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St'Sko, St'SMo Rin at 100!: High School Faculty Grand Reunion
Virginia R. Fornias
Posted: Monday April 28, 2008 01:33 PM

Sr. Angelica Leviste, OSB, SSC President, together with the administrators and
faculty who served the High School Unit from 1996-2006

"Once a Benedictine, always a Benedictine!" This is one statement that really struck me as I listened to Mrs. Marisyll Pengson, the former Coordinator of Student Activities and Services, as she shared with her co-Benedictine educators her beautiful and meaningful experiences as administrator and faculty member of the High School Unit.  Listening to her, a graduate of Assumption College, made me even believe more strongly in the charism of the Benedictine Sisters in educating young women to be agents of social transformation.  Just like her, who is also not a Scholastican and just like all the other Benedictine educators, I live and practice ora et labora.

The sharing of Mrs. Pengson was only one of the highlights of the most recently concluded
St. Sko, St'SMo Rin! Grand Reunion of the past and present administrators and faculty of the High School Unit held on November 18, 2006 at Sr. Kuniberta Hall.  It was also a sharing of talents.  Ms. Mary Ann Centeno, a faculty member from 1987-1990, and Ms. Tin Montojo, current faculty, beautifully sung songs that made all of us to listen in awe.  A group of teachers from present faculty presented a “power dance".  One of the many fun activities that everyone would remember was the game initiated by Ms. Mina and Mrs. Ordanza, which had Mrs. Emelidad Bautista awarded as the sexiest faculty present in the hall.

Everyone was glad to see former High School Principals like Mrs. Juanita M. Medalla (1959-1974), Sr. Josefina G. Nepomuceno (1962-1965), Sr. Bernie Bernas, OSB, Ms. Myrna A. Abiog (1973-2005) and Sr. Michaela M. Manalang, OSB (1997-present), and Benedictine Sisters like Sr. Celine Saplala, OSB (1968-1970), Sr. Lumen Dungca, OSB (1982-1984), Sr. Virginia Ferino, OSB (1971-1974) and Sr. Angelica Leviste, OSB (present College President), who have planted excellence in the Scholastican education.

Certificates of recognition were given to the former principals though it was unfortunate that Dr. Mary Ann Covarrubias, Sr. Frideswida Ick, OSB and Sr. Lucy Togle, OSB were not present during the occasion.  Certificates of participation and centennial items were also given to all present.

The event was one great opportunity to reminisce the past, to look back and recognize how St. Scholastica's College's High School Unit had been with all its pioneers.  From where I am now, as a member of the faculty, looking at all those teachers, administrators and Benedictine Sisters who have contributed so much to what St. Scholastica's College High School Unit is now, I could not help but recognize what they had started . . . and live with and by the legacy that they continuously share with us.  

We were 97 in the hall ... 97 Benedictine educators who came together on November 18, 2006, not only to see each other but to rekindle the spirit, renew the "Benedictine" bond that once and forever will bind us together.  We will continue to live with prayer and work . . . we will continue to work for and with excellence. . . now and in the next hundreds of years so

THAT IN ALL THINGS GOD MAY BE GLORIFIED!

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