Bacolod City who writes with a mellifluous pen. There’s Miss Bart, the jaunty biology teacher of Winnie Velasquez; and Fr. Felix Glowicki, SDB, who, writes Sonny Coloma, currently the President’s press secretary, instilled in his students “what it means to be hopeful and optimistic.” (Should we take “hopeful and optimistic” as the centerpiece of the Noynoy administration?) Other unforgettable persons of the cloth are Sister Robrecht, whose guidance and example fired the zeal for helping “the least, lost and last” in the crusader and activist Sr. Pilar Verzosa; and Sr. Miriam Emmanuel, who “descended from heaven and redeemed” Vergel Santos, the veteran journalist and influential newspaper editor, then a poor boy from barrio Niugan in Malabon. One afternoon, after 50 years, Joe Mordeno and his jubilarian celebrators visit their English teacher in her modest house in Butuan City. Mordeno gets the “rickety knees” and the “top gones” to reintroduce themselves and reminisce in the sala of their nonagenarian teacher, wheelchair-borne and splendidly lucid, and in the process reaffirm, and come to terms with, how they had turned out to be. Nieves Villamin, now a successful vineyard owner and wine producer in the U.S., also gathers the recollections of her colleagues from TIP of the larger-than-life image of Engr. Demetrio A. Quirino Jr. Villamin and her friends, all successful TIP alumni based in the U.S., predicted their future “by creating it.” The future still lies ahead, luminous and promising, for TIP students Erika Kristel Gonzaga and Frances Joyce Vallejos, who won the TIP essay-writing contest on the “memorable teacher” theme. Their stories could cheer up and uplift the minds of the thousands of TIP students hoping to make a mark in their future professional lives.
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