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e-Hortus; The
On-Line Newsletter of the UP Horticultural Society Alumni
Association
Version 2001.1 (February)
Written by Mr. Lyle Baconguis
NEW ALUMNI OFFICERS
The UP HortSoc alumni elected a new set of officers for 2000-2002 during
the last homecoming.
President: Lyle Baconguis
Vice-President: Dr Fernando Sanchez Jr.
Secretary: Crisanta Sunio-Bueno
Treasurer: Angelita Galang-Umali
Auditor: Pacita Agustin-Manalo
PRO: Tibo Arejola
Lyle Baconguis, Ang Umali and Leny Bueno are the hold overs from the
last
set of officers. To introduce the new officers:
Our new vice president, Dindo Sanchez, is an assistant professor in the
ornamental crops division of the UPLB Department of Horticulture and
holds
a PhD in landscape architecture from the Tokyo University of
Agriculture.
Dindo, who is very much single, is currently taking up short courses in
turf management at Rutgers University.
Our auditor, Paz Manalo, is a project development officer for the UPLB
Credit and Development Cooperative with a primary responsibility for
housing. She is also wife to Dr Dave Manalo of the UPLB Farming
Systems
and Soil Resources Institute and mother to Joyce, Aryan and Joshua.
Our PRO, Tibo Arejola, has just made a career move from being a training
officer of the Bonifacio Trees and Greens Corporation, to becoming a
restauranteur. His restaurant 93square is on the 3rd floor of the Vega
Mall
just outside the UPLB gate. Tibo and his wife Melissa live in Laguna
Bel-Air in Santa Rosa.
We would also like to thank the previous officers: Ike Barile, vice
president; Ana Tuico-Papag, treasurer and Tess Gerpacio-Sta. Cruz,
auditor;
for their support during the past two years.
HOMECOMING'00
Homecoming 2000 was held at the Ornamental Crops Nursery during Loyalty
Day. The alumni were led by our ever reliable senior
members, Dave
Santos of Nestle Philippines; Dr Chito Protacio, chairman of the UPLB
department of horticulture, Dr Nido Naranja, Reynold Pimentel of IPB,
Cherrie Deanon-Nicdao of TNC Landscaping-Brunei, Jules Magpantay of the
Agricultural Training Institute and Ang Umali.
The alumni were welcomed by the resident members led by President Vince
Severino Magat, president, and Maecel Gonzaga, vice-president.
Rey Pimentel served as emcee for the HortSoc bingo with Joey Quintana of
Dynamic Bank going off with the major bingo and door prizes.
Corporate
prize donors included BASF and Aventis. Other donors were
Nelson Adorable
and Zaldy Arbitrario who donated exotic Brazilian peach palm seedlings
from
their ornamental farm in Sampaloc, Quezon, the UPLB Department of
Horticulture and the Institute of Plant Breeding for mussaenda and
gumamela
seedlings; and Dorie Larona, marketing manager of Asia Pacific Golf
Products.
HORTSOC MOVEMENTS
Ike and Meann Barile have moved again. Ike was appointed Monsanto
Company's territory lead for northern Mindanao and have moved to Cagayan
de
Oro from Davao where they lived for the past year.
Joel and Malou Laserna have moved back to Luzon after almost a decade in
Digos, Davao del Sur. Joel took a promotion as horticulture
business
manager of Aventis CropScience. The Lasernas now live in Laguna
Bel-Air,
Santa Rosa.
Alaric Santiaguel is now back in Los Banos as the information officer
for
SEARCA. Alaric previously was the information officer for the
Palawan
Tropical Forestry Protection Programme.
Rey Pimentel of the Institute of Plant Breeding will be moving to the
Del
Monte agricultural research department in Bukidnon to join their
fruit
breeding program.
Juverglen Ilagan is sales supervisor for P.T. Cerna, distributor of Solo
backpack sprayers. Glen is also doing his masters degree in
management at
UPLB.
Ricardo Morales is now with the Rural Bankers Association of the
Philippines.
The following HortSoccers are active in the UP Alumni Associations:
Norma
Payawan an assistant professor of horticulture at the University of
Southern Mindanao is president of the UP Alumni Association Kabacan
(Cotabato) Chapter while Editha Moskito-Ramolete is a member of the
Board
of Directors for the UP Alumni Association La Union Chapter.
PERSONALS
Towards the end of 2000 and the early part of 2001, we were happy to
learn of:
Irma Quintana flying home to Los Banos from California for her church
wedding to formally become Mrs Monserrat;
Robert Rubico, also flying in from California for his wedding in Villa
Escudero, Tiaong, Quezon on the 30th of December;
Karyl Zantua 's email in end of December announcing her marriage to Noel
in
Florida;
Jingle Quintana tying the knot with Sherill Ramos in early January in
Los
Banos;
New babies for Raphy Quintana in Los Banos; and for Nhel and Eyeth
Belviz
in Davao City.
HORTSOC WEBSITE
Webmaster Gino Manalastas over in Japan has redone the UP HortSoc
website.
Please check out the site at:
<http://oocities.com/hortsoc/Hortsoc1.html>
Gino is requesting for members with pictures to share to send it to him
at:
<hortsoc@yahoo.com>.
Don't forget to sign the guest book. Also, do check
out the list of on-line members and email me (or Gino) regarding changes
in
email addresses including those not listed.
JOB OPPORTUNITY
Dr Elison Blancaflor, plant biologist and electron microscopist at the
Noble Foundation in Ardmore, Oklahoma, needs a research assistant with a
background in electronmicroscopy. Do check out their website at
<http://www.noble.org> for
details.
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