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Trillium Elects New Officers

Trillium Eastern Canada Subchapter Elects NewLeadership

By Emicil Dela Cruz, VP for Alumni Relations

Alumni in Eastern Canada were in one accord on October 19 when they elected thenext set of officers to serve for 2013-2016 and start their term of leadership forCanadas Trillium subchapter.

On Sabbath afternoon, at the Fil-Can SDA Church in Toronto with EASNAC

president Dr. Salcor Quines, and EASNAC treasurer, Jerry Felipe in attendance, newfaces were added to the roster of officers while some incumbents were reelected.From the very start of the meeting there was a clamor for young blood to lead outand take control. This was driven by an implicit need to address the interests ofyoung, undiscovered, and untapped alumni in Eastern Canada.

Taking the helm as President of Trillium is Edgar Pilapil, BS Math, 94; MASecondary Education 99. He has been a Math and Physics teacher in Kingsway

College for 13 years. Initially hesitant, he finally conceded to be head honcho ofEastern Canada Alumni. Mr. Pilapil, declared, If this is Gods will for me, then Iam willing to serve in this capacity, as part of the impressive message delivered inhis acceptance speech.

Here is a complete list of the new Trillium AUP Alumni Subchapter Officers:


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President Edgar Pilapil

Vice President for Membership Carmelita Coloma Stewart

Vice President for Alumni Affairs Emicil delaCruz

Vice President for Spiritual Development Sheldon Imperio

Vice President for Projects/Fundraising Helen Malangayon Ilacas

Secretary Lorcy Yutuc Viray

Treasurer Ardison Bernardo

Administering the oath of office was Pastor Max Cadalig, AUP UniversityAdvancement Director. He is touring North America to raise awareness andsoliciting much needed funds for the College of Medicine Building Project, to becompleted by the end of this year.

What lies ahead for Trillium? As this subchapter stands at the threshold of a treasuretrove of undiscovered potential ready to be harnessed into service for AUP, theseyoung officers are poised at the cusp of groundbreaking leadership when it comes toDeeds and Praises, aimed to bring honor to our dear Alma Mater. SHINE ON,TRILLIUM!

Midwest subchapter elects new officers

The AUP alumni have decided to regroup and reorganized their subchapter recentlyduring the visit of the new EASNAC president Dr. Salcor Quines and AUP Directorof the University Advancement Office, Pastor Max Cadalig. Election was held at theHinsdale Fil-Am Church during a gathering of the Midwest alumni.


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PUC/AUP alumni having lunch in the fellowship hall of the Hinsdale Fil-Am church,with Pastor Max Cadalig, (second from the right) Director of the AdventistUniversity of the Philippines University Advancement Office.

The officers for the term 2013-2016 are:

Theresa R. Lanoza, President

(847) 533-2823

[email protected]

Pastor Daniel Ocampo, Vice-President

(630) 212-0301

[email protected] or [email protected]


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Pellentesque:

Consectetuer:

Imelda (Mel) Basit, Secretary

(630) 484-8550

[email protected]

Eden Alabata, Associate Secretary

(630) 740-1299

[email protected]

Elizabeth (Beth) Mari, Treasurer

(630) 915-5690

[email protected]

Roland (Roly) Consignado, Auditor

(630) 605-6369 (Wife, Grace's cell # & email)

[email protected]

Dr. Jesse Reyes, PRO

(630) 915-3597

[email protected] [email protected]

Abner dela Cruz, Adviser

(630) 913-8948

[email protected]


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From the Presidents Desk

We Are One

We Are OneBy Salcor B. Quines

I am happy to report that the PUC/AUP Alumni

Association (Foundation) USA, Inc. and the EASNAC Association are one. Theformation of this new united tax exempt organization was approved by the Directorsof the Foundation and the Executive Officers of the EASNAC Association at ameeting held on August 23, 2013 in Beltsville, MD. It was decided to call this newentity EASNAC, Inc.

Now that we have taken the necessary step of merging these two entities, the next

challenge facing us is to raise sufficient operating funds for all EASNAC, Inc.s sub-chapters, units and committees in order to run successfully. It is my belief that anorganization without adequate funding is weak and inefficient. I would like us toconsider EASNAC, Inc. as a company that we want to invest in.

