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NEWSLETTER WINTER 2001-2002 |
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Associate
Member |
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NAMABC's
New Abode |
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Christmas
Party |
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Bowling
Tournament |
Executive Order for Inclusion of Associate Members in the National
Association of Mapua Alumni of BC (NAMABC):
As approved by the Executive Committee:
Date: November 20, 2001
Place: Burnaby, BC
As approved by the General Membership during the Annual General Meeting:
Date: December 1, 2001
Place: Burnaby, BC
New Membership Category:
Associate Member - An engineering graduate or an undergraduate of any
Technical school fully recognized school by the Department of Education in
the Philippines. If an undergraduate of any Technical school, the applicant
must have taken the prescribed courses of that school for a period of no
less than two (2) semesters. The applicant must show a desire to become a
member, willing to work for the association and agrees to uphold and comply
with the constitution and by-laws of the association.
The Associate Member must be in good moral standing in the community
The Associate Member must be willing to provide assistance to fellow member
without any hesitation.
Any person who meets the criteria set forth above and upon signing an Application
of Membership and upon payment of Annual dues shall become an Associate
Member of the Association.
Pledge:
Upon admission as member, the Associate Member agrees to uphold and comply
with the constitution and by-laws of the association.
Entitlement:
1. The Associate Member can participate in all social activities that the
Association may have.
2. The Associate Member can be appointed to be committee members as
necessary to help the Executive Committee in all its function.
3. The Associate Member who is a Participating member shall be entitled to
all the privileges given the Members.
4. The Associate Member cannot be nominated nor elected to an Executive
position.
5. The Associate Member who is a non-participating member shall be deleted
from the membership rolls.
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Abode is a place of dwelling. Webhosting maybe described as a
hardrive somewhere out there where you put your files or web pages. These files
can be viewed using your browser by typing on the browser's URL as
www.namabc.org. The last three words is called a domain name. Getting a
domain name is like getting a business name in city hall. You pay some kind
of license fee yearly. The physical location of your business is a space
you rent in a building, separate from what you paid in city hall. With
website, that space is where you put your files using an FTP (file transfer
protocol) software. Someone else owned that harddrive. The business of that
company is webhosting. Now, NAMABC has its own real domain name, unlike
before when we have http://welcome.to/namabc as the URL. This is called a
redirection. Some company receives this URL and points to another URL. Now
with our new set of officers with a fresh set of visions, we got a real
domain name - namabc.org.
Why do we need to pay for webhosting when we can have it
gratis? If we want to project a respectable image and gain respect,
we need to dress well and behave. Using the same analogy, in free hosting
we encounter advertisements popping up. In geocities, 4 javascript errors
show up not of our own making. Sometimes, the traffic is unbearable, and
most of all, we can not perform server scripting. With paid hosting, there
are several Server Scripting languages like Perl, ASP(Active Server Pages),
PHP(personal home page), Python, JSP (Javascript Server Pages)that we can
use. With server scripting, we can create our own Guestbook, Bulletin
boards, Chatroom and database for members where each member can update his
own data. With just a single website, a NAMABC member can browse
information not accessible to non-members.
We are fortunate to have a webmaster who writes server
scripting for a living, thus making our website functional to what we want it
to be. But we need your comments for input, this is our abode. This is our
home. The image we project reflects who we are. We invite you to submit
your ideas to the webmaster. Like in sports we want to build a strong team.
Our website is our team and you are the team players. Contribute to the
team by being an active player.
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NAMABC Christmas Party 2001 |
There were 95 attendees at this year's Christmas party, being
limited to members and spouses. It was an occasion of merriment and warm
greetings among members. The affair was held at Eastburne Community Center
- 7435 Edmonds Street, Burnaby BC last December 1, 2001. Christmas
decorations on the hall were punctuated with poinsettia flowers on every
table which was given away to one lucky guest each table. The officers
prepared pages of Christmas songs that were shared by everybody during
group singing led alternately by Lito Alcos, Becky Magallanes and Bert
Samson.
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Pictures shown above are the current officers presenting the
proposed project for the coming year. L TO R: Julius Lardizabal, Alex
Mendez, Tony Santos, Greg Narciso, Pay abaya, Eddie Alfonso and Ed Tapia. |
This year's Christmas party coincided with the Association's
annual general meeting. Eddie Alfonso, the president, with the executive
committee presided the meeting, summarized the activities held during the
year and outlined the proposed projects for the year 2002. The treasurer,
Greg Narciso, likewise read the 2001 financial statement of the
Association. Other official business taken were the election of Rey Yapyuco
as the new PRO to replace Emer Catapia and the approval of an executive
order to allow Associate members to sign into the Association who are not
Mapua alumni.
