Bare with us... This is the first post of this Blog.
LCHS Alumni Association will be launching this Sunday (30th) its effort for the 3rd LCHS Grand Alumni Homecoming. The launch will be highlighted during the Alumni Christmas party.
All preparations are still on primordial stages. A contest for the Event Logo and Theme had been launched and last day of submission will be January 15, 2008.
Please watch this blog for more updates.
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Congratulations on the launching of the LCHS-AA Blogspot. A toast to Johnny Chen for initiating this Blogspot. This is a convenient medium for all LCHS alumni to post and share their inputs on everything of interests to the LCHS community.
This move is particularly significant with the 3rd GAH inching closer day after day. Let's hope our alumni, here and abroad, will make use of this Blog site to engage themselves in a friendly exchange of ideas, suggestions, and memories.
Let's get this site cracking!
Great Job Johnny! More power to you and your team. keep it coming...
First we got our PDF format for the Spectrum, now we have this Blogspot. Wow...This is really another great move forward. I salute Johnny Chen for launching another first for LCHS-AA. Happy New Year to one and all!!!
Congrats to Johnny for launching of the LCHS-AA Blogspot and also to Charles for updating our Spectrum to PDF format. More power to LCHS-AA and HAPPY NEW YEAR to ALL !
Ola! It's been sometime since I had the chance to post something in the spectrum. I'm sure glad we have gone this far in our struggle for our alumni link. Congratulations for a job that will never be done. There's so much to learn from the new technology and sky is the limit. I am proud to be part of this movement.
Thanks, Guys for the inspiration. The coming GAH will need all the support from all sectors of our alumni community. We hope you can help spread the word of this event to increase partipation -- as this will measure it's success...
In the coming days, the Area, Batch, Group coordinators and tracking teams will be activated. Hope you can all chip-in one way or another.
We just had a successful Christmas Party, spearheaded by the LCHSAA and Batch'82 of James Booc... HAPPY NEW YEAR to everyone. -j.
Just read the latest issue of the Spectrum and I would like to congratulate alumnus Laureto Lao for expressing his views regarding outstanding alumni awards during the forthcoming GAH. He has a very good point and I agree with him to some degree.
As early as the first GAH 2000, I was already apprehensive about the Outstanding Alumni Awards. How are they chosen? Will there be some controversies regarding the choices? Will the awards inspire others?
As I was absent on both occasions, I just went over the archives of the Spectrum for the back issues covering the events of the first GAH 2000 and the 2nd one in 2005 to review these two big events. One of the highlights of the GAH 2000 was the Outstanding Alumni Awards. In fact there were 10 all male awardees in different categories. All about service to the community or special recognition on outstanding talents with only one in business entrepreneurship. The 2nd GAH of 2005 did not mention any such awards. There was a committee set up for this purpose and nominations were solicited. But nothing else. Was it eventually scrapped? For what reason?
Now here comes the 3rd GAH this coming May. Will there be outstanding alumni awards this time? I really don't know the program or activities of GAH 2008. But when Dr. Henry L. Yu nominated Mr. Richard D. Lim late last year, I was quick to second the nomination thinking that there will be such awarding again. However, I made my nomination with different emphasis which is more on giving job opportunities to our fellow LCHSians which is more noble than focusing on the successful business ventures.
As I mentioned at the beginning, I agree with some of the observations of Laureto. Especially when we give outstanding award merely for being a successful entrepreneur. However, when a successful businessman start sharing his/her success to the community or providing new job opportunities to his/her fellow LCHS alumni, I think it is worth some recognitions.
The idea of giving such awards during the GAH is I think to give due recognition to those who have rendered great services mostly voluntary to the community at large and to LCHS in particular. If it is not done during the GAH, when is the most appropriate time and place then?
I don't think the Outstanding Alumni Awards of the 1st GAH 2000 was a factor which caused less attendance for the 2nd GAH 2005. I would like to think that after 60 years of its existence, there would be so much excitement for the FIRST EVER Grand Alumni Homecoming during the millennium year of 2000. It is just obvious then that the 2nd GAH five years after that first ever won't be that exciting anymore except for the fresh or young graduates. So lesser attendance must be expected.
It is a sad reality but we have to face the fact that not all alumni can easily afford the registration fee of GAH which is about the P 1,500 or may be P 2,000 per head. For others, this money could be better used for other family needs. Imagine if you are living in Iligan and you see many of your former classmates almost regularly, attending the GAH could be a very low priority especially when you think that the registration fee for GAH could be spent for other more important purpose. I think this is the main reason why many shy away from attending.
I will try my best this time to be there. An out of towner who will be attending his first ever GAH. Of course I am very excited!
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