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High School Class '78 Newsletter
TITA LORING
Our "Fossil" Jubilarian at 90
LORETO ROMUALDEZ-RAMOS,
our lone "Fossil" Jubilarian, celebrated her 90th birthday last May 9, 2002. 
Bishop Soc Villegas led the concelebrated Mass at the St. Paul College of Manila Chapel,
where he expressed his appreciation to the wonderful teacher she was to him,
while he was studying at the San Carlos Seminary.

Tita Loring, as she is fondly called, was born in Malate in the eyar 1912
to former Justice of the Supreme Court, Norberto Lopez Romualdez and Beatriz Duarte Buz. 
She is the youngest of six children and the only one surviving among them.

She belonged to the 3rd batch of 10 high school graduates in 1930. 
She then pursued her Bachelor of Science in Education at St. Scholastica's College
and went on to the U.S to cap her Master of Arts in Education, graduating magna cum laude in 1938. 
She also took up Music from the University of the Philippines,
with a major in violin and minor in viola, voice and piano. 
At the age of 48, she graduated from Letran College with a Bachelor of Arts in Spanish. 
She took up some units in History at the Ateneo de Manila and later transfered
to the University of the East where she graduated with a Bachelor of Music Education at the age of 64.


In between her studies, she taught at St. Paul's, Sta. Isabel, Lyceum of the Philippines,
MLQU, UST, PWU (where she became Dean of Women), National Teachers' College,
Don Bosco Technical Institute and the San Carlos Seminary. 
She taught a variety of subjects ranging from Education, Philosophy, Sociology,
English, Rizal, Ethics, the New Constitution and Spanish.

At one time she joined the Cultural Center's Philharmonic Orchestra,
where she was part of the violin section.

Tita Loring married Attorney Justiniano S. Ramos of Mabalacat, Pampanga,
with whom she had 3 sons and an only daughter, Beatriz Ramos, SPCM HS '69.

Now, that is what you call a life spent to the fullest.

And yes, there is a "fossil" Jubilarian.  In fact, it was Tita Loring herself, who coined the term,
as she does not fall under any of the categories of the Jubilarians.
To this day, she religiously attends the Alumnae Homecoming, donning her high school uniform,
as if it were only yesterday that she walked past the walls of St. Paul's.

We wish you well Tita Loring, and here's an advance "Happy 91st Birthday" greeting from all of us!
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