Members ~ Class of 1958

Members of the NESHS Class of '58
A Snapshot of the NESHS Class of '58
Milestones: The NESHS Class of 1958

Members of the NESHS Class of '58

Author: NESHS '58 Editorial Staff
Publication: NESHS '58 1998 Reunion Commemorative Magazine, May 1998

1. NATIVIDAD ABAD^{^}
2. LOLITA AFABLE
3   NORMA AFABLE (GRAJO)^*
4. RUSTICO ALFARO^*
5. MARCIANO ALVAREZ
6 . RODOLFO ALVAREZ^*
7. INOCENCIO ANGELES
8. LEONORA ANTONIO (SINGZON)^*
9. OFELIA AQUINO (GARCIA)
10. JULIETA AREVALO (DE GUZMAN)^*
11. JULITA ATACADOR (RODRIGUEZ)
12. ALBINO AUDAR
13. ERLINDA BAGUISA (SIWA)^*
14. GERARDO BAGUISA
15. ARSENIO BARLIS^{^}
16. FRANCISCO BARLIS
17. RUFINO BELTRAN
18. JOSE BULAON
19. ESTRELLITA BUNAG
20. LETICIA CACHUELA (PEREZ)
21. PILAR CARILLO (DEL PILAR)^{^}
22. BIBIANA CARLOS (BERNARDO)
23. OFELIA CUEVO^{^}
24. DOMINGA DELA CRUZ^{^}
25. LORENZO DAYAO
26. ELENA DEVILLERES (VENTURINA)
27. ROGELIO DIEGO^{^}
28. ESTELITA DINO (GOTERA)
29. MERNILO DIONISIO^*
30. RESTITUTO ESTRELLA
31. RODRIGO ESTRELLA^{^}
32. LILIA FAJARDO (YUZON)
33. ESTRELLITA FERNANDO (ESTRELLA)
34. FILIPINO FIGUEROA
35. JOAQUIN FIGUEROA^{^}
36. PURITA FRIAS (JIMENEZ)
37. THELMA GARCES^{^}
38. ERNESTO GARCIA^{^}
39. ESTRELLITA GARCIA
40. MATILDE GARCIA (JOSE)
41. MILAGROS GARCIA (PALLARCA)
42. CARLITO GONZALES
43. JACINTO GONZALES
44. ELVIRA GUERRERO (JACINTO)
45. ALBERTO DE GUZMAN^{^}
46. JUANITO DE GUZMAN
47. LEONARDO DE GUZMAN^{^}
48. LUIS DE GUZMAN
49. NORMA G. DE GUZMAN (CAMAYA)
50. NORMA M. DE GUZMAN (ANGELO)
51. ROGELIO DE GUZMAN^*
52. ARTURO HERNANDEZ
53. RUFINO HERRERA^*
54. LEONARDO HIPOLITO^{^}
55. AURORA IGNACIO
56. NESTOR JACINTO^{^}
57. RODOLFO DE JESUS
58. LOLITA JUAT
59. LUISINIA LABIOS (UYTINGCO)^*
60. EFREN LAGAMIA
61. ROBERTO LAZARO
62. GREGORIO DE LEON
63. JAIME DE LEON
64. SOLEDAD L. LIGON (INOCENCIO)
65. ZENAIDA G. LINSANGAN
66. ELPIDIO LIWAG
67. VIRGINIA LIWAG (JIMENEZ)
68. HORATIO LOTUACO^*
69. NYDIA MABALAY (TINAWIN)^*
70. GREGORIO MACTAL, SR
71. ESPERANZA MAGBITANG (TANGHAL)^*
72. JULIANA MAGUNDAYAO
73. ADELAIDA MALANG (YUZON)
74. ISABELITA MALGAPO (LIWAG)^{^}
75. VICTORIA MALGAPO^*
76. LEONARDO MANALASTAS^{^}
77. ILUMINADA MANULID^{^}
78. ILUMINADA MARIANO (ANTONIO)
79. LIGAYA MARIANO (PANGILINAN)
80. RICARDO MARIANO
81. RODOLFO MARIANO^*
82. ERNESTO MARQUEZ
83. MANUELITO MATIAS
84. RODRIGO MATIAS
85. DOMINGO MENDOZA
86. FRANCISCO MENDOZA
87. MARIANO MENDOZA
88. CONSUELO MUYOT (RAMOS)
89. CECILIO NAVARRO
90. ROMEO NAVARRO^{^}
91. CORNELIO NOCUM^{^}
92. ADELAIDA NUNEZ
93. GLORIA NUNEZ^{^}
94. EMMANUEL PABLO^*
95. GLORIA PABLO
96   PELAGIO PABLO^{^}
97. EFIPANIO PABUSTAN
98. FRANCISCO PACLARIN
99. ROMEO PADIERNOS
100. RESTITUTO PADRE JUAN
101. MARIO PAGUIO
102. ROGELIO PAJARILLO^{^}
103. CONCHITA PALOMO (DELA PENA)^*
104. FULGENCIO PANGILINAN
105. MELQUIADES PANGILINAN
106. RICARDO PANGILINAN
107. TERESITA PANGILINAN (ALVAREZ)^*
108. AUGUSTO PARIAL
109. LYDIA PARIAL (ABELARDO)
110. EFREN PASCUAL
111. REYNALDO PATIAG^{^}
112 . AURORA PAYABYAB (REYES)
113. ROSALINA PAYUMO
114   SUSANA DELA PENA (MONTALBAN)
115. BAYANI PERALTA
116. ERNESTO PINEDA
117. GASPAR RAMOS
118. MARIETTA RAMOS
119. LOURDES RAYO
120. ESTRELLA REYES^*
121. NARCISO REYES^{^}
122. REMEDIOS REYES (BARBILLA)^{^}
123. RENATO RICABO
124. EDUARDO DELA ROSA
125. JOSE DEL ROSARIO^{^}
126. LORENZO DEL ROSARIO
127. RODRIGO DEL ROSARIO
128. GELACIO DE SAN JOSE
129. NORBERTO DE SAN JOSE
130. REMEDIOS DE SAN JOSE (ALMONDIEL)
131. CONRADO DE LOS SANTOS
132. ELADIO DE LOS SANTOS
133. BENEDICTO SIWA^*
134. ROLANDO SIWA^*
135. BENITO SUMANG^*
136. OLGA TIONGCO (CRUZ)
137. REGALADO TIANGCO
138. EMELITA TORRES (BAUTISTA)
139. LEONARDO TRINIDAD
140. GLORIA TUAZON
141. OSCAR TUAZON^{^}
142. CIPRIANO UYTINGCO, SR.
143. CORAZON VALERIANO (SANTIAGO)
144. OSCAR VALLARTA
145. LEONIDES VELAYO
146. JOSE VILLAROMAN^{^}
147. CECILIA YAMSUAN (RODRIGUEZ)^*
148. FELICIDAD YAMSUAN
149. JACINTO YAMSUAN
150. AURORA YOUNG (CANOSA)
151. DANILO ZABAT^*
152. EDUARDO ZABAT
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^ - Deceased
* - U.S. resident
- P.I. resident

