UPAA-NY Gets a visit from SAVE THE CARILLON Project

Immediate Past President of UPAA in Diliman and Chair of Diliman's Save the Carillon project, Jimmy de los Santos,  was honored at a Manhattan restaurant by the UPAA-NY and Memoirs Cap which "matches" the book made its debut. From left, Mila Valdez,MD, Jackie Calumba, Memoirs Project Treasurer,  Jimmy de los Santos, Aurora Ocampo, newly elected president, Dr. Menchee Q. Fulgado, and Neva Fajardo, newly elected treasurer.

The Memoirs delegation attending the June 2008 Centennial Week Celebration heard the Carillon chime again.  A kodak pose captured the moment, from left: Phoebe Andes of UPAA-New Jersey, former OAR Director Mely Ramirez, Drs. Menchee and Ding Fulgado, Jackie Calumba,  Vic Gacusan, formerly of UPAA-NJ, now of San Francisco, and Jimmy de los Santos.

UPAA's Reception For the Successful Memoirs Project

 

On  June 23, 2008, a check for $20,000 to create the Centennial Memoirs Carillon Support Fund, was handed to Regent Nelia Gonzalez at the reception held in honor of Dr. Fulgado and several Memoirs Project donors in the presence of UP Foundation Treasurer Dr. Connie Paz who accepted the check. The interest from this endowment fund will be given to UPAA by the UP Foundation to help in the continuous maintenance of the Carillon.  The deed of donation was also signed at the same event.  Photo at right during the reception: Dr. Menchee Quesada Fulgado, Regent Nelia Gonzalez, Dr. Connie Paz, UPAA  Board Member Behn Cervantes, UPAA-NJ's Phoebe Andes, Anna Maria "Princess" Nemenzo, and former President Dodong Nemenzo.

Memoirs of UP Alumni Abroad

MEMORIES...is the sequel of Memoirs of UP Alumni Abroad, a UP Centennial publication which donated $50,000 to the University of the Philippines in June 2008. Editor and Publisher, Dr. Menchee Quesada Fulgado, was appointed Commissioner Abroad for the Centennial Celebration.  While this was to serve as adviser in fundraising, she took it to heart and offered to rally UP alumni abroad to join her in producing a book to commemorate UP's 100th year, by contributing to the book, which will create a Centennial Scholarship Endowment Fund and a Carillon Support Endowment Fund. The project made all these possible, and in June 2008 she, along with some of the 270 contributors brought their donation and were feted by the UP President, Chancellors and the UP Alumni Association.