It's a great year to be a Maroon... and a greater one to be An Argonaut!

7 January 2008
Monday

Of course, it's always a great to be a Maroon year in, year out. But what makes it so special this year is that all UPians will be celebrating our beloved alma mater's Centennial Anniversary.

Damn, I'm so friggin proud to be a Maroon. It's in my blood, it's in my soul. People outside U.P. do not fully realize nor do they fully appreciate the swagger that is very common among the Iskolars ng Bayan. If they only knew the hardships that we had to go through just to graduate from U.P....

... yeah, if only they knew.

Anyway, another thing to be proud of is my Fraternity's active involvement in this once-in-a-lifetime celebration.

It was us through Brod Joel Ajero'66 who made the Centennial Cauldron of which the Centennial Flame will be ignited. Supported by a tripod, the making of The Cauldron is financed through the generosity of The Grand Alliance as symbolized by the tripod. This Triumvirate is composed of the Alpha Phi Omega, Sigma Rho, and the Tau Alpha fraternities. Worth Php 150,000, the Cauldron was evenly shared by each fraternity at 50K.

It was Brod Herbie Rosales'61 who composed the Centennial Song which was sung live at the U.P. Carillon and aired this morning on television on GMA7.

We also sponsored at least 15 trees that would be part of the Lighting of the Trees Ceremony tomorrow night. Our trees would be very conspicuous since as of this morning, we have our banners hanging in every tree that we sponsored. In each tree we have our names and our Frat Batch indicated. Dad and I sponsored one tree. Yes, Dad and I belong to the same fraternity. He is Batch 1964 and I'm Batch 1990.

My Fraternity?




The Tau Alpha Fraternity of the U.P. College of Engineering founded in 1932.