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A Snapshot of the NESHS Class of '58 - Facts & Figures

Excerpted from: Facts & Figures: NESHS Class of of 1958
Author: NESHS '58 Editorial Staff
Publication: NESHS '58 1998 Reunion Commemorative Magazine, May 1998; (Page 43)

Total Number Graduating (152)

        62 - Females
        90 - Males

        16 - Siblings
        12 - Intra-class marriages

       125 - Surviving members (as of Jan. 2000)
        27 - Deceased members (as of Jan. 2000)
        86 - Alumni in the Philippine Islands (living)
                (Metro Manila - 22; Gapan - 56; Other than
                 Gapan or Manila - 6)
        22 - Alumni in the United States (living)
                (North/Northeast - 12; West/Southwest - 12)
        18 - Alumni, unknown address (living)

*    Ages

        13 - Youngest graduating alumni (1958)
        19 - Oldest graduating alumni (1958)
        16 - Average age of graduating alumni (1958)

        53 - Youngest surviving alumni (1958) Estimated
        59 - Oldest surviving alumni (1958) Estimated
        56 - Average age of surviving alumni (1958) Estimated

*    Professions

        44 - Businessperson (17); Farmer (6); Homemaker (11);
               Self-employed (10)
        53 - Employees: Accountant (3); Cashier (2); Chemist (2);
               Pilot (1); Diet Technician (1); Driver (1); Engineer (4);
               Government Employee, non-military (10); Hospital
               Aide (1); Mechanic (1); Medical Technologist (2);
               Medical Doctor (2); Military Personnel(3); MIS Analyst
               (1); Nurse (3); Postal Service Personnel (2);
               Production Personnel (1); Salesperson (1); Secretary
               (1); Slippermaker (2); Teacher (7); Telephone Operator
               (1); WRF Technician (1)

55 - Not known * Names 4 - Most common first name Leonardo 8 - Most common last name de Guzman 3 ea. - Most common first names (female) Aurora, Estrellita, Gloria; Norma
3 ea. - Most common first names (male) Ernesto; Francisco; Jose; Rodolfo; Rodrigo

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Milestones: The NESHS Class of 1958's Twentieth Century

Author: Horatio M. Lotuaco, NESHS '58 Alumnus
Publication: NESHS '58 1998 Reunion Commemorative Magazine, May 1998

1903        Wright brothers made first manned airplane flight.
1905        Albert Einstein formulates new theory of relativity.
1907        Picasso and Braque invents cubism.

1914        World War I erupts in Europe.
1917        Lenin and the Bolshevik Revolution triumphs in
               Russia.

1927        Charles Lindberg made first Atlantic crossing by plane.
1928        Penicillin discovered by Fleming.
1929        Crash of N.Y. stock market begins the Depression Era
               in the U.S.A.