As an initial campaign for 2002 membership fee, 39 members
paid their membership dues. The Executive Committee was glad to see other
members, who we have not seen for a while, attend the Christmas party like
Rod Santos, Chito Jambalos, Rod Desequera, Fidel Claudio and Joven Hebron
to name a few. We hope to see them and other members again in our
activities next year. The Association welcomed five new members: Danny
Federizo, Noel Roxas, Norbert Gimenez, Mike Sevilla and Macario Calinisan.
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Dinner catered by Charle's Catering was served at 7:00pm and
was followed immediately by a short general meeting.
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The members and their families were served with a sumptuous
dinner of roast beef, cordon blue chicken and pasta by Charles' Catering.
The Association provided drinks, nuts, chips and other munchies. There were
singing and mostly dancing all night with music provided by Vince
Crisologo. As usual, Amante Jotie was our emcee during the program and
Echel Narciso with help from Norma Mayonte sold 50/50 tickets for the
raffle of the Christmas gifts to all attendees. The Association subsidized
half of the expenses for the Christmas party to encourage members to attend
and share camaraderie between friends.
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Members and their spouses
enjoy the music provided by Vince Crisologo to their favorite steps of
Cha-cha, Rhumba, Swing, Tango, Etc, with Sweet Music.
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The Executive Committee wishes all the members and their
families a very Merry Christmas and a Prosperous New Year. We hope that you
can all join us in our activities next year.
Special thanks to all the members who attended and supported
our party.
BOWLING TOURNAMENT
Xcalibur Bowling Center - February 23, 2002
NAMABC members have revived their interest in bowling after
several years of inactivity. Another successful bowling tournament has been
held last February 23, 2002 at Xcalibur Bowling Center in Surrey, BC.
The tournament was started at 1:30 pm. with 16 bowlers divided
into 8 teams of 2 members per team. The members that played were Greg
Narciso, Tony Santos, Angel Alcos, Bert Samson, Sam Quinones, Ding
Torrijos, Oscar Asuncion, Ed Tapia, Rafy Santos, Ver Abarca, Eric Factor,
Ray Yapyuco, Bong Banting, Tito Zamora, Eddie Alfonso and our organizer,
Julius Lardizabal. Joe Pante, Pete Lopez and Jun Quinto joined in the fun
but did not play bowling. Most have never bowled for years so they were
rusty in the first game but eventually gained confidence and made strikes
and spares in the second and third game. You can hear louder cheers as
players continue to improve their games with more strikes and spares as the
game progressed. The total scores for the 3 games were added and Julius put
in the handicap calculations to come up with the winners.
After the game, at around 4:00 pm, burgers and fries with soft
drinks and beer were served in the second floor lounge. The bowlers were
joined in the party by some lovely NAMA ladies namely, Echel Narciso, Lea
Santos, Fe Alcos, Mina Samson, Gloria Quinones, Lita Lopez, Marichu
Torrijos, Cecille Alfonso and Vilma Lardizabal. Fe and Angel entertained
the group with their fabulous Karaoke singing while eating. They were then
joined by some of the best crooners from NAMA such as Bert Samson, Tito
Zamora, Ding Torrijos, Sam Quinones and Eric Factor to name a few. Oscar
Asuncion enlivened the group with some comedy actions while they were
singing the lovely and vibrant tunes. Karaoke singing was temporarily
halted for the awarding of trophies.
The following trophies were awarded to the best bowlers:
Team Awards:
Doubles Champion: Rafy Santos , Julius Lardizabal
Second Place: Oscar Asuncion, Tito Zamora
Third Place: Eddie Alfonso, Ed Tapia
Individual Awards:
High Game Scratch: Oscar Asuncion
High Game Handicap: Ding Torrijos
High Three Game Scratch: Julius Lardizabal
High Three Game Handicap: Rafy Santos
Individual Karaoke singing continued after the awards
ceremony. It eventually progressed into group singing of Hey Jude, American
Pie, etc and dancing till the group has to go home by 7:00 pm. Everybody
had lots of fun and plans are underway to continue with the bowling
tournament in the fall, probably October and November, 2002. For people who
may have missed this bowling tournament, watch out for our announcement in
our web site for the Fall Bowling tournament.
Photos of the bowling tournament are on our website,
http://www.namabc.org
under "Bowling@Xcalibur" section.
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Newsletter brought to you by Greg Narciso & Eddie
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