A recent biography on the worlds most famous investor is titled, The Snowball Warren Buffet and the Business Life. The term snowball is a metaphor for a coreinvestment concept: The Law Of Compound Returns.

Think of the law of compound returns as a force of nature that describes how wealth

grows. A small snowball rolling down a hill will gather weight, which increases itsspeed, which keeps increasing its size. Wet snow and a long hill are the conditionsthat turn a snowball into a very large boulder. Continuing with the metaphor, snowmoisture relates to an investors rate of return, and the size of the hill is ones timehorizon.

In other words, even the smallest of investment will grow (snowball) over time into


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large boulders given the right conditions. It is our duty to create the right conditionsfor our investments in EASNAC, Inc. to grow.

On November 8-9, 2013, all Subchapter Presidents, the Board and the ExecutiveCommittee, will meet in Beltsville, MD. One of the major items on the agenda will be

organizational funding. I believe that we need to devise a systematic way of raisingfunds that will not only maintain and insure the continued efficient operation ofEASNAC, Inc., but will also grow the endowment fund.

EASNAC, Inc. is one of Gods instruments on Earth. Let us continue to tune it sothat He can finish His work.

Reversing NumbersBy Samuel B. Villanueva

[email protected]

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education atall. Aristotle.

Reading some post in the Facebook this week, I came up to this adageattributed to Aristotle Educating the mind without educating the heart isno education at all.

Having actively worked with EASNAC alumni association this past twentyyears, I have observed that there are roughly only 20% of the total alumniwho involve themselves with anything alumni. They pay their alumni

dues, participate in alumni projects, attend alumni conventions, attendsubchapter meetings, think of what they can do for their alma mater, thinkof the working students and help them with scholarship money to ease andshorten their stay at AUP, talk alumni, etc., etc.

Most of these 20% alumni feel like they belong to a family the AUP Family,


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if you want to call it at that.

Where are the rest of the 80% of the alumni? Do they care? Are they theblack sheep of the AUP family that have left without looking back? DidAUP educate their minds but not their hearts? Have they lost theirloyalties, their loves, their prides in their alma mater? Did they leave withhurts, discontent, and with bitterness in their taste buds?

The 80% of the alumni who dont care is a gargantuan number and itshould be a matter of deepest concern.

The AUP administration should worry about this number. They shouldstart asking why. Are they educating the students minds but not theirhearts? If so, shouldnt the numbers be the other way around? Shouldnt itbe 80% active and 20% inactive?

Is the culture of REJECTION still heavily practiced at AUP instead of

REDEMPTION whenever some mistakes are made? Are there students stillbeing sent home for the slightest forgivable mistake? Is this a way todevelop pride, love and loyalty?

I have asked a lot of questions. The AUP administration should findanswers to these questions, because we need to turn the numbers around,if the future alumni will be ONE with their alma mater.

The apparent answer is to educate their hearts.

What are the plans of the administration to help reverse these numbers?


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EASNAC BOT To Meet

Dr. Salcor Quines, EASNAC president, has called for a meeting of the EASNACBoard of Trustees to be held at the Fil-Am Church in Beltsville, Maryland,November 8-9, 2013.

For the EASNAC members concerns to be heard, we invite you to get in touch withyour subchapter presidents and inform them of your concerns so these items arediscussed at the BOT level.

Some items in the agenda that will be discussed in addition to the officers reportswill be: The new Corporation by-laws; Mission, Vision, Goals, and Purpose; Newcorporate seal and logo; Fiscal managements (annual budget, budget line items,overhead percent over revenue, reporting periods, subchapters fund reportingsystem); Fund-raising ideas endowment funds; and Future medical missions.

Furthermore, announcements of important dates of rallies, conventions and regionalmeetings and banquets will take place. It is anticipated that with a new set ofofficers, we can regain the enthusiasm we need to keep our alumni chapter alive andrelevant in our support for the alma mater, Adventist University of the Philippines.

As AUPians, we can continue to learn English Lessons

When creating marketing copy, even the most adept writers make mistakes fromtime to time. Here are 8 of the most common for you to learn and avoid.


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AUGUST 23, 2013: As more companies create customer-targeted content for theirwebsites, the grammar police seem to be out in greater force. And that can createwriter's block: Many business owners stress about writing anything at all, for fear ofusing incorrect grammar that will be made fun of across the Web.

