Letter From The President Of GAAA

Dear fellow alumni,

Thank you for signing up on the facebook with the G.A.A.A. account,

The general alumni homecoming as part of the celebration of the 75th Founding Anniversary of Guinayangan Academy will:
1.    be a way of  honoring our alma mater and its founder,
2.    reconnect us to our alma mater and with each other,
3.    be a trip down memory lane and have each other be updated on our current activities,
4.    be an occasion to offer something in return to our alma mater that nurtured us during our formative years and has continuously nurtured the youth of our town throughout the years through the Garcia children.

Organizing this event needs a lot of efforts, time, and patience. To facilitate things for us or to make this event better, during the alumni meeting the following were agreed upon:
1.    group the alumni based on the year they graduated,
2.    identify the coordinators per group,
3.    make the members of each group be responsible for

• a.    determining their own contribution to be spent for their food, gifts to the school (based on the list at the bottom of this letter) and other expenses that will be incurred during the celebration,
• b.    preparing their own food (a pot luck because it is good to be surprised with a variety of food to be shared with everyone) and activity participation during the day and the cultural night,

4.    request the school for providing spaces (rooms, stage, ground etc.) and help in the physical arrangement,
5.    with a certain date of deadline, let each class donate by depositing to the current  account in the bank in our town an amount of P5,000  for the decoration, electricity, water, initial preparation of the souvenir program,  sound system and other things,
6.    create committees for

• a.    the preparation of souvenir program (putting the contents  and layout of the program),
• b.    soliciting money for the souvenir program through patronage, sponsorship and donations,
• c.    budget and  finance,
• d.    coordinating the activities on the days of the celebration,
• e.    listing down all the alumni, former teachers and those other former students who attended part of their high school life in GA,
• f.    preparing,writing, and sending invitations,
• g.    monitoring, coordinating and summarizing the progress of the preparation monthly or every two months and then weekly at the last month before the actual celebration,

7.    invite the former board members and those organizers  during the 50th anniversary  to be involved actively in the preparation ,
8.    schedule the event neither coinciding with nor very  near to Christmas day, Holy week, All Saint`s Day
9.    have the following activities for the three day-schedule as follows:
Friday for

• i.    checking and finalizing all the planned activities the succeeding two days,
• ii.    final practice of activities to be shown on stage,
• iii.    pre –registration,
• iv.    putting all the high school pictures, souvenir items and decorations to the rooms assigned per group of alumni  and,

Saturday  for

• i.    continuing the registration,
• ii.    parade,
• iii.    mass,
• iv.    visit to the tombs of Mr. and Mrs. Garcia, Miss Maghirang, Mr Molines and other former teachers,
• v.    snacks and lunch,
• vi.    field demonstration and games,
• vii.    visits to the different rooms for viewing  the pictures and other items displayed by the alumni,
• viii.     alumni meeting and meeting with the owners, administrators and teachers,
• ix.    cultural night,

Sunday for
       late breakfast meeting of the alumni with the fresh graduates and the incoming Grade 9 students,

10.    start giving some of our gifts to GA  at the opening of  this school year 2014-2015 so that by the time we have the actual celebration almost all the gifts have been given and all the students have been able to avail of the things which we provide.

We are aware that the school owners are contributing their share of help in our community by charging minimal fees for the students. For whatever profit they have, they have spent most of it to maintain the structure of the school.   Thus, so as not to burden them with other things let us offer the following for the use of the students and to let the students be preoccupied with something productive:

• 20 desk top computers (for 1 class)
• 2 laptops
• 2 gas stoves (for class use)
• 2 microwaves (for class use)
• 1 electric cooking range (for class use)
• 2 LCD projectors
• 2 overhead projectors
• 4 guitars (or more)
•  violins
•  organ    2 keyboards
•  other musical instruments
•  basketballs
•  net and balls for volley ball game
•  2 DVD players
•  2 cameras for documenting science projects
•  1 printer
•  1 scanner
•  telescopes for bird watching as part of their  
•  biology project
•  microscopes

Through an active alumni association which we hope will be given a boost through this celebration and with constant dialogue with the owners, we will be able to explore other ways to give the students a better learning environment and to help teachers to retool and advance themselves professionally. Salary increase for teachers will also become a reality.  

Our actual goals are to produce productive, responsible, God-fearing citizens from our youth and to guide  them maximize, appreciate and be proud of whatever potentials  they have.
   
Sincerely yours,


Corazon C. Buerano
GAAA president
Class 1974