PHOTO ALBUM No. 1

I am presenting this album of  photos, old and new. Open it up, check the pictures and if your face is there, just right click on it and save the photo in your hard disk..Some are REALLY OLD AND ONE-OF-A-KIND shots...One is almost 50 years old, and it features some of my high-school classmates on our last summer in Asingan before we went to Manila!

Johnny Soriano sent the following names re: Picture no. 3:

With regards to who the rest of the people on the 3rd picture, (standing) on Julieta's right is the "late" Estrella Nicholas-Taluban, on Carmen's left is Milagros Epistola-del Rosario.  (Seated) on Ms. Lubiano's right is Virginia Duzon-Mina and on her left is Josephine Nigalan-Ortiz.  Julieta as you already know is in Seattle, Carmen is in Australia, Milagros is still in the Phil., Virginia is in L.A., and Josephine is in Oceanside, Calif. (between San Diego and L.A. but closer to San Diego).

DWA Trivia by Vic Costes

These students in photo no. 3 belonged to High School Class 1-a (1968) which I handled during my first teaching year at DWA. Came December that year, I presented a Christmas Tableux featuring all members of 1-a. This was an all-girl class. Every girl had a part, even if it was just an extra. Roles for men were taken by selected girls dressed as men. Music and narration came from a vinyl Christmas record by Tennesse Ernie Ford called THE STORY OF CHRISTMAS.No CDs yet in 1969...I remember Julieta Marquez playing the Virgin Mary, and Nida Dacanay playing the Angel Gabriel. During the performance ( which took place outside of the school on the front playground), Nida spoke the Angel's lines in perfect sync with  Mr. Ford's narration in the recording. I think she has the only speaking part in the play. The rest was pantomine. From the opening bars of the music intro to the last line of JOY TO THE WORLD, Class 1-a did a perfect job!

I was the stage manager, stage artist, sound man, play director; a regular one-man-band! And I had to bring all my gadgets and props to and from Urdaneta on that day. But now-a-days, I could not see a Christmas Play without remembering that one which I and members of the 1-a Class had pulled off that December afternoon at the DWA.