Last month, a post in the OPEN Forum community provided this advice on writingand grammar:

"As a writer, I was told that I should simply write and write some more. I was afraidmy grammar was bad, and I had made an F on a theme in college I never forgot, andhad no confidence that I could write a sentence. As an attorney I wrote briefs but I

felt they were no good. But I kept writing, and soon lost my fear, realizing that thisnext piece wasnt going to win a Pulitzer ... Get [the writing] out of you. It canalways be fixed to perfection later. Few artists give birth to the work in perfect form.If you cannot write it for one reason or another, get it written by a professional.Dont delay. You are unique, and your idea will perish with you if you dontpreserve it."

Part of creating your own content is to do exactly that: Write. Just write. After all,you can't become a better writer if you don't practice your craft.

But there also are some basic grammar mistakes almost everyone makes, no matterhow good (or bad) a writer he or she is. If you can learn to get this right, you're off toa good start.

Affect vs. effect. The easiest way to remember the difference between the two is that"affect mean "to influence." So if you're going to influence something, you willaffect it. If it's the result of something, it's an effect.

Impact.Impact is a noun, not a verb. A plane can crash on impact. You can have animpact on something. But you cannot impact something. (When you are tempted to

use "impact" as a verb, use "affect" instead; see #1.)

Their, they're and there. You'd think everyone would have learned this rule infourth grade, but it's a very common mistake. Use "there" when referring to alocation, "their" to indicate possession, and "they're" when you mean to say "theyare."


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Care less. The dismissive "I could care less" is incorrect. If you could care less aboutit, then you're saying you could care less about the topic, and you've lost the impactyou meant to have. To use this phrase correctly, insert the word "not" after the word"could," as in, "I could not care less."

Irregardless. This word doesn't exist. The word you should use is "regardless."

Your and you're. Another mistake you'll often see in people's social media profilesor other content they create is the incorrect us of "your" and "you're." If you mean tosay "you are," the correct word is "you're." Use "your" when referring to somethingthat belongs to "you," as in "your business."

Fewer vs. less. Another common mistake, "less" refers to quantity and "fewer" to anumber. For instance, Facebook has fewer than 5,000 employees, but I got less sleepthan you last night.

Quotation marks. Among the great debates, people ask all the time whether or notpunctuation belongs inside or outside of quotation marks. Let's set the recordstraight. The period and the comma always go inside quotation marks. The dash, thesemicolon, the exclamation mark and the question mark go inside when they applyto the quoted matter (if it's not the entire sentence) but outside when they apply tothe whole sentence.

People make so many grammar mistakes today that The Elements of Style is on itsfourth edition. If you keep a copy of it on your desk and practice your craft, you'llnever have to worry about the grammar police paying you a visit.

Gini DietrichMember, Vistage International Follow


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ALUMNI THAT CRUISE TOGETHER STAYSTOGETHER

What do AUP alumni do when they cruise together? Of course they talk aboutAUP! They talk about the good and the bad, sometimes in one sentence.

The good is the pride of having gotten their education from AUP, the experiencedcamaraderie among friends, their experience in giving back to their country of originby going on medical missions to the Philippines, their joy in helping out workingstudents, and their work in the alumni association and how to make it better.

The bad is how they remember being disciplined for something they didnt do, forbeing sent out of their classrooms and not being able to take the exams because ofsome outstanding tuition fees, for embarrassing treatment they get from someteachers, for other negative things that happened that was not under their control.Falling in love with the opposite sex and not being reciprocated was one of them.Busted, in another word.

It was fun to be with 20 AUP alumni on a Mediterranean cruise visiting 9 ports in 6countries in 12 days. A group of AWESNA and EASNAC members have a way ofmaking it a joint convention, minus attending the convention programs. It was justplain chilling out, eating, daily evening banquets, disembarking and playing touristat ports, being in Las Vegas every evening except on Fridays. It was fun to speak alittle Italian, French, and Spanish and learning others even just how to say thank youin Croatian.

The AUPians were with Ernie and Miriam Banaagon their first weddinganniversary cruise, and arranged byWen and Gloria Luib as travel counselors. Thegroup was boisterously loud when among themselves, as most Filipinos will dowhen they are banded together. The cruise started with a two-day stay in Venice,Italy and then on to Dubrovnik, Croatia; Izmir, Turkey; Athens, Greece; Sicily,Naples, Rome, Florence, Italy; Marseilles, France; and ending in Barcelona, Spain.


