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THE AUPIAN IN CYBERLINK Trillium Elects New Officers

Trillium Eastern Canada Subchapter Elects New Leadership
By Emicil Dela Cruz, VP for Alumni Relations

Alumni in Eastern Canada were in one accord on October 19 when they elected the next set of officers to serve for 2013-2016 and start their term of leadership for Canadas Trillium subchapter.

On Sabbath afternoon, at the Fil-Can SDA Church in Toronto with EASNAC president Dr. Salcor Quines, and EASNAC treasurer, Jerry Felipe in attendance, new faces were added to the roster of officers while some incumbents were reelected. From the very start of the meeting there was a clamor for young blood to lead out and take control. This was driven by an implicit need to address the interests of young, undiscovered, and untapped alumni in Eastern Canada.

Taking the helm as President of Trillium is Edgar Pilapil, BS Math, 94; MA Secondary Education 99. He has been a Math and Physics teacher in Kingsway College for 13 years. Initially hesitant, he finally conceded to be head honcho of Eastern Canada Alumni. Mr. Pilapil, declared, If this is Gods will for me, then I am willing to serve in this capacity, as part of the impressive message delivered in his acceptance speech.

Here is a complete list of the new Trillium AUP Alumni Subchapter Officers:

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President Vice President for Membership Vice President for Alumni Affairs

Edgar Pilapil Carmelita Coloma Stewart Emicil delaCruz Sheldon Imperio Helen Malangayon Ilacas Lorcy Yutuc Viray Ardison Bernardo

Vice President for Spiritual Development Vice President for Projects/Fundraising Secretary Treasurer

Administering the oath of office was Pastor Max Cadalig, AUP University Advancement Director. He is touring North America to raise awareness and soliciting much needed funds for the College of Medicine Building Project, to be completed by the end of this year.

What lies ahead for Trillium? As this subchapter stands at the threshold of a treasure trove of undiscovered potential ready to be harnessed into service for AUP, these young officers are poised at the cusp of groundbreaking leadership when it comes to Deeds and Praises, aimed to bring honor to our dear Alma Mater. SHINE ON, TRILLIUM!

Midwest subchapter elects new officers

The AUP alumni have decided to regroup and reorganized their subchapter recently during the visit of the new EASNAC president Dr. Salcor Quines and AUP Director of the University Advancement Office, Pastor Max Cadalig. Election was held at the Hinsdale Fil-Am Church during a gathering of the Midwest alumni.
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PUC/AUP alumni having lunch in the fellowship hall of the Hinsdale Fil-Am church, with Pastor Max Cadalig, (second from the right) Director of the Adventist University of the Philippines University Advancement Office.

The officers for the term 2013-2016 are:

Theresa R. Lanoza, President (847) 533-2823 trlonoza@att.net

Pastor Daniel Ocampo, Vice-President (630) 212-0301 pastordanocampo@hotmail.com or Daniel.ocampo@ahss.org

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Imelda (Mel) Basit, Secretary (630) 484-8550 incbasit@comcast.net

Eden Alabata, Associate Secretary (630) 740-1299 edalabata@aol.com Pellentesque:

Elizabeth (Beth) Mari, Treasurer (630) 915-5690 beth8252002@yahoo.com

Roland (Roly) Consignado, Auditor (630) 605-6369 (Wife, Grace's cell # & email) graceconsignado@yahoo.com

Dr. Jesse Reyes, PRO (630) 915-3597 jmreyes@yahoo.com or jmore@yahoo.com Consectetuer:

