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In This Issue

Bowling Fall & Winter 2002     Christmas 2002   New Members 2002   Executive Officers 2003-04   Special Membership Awards     Mapua World 2004   Other Activities

NAMABC Fall & Winter 2002 Bowling Tournaments

We had 2 bowling tournaments that were held on September 7, 2002 and November 23, 2002 at Xcalibur bowling lanes.

Our very special thanks to Julius Lardizabal who again organized and ran all of our 3 bowling tournaments this year.

Bowling

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Our 3rd bowling tournament for the year 2002 was held at Xcalibur Bowling Lanes on November 23. There were 35 members and guests who played bowling, and 50 members and guests who attended the dinner-karaoke event after the bowling. There were 4 people per team and teams were divided into 8 bowling lanes. We had 7 ladies: Che-che de Sequera, Deck Agustin, Lissa Bentley, Vilma Lardizabal, Myra Cabalfin, Mimi Tinio and Rexy Tan who joined the guys in playing bowling. Everybody played a good game; however, as we always say, it is not the scores that count but how much you enjoy the game and each other’s company. The winners were announced and presented their awards at the Annual Christmas Party on December 7, 2002.

Dinner and Karaoke

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After the bowling, we had dinner and karaoke at the upstairs lounge. As usual, Angel and Fe Alcos were our karaoke hosts. This time we had brand new singers, such as Che-che and Rod DeSequera who sang a good duet, Myra Cabalfin, Digno Vibat, Dexter Tarampi and Oscar Asuncion who showcased their singing talents. Again, there was a contest between the men’s and ladies’ groups to sing alternately. The ladies only had Fe to represent them at the start; however, they soon found their nerves and sang group songs after a few margaritas and nachos. The male singers had the regulars: Bert Samson, Eric Factor, Ramon Santos and Angel Alcos. Eddie Alfonso, Rolly Pareja, Ver Abarca and others were forced to sing after much cajoling from the men … well, thanks to all that beer which oiled their vocal chords and helped them get over their stage fright.

One of our newest members, Lissa, and her husband, Rob Bentley, enjoyed the fun-filled afternoon bowling and evening dinner, singing and dancing. We encourage other new members to join us at our next bowling tournament to meet your fellow alumni and join in the fun. We also hope that more of our NAMA ladies will join us in bowling next time as it is fun and an excellent form of exercise too.

Sam and Gloria Quinones joined us late in the evening as they had a party to attend that day.

Tournament Winners

The events were very successful with the following awardees receiving trophies for their accomplishments.

1.  September 7, 2002 Bowling Tournament

Description	Sex	Tournament Winner Name	Score
High 3 Games - Scratch	M	Freddie Santos (guest)	590
	F	Deck Agustin	442
High 3 Games - Handicap	M	Angel Alcos	560
	F	Vilma Lardizabal	557
High Game	M	Darryl Lardizabal (guest)	222
	F	Gloria Quinones	152
High 3 Games - Handicap	M	Joel Agustin	246
	F	Nitz Abarca	223
Champion		Freddie Santos / Angel Alcos
1st Runner-up		Darryl Lardizabal / Gloria Quinones
2nd Runner-up		Bert Samson / Deck Agustin

 

2.  November 23, 2002 Bowling Tournament

Description	Sex	Tournament Winner Name	Score
High 3 Games - Scratch	M	Oscar Asuncion	556
	F	Deck Agustin	480
High 3 Games - Handicap	M	Angel Alcos	553
	F	Myra Cabalfin	555
High Game	M	Butch Tinio (guest)	210
	F	Che-che De Sequera	203
High 3 Games - Handicap	M	Noel Cabalfin	221
	F	Vilma Lardizabal	195
Champion		Oscar Asuncion / Vilma Lardizabal	1117
1st Runner-up		Butch Tinio / Amante Jotie	1116
2nd Runner-up		Ramon Santos / Deck Agustin	1105

Annual Christmas Party 2002

The NAMA Annual Christmas party was held at Eastburne Community Center on December 7, 2002. The party was attended by 102 members and guests. The food was catered by Charlie (Charles Express Catering Services) and music provided by Lani Cruz. As usual, the party was a success as everybody had a good dinner and dancing after the official business of the association were completed.

Eddie Alfonso, NAMA President gave an annual report to the members for the activities that were completed in 2002. Greg Narciso, Treasurer, provided an annual financial report for 2002. We are proud to announce that the executive committee has been fiscally conservative, as our expenses have not exceeded our revenues. We have 73 paid members for 2002.

New Members for Year 2002

Our membership has increased due to Mapua Alumni who register through our online application form in our NAMABC website. New members are Rolly Gatus, Pat Carlos, Marlo Lacuesta, Basil Bermejo, Joy Cabaccang, Mellisa Jimenez, Bernard Alcantara, Eliab Roman and Ray Navarro, Reynaldo Antonio Verzosa, Daniel Lao, Carlito Redoblado, Philip Yuson, Remigio C. Ilagan, Mario Roque Jr., Teresita Bucu-Alba, Lissa Tanuecoz-Bentley, Joel Agustin and Oliver Dollente.

Lissa Tanuecoz-Bentley, Joel Agustin, Tony Telan and Oliver Dollente, along with their significant others, attended our Christmas party. Special thanks to Lissa and husband Rob, for providing special prizes (4 Golf tickets for The Falls Golf Course in Chilliwack BC) for our raffle.

Special Membership Awards

There were 2 special awards handed to members and their spouses for the special contributions that they have provided the association.

1. Ed and Lita Tapia for providing NAMA with the use of their office for our regular and special executive meetings. Ed and Lita have been generous throughout the year in accommodating the executive officers in conducting the meetings at their office even in short notice.

2. Angel and Fe Alcos for providing much needed help in inputting information into our NAMABC website. Fe has provided numerous volunteer hours in inputting captions for our picnic and bowling pictures, newsletters, and doing clean-up and transfers of pictures from our servers to a free server in order to provide more space for our own web server.

Elections of Executive Officers for Year 2003-2004

The new Executive Officers for 2003 -2004 are:

President	Eddie Alfonso
Vice President	Tony Santos
Vice President	Julius Lardizabal
Secretary	Ray Yapyuco
Treasurer	Greg Narciso
PRO	Ed Tapia

MapuaWorld 2004 Report

Eddie Alfonso reported that all committees have their respective chairman and vice-chairman selected and are currently busy preparing plans for MW 20004. Eddie Alfonso, Tony Santos and Dexter Tarampi have finalized the venue for MW2004. Details will be published in our Mapuaworld 2004 website The website committee, with the help of Jeff Gutterez of Mapua online from Chicago, have completed the re-direction of mapuaworld.com to namabc.org. For further details of Mapuaworld 2004, click on the Mapuaworld 2004 link in our website or go directly to http://www.mapuaworld.com/.

Other Activities

After the annual general meeting that lasted for an hour, the all night dancing started to the delight of our members and guests. The dance was only interrupted by picking the winners of the raffle prizes donated by the following members and guest:

Eddie Alfonso	Greg Narciso
Tony Santos	Wes Narciso
Julius Lardizabal	Rey Yapyuco
Ed Tapia	Tony Telan
Mike Sevilla	Bert Samson
Angel Alcos	Lissa Bentley

The association expresses its thanks to our generous members who have donated gifts for our raffle.

Enlarged and more photos for above events may be viewed on our web site: http://www.namabc.org/