It’s Been Twenty-Five Years, and We’re Coming Home

We will never forget those four years. 

1990. The year you first stepped inside the high school building, and it all felt so new. That time you heard the morning bell for the first time, and it was like music to your ears. That day you had a taste of the subjects you were taking up; why, they were oddly thrilling and scary at the same time. That week you made new friends, and a fun new group together with your old ones was born.

1994. The year you couldn’t believe it all flew by so fast; you were now heading on to college. That time you heard the school hymn for the last time, and you really wanted to cry. That day you knew you had earned and deserved the grades you ever got in all your subjects. That last week of graduation practice, and you were trying to memorize everything there—the way that piece of sky was framed in the field, those trees over there, those tables, that door—everything.  

In 2019, it is going to be our twenty-fifth year after graduating high school from our alma mater, St. Scholastica’s College Manila. As tradition dictates, as silver jubilarians it is our duty to host that year’s Grand Alumnae Homecoming. We consider it an honor and a privilege to be given the opportunity to celebrate Scholasticans’ jubilarian milestones—starting with 25 years all the way up to 75. 

A magnificent reunion unlike any other, we come together with friends and other jubilarians SSC has molded into the fine, upstanding women of our society today. Proud kulasas are we, and it is no exaggeration to say that the values we uphold to this day are in large part owed to those three words our blessed nuns inscripted into our hearts—Ora et Labora. It is the Scholastican way not just of studying, but of conducting ourselves in all respects, each and every day of our lives. 

As the host of this momentous occasion, our batch is in charge of raising funds for both organizing and executing the homecoming event itself at St. Cecilia’s Hall and the dinner party at the school field. To accomplish this task, we are launching a fundraising campaign consisting of small- and large-scale activities to generate the needed capital for the Homecoming. We are also conducting a series of outreach projects for the benefit of our chosen charities. But our most precious gift will be an endowment to the St. Scholastica’s Alumnae Foundation Inc. (SSAFI) to support its own charity and outreach programs in various communities.

 
No time is more appropriate than now to start preparing for our Homecoming. So we call out to you, our dear batchmates, to be involved and united in one cause: to come home and give back. We will never forget those four years, and now it’s our chance to leave a legacy that we will be forever remembered for. Our Alma Mater sounds the clarion call for our batch to take the lead in 2019.  We, the graduates of Batch 1994, will rise to this challenge united. An unstoppable force: NinetyFource ~ Women Rising!

By Rose Galvez
SSCHS1994 Copywriters Team