Brods,

Attached are pictures of our frat reunion at Bix Saet's house in Houston. Everyone had a great time. Brod Benjie Lopez entertained us with his singing and dancing (check out the picture). He sang the Paul McCartney classic "Yesterday"which he said was their batch song.

Not to be outdone, Mario Manio belted out a few tunes of his own. However, we all agreed that his daughter was the real singer in the family...sorry brod.

Of course, Bix Saet sang like a pro. Bix, you can leave your day job!

Brods we should do this more often.

Ernie Garcia
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BenjieLop@comcast.net wrote:

ATTENDEES:

Mario Manio '60 with wife Florie and daughter, Marie Antoinette
Benjie Lopez '67 with wife Rory
Ernest Garcia '74 with wife Valerie
Bogie Jaranilla '82 with two daughters
Bix Saet '89 and the whole Saet clan (who were there because the party was held at their place!!!).
 

HIGHLIGHTS & SIDELIGHTS --

Sumptuous menu with plenty to take home afterwards
Karaoke singing with dancing on the side
Lots of BS exchanged on the side (of course!!!)
and to top it all,

we called the SoCal Brods (also having their August 23 celebration) at Pol Yson's place. There was simultaneous singing of the Frat song done in Houston,TX and Cerritos, CA.

In passing (interspersed between BS topics), it was mentioned that the next Frat affair in Houston will be a Christmas party on December 20. We hope we can do it at Bogie Jaranilla's place.

Ernest Garcia will post some pictures later on.


Regards to all.

Benjie '67

9 brods, betannettes, betanaks, and betapos attended this auspicious day at Don Castro Park in Hayward, CA:

1. Ernie & Leny Santos and daughter Anna
2. Joe and Fae and apo (Nate- 4 yrs old), Melanie & Bill
3. Cenon, Mimi, Naomi, Paul, Katelynne (5 yrs), Nicholas (1.5 yrs), Charisse & Charm
4. Alex Inserto and grandson (10 yrs)
5. Vic Villagracia
6. Edong Punzalan
7. Frankie with daughter Mara Guevara
8. Joseph Hong
9. Danny and Lydia de la Cruz
10. Herbert and Marie Li, with Daniel (11 yrs)
 

11. Jinggoy Mempin
12. Leleng and Thesy Ople
13. Jett Angeles
14. Ed and Terry Ng
15. Vic & Diane Pascual
16. Ming Quan
17. Nott Ocampo
18. Gil & Liza Ongchangco
19. Mon Cruz
20. Joe & Rose Arvisu
21. Duckie & Alma Arvisu plus Rico (5 yrs?) & Enzo (8 yrs?)

Brods,
As we now know, there were simultaneous celebrations in America(Houston, San Francisco & Cerritos, CA) & Australia. From the photos, the number of brod attendees were 21 San Fran, 19 Cerritos, 5 Houston and 10 Sydney. Belated

Happy 79th Anniversary to All.
 

Besides the 19 Brods at Pol Yson's home, around 9 Betanettes and 2 Betanaks joined our celebration. We got plenty of food - baked salmon, lechon kawali, chicken bbq, sisig, lumpia sariwa, menudo, shrimp with veg, sweet n sour lapulapu, desserts and so much more.
 

As Benjie mentioned, Houston nd Cerritos had a conference call and we also contacted SanFran from our side. They were at JoeAlbano's place at the time. We are looking forward to see some of the brods from other regions st the Feb 2009 reunion. So please, let's discuss the details. I heard some people in the previous list of attendees may not be able to make it so we may have to do a re-commitment list and update our numbers.

 

Talking about re-commitment, we had some sort of a re-com ritual at the party. Knowing Pol as batch '63, some brods were worried what he will come out with when he entered the house to get something. What a relief he was not holding a paddle but a JW Black and a Russian Brandy(cognac daw). That's the reason for those photos with the shot glass. We had a "tagay-tagay" session with ArnelP as the tagay-meister and Pol as the Enforcer. 19 b rods, 19 shots per round. 'Yong ibang tagay sinagot nina SammyF at of course Angie Alvarez. With brods worried of DUI, naubos namin 'yong JWB pero di pa nangalahati ang Russian brandy. That russian drink is really something, it 's strong enough to stir up another bolshevik revolution.
 

FrankA said we'll have surprise guests and we were really surprised to see AngelS and Linda. They both look fine and Angel seems young as ever. Angel said he's 200 % in performance, good as new ...and "all pistons firing", whatever that means,;-).
 

We all had a great time, thanks to our hosts, Pol & Lorna Yson. Sa mga uuwi ng Feb2009, magkita kita na lang tayo muli sa reunion.

GeneC

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Hi,

I want to share some of my Flickr photos with you. They’re in a set called "BE 79th Anniversary Celebration - Southern CA". Theyre were 19 brods and none betannettes and two betanaks who joined the celebrations

Hope you like them!

-- Hernan G '58

BE 79th Anniversary Celebration - Southern CA
http://www.flickr.com/photos/20365980@N06/sets/72157606937669971/
 

Hi Louie!

For reference, the 19 brods in the third picture are the ff.:

Front seated (L-R) : Angel Salcedo '54, Bobby Canseco '75A, Frank Aguiling '62, Pol Yson '63, & Hernan Gonzalez '58.

2nd row (L-R) : Pio Advincula '76, Rey Dela Cruz '78, Sammy Frianeza '74C, Toti Kasilag '60, Richard Taguba '92A, Chip Marqueses '88A, Sarcee Monzon '68A, Gene Corpus '76, & Jesu Dizon '71A.

3rd row (L-R) : Arnel Platon '75B, Angie Alvarez '75D, Ed Nuval '68B, Sonny Gancayco '75C, & Lito Cortes '74A.

The gathering was hosted by Pol & Lorna Yson at their residence in Cerritos, California.

Among our contemporaries in Southern California are Al Estrada '66, Wels Jimenez '66, and Conrad Bautista '67A but unable to attend. Conrad is currently in Manila. Heard from Pete Maniego that they (with Lino Angeles '66) met him last week.

There will be brods, not only our contemporaries, who will meet you when you visit LA.


Sarcee