Abner dela Cruz, Adviser (630) 913-8948 atdelacruz2@gmail.com

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From the Presidents Desk

We Are One We Are One

By Salcor B. Quines

I am happy to report that the PUC/AUP Alumni

Association (Foundation) USA, Inc. and the EASNAC Association are one. The formation of this new united tax exempt organization was approved by the Directors of the Foundation and the Executive Officers of the EASNAC Association at a meeting held on August 23, 2013 in Beltsville, MD. It was decided to call this new entity EASNAC, Inc. Now that we have taken the necessary step of merging these two entities, the next challenge facing us is to raise sufficient operating funds for all EASNAC, Inc.s subchapters, units and committees in order to run successfully. It is my belief that an organization without adequate funding is weak and inefficient. I would like us to consider EASNAC, Inc. as a company that we want to invest in. A recent biography on the worlds most famous investor is titled, The Snowball Warren Buffet and the Business Life. The term snowball is a metaphor for a core investment concept: The Law Of Compound Returns. Think of the law of compound returns as a force of nature that describes how wealth grows. A small snowball rolling down a hill will gather weight, which increases its speed, which keeps increasing its size. Wet snow and a long hill are the conditions that turn a snowball into a very large boulder. Continuing with the metaphor, snow moisture relates to an investors rate of return, and the size of the hill is ones time horizon. In other words, even the smallest of investment will grow (snowball) over time into

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large boulders given the right conditions. It is our duty to create the right conditions for our investments in EASNAC, Inc. to grow. On November 8-9, 2013, all Subchapter Presidents, the Board and the Executive Committee, will meet in Beltsville, MD. One of the major items on the agenda will be organizational funding. I believe that we need to devise a systematic way of raising funds that will not only maintain and insure the continued efficient operation of EASNAC, Inc., but will also grow the endowment fund. EASNAC, Inc. is one of Gods instruments on Earth. Let us continue to tune it so that He can finish His work.

Reversing Numbers
By Samuel B. Villanueva samvilla@aol.com

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all. Aristotle.
Reading some post in the Facebook this week, I came up to this adage attributed to Aristotle Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.

Having actively worked with EASNAC alumni association this past twenty years, I have observed that there are roughly only 20% of the total alumni who involve themselves with anything alumni. They pay their alumni dues, participate in alumni projects, attend alumni conventions, attend subchapter meetings, think of what they can do for their alma mater, think of the working students and help them with scholarship money to ease and shorten their stay at AUP, talk alumni, etc., etc.

Most of these 20% alumni feel like they belong to a family the AUP Family,
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if you want to call it at that.

Where are the rest of the 80% of the alumni? Do they care? Are they the black sheep of the AUP family that have left without looking back? Did AUP educate their minds but not their hearts? Have they lost their loyalties, their loves, their prides in their alma mater? Did they leave with hurts, discontent, and with bitterness in their taste buds?

The 80% of the alumni who dont care is a gargantuan number and it should be a matter of deepest concern.

The AUP administration should worry about this number. They should start asking why. Are they educating the students minds but not their hearts? If so, shouldnt the numbers be the other way around? Shouldnt it be 80% active and 20% inactive?

Is the culture of REJECTION still heavily practiced at AUP instead of REDEMPTION whenever some mistakes are made? Are there students still being sent home for the slightest forgivable mistake? Is this a way to develop pride, love and loyalty?

I have asked a lot of questions. The AUP administration should find answers to these questions, because we need to turn the numbers around, if the future alumni will be ONE with their alma mater.

The apparent answer is to educate their hearts.

What are the plans of the administration to help reverse these numbers?

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EASNAC BOT To Meet

Dr. Salcor Quines, EASNAC president, has called for a meeting of the EASNAC Board of Trustees to be held at the Fil-Am Church in Beltsville, Maryland, November 8-9, 2013.

For the EASNAC members concerns to be heard, we invite you to get in touch with your subchapter presidents and inform them of your concerns so these items are discussed at the BOT level.

Some items in the agenda that will be discussed in addition to the officers reports will be: The new Corporation by-laws; Mission, Vision, Goals, and Purpose; New corporate seal and logo; Fiscal managements (annual budget, budget line items, overhead percent over revenue, reporting periods, subchapters fund reporting system); Fund-raising ideas endowment funds; and Future medical missions.

Furthermore, announcements of important dates of rallies, conventions and regional meetings and banquets will take place. It is anticipated that with a new set of officers, we can regain the enthusiasm we need to keep our alumni chapter alive and relevant in our support for the alma mater, Adventist University of the Philippines.

As AUPians, we can continue to learn English Lessons

When creating marketing copy, even the most adept writers make mistakes from time to time. Here are 8 of the most common for you to learn and avoid.

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AUGUST 23, 2013: As more companies create customer-targeted content for their websites, the grammar police seem to be out in greater force. And that can create writer's block: Many business owners stress about writing anything at all, for fear of using incorrect grammar that will be made fun of across the Web.