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From there the group separated to go on their way home.

What did we see and experienced? We saw quite a few. Most experienced the

Gondola rides in Venice and hanging around San Marco Square. You should take atrip to the top of the mountain over-looking Dubrovnik and seeing from a neardistance the country of Bosnia that was involved in the Balkan wars. The ruins ofthe city of Ephesus in Turkey, where Paul preached were stunningly well preserved.Seeing the Parthenon in an Athens hill was well worth the climb. Taking thetelerifica ride up Mt. Etna, an active volcano in Sicily, was not to be passed. ThePompeii ruins from the Mt. Vesuvius volcano eruption was the thing to see inNapoli. The grandeur of the ancient walled-city of Rome the Coliseum, TreviFountain, Vatican, -- are things to experience. Michelangelos sculpture of David inFlorence and the Leaning Tower in nearby Pisa, are not to be missed. Be ready tospeak French when you are touring in Marseilles because you might not be able tofind the Lafayette Mall for shopping! Finally, you have not been to Barcelona if youdo not visit La Sagrada Familia, a magnificent church that has taken over a centuryto build and will finish in the year 2025.

It is important for alumni that even transcend different classes and generations, togather among themselves to continue their common bond of being members of the

alumni family. It is important too, to talk about their experiences even in thenegative sense because it brings closures to unhappy events, even forgiveness of thepast. It is important to get realization of what their lives had become because ofturns in their lives.

Sometimes someone asks a question whether it would have been better if they gavethe expenses of a cruise and give it to AUP as a really sacrificial deed. I dont thinkso. It also borders on the same question whether cancelling an alumni convention

and giving the total money that each attendee would have spent to the university fora specific project, say, the College of Medicine, is a good idea. First of all, I dontthink that even if it enters the mind, spending for ones self is totally different fromdonating to the university. I find out that people who went to this cruise alsodonated in someway. It is important that we enjoy ourselves, to enjoy the fruits ofour labor and then we too can think of making a donation to our alma mater. Wehave to love ourselves before we can love others. sbv


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Three ladies, L-R, Miriam Tupas-Banaag, Araceli Mindoro-Quijada, Eleanor Gensolin-Velasco take and evening stroll atPiazza San Marco in Venice, Italy

Romeo Miguel, recruited for audience participation tries thebasketball tic,tac to for his team which won.

Giddy Ninang, Elma Lou Arreola-Roda of Tappahannock,Virginai is happily on board, here enjoying the evening show.

Gloria and Wen Luib, the groups travel counselors atdinner. If you plan a cruise with friends or classmates, callGloria.

The Velascos of Murrieta, California: Eleanor, Abner and sonFrancis, enjoying their dinner before the shows.

The three ladies, L-R: Eleanor, Miriam, Cely again enjoyingthe activities on board the Carnival Sunshine.


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Editor: Samuel B. Villanueva

President: Salcor Quines

VP: Ronald Quiba

Secretary: Helen Lamadrid

Asso. Secretary: Theresa Lanoza

Treasurer: Jerry Felipe

Asso. Treasurer: Marc Amado

Auditor: Roger Maldonado

PRO: Lee Liwag

Advisers: Jedd Villanueva, Laurence Gayao

Ninang Jedd Villanueva, left, with Ernie and MiriamBanaag, on their first-year wedding anniversary cruise.

Their wedding honeymoon was spent on a cruise ship.

Octavius and Cely Quijada of Redlands, California. Dr. Tavyis one of the AUP alumni who is helping AUPs College of

Medicine with their program and faculty recruitment. Theother two are Dr. Alfonso Roda and Dr. Honesto Pascual, Jr.

Cruise photo credits: Ernie Banaag

EASNAC Calendar

EASNAC Board of Trustees MeetingFil-Am Church, Beltsville, MD

November 8-9, 2013

Florida Regional Alumni RallyAvon Park, FloridaNovember 30, 2013

EASNAC ParticipationNew York Philippine Independence Day Parade

First Sunday of June, 2014

AWESNA-EASNAC Joint ConventionLake Las Vegas, Henderson, Nevada

Labor Day Weekend, 2014

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