The Class '82 of the EB. Magalona High School will host this year's alumni homecoming set April 28 at the school campus of E.B Magalona, Negros Occidental.

Co-hosted by Classes '57 and 67, the whole day activity will start with a parade at 8 a.m around the town poblacion, followed by a Mass to be officiated by Frs. Virgilio Mahinay and Mervin Concepcion.

Members of Class '82 headed Arle Batiduan- Villanueva will also honor and distribute tokens to their teachers at a program after the Mass, with E.B. Magalona Mayor Alfonso Gamboa, Board Member Reynaldo Depasucat and Judge Rafael Penuela as among the speakers.

The Class '67 Ruby Jubilarians will host the parlor games in the afternoon.

Villanueva said the 303rd Infantry " Brown Eagle" Brigade band will entertain the guests and graduates of the school at the alumni night, which will be held at the EBMHS covered court, with E.B. Magalona Vice Mayor David Lacson as among the guests.

For more details, members of the other classes may call Villanueva at cellphone number 09198353674.*GPB

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Lopez Jaena
descendants revealed

Two genealogical tree researchers bared recently the first generation descendants of Placido and Ma. Jacobe Jaena and Fermin Lopez and Fernanda Regina Hechanova.

Both Placido and Fermin were sons of Maximo Lopez and Juliana Hilaria. Placido was the father of Graciano. The confusion over who are the descendants of Graciano Lopez Jaena stemmed from the fact that he was the only Lopez Jaena. He adopted a new family name - Lopez Jaena - after some time in Spain, to distinguish himself from the many Lopezes there.

Because of the May 26 clan reunion in Silay City, Negros Occidental, both Ramon Conlu and Jose Lopez Jr. came out with the sons of Placido and Fermin, the two main branches of the Lopez family that will participate in the reunion.

Junior Lopez said the sons of Placido and Ma. Jacobe Jaena were Domingo Lopez, Pedro Lopez, Graciano, Candelaria, Ramon and Dorotero. They were all Lopezes. Only Graciano sported the shortened Lopez Jaena as family name. Normally in Spanish, there is a "Y" before the maternal surname. But in Graciano's case, he went ahead and appended Jaena to Lopez.

Less known were the descendents of Fermin, the other son of Maximo and Juana Hilaria Lopez. They had settled in Silay and were not as involved in the life of Graciano, although later, they were just drawn into the circle of his fight against Spanish colonial policies.

Fermin's children included Eustaquio, Protacio, Marcelina, Vicenta and Cirilo. The others were Pablo, Teopista, Mercedes, Agustin, Luarente, Agapito and Nicanor.

Edna Pamine of Victorias City showed up in clan's recent meeting in preparation for the reunion at the Sta. Teresita Academy in Silay.

Pamine stressed she had shrugged off invitations to join the meetings until she finally got hold of the Court of Appeals decision on a land case that showed that she was descended form Agustin Lopez.

"First, we really need to help the descendants a chance to trace back their links to as far back as Placido and Fermin," stressed Conlu.

Virgilio Lopez stressed the importance of the genealogical tree to make clan descendents more comfortable when they meet in what Conlu had dubbed as "one family, one legacy.

Humbert Espina, former president of the Bacolod Capitol Lions Club now back in Seattle, Washington, said the reunion was long overdue and hailed the May 26 plan as something that is worth supporting.

That was the same view from Mrs. Yolando Espina-Llavore of San Diego California. Although she may not be able to attend the reunion, Inday also called on Lopez descendants all over to join the reunion.*RE

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AT RIVERSIDE GYM
Candidates forum today

The Konsensya Negrense will present all six mayoralty and three vice mayoralty candidates of Bacolod City at a forum at 2 p.m. today, at the Riverside Gym, a press release from event organizers said.

The candidates will present their plans and programs of government. and answer specific issues from a panel composed of representatives of the different sectors. This is the first time all candidates will be together in a forum. A similar forum for the congressional candidates will also be organized soon.

Konsensya Negrense will document and re-produce the proceedings in CD that will be distributed to the different parishes, schools and organizations to educate and inform voters on the plans of the different candidates.

It will also be shown in the different cable channels and replayed on ABS-CBN on Sunday, at 9 a.m., the press release said. Konsensya Negrense is an umbrella organization that is working for good governance and aims to transform politics in the province beyond 2010. It is composed of Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting, Couples for Christ, Brotherhood of Christian Businessmen and Professionals, Gawad Kalinga, the Institute of Negros Development USLS and the Negros Occidental Private Schools Sports Cultural Education Association.

The group will also invite other civic, professional and religious groups to be part of this initiative to work for good governance, the press release added.*

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