Last month, a post in the OPEN Forum community provided this advice on writing and grammar:

"As a writer, I was told that I should simply write and write some more. I was afraid my grammar was bad, and I had made an F on a theme in college I never forgot, and had no confidence that I could write a sentence. As an attorney I wrote briefs but I felt they were no good. But I kept writing, and soon lost my fear, realizing that this next piece wasnt going to win a Pulitzer ... Get [the writing] out of you. It can always be fixed to perfection later. Few artists give birth to the work in perfect form. If you cannot write it for one reason or another, get it written by a professional. Dont delay. You are unique, and your idea will perish with you if you dont preserve it." Part of creating your own content is to do exactly that: Write. Just write. After all, you can't become a better writer if you don't practice your craft. But there also are some basic grammar mistakes almost everyone makes, no matter how good (or bad) a writer he or she is. If you can learn to get this right, you're off to a good start.

Affect vs. effect. The easiest way to remember the difference between the two is that "affect mean "to influence." So if you're going to influence something, you will affect it. If it's the result of something, it's an effect. Impact. Impact is a noun, not a verb. A plane can crash on impact. You can have an impact on something. But you cannot impact something. (When you are tempted to use "impact" as a verb, use "affect" instead; see #1.) Their, they're and there. You'd think everyone would have learned this rule in fourth grade, but it's a very common mistake. Use "there" when referring to a location, "their" to indicate possession, and "they're" when you mean to say "they are."
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Care less. The dismissive "I could care less" is incorrect. If you could care less about it, then you're saying you could care less about the topic, and you've lost the impact you meant to have. To use this phrase correctly, insert the word "not" after the word "could," as in, "I could not care less." Irregardless. This word doesn't exist. The word you should use is "regardless." Your and you're. Another mistake you'll often see in people's social media profiles or other content they create is the incorrect us of "your" and "you're." If you mean to say "you are," the correct word is "you're." Use "your" when referring to something that belongs to "you," as in "your business." Fewer vs. less. Another common mistake, "less" refers to quantity and "fewer" to a number. For instance, Facebook has fewer than 5,000 employees, but I got less sleep than you last night. Quotation marks. Among the great debates, people ask all the time whether or not punctuation belongs inside or outside of quotation marks. Let's set the record straight. The period and the comma always go inside quotation marks. The dash, the semicolon, the exclamation mark and the question mark go inside when they apply to the quoted matter (if it's not the entire sentence) but outside when they apply to the whole sentence.

People make so many grammar mistakes today that The Elements of Style is on its fourth edition. If you keep a copy of it on your desk and practice your craft, you'll never have to worry about the grammar police paying you a visit.

Gini Dietrich Member, Vistage International Follow

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ALUMNI THAT CRUISE TOGETHER STAYS TOGETHER

What do AUP alumni do when they cruise together? Of course they talk about AUP! They talk about the good and the bad, sometimes in one sentence.

The good is the pride of having gotten their education from AUP, the experienced camaraderie among friends, their experience in giving back to their country of origin by going on medical missions to the Philippines, their joy in helping out working students, and their work in the alumni association and how to make it better.

The bad is how they remember being disciplined for something they didnt do, for being sent out of their classrooms and not being able to take the exams because of some outstanding tuition fees, for embarrassing treatment they get from some teachers, for other negative things that happened that was not under their control. Falling in love with the opposite sex and not being reciprocated was one of them. Busted, in another word.

It was fun to be with 20 AUP alumni on a Mediterranean cruise visiting 9 ports in 6 countries in 12 days. A group of AWESNA and EASNAC members have a way of making it a joint convention, minus attending the convention programs. It was just plain chilling out, eating, daily evening banquets, disembarking and playing tourist at ports, being in Las Vegas every evening except on Fridays. It was fun to speak a little Italian, French, and Spanish and learning others even just how to say thank you in Croatian.

The AUPians were with Ernie and Miriam Banaag on their first wedding anniversary cruise, and arranged by Wen and Gloria Luib as travel counselors. The group was boisterously loud when among themselves, as most Filipinos will do when they are banded together. The cruise started with a two-day stay in Venice, Italy and then on to Dubrovnik, Croatia; Izmir, Turkey; Athens, Greece; Sicily, Naples, Rome, Florence, Italy; Marseilles, France; and ending in Barcelona, Spain.
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From there the group separated to go on their way home.

