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UST High School Class 1980 Website

This website is dedicated to all the men and women of Class  1980 of the University of Santo Tomas High School. This site showcases the fun and nostalgia of the best batch USTHS has ever produced.\

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UST High School Batch 80

Alumni Association Inc.

Trustess and Officers 2005-06

Teng Aguilar - President

Leo Riingen - Chairman/Vice-President

Gina Bautista-Navarette - Secretary

Leah Militar-Castillo - Treasurer

Chie Meneses-Candelaria - Auditor

Ibe Arevalo - Chair/Special Projects

Rey Espino - Chair/Membership

Happy Esquivias-DosSantos - Chair/Socials

Benjie Mallari-Alvarez - Chair/Ways&Means

Bong Castaneda - Legal Counsel

Jo Manalad - Asst. Secretary

Yna Valenzuela-Torres - Vice-chair/SpProjects

Nina Rigor - Asst. Legal Counsel

Growing up in the sixties and early seventies, you drive downtown and you see painted on the walls the sign, "POST NO BILL." You don't see those signs anymore.  And so with this website, fellow batch members, we invite you to contribute your bills, your thoughts and your photographs. Let this be a chronicle of the best works and of the delicate artistic expressions of our members.  Let this photographed volume tell the stories of all those willing to work side by side seeking to inform and enlighten thru their lens.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Yna Valenzuela-Torres

Anthony Fallarme

Rey Espino

Chito Rabadam

 

Batch 80 to hold Career Talks for UST High Graduating Students

 

The USTHS80 Alumni Association is invited to spearhead the 2005-06 USTHS career talk slated on November 8, 2005 at the High School Auditorium.  This is part of our USTHS80 alumni association's outreach program. Yna Valenzuela-Torres has been appointed to lead our batch to help organize the event.

 

 

Batchmates are invited to share their experience to guide the graduating students, many of whom are still undecided on their career choices. There will be a plenary session in the morning with 5-7 speakers who will share their learnings and success stories.  The afternoon session will be break-out sessions where students will be grouped according to their initial field of interest.  We are soliciting volunteers to speak in the break-out sessions. 

 

This project is actually the last leg of the Career-Exploration Program initiated by Ms. Leny Gadiana, USTHS Guidance Counselor, in cooperation with Ms. Olive Mapanao, Alumni representative.  The students had been given tests on personality-job suitability, aptitude and learning styles, the results of which are or will be made known to the students by the time the batch conducts the career talk.  The test, "Do What You Are" by Paul D. Tieger and Barbra Barron Tieger, was suggested to Ms. Gadiana who expressed interest in conducting it as they are on the look out for new styles of testing. 

 

Volunteers may contact Yna by e-mail or through the yahoogroup.

 

 

BUDDY SYSTEM

Chito Rabadam's Buddy Program career guidance scheme will also be explored as  a  new initiative to sustain the guidance momentum that will be created by the career talk. The following system was suggested:  

1. Batch will list academic areas and will solicit and assign volunteers for each area.  Areas of particular concern are Nursing, IT as these are most popular among current crop of students while Pre-Law options, ECE, Accounting, Architecture are UST's forte.  They would like other courses like Education, medicine, HRM, Journalism,and others pushed.  Necessarily, those assigned will have a record of expertise on said field.

2. These volunteers will come from egroup membership.  Us! You! I!  We can offer online guidance and entertain Q&A from students who wants to buddy-up with volunteers based on their field/s of interests.  Should a student have two or more areas of interests, he/she may be assigned different buddy per area of interest.  Interested students will have to provide their names, email address, and field of interest so we can match them with volunteers.

3. Once we have their emails and names, we can blast email and introduce the system to them as a USTHS80 AA service.  Guidelines and scope of contents shall be decided and approved by our USTHS80 representatives and USTHS guidance office.  To remove any shadow of impropriety females will be assigned to females and males to males. 

4. Batch volunteers are to provide inputs and handhold the students to make the decisions by providing real life experiences or reference books or websites that could help students in making their career choices. 

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UST High School Batch 80 in US and Canada celebrates Silver Jubilee in Vegas.

A Toast to Remember - The 2005 Las Vegas Reunion

Full Recap by Chito Rabadam

Click Here

 

 

Message from USTHS80 Alumni Association

 

July 23, 2005

Makati City, Philippines

  A Common Bond, A Common Sentiment, A Common Purpose

Message to USTHS80 US 25^th Jubilee Homecoming  in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

To our fellow Thomasian kababayans in the United States of America, good evening.

First, let us congratulate you for tonight; the efforts of the organizing team as well as your commitment to high school friendships and camaraderie have finally culminated in this warm and lovely evening affair. We are sure that it is as glitzy and glamorous, and yet fun and relaxing as what we had here last February. As an upbeat song of the late 70’s used to say, you are going to make this into “…a night to remember..”! Or, as Barbra Streisand put it, this is “…the main event..”!

Twenty five years passed by as quickly as the time that rolled by in organizing this Las Vegas reunion. And yet, everything appears as if we left our hallowed high school halls in Espana, Manila only yesterday. Except for a few pounds gained, some grey hair here and there, and a spouse and kids, everything else we see in our old friends from a quarter of a century ago have remained the same. And the bonus, we gain new ones we never even met before in the corridors of our HS building. Cherish every moment as the evening will rush by so quickly.

As we move forward, we continue to commit to and live by the same values and ideals we learned from our dear alma mater. This is all in the spirit of our USTHS80 vision of becoming a positive contributor to the betterment of our society in which we live, in all ways we can. In the US, in the Philippines, and anywhere else in the globe, USTHS80 is united as one.

You, our dear batch mates in the US, are our bridge to the first world, in the great land of opportunities. Despite the distance, we are one with you in spirit as you celebrate this momentous affair. Once again, the essence of tonight’s celebration ties us together to a common bond, a common sentiment, and a common purpose. It is our 25^th jubilee year. This is just the beginning as we move forward to the next 25 years.

Mabuhay ang USTHS80-US!

For the USTHS80 Alumni Association Inc.

2005-2006 Board of Trustees and Officers

 

 

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