk Competitions Adult Folk Dance Groups Choreographed Folk Dance Children's Folk Dance Group Folk Dance Duo Individual Folk Dance Folk Song Choirs Folk Showcase Folk Groups Folk Solo Solo competitions Vocal Solo under 15 Vocal Solo 15 - 20 Vocal Solo 21 and over Songs from the shows Instrumental Solo under 18 Photo Gallery Previous Page 1 of 1 Next Welcome to Llangollen 2010 A reflection of Class 66 abou...

UST SINGERS bag 2010 'Choir of the World' prize LONDON - The University of Sto. Tomas Singers made history on Saturday when they bagged the Choir of the World- Luciano Pavarotti Grand Prize at the 2010 Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod, in Wales, UK -- the oldest and most prestigious choir competition in the world. The group has earned many awards and recognition internationally but the newest title is very special for the group.  It won the same award in 1995, making it the first and only Filipino and Asian choir to win the celebrated award twice. The Choir of the World competition (COTW), which is the highlight of the festival, is exclusive for the 1st prize winners of 5 major choir categories: Mixed Choir, Chamber Choir, All-Male Choir, All-Female Choir and Barbershop/Close Harmony Choir.  The UST Singers won the top prize in the Mixed Choir Category, which qualified the group for the COTW competition. In the COTW competition, the UST Singers triumphed over 4 champion choirs:  the Cywair Choir of Wales, winner of the Chamber Choir category and also a Choir of the World winner in 2005; the White Rossettes Choir of England,  winner of Barbershop/Close Harmony Choir; Cantabile Choir of Limburg, Germany , winner of the All-Male Choir Category, and the Chanterelles Choir of England,  the winner of All-Female choir. The COTW trophy is named after the great tenor Luciano Pavarotti, who started his career as a singer at the same Llangollen International Musical Eistedfodd  stage in 1955 when he was a choirboy in an All-Male Choir in Modena, Italy. His choir emerged as the All-Male Choir Champion in the same competition in 1955. The Pavarotti name was added to the COTW title in 2005. The University of Santo Tomas Singers was founded in 1992. It is a mixed choral ensemble composed of a select group of students and alumni representing the different colleges and faculties of the oldest university in Asia.  The group, under the baton of Prof. Fidel G. Calalang Jr., is completing its tour in some European cities before returning to the Philippines. Meanwhile, another entry from the Philippines, the DLSU Chorale, also won 2nd place in the Chamber Choirs category. Other Headlines

UST singers win intl choir competition UP choir wows audience in Belgium Pinoy choir spreads message of peace, love in Holland All Participants Algeria El Amel Wa Moussa Espoir Jenesse les Ghazeles Noudjoum Eddiwan Wiaam Wa El Moussalaha Argentina Gaiman Music School Ladies Choir Australia Canterbury College Cantabile Choir John XXIII College Chamber Choir Young Voices of Melbourne Barbados Myriad Singers of Barbados Belarus Erebuny Ulybka Canada City of Gardens Chorus China Diocesan Girls' Junior School Czech Republic Jitřenka Puellae Budvicienses England Bel Canto Broadland Youth Choir Cantate Training Choir Dancing Anatolia Highcliffe Junior Choir Kinder Children's Choir Kurdish Folk Dance Group Liverpool Philharmonic Youth Choir National Barbershop Youth Chorus Owen's School Chamber Choir Plume School Choir Prince William School Choir Riviera Sound Sokil St Albans Girls High School St Christopher's Church of England High School The Chanterelles Choir The Telfordaires The White Rosettes Warrington Male Voice Choir Germany Cantabile Limburg Ghana Ayawaso Manshishi Cultural Group Ghana Junior All Stars Iceland Graduale Nobili India Gurman Folk Dance Academy Heritage Dancers Punjabi Bhangra Cultural Group Surtal Sabhiachar & Samaj Bhalai Club Indonesia Parahyangan Catholic University Choir Jamaica Jamaican Folk Singers Kenya Samburu Folk Dancers Nepal Everest Nepal Cultural Group Netherlands Dogus The British School of Amsterdam New Zealand The National Male Choir of New Zealand Nigeria Oyo State Cultural Troup Northern Ireland Loughgiel Folk Dancers Philippines De La Salle University Chorale University of Santo Tomas Singers Poland Hulajniki Zhuravli Romania Ansamblul Miorita Russia Dreva Scotland Coisir Ghaidhlig Inbhirnis Corryvrechan Mackenzie Family Singapore HWA Chong Choir Siong Leng Musical Association South Africa Cantare Children's Choir Cantare Ladies Choir Sri Lanka Soul Sounds Academy Choir Sweden Linkoping University Male Voice Choir Linköping University Mixed Choir Ukraine Kalynonka Pearls of Odessa Pervotsvet Zirnytsya USA Arioso Seattle Children's Choir Camerata Seattle Children's Chorus Columbia Children's Choir of Seattle Columbia Vocal Ensemble Davis Senior High School Madrigal Singers Young People's Chorus of New York City Wales Côr Meibion Maelgwn Côr Rhuthun Côr Ysgol Penbarras Cywair Dawnswyr Bro Cefni Dawnswyr Penrhyd Dawnswyr Sir Conwy Golftyn CP School Choir Nidus Children's Choir Telynorion Cwm Derwent Yale College Choir Ysgol Deiniol Ysgol Gerdd

Getting to know FASO