What did we see and experienced? We saw quite a few. Most experienced the Gondola rides in Venice and hanging around San Marco Square. You should take a trip to the top of the mountain over-looking Dubrovnik and seeing from a near distance the country of Bosnia that was involved in the Balkan wars. The ruins of the city of Ephesus in Turkey, where Paul preached were stunningly well preserved. Seeing the Parthenon in an Athens hill was well worth the climb. Taking the telerifica ride up Mt. Etna, an active volcano in Sicily, was not to be passed. The Pompeii ruins from the Mt. Vesuvius volcano eruption was the thing to see in Napoli. The grandeur of the ancient walled-city of Rome the Coliseum, Trevi Fountain, Vatican, -- are things to experience. Michelangelos sculpture of David in Florence and the Leaning Tower in nearby Pisa, are not to be missed. Be ready to speak French when you are touring in Marseilles because you might not be able to find the Lafayette Mall for shopping! Finally, you have not been to Barcelona if you do not visit La Sagrada Familia, a magnificent church that has taken over a century to build and will finish in the year 2025.

It is important for alumni that even transcend different classes and generations, to gather among themselves to continue their common bond of being members of the alumni family. It is important too, to talk about their experiences even in the negative sense because it brings closures to unhappy events, even forgiveness of the past. It is important to get realization of what their lives had become because of turns in their lives.

Sometimes someone asks a question whether it would have been better if they gave the expenses of a cruise and give it to AUP as a really sacrificial deed. I dont think so. It also borders on the same question whether cancelling an alumni convention and giving the total money that each attendee would have spent to the university for a specific project, say, the College of Medicine, is a good idea. First of all, I dont think that even if it enters the mind, spending for ones self is totally different from donating to the university. I find out that people who went to this cruise also donated in someway. It is important that we enjoy ourselves, to enjoy the fruits of our labor and then we too can think of making a donation to our alma mater. We have to love ourselves before we can love others. <> sbv
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Three ladies, L-R, Miriam Tupas-Banaag, Araceli MindoroQuijada, Eleanor Gensolin-Velasco take and evening stroll at Piazza San Marco in Venice, Italy

Romeo Miguel, recruited for audience participation tries the basketball tic,tac to for his team which won.

Giddy Ninang, Elma Lou Arreola-Roda of Tappahannock, Virginai is happily on board, here enjoying the evening show.

The three ladies, L-R: Eleanor, Miriam, Cely again enjoying the activities on board the Carnival Sunshine.

Gloria and Wen Luib, the groups travel counselors at dinner. If you plan a cruise with friends or classmates, call Gloria.

The Velascos of Murrieta, California: Eleanor, Abner and son Francis, enjoying their dinner before the shows.

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Ninang Jedd Villanueva, left, with Ernie and Miriam Banaag, on their first-year wedding anniversary cruise. Their wedding honeymoon was spent on a cruise ship.

Octavius and Cely Quijada of Redlands, California. Dr. Tavy is one of the AUP alumni who is helping AUPs College of Medicine with their program and faculty recruitment. The other two are Dr. Alfonso Roda and Dr. Honesto Pascual, Jr.

Cruise photo credits: Ernie Banaag

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EASNAC Board of Trustees Meeting Fil-Am Church, Beltsville, MD November 8-9, 2013 Florida Regional Alumni Rally Avon Park, Florida November 30, 2013 EASNAC Participation New York Philippine Independence Day Parade First Sunday of June, 2014 AWESNA-EASNAC Joint Convention Lake Las Vegas, Henderson, Nevada Labor Day Weekend, 2014

1751 Mill Plain Road Fairfield, CT 06824 Editor: Samuel B. Villanueva

President: Salcor Quines VP: Ronald Quiba Secretary: Helen Lamadrid Asso. Secretary: Theresa Lanoza Treasurer: Jerry Felipe Asso. Treasurer: Marc Amado Auditor: Roger Maldonado PRO: Lee Liwag Advisers: Jedd Villanueva, Laurence Gayao