1930        Gandhi's civil disobedience brought India freedom.
1931        Empire State Building, world's tallest, completed.
1933        Mickey Mouse brought to life by Walt Disney.
1939        Hitler invades Poland, World War II starts.

1940      Birth Days for members of the NESHS' Class
            of '58
1941        Japan attacks Pearl Harbor. U.S. enters war.
1944        Gen. Douglas MacArthur liberates the Philippines.
1945        Atomic bomb exploded over Japan. World War II ends.
1946        The Philippines becomes an independent nation.
1948      NESHS Class of '58 starts elementary
            schooling.
1949        Under Mao Zedong, Communist victory in China.

1950        North Korea invades South Korea.
1954      NESHS Class of '58 starts secondary school.
1955        DNA molecule mapped.
1957        Sputnik I, first man-made satellite, launched in orbit.
1958      Graduation, NESHS Class of '58; Elvis Presley
               is king.

1965        The Beatles' music conquered the airwaves.
1967        Christian Barnard made first human heart transplant.
1968        Height of the Vietnam war.
1969        Apollo 11 lands and Neil Armstrong walks on the
               moon.

1973        Arab oil embargo set world energy prices soaring.
1977        "Star Wars" trilogy, the movie, begins.

1981        AIDS (acquired immune deficiency syndrome)
               identified.
1982        The PC, Time magazine's "Machine of the Year".
1985        First Philippine reunion, NESHS' Class of '58
            (held in Gapan).
1986        People Power restores democracy in the Philippines.
1987        Corazon Aquino, Time magazine's "Woman of the
               Year"
1989      First U.S. reunion, NESHS' Class of '58 (held
            in Virginia)

1990        NESHS Class of '58 alumni collective age crosses
               half-century mark.
1991        The U.S.S.R breaks up; The Berlin Wall falls.
1998      40th Anniversary reunion, NESHS' Class of '58
            ( Gapan & Metro Manila)
               Philippine Independence Declaration Centennia

2000        The new millenium begins.

This is our century . . . and it is a Great century!

Think of the revolutionary events and personages that were ushered in this century: powered flight, penicillin, two world wars, the atomic bomb, civil disobedience, moon walking (Armstrong's and Jackson's), computers, Elvis, the Beatles, heart transplant, Picasso, Marilyn Monroe, "2001 Space Odyssey", Muhammed Ali, Star Wars (both the movie and the U.S.' strategy), the collapse of communism in Europe, Gandhi, test tube babies, Mother Theresa, exploration of our sun's farthest planets . . .

The 1940s, the decade when we were born, was also full of excitement (from a historical perspective): there was a big war going on in our part of the world, MacArthur was re-taking the Pacific from the Japanese, the atomic bomb was first exploded over a populated city, the Philippines became an independent state, and Mao Zedong changed the political order, not only in China, but globally. We did not realize it then . . ., our world was undergoing an upheaval.

The writer (a toddler then) have dim memories of that decade . . . , ominous times . . . , vague images of military truck convoys rumbling thru town, dark nights spent in the silong with the kitchen's concreted floor over our heads (and four walls of tightly stacked kindling wood) as the extended family's air raid shelter, hushed talks about the "hukbalahap".

Life must have been harsh to everybody then. Just think of the birthing process then: There was no hospital, no prenatal care (as we know it today), no doctor, scarce medicine (if any), no . . . Some of us were even born in the field during the "takbohan" from the Japanese forces, with a "hilot's" experienced hands ushering us to this world.

But somehow . . . , we grew up and survived those times.

Jump forward to the mid 1950s: we started high school, the Space Age began with the Russian's orbiting of Sputnik, the United States and Russia were competing for supremacy, the polio vaccine was discovered, Marilyn Monroe is the new Venus, Elvis' hip-and-music hit the world, and . . . we were in and passed through high school.

Relatively speaking (in spite of the arms race, the posturings between the world's powers, and anxieties over nuclear bombs) those were peaceable times. We were in our late teens . . . , the future then (from a teen's viewpoint) is unlimited . . . , we were taking steps to the next decade . . . , and a new phase in our lives.

The next four decades went by in a blur. We went by our separate ways, each following an individual path to the future. The Beatles sound was king of the airwaves; the ugly war in Vietnam started, man set foot on the surface of another celestial body, we became young adults, and assumed very adult responsibilities as family men and women.

These times and experiences shaped us, . . . changed us irreversibly. Some in our group fell along the way. For those who made it thru to the 1990s, the transformation was complete . . . the young kids of the mid 1950s have metamorphosed and assumed a completely new persona.

We now stand in the late 1990s and, similar to where we were in the late 1950s, we are about to take another big step . . . , to a new and undefined millenium . . . , to new possibilities . . .

And with experienced toughness to life's realities and openness to what could be . . . , we go forward and continue with our journey . . .

C O U R A G E !

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